With all the above boxes ticked, it is essential to have a plan once you have run the gauntlet of airport-style security -- there are 4, 000 Swiss troops in Davos this week -- and made it inside the newly-extended Congress Center with the correct color of identity pass.

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The pace is deliberate and the style is austere, with bleached color photography (by Tom Stern) that could almost pass for black-and-white, yet the feeling is intimate.

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The three-property orange group, by contrast, gets landed on more than any other color group (because players who go to jail must pass through or over them upon exiting), and it can be developed at a reasonable price.

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Its wonders included the chance to pass in front of a camera at the RCA Pavilion and see yourself on color TV.

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