You're staring at your phone, the dice are low, and that gold bar is just out of reach. We've all been there. If you've been playing Scopely’s mobile hit lately, you know that the Follow the Fortunes Monopoly Go event isn't just another random banner at the top of your screen; it’s a high-stakes math problem disguised as a board game.
Most people just tap the red button and hope for the best. They see the flashy animations and think it’s all luck. It isn't. Not really.
The reality is that these milestone events are designed to drain your dice reserves right before a major Partner Event or a Peg-E drop. If you aren't calculating your "burn rate" versus your "reward yield," you’re basically donating your progress to the game's algorithm. Follow the Fortunes is particularly tricky because the point scaling often hits a massive wall right around milestone 25 or 30, where the "cost to play" begins to eclipse the value of the stickers you're hunting for.
What Follow the Fortunes Monopoly Go Actually Requires
Let’s be real. To get anywhere in this event, you need points. Specifically, you need to land on the corner squares: Go, Just Visiting, Free Parking, and Go to Jail. These are historically the hardest tiles to hit consistently because they are the furthest apart.
Standard events might ask you to land on Chance or Community Chest, which are scattered throughout the board. Not this one. This is a "Four Corners" event. Mathematically, your odds of hitting a specific corner tile on any given roll are roughly 1 in 10, but because of how the dice distribution works (the "7" being the most common sum of two dice), your positioning matters more here than in a standard pickup event.
If you are 6, 7, or 8 spaces away from a corner, that is your "Golden Zone." That is when you crank the multiplier. If you're 2 spaces away? Don't bother. The odds of rolling a snake-eyes are significantly lower than hitting a middle-range sum.
The Rewards That Actually Matter
Everyone chases the Purple Packs. I get it. We all want those five-star golds to finish sets like "Monopoly Games" or whatever the current seasonal album is. But in Follow the Fortunes, the real value is often tucked away in the lower-middle tiers.
You’ll find a lot of High Roller triggers and Cash Boosts in the first 20 levels. A lot of expert players—the ones who actually hold onto 50,000+ dice—often stop playing the main event once they hit a certain point. Why? Because the gap between milestone 38 and 39 might require 4,000 points just for a blue pack and some cash. It’s a bad trade. Honestly, it’s a trap.
Stop Using the 100x Multiplier Every Time
Seriously. Stop.
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The biggest mistake I see in the Monopoly Go community is "Multiplier Fever." You see that you need 500 points for the next gift, and you think, "If I hit Go to Jail on a 100x, I’m done!"
But what happens when you miss? You just burned 100 dice for a few thousand in game cash. In Follow the Fortunes, your dice economy is everything.
Expert players use a "tiered rolling" strategy. They roll on 1x or 5x when they are in the "dead zones" (the stretches of the board between the utilities and the railroads where no corner is in sight). Only when they land within that 6-to-9 space range of a corner do they flick the multiplier up to 20x or 50x. It’s tedious. It takes longer. But it’s how you finish the event without spending $99 on a "deal" that pops up the second you hit zero dice.
The Go to Jail Factor
In a corner event like Follow the Fortunes, "Go to Jail" is actually your best friend.
It’s the only tile that offers a secondary "hidden" reward. If you land there and roll doubles, you get your dice back. If you’re rolling on a 100x multiplier and hit doubles, you just scored massive event points and got 300 dice for free. This is the only way to effectively "infinite roll" during these banners. If you aren't aiming for the Jail tile specifically, you're missing out on the only way to mitigate the massive dice cost of these milestones.
How the Point Scaling Changes Everything
The point requirements for Follow the Fortunes Monopoly Go aren't linear. They are exponential.
- Early Game (Milestones 1-15): You’ll feel like a god. Points are cheap, rewards are frequent. You get 10 dice here, 20 dice there. It feels like you're winning.
- Mid Game (Milestones 16-30): This is the "sunk cost" phase. You’ve spent 500 dice, and the rewards are getting further apart. This is where most casual players run out of resources.
- End Game (Milestones 31-50): This is for the whales and the hoarders. The point requirements often jump to 6,000 or 8,000 per milestone.
If you don't have a starting stack of at least 5,000 dice, you shouldn't even try to finish the whole thing. Aim for milestone 25, take your winnings, and walk away. There is no shame in "banking" your dice for the next tournament.
Interaction with the Side Tournament
Don't forget the side bar! Follow the Fortunes usually runs alongside a 24 or 48-hour tournament (like the "Railroad Rush" or similar).
Since Follow the Fortunes requires corner hits, and the side tournament requires Railroad hits, you have a board where roughly 8 out of 40 tiles are "hot." That’s a 20% hit rate for something good. That is actually decent odds for Monopoly Go.
The trick is to sync your "High Roller" timer from the main event with a fresh side tournament. If you can smash out the first 10 levels of a side tournament using the dice you just won from Follow the Fortunes, you’re playing with "house money." That is the only way to stay ahead of the curve.
Practical Steps to Dominating the Event
First, check your sticker sets. If you are one gold sticker away from finishing a set that gives 3,000 dice, then yes, push hard in Follow the Fortunes to get that Purple Pack. If you are 15 stickers away? Relax. Don't blow your stash on a 1% chance of getting the card you need.
Second, look at the "Event Schedule." Use community resources or Discord trackers to see if there is a "Sticker Boom" or a "Mega Heist" coming up later in the day. There is nothing worse than finishing a massive milestone, getting a pack, and then realizing if you had waited two hours, you would have gotten 50% more stickers from it.
Third, watch the clock. Most people forget that these events end at a specific time. If there is only an hour left and you need 2,000 points, let it go. The "overflow" points don't carry over to the next event. They just vanish.
Summary of Tactics for Success
- Target the Corners: Focus your highest multipliers specifically when you are 6, 7, or 8 tiles away from Go, Jail, Free Parking, or Just Visiting.
- The "Jail" Strategy: Treat Go to Jail as your primary target for the potential dice refund on doubles.
- Know Your Exit: Decide before you start which milestone is your "finish line." For most, it's the blue pack around level 20-25.
- Sync the Side Bar: Only go "all in" when the side tournament rewards also align with your goals.
- Patience over Pace: Don't burn through 1,000 dice in five minutes. Take breaks. The RNG (Random Number Generator) can feel streaky; if you've missed 10 times in a row, put the phone down for twenty minutes.
Monopoly Go is a game of resource management disguised as a board game. Follow the Fortunes is designed to test your discipline. If you chase every prize, you'll end up with zero dice and a very expensive bill in the app store. Play the board, watch the numbers, and know when to stop. That’s the only real way to win.