Playing McDonald's Monopoly Game
Buy Fast Food and Take a Chance on Winning Prizes
The latest version of Monopoly is scheduled October 6 to November 12, 2009, or until game pieces are all given out. The game has been offered a number of times before, and drives additional traffic to your local restaurant. This game is in United States restaurants.
The game is based on the original Monopoly board game, which features the properties and railroads of Atlantic City, New Jersey. The goal in the board game is to collect properties and charge rents to drive your opponents into bankruptcy.
Properties are grouped by color and location on the board. If a player gets a full set of properties (either two or three properties, depending on the color) or four railroads, they have a monopoly, and can put houses or hotels on them.
Monopoly at McDonald’s®
One way to play the fast food giant’s game is to collect property pieces, which are available on certain menu items. If a player collects all the pieces in a set, they win the prize associated with that set. Game pieces also contain instant winners, and to go bags also contain a Free Code that players can use to play online.
How to get Game Pieces
Monopoly game pieces are available on the wrapping on:
- Angus Burgers
- Chicken McNuggets®, 10 or 20 piece
- Large Fries
- Medium and large fountain drinks
- Large hot McCafe® drinks
- Hash Browns
As with all games of chance in the United States, no purchase is required to get a game piece.
Winning the Big Prizes
In order to win by collecting properties, a player must have all the properties in a set. For example, they must have both Park Place and Boardwalk (Blue), or Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois Avenues, (Red).
There are not an equal number of Park Place and Boardwalk pieces distributed. Since this combination wins the biggest prize, there are extremely few pieces one of the particularly properties, and millions of the others.
Winning Rare Pieces in McDonald's Monopoly
- Mediterranean Avenue
- Vermont Avenue
- Virginia Avenue
- Tennesee Avenue
- Kentucky Avenue
- Ventnor Avenue
- Pennsylvania Avenue
- Boardwalk
- Short Line Railroad
These rare properties do not change from game to game. This is likely so there is less opportunity for counterfeiting pieces.
Many Park Place pieces are printed, but only one Boardwalk. Each of the sets has a similar allocation. There may be millions of New York Avenues, and only a few St. James Place pieces. The odds of winning a large prize are disclosed. The allocation of pieces does not vary by region of the country. There are not a large number of Boardwalks on the west coast, and Park Places in the east.
There have been classified advertisements looking to purchase the winning pieces during past games. Those holding those rare pieces would be advised to keep visiting the restaurants to pick up the plentiful pieces from that set.
Buying Food for Game Pieces
McDonald’s® has allocated the pieces to food items to best increase sales. (It is their game, and they make the rules.) A large value meal may produce six game tickets (two per item for the sandwich or McNuggets®, fries and a drink. This can be expensive and calorie-laden.
Items purchased not as a part of a value meal are more expensive. The cost of a large french fry or drink varies by location, but may cost nearly as much as the entire value meal. This game does not offer game pieces on any of the restaurant’s healthier alternative, such as chicken or salad.
Customers will want to make sound judgments on how much food they should purchase in order to gain a small chance of winning a big prize.
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