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McDonalds Monopoly game

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I swear this game is geared for the dumb. In 5th grade I thought it was cool and I would stick the pieces to my board and I'd always be 1 piece off! SO CLOSE right? But many years later it seems there's a few people I know who are so intrigued and think that they're so close to winning and that if they pool with friends they'll win.

Newsflash: The rare pieces are RARE. Per http://contests.about.com/b/2013/07/17/rare-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-pieces-for-2012.htm

Mediterranean Avenue is rare, with odds of finding it at 1 in 30,124,503
Vermont Avenue is rare, with odds of 1 in 40,166,004.
Tennessee Avenue is the rare game piece, with odds of 1 in 602,490,060.
With odds of 1 in 15,062,252, Kentucky Avenue is the rare game piece.
Ventnor Avenue is rare, with odds of 1 in 301,245,030.
Boardwalk is the rare piece, with odds of 1 in 602,490,060.
Short Line is the rare game piece, with odds of 1 in 150,622,515.
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If I had the rare pieces, I'd probably just go buy a bunch of McDonalds to pick up the non rare piece and win. No I wouldn't pool it with you. And you can buy the non rare pieces off eBay for a $2 - $3 anyway.

I posted something on Facebook the other day saying that I havent played this in years and I'm surprised its back again when I had some McDs for lunch the other day. I immediately got comments asking if I'd want to join a Monopoly piece pool. How dumb do people get? I might as well buy a lottery ticket or join a lottery pool with these odds.

Edit: Probably meant to say something more like "Newsflash: The pieces you're missing are RARE for obvious reasons"
 
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GagHalfrunt said:
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Red Storm said:
Newsflash: They know they're rare.
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Man I knew the odds of finding a "rare" piece were low, but not that low.
<-- Wishes they would bring back the Best Buy bucks, those were the only reason to bother eating there or using SASE to get them.
 
Anyone ever won?

I haven't play the game at McD but I did a few times at Albertsons because I do my groceries shopping there. Always missed a piece or two to win. <sad panda>
 
DLeRium said:
I immediately got comments asking if I'd want to join a Monopoly piece pool. How dumb do people get? I might as well buy a lottery ticket or join a lottery pool with these odds.
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IIRC, the Boardwalk piece is always combined with the Park Place piece so that the grand prize winner knows that they won immediately. Makes those Park Place owners looking to join with Boardwalk owners even more ridiculous.
 
madoka said:
IIRC, the Boardwalk piece is always combined with the Park Place piece so that the grand prize winner knows that they won immediately. Makes those Park Place owners looking to join with Boardwalk owners even more ridiculous.
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Well that's my point. IT's not hard to get any of the other pieces to begin with, so why would ANY rare piece owner ever want to join up? You've pretty much won once you've got the rare piece.

However people don't figure it out. If we made Boardwalk the ONLY piece needed to win, then I can guarantee you the game would have a VERY different psychological aspect to the general crowd.

Red Storm said:
Newsflash: They know they're rare.
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Except once you have it, you've pretty much won. People think there's a need to join up or something. It's the equivalent of saying let's join up AFTER the numbers are drawn for the lottery to make a lottery pool. Uh, no thanks I'll keep my winning $400 million ticket thank you very much.
 
CrackRabbit said:
Man I knew the odds of finding a "rare" piece were low, but not that low.
<-- Wishes they would bring back the Best Buy bucks, those were the only reason to bother eating there or using SASE to get them.
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Pretty sure a friend of mine is one of the reasons they got rid of those. He mailed in piles of game piece requests with envelopes with the return address of a PO box in a state where the law requires the other party to pay for the return postage, so that cut his postage costs in half. Then he had his piles of game pieces bulk-mailed back to him instead of individually mailed with stamps, so that saved more money. And finally, he would buy stuff from Best Buy and resell it on eBay, usually for the exact same price as it was new. Netted a couple grand from that.
 
Cheesemoo said:
Aren't those worse than lottery odds?
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Monopoly from McDs is more akin to scratch offs. The odds are based off the number of game pieces printed. But yeah the odds of winning $1million from this promotional game are way way worse than winning $1million from the lottery. And thats because its free to play.
 
Wreckem said:
Monopoly from McDs is more akin to scratch offs. The odds are based off the number of game pieces printed. But yeah the odds of winning $1million from this promotional game are way way worse than winning $1million from the lottery. And thats because its free to play.
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"free". If you aren't factoring in the increased healthcare expenses. :biggrin:
 
I liked the Teeny Beanie Babies they had for awhile. I had fun collecting them, and after I got tired of seeing them, I have them away in goodie bags for my daughter's birthday parties. I still have a few of them I especially liked.
 
Granted you are getting something to eat with your chance of winning "big money" at Mcdonalds but lets compare.

Powerball Odds:
Jackpot 1:175,223,510
$1,000,000 1: 5,153,632.65
$10,000 1: 648,975.96

Mcdonalds Monopoly Odds:
$1,000,000 1: 37,955,000 (Best case scenario) or 1: 602,490,060 (w/o Big Mac purchase)
$20,000 1: 301,245,030
$10,000 1: 200,830,020
$5,000 1: 30,124,503

Wow, so there is a better chance of winning the powerball jackpot than $10,000 from Mcdonalds. Way to go out on a limb there McDonalds.
 
The thing about the McD's game is unless you go there all the time and play it religiously, OR look up which game pieces are rare, you will probably end up throwing away the winning game piece. It's like when drink companies started printing codes on the underside of the caps instead of just saying "free drink" or something. You have to go to some website and register to even find out if you won anything, and obviously I'm not doing that.
 
One of the biggest scams I remember were the spiderman ones at burger king. It was a card with two areas to scratch off, but you could only scratch off one area and if you scratched off both it was void.

So you could scratch off the left side and get some free fries while the right side hidden area could have something like $50,000 and you would never know.
 
MetalMat said:
One of the biggest scams I remember were the spiderman ones at burger king. It was a card with two areas to scratch off, but you could only scratch off one area and if you scratched off both it was void.

So you could scratch off the left side and get some free fries while the right side hidden area could have something like $50,000 and you would never know.
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That's not a scam at all. That's how games of chance are. Are you going to pick door 1 or door 2?
 
MetalMat said:
One of the biggest scams I remember were the spiderman ones at burger king. It was a card with two areas to scratch off, but you could only scratch off one area and if you scratched off both it was void.

So you could scratch off the left side and get some free fries while the right side hidden area could have something like $50,000 and you would never know.
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LOL @ a "scam" that comes FREE with the food your fat ass was going to buy anyway
 
Gambling in pretty much every form is stupid and having worked in liquor store for a few years I find that the people who spend the most on lotto are the people who can least afford it.

Except this one guy. I remember every week he would roll in and play a Keno game starting with $5 and in about an hour or so (sometimes less sometimes more), he'd work is way up to about $30 so he could buy a case of beer and a bottle of whiskey.
 
I like the inevitable kijiji(our craigslist) ads of people asking to trade all their junk pieces for the obvious rare pieces. That's gonna be a tough get.
 
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