{"id":555523,"date":"2026-08-02T02:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/555523\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:26:10","slug":"go-for-orange-tips-from-a-monopoly-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/555523\/","title":{"rendered":"Go for Orange: Tips from a Monopoly champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"EN-US\" paraeid=\"{a011daf6-03d1-4ba2-b1ee-fda2003037dc}{84}\" paraid=\"842574727\">Officially released by the Parker Brothers in 1935, the boardgame Monopoly has a deeply\u00a0polarising\u00a0reputation.\u00a0It is blamed\u00a0for arguments among family and friends, dragging\u00a0on for hours,\u00a0and\u00a0becoming increasingly one-sided.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBut former Kiwi champion\u00a0Davon\u00a0Yu\u00a0believes\u00a0if you stick with the official rules, it can be a lot\u00a0more snappy. He shares a few helpful tips for your next\u00a0games\u00a0night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4OOBTHF_image_crop_19485.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"787\" alt=\"Monopoly Board\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nMonopoly Board<br \/>\nPhoto: Flickr -William Warby &#8211; (CC BY 2.0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officially released by the Parker Brothers in 1935, the boardgame Monopoly has a deeply\u00a0polarising\u00a0reputation.\u00a0It is blamed\u00a0for arguments among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,145],"class_list":["post-555523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}