ABSTRACT
Games provide great laboratories for experimentation. They exist in a space largely free of real-world consequences. When you first come to a game, you have only a vague idea of how things will play out once the game is set in motion. You may look at the board and think, “ I see. I should buy as many of these properties as I possibly can, especially these two cheap ones right by GO, ” only to find out as you play the game that Baltic and Mediterranean Avenue barely earn you two pennies. That’s okay. Now you know and the next time around you can experiment with buying different properties. Games enable you to take clear quantifiable actions, observe the results and then develop new strategies. You get to see the direct results of your actions. You get to develop theories about what will work better and then test those theories in a closed environment free of consequences.
