McDonalds Monopoly 2007
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LAST UPDATED: 10/26/2004 @ 20:00 EDT. The 12th of October was a special night for me. As a loyal customer of McDonalds and avid connoisseur of fast food, I pulled into the drive-thru intending to get a dollar menu snack complemented with the obligatory large diet soda. As I opened my window to exchange payment and retrieve my order, my eyes opened wide and I gasped excitedly. The cup I was handed had a small, waxy paper object affixed to it: a peel-off game piece that could win me anything from a free breakfast sandwich to $1 million! I joked with the cashier and spoke of my fondness for the promotion, and discussed it’s history of sordid business practices.
McDonalds Monopoly was the particular promotion that we were discussing. Of course, in the past, millions of people flocked to their local McDonalds restaurant hoping to win one of many available prizes – many individuals can afford taking the chance on a cheeseburger that could make them a millionaire. Few know the tale of the marketing firm that ran promotions for McDonalds between 1996 and 2001. As it turns out, a group of eight people were arrested on peculiar charges, such as conspiracy to commit mail fraud (which is punishable by a maximum fine of $250,000 and a five year imprisonment term). What was their crime? Over the course of those six years, they usurped the winning prize pieces from public distribution and used a complex network of patsies to redeem them.
When all was said and done, they were accused of stealing a total of $12.3 Million, along with a Dodge Viper in 1996. Now, if my math is correct, forgetting that these scammers are facing time in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, they are only liable for paying a total of $2 Million in fines, far short of the amount that was stolen from the American public. I remember distinctly being a small child eagerly asking my mother to buy us McDonalds as my brother and I drooled over the missing pieces on our official game board. When I learned that the entire McDonalds Monopoly promotion had been a farce, I was crushed. I felt lied to. I also felt like this should have received greater media attention. With the 2004 Monopoly promotion now in full swing, I will dissect the game as I play it.
For more information on the McDonalds Monopoly McFraud, click here. For the official McDonalds Monopoly site, click here.
First it is useful to discuss an interesting twist to the game: as they did in 2003, McDonalds has teamed with Best Buy to put “Best Buy Bucks,” predominantly of $1 denominations, on large fries and chicken selects packaging. A few lucky folks will receive larger denomination coupons. What is particularly interesting about the Best Buy Bucks coupons is that coupons may be added up to a total of $300 during a single in-store visit. Also, each coupon contains a non-unique bar code. The bar code serves as instructions to the point-of-sale terminal to reduce the total by the denomination designated on the coupon. Interestingly, this could lead to severe coupon fraud, as a single $20 coupon could effectively be reproduced without means to trace its origin, even if the reproduction contained only the same bar code without the McDonalds Monopoly peel-off style printing. For example, a plain paper printout of an identical barcode would still function as a coupon to the cash register with no way to differentiate a ‘good’ barcode from a rogue one. This problem is exacerbated by the additional flaw resulting from the redemption scheme via BestBuy.com. Each coupon is tagged with a unique identifier that is not recorded at the store. This serial number is used to obtain a $1 credit via BestBuy.com. Since the stores accept the coupons without referencing these codes, considering that there are 78,000,000 Best Buy Bucks out there, it is highly likely that people will ‘double-dip’. These issues are worth consideration from Best Buy in the future during any type of mass-coupon distribution involving unlimited price reductions to non-specific items.
In any event, I am also interested in instant win pieces and the odds of receiving them. Below is a stem-and-leaf tally of the pieces I have received thus far.
| Mediterranean Ave: 0 (0.0%) Baltic Ave: 8 (8.7%)Oriental Ave: 6 (6.5%) Vermont Ave: 0 (0.0%) Connecticut Ave: 6 (6.5%) |
St. Charles Pl: 8 (8.7%) States Ave: 5 (5.4%) Virginia Ave: 0 (0.0%)St. James Pl: 8 (8.7%) Tennessee Ave: 0 (0.0%) New York Ave: 3 (3.3%) |
| Kentucky Ave: 0 (0.0%) Indiana Ave: 6 (6.5%) Illinois Ave: 3 (3.3%)Atlantic Ave: 6 (6.5%) Ventnor Ave: 0 (0.0%) Marvin Gardens: 3 (3.3%) |
Pacific Ave: 4 (4.3%) North Carolina: 4 (4.3%) Pennsylvania Ave: 0 (0.0%)Park Pl: 7 (7.6%) Boardwalk: 0 (0.0%) |
| Reading Railroad: 9 (9.8%) Pennsylvania Railroad: 4 (4.3%) B & O Railroad: 2 (2.2%) Short Line Railroad: 0 (0.0%) |
In addition, I have obtained instant win pieces:Free Breakfast Sandwich: 3 (3.3%) Free Small Soft Drink: 1 (1.1%) |
| Total: 92 Game Pieces, Twenty-One (21) $1 Best Buy Bucks (100.0%). Table last updated 10/26/2004 @ 20:00 EDT. | |
| Interested in helping this study by telling me what you get when you purchase McDonalds in the near future? Please post a comment and express interest! | |
Thursday, October 21, I learned that an online McDonalds monopoly game existed apart from the collect-and-win game that is so heavily advertised. Interestingly enough, everyone wins a computer game during the online redemption. What is particularly concerning is that the vendor of the software, WildTangent, is notorious as a spyware vendor. Even worse, I was required to register an email address to check my pieces. After redeeming the maximum of six pieces, I checked my email to find seven mails from McDonalds alone — six telling me that I ‘won’ the games by WildTangent, and another confirming that I had indeed registered to redeem game pieces. I have since changed my communications preferences via the ‘unsubscribe’ function. It will be interesting to see how McDonalds complies with my privacy wishes. Additionally, it will be interesting to see how many of the online codes redeem anything other than this software. It is my understanding that there are indeed confirmed winners of Sony mini-disc systems.
Another strange discovery today was that of the mysterious hidden game found when entering codes online. The placemats, game boards, and advertisements advise us to enter our game piece codes at playatmcd.com. On these advertisements, there is an illustration of a McDonalds Monopoly Illinois Ave Game Piece, with the code I6L6V4N4T2 (think “I’m Lovin’ It” with descending numbers in there). Well — it turns out that if one enters that code in the online redemption system, a very bizarre game can be played. Try it out and see for yourself!
Some interesting statistics, based on official McDonalds Monopoly Odds available at the official site:Odds of winning anything worth over $50 in McDonalds Monopoly: 1 in 26,559 (0.0038%).
Odds of winning McDonalds Monopoly considering Best Buy Bucks/Gift Certs, any prizes over $5 in value: 1 in 2,751 (0.036%).
Chances of winning a food prize: 1 in 8.6 (11.62%).
Chances of winning ANY prize (not including $1 Best Buy Bucks which are guaranteed): 1 in 8.573 (11.66%).
So: 99.69% of the times that you WIN at McDonalds Monopoly, you will have won a food prize such as a small soft drink or breakfast sandwich.
The question is — are you feeling lucky?
84 responses so far ↓
1 saul // Oct 15, 2006 at 9:31 pm
i got an ice cream cone (won it ) luck of the irish i guess . it tasted good . i enjoyed licken it. philly meal up sized :
2 states aves
2 pens rail roads
1 oriental
1 cone, and of coure best buy discount money
2 Courtney // Oct 16, 2006 at 5:53 pm
I have got the following game pieces:
(2) Park Place
(4) St. Charles Place
(4) North Carolina Avenue
(3) Marvin Gardens
(2) B&O Railroad
(2) Pennsylvania Railroad
(2) New York Avenue
(1) Atlantic Avenue
(1) Indiana Avenue
(1) States Avenue
I am 1 away on about 5 different properities on the online game from winning money. Tonight, I won a free mobile game by landing on Chance but that’s all I’ve won so far. In the past, I’ve won little things like drinks, and sandwiches and that’s it. This year, I’m buying more McDonald’s things to try and win money from the online game, I will continue to buy things from McDonald’s until the online game is over. Wish me luck!
3 S.pillow // Oct 17, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Hey there….. I was searching for Mikie Dees stats… and your page has helped greatly.
I was going to add a page to my website (which is currently defunct) where people can search for their missing pieces, and both parties mail their game pieces to a third party, and the money is split three ways. Notorized by a Finantial Service Rep ( I have already checked and its possible)
sounds cool eh ? your stats were VERY helpfull !!
- Stewart
4 peteru // Oct 17, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Stewart,
Keep in mind that only one piece of any property set is rare, the rest are common. Anyone with the rare piece would be wise to just buy a few value meals and get the common pieces. Why would someone want to share their prize with a stranger? Of course, anyone with the rare pieces this year is free to contact me, I’ll be happy to get you the missing common pieces for a fee!
Oh, and also it would violate the official rules, but then again, McDonalds employees break the rules all the time. Seriously… Any McDonalds employees out there with stories about peeling off the game pieces instead of giving them to customers? And people wonder why their local McDonalds runs out of french fry boxes with the promotional game pieces after only two or three weeks…
-Peter
5 Eli // Oct 21, 2006 at 6:36 pm
(2) Park Place
(1) Pacific Ave
(1)Atlantic Ave
(1)B&O Railroad
(2)Indiana Ave
(2)Pennsylvanina Railroad
(1)States Ave
(3)Oriental Ave
($1)Best Buy Buck
(1)Medium Fry
(1)Small McFlurry
(1)Free Ringtone
-Eli
6 jiwoo // Oct 22, 2006 at 11:59 am
1 North Carolina
1 Short Line
3 States Avenue
1 Marvin Gardens
7 Tange // Oct 22, 2006 at 7:12 pm
I have a feeling that jiwoo there is BSing….If you have 1 Short Line, then I have the other 3 railroads….Something sounds amiss to that.
8 casse // Oct 23, 2006 at 6:51 pm
I have…
1 B&O Railroad
1 Pennsylvania Railroad
1 St Charles Place
1 Illinois Avenue
1 Atlantic Avenue
1 Marvin Gardens
1 Pacific Avenue
1 North Carolina Avenue
1 Baltic Avenue
9 kristy // Oct 24, 2006 at 10:39 am
3 North Carolina
2 Park Place
1 Baltic
2 St. Charles Place
Penn.,B&O,Short Line Railroads
1 Conneticut
2 Oriental
1 Illinois
1 Indiana
1 Marvin Gardens
10 LB48 // Oct 24, 2006 at 2:18 pm
kristy dosnt have b&o shortline and penn cause i have reading rr hay maybe we can work out a deal or no deal lol
11 peteru // Oct 24, 2006 at 2:29 pm
LB48, obviously kristy doesn’t have it, jiwoo claims to have it too. Wishful thinking!
12 Tange // Oct 24, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Yeah, if one of them had it, I’m sure that someone would want to strike up a deal…lol
13 lan // Oct 25, 2006 at 3:19 am
(2) st james place
(1) new york avenue
(3) st charles place
(1) marvin gardens
(2) connecticut ave
(1) illinois ave
(1) indiana ave
(1) reading railroad
(1) pennsylvania railroad
(1) park place
(1)small soft drink
(1) breakfast sandwich
14 Tiff // Oct 25, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Park Place
north carolina
pacific ave
marvin gardens
atlantic
all railroads EXCEPT Short Line
indiana
new york
st. james
states
st. charles
connecticut
oriental
baltic
countless Best Buy dollars
countless free food such as free mcflurry, drinks, breakfast meals, coffee, cheeseburgers..
Its a FRAUD!!!! everyone has the same pieces and everyone is basically missing the same pieces.. you are LYING if you say you have Boardwalk, Short Line, Pennsylvania, Ventor, Tennessee, Virgina, Vermont, or Meditteranean…. no one has these… and after the game ends on the 30th.. we will see all these pieces come into existence……. the chances of anyone winning antying MONEY from Mickey D’s is in the BILLIONS!!!!! so people do not believe anyone who says they have the missing pieces I just mentioned. ….
15 Kristen // Oct 26, 2006 at 3:56 pm
royally bummed. .
(7) Park Place
(2) Pacific Avenue
(1) B&O Railroad
(3) Indiana Avenue
(1) New York Place
(2) St. James Place
(1) Pennsylvania Railroad
(4) States Avenue
(3) St. Charles Place
(2) Oriental Avenues
And a bunch of free small fries (which mean crap to me because if I’m getting fries, I’m gettin ones with monopoly pieces) and of course the free small mcflurries and breakfast sandwhiches.
I’m sad.
16 Tange // Oct 26, 2006 at 6:20 pm
You know….Tiff….Do you think Benjamin Franklin had that kind of attitude when he was trying to fly that little kite with a key in the storm?? NO!!! Do you think George Washington had that attitude when he was fighting the British??? NO!!! Do you think the little engine that COULD had that attitude??? NO!! (Then he would have been known as the little engine that couldn’t….) Do you think Curious George had that kind of attitude when the Man in the Big Yellow Hat always was in the way??? NO!! THEY ALL PRESSED FORWARD!!! THEY SAID HELL NO TO THE BAD ATTITUDE! NOW!!! I’M GOING TO MC D’S AND GETTING SOME FOOD! hehehehehe
17 joey // Oct 26, 2006 at 6:47 pm
i have:
2 baltic
1 north carolina
1 oriental
1 park place
1 states avenue
its rigged…
18 patrick // Oct 28, 2006 at 1:30 pm
i have all railroads except reading
oriental
illinois
19 peteru // Oct 28, 2006 at 1:33 pm
People, the point of this is that you’re *not* going to win the $5m this year, it’s that you’re going to go out and buy McDonald’s anyway because you think you have to be in it to win it. Don’t forget — no purchase necessary (void where prohibited)! Also, it’s fascinating that so many people are claiming to have rare pieces.
20 Sam // Oct 29, 2006 at 9:23 am
I just read the website about getting free pieces and you need to send an envelope and recieve pieces from October 30 to November 6, but it also says you need to allow 1-4 weeks for the mail, so you can send it in as early as possible and still it is unlikely you will get the free pieces back in time.
21 peteru // Oct 29, 2006 at 10:25 am
Sam, sounds like FUD. Last year I got almost $400 in game pieces by mail in, and I sent them in late, and from a Vermont address. The only thing I didn’t get them in time for was redeeming the food prizes. But then again that was probably for the better since I didn’t have to eat all that crappy food.
22 itsme // Nov 8, 2006 at 7:46 pm
I ate at McDonalds. I got 4 game feces (I was hungry):
1 BO RR
1 Pennsylvania RR
1 Connecticut
1 St.Charles Pl.
I logged onto the website and also won a ringtone (can’t wait to download it, it’s probably the McDonalds theme song). Right after that I logged onto the crapper and downloaded the same.
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24 blue // Oct 2, 2007 at 9:21 pm
To anyone who complains about the game, yes it’s a game I look at it this way. If I go spend 5 bucks on lottery I get a piece of paper when I loose. When I go to MD’s at least I get something eat and have a chance to win something. Also keep in mine if you get the chicken strips value meal large size you get 8 game pieces plus a bonus guaranteed winner peel off.
25 abs // Oct 2, 2007 at 11:00 pm
On the free trial code I got Conneticut Ave. I also found out with not too much trouble that the keys A,F,K,U,Y,E, and 5 dont exist in the codes. So for all you hackers there is a key. Dont know if they will change it though. If you have any codes, let me know so we can all share the wealth. sweeetabby1@msn.com thks
26 PardeyOf1 // Oct 3, 2007 at 7:59 am
hey everyone,
McD’s Monopoly is back, 2007!
so far i have
-Atlantic Ave
-St. James Pl
-States Avenue
-St. Charles Pl
-Connecticut Ave
-B&O RR
-PENN RR
-and Baltic Ave
Im determined to win…lol just like everybody else…
27 Savingmysanity // Oct 4, 2007 at 6:23 am
My mcd’s must really be theiving the pieces LOL!! Today they were outta large cups with the pieces ALREADY??? Seems fishy to me!! I was upset & heartbroken LOL!! Ok not really but angered a bit!
28 Stacy // Oct 9, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Dosn’t the Monopoly game stretch to other countries as well? Dosn’t that make the challange even harder concidering that some of the rare peices may be in Japan or something?
I have about 7 or 8 of the regular pieces so far and I wont list because it’s pointless.
If I DO win I will make sure I come back on here and list all of what I have and the winning piece too.
29 octavio // Oct 9, 2007 at 3:25 pm
connecticut avenue
30 Ryan (LOLOBVIOUSSCAM) // Oct 9, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I have 2 boardwalks for sale at $50,000 a piece.
31 Nathan // Oct 9, 2007 at 10:15 pm
#30 is a scam why would he sell them if he had the real ones He could just go get some park places and get 1 million dollars What a loser
32 carolyn // Oct 9, 2007 at 10:24 pm
If you have boardwalk willing to pay &50,000
33 CH4L // Oct 10, 2007 at 11:57 am
I have Illinois
Indiana
North Carolina
Marvin Gardens
and a breakfast sandwich.
Will pay 2500 to anyone with Kentucky!! Let’s make a deal.
34 Kyle // Oct 10, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Yea I’m sure you have 2 boardwalks.pssshhh! There’s only 3 distributed across the entire USA.
35 WN // Oct 10, 2007 at 11:28 pm
i have some of the pieces some of you people are missing for big bucks, i have board walk anyone has park place? split right down the middle!
36 shay // Oct 11, 2007 at 6:54 pm
you kno tiff, bitch if it’s so stupid,den y u takin the fuckin time to write bullshit about mcdonalds, well bitch u overruled. so yo lil stupid ass childish ass opinion ain’t worth shit
Bitch u dismissed.
-the one & only shay
37 Noel // Oct 11, 2007 at 7:09 pm
that’s why # 30 has in perenthesis ( LOL OBVIOUS SCAM )….without the spaces of course
[Note from Pete: that is correct. I put “LOLOBVIOUSSCAM”. In the past some readers, like the moron you are responding to, believed it was not so obvious. So now I’ll just make it clear. Thanks for posting!]
38 Kevin (DONTDOIT) // Oct 11, 2007 at 10:10 pm
Hey WN, I got Park Place if you are still willing to split 50/50
39 mo (DONTDOIT) // Oct 11, 2007 at 10:12 pm
I have 2 park place for 2007 any body would split the winning with me if they have board walk
40 tc // Oct 12, 2007 at 11:22 am
I have the following:
2 North Caroline
2 New Yorks
2 Conneticuts
2 illinois
1 Atlantic
A 1.00 toys r us
A 3.00 toys r us
2 medium fries, both given to me by the same friend
41 d // Oct 12, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Park Place 1
Illinois Ave
Indiana Ave 2
Con. Ave 1
Oriental Ave 1
NC Ave 2
Pacific Ave 1
B& D Railroad 2
Penn. Railroad 1
Atlantic Ave 1
States Ave 1
St Charles Pl 1
A 20% off at FootLocker
2 free small coffees
42 chris // Oct 12, 2007 at 8:17 pm
hey i have park place i m me at cgs1235 or email me at cgs1235@aim.DELETETHISBUTSERIOUSLYITSASCAMcom
[Note from Pete: No one in their right mind would sell a rare game piece under any circumstances. If you think this is real, contact me first. I have bridge for sale you might be interested in.]
43 nae // Oct 13, 2007 at 6:45 am
baltic ave.
(2) park place
n. carolina ave
illinois ave
new york ave
(3) atlantic ave
(2) conneticut ave
oriental ave
pennsylvania railroad
(3) reading railroad
44 lildigit1 // Oct 13, 2007 at 4:22 pm
I have 76 pieces. 5 of which are free food and 10 of which are foot locker and toys r us coupons. Trust me - RARE PIECES - are NOT circulated!!!! Missing 1 piece for each property both in real pieces and on the on-line game.
[There are no winners in life, only out of breath people who think they are getting somewhere.]
45 Sheila // Oct 13, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Well as always, the same pieces will are missing with this game. I was disappointed with the online game as you keep getting the same dice rolls and landing on the same properties over and over again. Strangly enough, yesterday, I couldn’t access the game in the afternoon for no explained reason by McDonalds, then later they said I had used all of my 10 plays for the day. I only had used 6 in that last 24 hour period. I had won an online game of Monopoly. Since then I feel my email addy is being “blocked” from productive plays.
I have won 2 breakfast sandwiches, a small fry, and a small drink. Thought the online game was a lot of fund until I saw how rigged it was. I can understand the limits they must place on the game, but to get the same dice rolls and land on the same spots repeatedly is a waste of my game plays and all those bucks I spent at McDonalds. At least I earned a little food prize money back.
They admit “seeding” the prize pieces. I wonder how fair the decision of when and where is. I did not find out about the three 1 million $ prizes to be given out the first week, until the 2nd week, which I thought was poorly communicated. Fun game overall, but if I see one more Connecticut, I am going to spray paint my local McDonalds Baby blue and write Connecticut across the top of each side in black spray paint.
46 Brandy // Oct 14, 2007 at 10:48 am
I have tons of pieces, and yes, I too, see the amazing frustration with the online game. It is SO irritating! If I happen to finally NOT land on something I’ve already landed on 100 times, then I miraculously land on something stupid like taxes, Waterworks, etc.
North Carolina Ave - 1
Pacific Ave - 3
Marvin Gardens - 4
Atlantic Ave - 1
Illinois Ave - 5
Indiana Ave - 3
New York Ave - 5
St. James Pl. - 5
States Ave - 2
St. Charles Pl - 5
Connecticut Ave - 3
Oriental Ave - 3
B & O Railroad - 5
Pennsylvania Railroad - 3
Reading Railroad - 4
Baltic Ave - 5
Free breakfast sandwich - 1
Free small Mcflurry - 1
10% off Footlocker - 3
20% off Footlocker - 2
$1 off Toys R Us - 6
Instant Win Free game download - 1
Hit Community Chest 1 time on the online game and won a free Monopoly computer download as well
DEFINITELY NOT GETTING MY $$$ WORTH!!!!
THE ONLINE GAME IS SUCH A CROCK!
I’ve also caught myself wanting to go to different Mcdonald’s to see which game pieces they have, I’ve noticed each one carries a varied few. . . .
47 Mark // Oct 14, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Just to clarify, if you get any of the following game pieces you have basically won a large prize. All you need to do is gather up the easy one, or ones to go with it and you win!
Dark Purple: Mediterranean
Light Blue: Vermont
Maroon: Virginia
Orange: Tenessee
Red: Kentucky
Yellow: Ventnor
Green: Pennsylvania
Blue: Boardwalk
Railroad: Short Line
You’re not likely to ever see any of these pieces in your lifetime, but if you should be fortunate enough to find one KEEP IT SAFE until you get a chance to round up the easy pieces to go with it and then RUN to your computer to claim your prize! Best of luck to all of you!
48 Ronnie // Oct 14, 2007 at 5:20 pm
i have these pieces
Oriental
B&O railroad
Illinois
Boardwalk
Pacific
Indiana
Any matches? lemme know
49 John // Oct 14, 2007 at 7:20 pm
There is a website that puts everyone around the country together to increase the odds and win the monopoly game. I uploaded several game pieces. It is called teamplayatmcd.com
You should upload your pieces it may help you win.
[Note from Pete: You can’t increase your odds by teaming up with strangers on the internet. No one wants to share their rare game pieces with you.]
50 Bruce // Oct 15, 2007 at 9:05 am
ok can we say SCAM! roflmao.. we all know what the rare pieces are so why in the world would you wanna go to some website that looks bootleg as i dont know what and enter in your code lol…. we all know its your site and your just tryin to trick people into givinng you free codes…. roflmao. too bad when you do win you wont have the game piece to collect on it dumby!
51 Archie Kwalson // Oct 15, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Need to find game board
52 amanda // Oct 15, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Mark do you still have the Green: Pennsylvania game piece? Would you like to make a deal? I have the other 2. If you do email me at alwaysmakingmemories2004@yahoo.com
53 beth // Oct 15, 2007 at 7:24 pm
The online monopoly game stinks. It will ask me to register. I fill everything in then i hit submit and nothing happens. It asks me to enter my game codes and i do and nothing happens. I’m done. I threw out my game pieces. I dont have time for nonsense.
54 Thomas // Oct 16, 2007 at 3:37 am
I have Park place Ronnie we can split the earnings if and win this game together if u like
55 candy // Oct 16, 2007 at 9:52 pm
i got parkplace email me if u got boardwalk really need the money ********** mabel360@hotmail.com we can split 50 50
56 Troy // Oct 17, 2007 at 1:06 am
I Got Boardwalk Any One Wanna Make A Deal Lmao Just Playing. But If There Is One Thats Has It Lets Talk Bizz
57 Paige // Oct 17, 2007 at 3:52 pm
When you listed the game pieces you have recieved I was interested in seeing if you had any pieces that I didn’t have and every piece you say you haven’t gotten I haven’t been able to find someone with any of those game pieces. The company doesn’t want to hand out all this money so they must just hand a few of the rare game pieces out. Also a friend of mine worked at Mcdonalds and she said that all the Mcd’s in the state of california only give out certain game pieces. so good luck on winning anything other than food or a beverage. In the end you end up paying for the free food anyways.
58 Jake // Oct 17, 2007 at 9:01 pm
HEy Ronnie I have park Place…lets split the winnings…. please write back!!
59 Jake // Oct 17, 2007 at 9:05 pm
ronnie if you have boardwalk email me at ruck123@hotmail.com
60 Matt // Oct 18, 2007 at 2:13 pm
I have Boardwalk but can’t seem to find Park Place. I’ll probably just get bored and toss my gameboard.
61 sweet // Oct 18, 2007 at 7:06 pm
If anyone need these pieces, you can have them:
(2) Pennsylvania railroad
(1) Reading railroad
(3) Connecticut Avenue
(1) New York Avenue
(1) North Carolina
I would do a fair trade….I need:
Vermont Avenue
Boardwalk
62 axel32 // Oct 19, 2007 at 9:41 pm
I got:
Connecticut Ave.
Park Place
North Carolina Ave
Pacific Ave
St.James Place
Pennsylvania Railroad
Reading Railroad
States Ave.
Atlantic Ave.
Baltic Ave.
63 Cool // Oct 20, 2007 at 9:33 am
hey Troy just 2 let u know i got boardwalk, wanna talk bizz?
[Note from Pete: Yea, I bet you do. Tell you what, you mail it to me first, I’ll claim it, and I’ll give you 50% after taxes. Deal?]
64 Other Matt // Oct 20, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I checked out the website that purports to give players an opportunity to pool their resources for a better chance of winning prizes.
It’s obviously a scam. And if you have any understanding of how McDonalds likely distributes their game pieces, not even an effective one.
The site appears to have been created by someone with zero intention of paying back any prize money as there is no real means of communicating with whoever you are supposed to be giving the codes to. It also claims that their “lawyers will contact you” if there is a match and you win a prize.
It seems they’re just fishing the pool of suckers for online codes to play the game themselves.
God bless ‘em. Nobody wins it, anyway…
65 John // Oct 23, 2007 at 9:40 am
I have one of everything except the “rare” pieces. Online version - one of everything except Park Place and one of the yellow properties. The online game locks up for me all the time, too, though I tried bright and early on Sunday morning at 7:30 eastern time, and I was able to enter 10 codes in less than 3 minutes! (So I guess it depends on how many people are on the website.)
Anyone else have trouble getting game pieces? This seems to happen to me every year. I go to McDonald’s during their Monopoly promotion and intentionally order food/drink which I know will have the game pieces. Unfortunately, a lot of times, 1 or more of the food/drink items will not have the 2 game pieces on it. Of course, I’ll ask the cashier why it doesn’t have the game pieces on it, but all I usually get is a blank stare from the cashier, followed by the cashier asking a shiftleader about it. Usually they’ll end up giving me an empty medium cup or empty fries to make up for any missing game pieces.
A few suggestions for McDonald’s:
- Train your employees about the promotion. They should know more about it than I do.
- Make sure you have enough of a supply of game pieces to last the entire promotion. You know it’s a popular promotion, so make sure you stock up. I know the fine print says “while supplies last,” but there’s no excuse for me not receiving game pieces at 3 different McDonald’s locations before the promotion is even half over.
- If you do run out of game pieces, inform all your staff so that they are aware. If a customer orders a food/drink item for which you’ve run out of game pieces, the cashier should automatically give the customer game pieces from an empty cup/fries/etc. Don’t make the customer have to ask for it. If you forget to give one to the customer, don’t cop an attitude when the customer requests the missing game pieces.
- Don’t leave the promotional signage up in the store or on the menuboard if you don’t have the game pieces to back it up. If I see a “Play Monopoly!” decal on the menuboard next to the Chicken Selects, it is not unreasonable for me to expect to get my game pieces on the Chicken Selects.
66 Monique // Oct 23, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I got
Park Place
North Carolina
Pacific
Marvin Gardens
Atlantic
Illinois
Indiana
New York
St James
St Charles
Connecticut
Oriental
Pennsylvania RR
Reading RR
Baltic
67 Jeremy // Oct 23, 2007 at 5:44 pm
I have 100 Mcdonalds Monopoly Pieces. Still on The Hashbrown Papers! They are unpeeled unused!MEaning I have no clue What they are! If you are interested in them please send me an e-mail at jbgames2008@gmail.com because I will not be checking back
68 cali // Oct 23, 2007 at 6:53 pm
i got st.charlesplace indiana,ave illinois,ave pacific,ave north carolina,ave oriental,ave connecticot,ave park place pennsylvaniaRR B&ORR.
69 jeffery // Oct 24, 2007 at 2:53 pm
i got almost all of them but the one im really lookin for is parkplace so if any ony have that one we can share the money 50 50
[LOL you guys don’t give up, do you?]
70 sell unused pieces // Oct 24, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Anyone who wants to sell stickers that haven’t been redeemed online, email me (you can even keep the sticker, I just want the code). If you have a paypal account and don’t do the online game, just email and I’ll pay you for the codes. ..If there is any piece you need and I have it, I’ll be happy to mail it to you as part of the trade.
I have pretty much all of them but the alphabetically last in each group (with the exception of boardwalk/parkplace where boardwalk is the ‘magical rare piece” for that set).
Anyway, ..if you have unused codes and want to sell them and you have a paypal account, email me at Sproutky@ISSOMETHINGFISHYmsn.com
Thanks.
71 sell unused pieces // Oct 24, 2007 at 5:18 pm
Jennifer, I have two parkplaces, email me and let’s talk.
sproutky@ISAWANKERmsn.com
72 JP // Oct 25, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Anyone who wants to sell stickers that haven’t been redeemed online, email me
cocacola_babe_1989@ATLEASTUSEGMAILINSTEADhotmail.com
WILL SPLIT MONEY IF I WIN.
i NEED SHORT LINE
73 Alex // Oct 25, 2007 at 1:58 pm
lets see…I have…
1 Marvin Gardens
1 Atlantic Avenue
2 St. Charles Place
2 Baltic Avenues
3 Pacific avenues
2 Breakfast Sandwich
1 Mcflurry
2 $1 Toys”R”Us Bucks
1 10% off Footlocker Purchase
1 20% off Footlocker Purchase
and my luckiest: 1 Boardwalk… It seems that everybody has Park Place except me…I guess I’ll keep playing…
[LOLGOODLUCKPLAYINGALEX]
74 Kel-Z // Oct 25, 2007 at 4:36 pm
I have
Baltic
All Rail Roads except Short Line
Oriental
Connecticut
St. Charles
States
St. James
New York
Indiana
Illinois
Atlantic
Marvin Gardens
Pacific
North Carolina
Park Place
And a host of free things, anyone in the Maryland area, hit me up and we MAY can work something out
75 jonathan // Oct 25, 2007 at 6:39 pm
i need boardwalk$1,000,000 call me 209-914-8237 plz i will split
also i have
b&o railroad/penn railroad5,000,000
north carloina/paciffic ave$50,000
atlantic ave/marvin garden$25,000
[Note to Jonathan: Are you crazy posting your phone number here? I’m not responsible if you start getting prank phone calls for being so stupid to believe someone wants to split their prize with you.]
76 rb // Oct 25, 2007 at 10:02 pm
No shit, when the game first kicked off i went to a different MCDS then usual and these badass kids were in front of me and said “MOM MOM we got Boardwalk!!” I didnt think anything of it really I knew it was hard to get last year but i figured that maybe this one was different.
The best part of this story is that the mom was like yeah whatever, I dont think they even knew what they had, worse, they probably threw the fricken thing away, yeah i’m a dumb ass for not dumpster diving after I realized what just happened. Kill Me Now.
77 Amber // Oct 26, 2007 at 4:18 am
I have been an avid player of McD’s Monopoly every year since 2003. It just happens to fall in my birthday month every year, so I use my birthday as an excuse… ok so you really didn’t need to know that. This year so far I have collected:
(1) Park Place
(4) Pacfic Avenue
(2) Marvin Gardens
(5) Atlantic Avenue
(5) Indiana Avenue
(3) New York Avenue
(2) St. James Place
(1) Connecticut Avenue
(4) Oriental Avenue
(4) B&O Railroad
(3) Pennsylvania Railroad
(4) Reading Railroad
(1) Baltic Avenue
(1) Small Fry
(1) Breakfast Sandwich
(1) Small Soft Drink
(4) $5 Toys R’ Us Bucks
(1) 10% off Foot Locker Purchase
Online Gameplay
(2) Free Game Downloads from RealArcade
Amber
TX, USA
78 Sonya // Oct 26, 2007 at 10:33 am
Pennsylvania RR
B&O RR
Reading RR
Connecticut
Oriental
Marvin Gardens
Atlantic Ave
If anyone wants to put pieces together to win I am in!!!!
79 WINNER!! // Oct 26, 2007 at 7:13 pm
hey can i have some free codes mn because i really need them!!
80 NATE // Oct 26, 2007 at 11:35 pm
(69) “u guys dont give up do u” thats what the mac donalds corparation wants u not to do so they keep gaining money and pretend like the give out the huge ass 1 million or what ever the figures may be away, they just use random customer and pretend to give out that high cash but give them a shorter amount of money instead.
[11:36] noone has any of the “rare pieces”, and if they do then it must be from recent years.
[11:36] explains why i got removed from website, telling off secret info i guess
[11:37] why cant i send / see what i comment
[11:37] ineedattention.com fzcking gay cant backspace
[Nate, I have to approve comments before they hit the page. Chill.]
81 caroline // Oct 27, 2007 at 9:48 am
hey i have a few codes if u will emial me some i will give you mine thanks =]
82 donna // Nov 2, 2007 at 12:30 pm
hi. i guess i’m a lucky one. i won a free game download ($20 value) from realgames!
83 Lisa // Nov 4, 2007 at 6:10 pm
I have the following pieces for FREE to anyone who wants them. I’ve already used the codes for online play but if anybody is collecting pieces to try to win, you can have them. Email me, I’ll give you my address, send a self addressed stamped envelope to me and I’ll mail them to you. No scam, if you have a better way that makes sure you get them than what I posted, I’m up for it too. These are NOT rare pieces. email is Sproutky@msn.com
Pieces are:
(3) B&O railroad, (1) Reading Railroad, (1) PA Railroad, (4) Illinois ave, (3) Park Place, (2) pacific, (2) conneticut, (3)states ave, (3) st charles, (2) Marvin Gardens, (1) Atlantic ave, (5) st james place, (2) footlocker 20% off. Also have 2 toysrus $1 buck pieces and would trade those for unused codes for the online game.
They work on code # too, so if you want to trade unused coes from regular pieces, I’ll trade teh unused toys r us codes
Also willing to buy unused codes if you have paypal account so I can safely transfer money to you without getting scammed….how about $1 per 5 unused codes or something like that, will go up to $5 for 20, sounds fair to me.
84 gloria // Nov 5, 2007 at 6:19 pm
does anyone out there have the phone number which is on the game stamps?
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