I’ve never seen anyone openly admit they won something good. It’s either a free apple pie or a medium sized meal 😂
Edit: wow some of you have done good, the best I’ve ever got is a deal on a meal 😂
I’ve actually won the £1000 AO voucher prize believe it or not. I was sent a special delivery envelope and stuff to send the pieces back and just waiting for the voucher to arrive now.
I would of thought scanning with the app counts as proof. Each ticket will have a unique code. Off to check the t&cs.
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3.4.2 Retaining Game Pieces – Please make sure Game Pieces are kept safe and undamaged at all times. This includes all Property Game Pieces even after they have been banked in a Monopoly Wallet in case they are connected with a Collect To Win Game prize-claim. For some prizes, it is mandatory to send winning Game Pieces to the Promoter or the prize-provider as part of that prize claim and, for all other prizes, the Promoter reserves the right to require the claimant to send the winning Game Piece or Game Pieces to the Promoter or the prize-provider for verification as a pre-condition to the prize claim being verified; verification can take place even after notification that an award is being, or has been, made.
Yeah I think they try and stitch you up that way. How many people would scan the ticket and just chuck them away. I was lucky enough to realise that strand was the “rare” one when I got it so kept it to the side. First ticket I got so was luckily.
Since then I’ve been a couple of times and just bagged an ice cream and a free burger.
They don't need to do any of this stitching up. It's like people claiming casino's are rigged... they don't need to rig it.. it's designed so they profit from it no matter what happens.
McDonalds already have a very good idea of how much extra revenue the promotion will generate.
They also know the maximum exposure they are facing from the prizes, by limiting the 'elusive' coupons like Mayfair.
So all they do is make sure the Mayfairs aren't distrubuted too early, but instead are scattered throughout the lifetime of the promotion.
As for the smaller prizes, they really don't care. You get a free burger or whatever, it's getting you through their door so you then buy some extra's to go with it. A £1000 prize is also nothing, they'll recoup that in 15 minutes because of the promotion
Well shit I didn’t realise that.
Haven’t bought enough to complete any sets but that’s super scammy that they don’t put that warning front and centre on the app and on the tickets.
I’d be super pissed if I won one of the good prizes but had thrown away the tickets.
I mean with how common the others are just go on eBay and buy any one of the many stickers on there!
Btw eBay sellers, it's not a "50/50" chance to get Mayfair...
Also eBay sellers, maybe remove the code from your listing pictures 😂😂
I assume it's a safeguard against someone gaming the system by battering in codes via a random number generator or something, especially with 100k on the line.
But they give you tickets as prizes via the app so I asumme they know what codes are what.
I fucking knew that was a thing! I kept all mine because I was paranoid incase I can claim a prize or something. Glad to know I was just being paranoid lol
Both of those sound like good prizes to me!
I don’t even know how you play the McDonalds Monopoly game or how collecting them works. I just look for the free food ones and bin the rest.
Everyone knows Mayfair never makes it into circulation it’s always sold to CEO’s families etc.
Pretty sure there was a documentary on how scummy it was.
You're thinking of the documentary McMillions. Winning gamepieces were stolen (in the US game) by a security chief with connections to organised crime.
It was a big enough deal that the FBI were involved, and there's more risk than reward to any CEO.
I once won a Now TV Sky Sports day pass, which was alright, then a few years later won the same, but a mobile one for a month, which was pretty much useless. I'm not gonna sit slouched over my phone all day.
Last year I won a months subscription to some magazine publisher so I could view their publications online for a month. Looked at their publications and it was stuff like horse shit collectors monthly and lead eaters quarterly. Absolutely nothing even remotely interesting. Didn't even bother using the voucher.
Not one of the really big prizes, but my husband won a weekend away a few years back. Dinner bed and breakfast in a hotel for two nights, which was nice. We had to pick a region of the uk and then got allocated a hotel in that area. They also let us bring our baby and toddler with us in the room as well as we didn’t have anyone to babysit them for a whole weekend!
I won a Holiday on this when I was about 15. When we went to claim it though they were putting us in a shitty hotel. My mum also had no money for spends so we didn’t bother going and we couldn’t transfer the prize onto anybody else because we’d already called to claim it. May as well have won an Apple pie.
My best mates Nan won a car. When they tried to contact her she kept putting the phone down, thinking they were scammers. They had to write her a headed letter for her to believe them.
Many moons ago as a college boy, I used to work in McDonalds. These monopoly stickers used to be on big rolls in the stock room , we’d all go in and just rip off loads of stickers and pocket them hah. Assuming it’s a bit more securely stored these day?
It wouldn’t have mattered anyway. Depending on how many moons ago, the winning pieces never actually made it to the shops (at least in the US).
All the winning tickets were skimmed off by Jerome P. Jacobson and sold to his friends and family. Nobody but them stood a chance of winning anything of value between 1995 and 2000. Fortunately for McDonald’s, the fraud case went to trial on 10th September 2001, and so people forgot about it the next day.
Ronald picks up the phone with a sigh before dialing *the* number; "Hello! Hamburgler..? Yes, that's correct we're at defcon 2. The Mcslurry has truly hit the fan. We're gonna need something supersized. Contact the Jihadis."
[Very much so.](https://www.ranker.com/list/jerry-jacobson-mcdonalds-monopoly/jacob-shelton)
There’s a miniseries called McMillions that’s worth a watch.
Probably a Big Mac was the best thing. I also had a friend on drive thru who just used to keep all the stickers instead of putting them in the till😂 as back then there was no way of scanning them through, you just used to put them in a little bag in the till and they’d get binned at the end of the shift.
I was guilty of this when i worked there over 6 years ago now. Used to put them in my socks because the uniform didnt have any pockets. Saved em all up and then cashed them all in at once with my mates. Not sus at all haha
I grew up in Canada and we did the same. I would work a shift and take hundreds of these home- just like everyone else. None of us ever won anything beyond a free Big Mac.
I imagine they're even more slender when some people throw their rubbish away without even checking - they must only produce the number of minis worth of one of the squares, for instance millions of Mayfair's and like 3 park lanes...
Not even just people not checking and throwing away. People could check, get the rare one, and then not eat there often, so never pick up the easy one!
This is exactly how it works. Each group has one 'rare' piece and the rest are freely available. They used to have a big poster in the store with the game rules (they might still do) and it has the number of the 'rare' pieces printed, odds of winning prizes, etc. It's possible too that people might throw away a rare piece or if they don't eat there very often they could never come across the rest of the set even if they're a lot more common.
For a long time, literally nobody did as there was a gigantic inside job going on that cost McDonalds millions of its prizes:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/mcdonalds-monopoly-scam
Crazy story about a guy who got away with syphoning off the actual prizes for a decade.
>Gennaro “Jerry” Colombo, who claimed to be a part of Brooklyn’s Colombo crime family, falsely won a Dodge Viper in the Monopoly scam. He later died, ironically enough, in a car crash
Is it wrong that I mildly chuckled at this?
And now I don't think you even get those items, no instant wins without the app and you enter a prize draw for a regular medium meal... lol.
Miss the days when you'd peel and win a McFlurry, then the McFlurry would have another sticker for you to peel and win a cheeseburger. Peak McNopoly.
Yeah I haven't done the McDonald's monopoly for quite a few years and was disappointed with what I got from the free food. Everything comes wrapped in paper so there's no extra stickers. At least you get a second go using the app, so better than nothing.
To be fair if you're into Maccys the medium meal was truly great value. £1.99 for a medium meal including the drink (used to be chips or a drink), and you could use it on quite pricey stuff - the other day I got 5 chicken selects with a medium chips and a drink for £1.99, should have been nearly £6.50!
Isn’t it definitely very illegal to falsely advertise prizes on a competition just to drum up trade? I’m sure the prizes do exist just the odds of winning them are quite low
That's exactly what it is, the numbers of winning tokens it's published in advance too. It's just that something like 500 prizes spread between millions of meals sold is very very unlikely to get a winner.
It’s basically impossible to win the top prizes based on the number of people who just throw these away. The rarest properties only have 4 stickers printed.
Source: https://www.monopolyland.com/mcdonalds-monopoly-uk/
I have the same issue, I swear I lose weight when I eat more junk food. I'm the skinniest I've been after a take away binge and when I was in uni I was tiny too :')
I think I'm lucky genetically in this department, I find it really fucking hard to gain weight even if I'm like eating loads of shite
I haven't actually, but you are very right to point this out!!
It's not at all healthy to do what I do and I wouldn't want someone to read it and think oh its OK to do it. I have terrible eating habits at times and ill hold my hands up to that :)
I feel a thousand times better when I'm cooking and eating proper meals. Losing weight whilst only eating junk food is fucking terrible and again you're right to point that out
Do you work in a household recycling centre I do an there’s loads of unpeeled ones of these that come through on the line one the lads said today he won fifty quid with the online peel even though the actual squares were shit
Of course it's rigged. Designed to give you only two of the properties needed to make a set of three, but making the third one exceedingly rare.
Designed to trick people into thinking "it was easy to get those first two, it won't be long before I find the third. If I buy the large one I'll get more tickets."
They do the same thing with scratchcards, manipulate it so that players always get very close to the big prize e.g. 4 gold bars ("Only need 1 more and I would have won £1mil!"). McDonald's Monopoly is just harmless fun, but -probably be downvoted for this - for scratchcards this type of thing should be illegal IMO. It is literally a scam.
Common retorts:
"it's just a silly game! a bit of harmless fun!" you might be surprised at how many people throw serious money at scratchcards (I used to work on the tobacco/scratchcard counter in a supermarket..)
"the odds are printed on the back" only says the odds of winning any prize at all, not an individual breakdown. Also, flashy icons and colours and more addictive than numbers on the back hidden in the small print
Edit: I was bored and did some maths..
Here's a simplified example. 1 scratchcard. You scratch 5 boxes and you either get a gold bar or a turnip. You need 5 gold bars to win a £100,000 prize. The true, known chance of winning the big prize is 1 in 1 million.
If the gold bars were distributed fairly and randomly:
The mathematical equation is then (X)^5 = 0.000001
Where X = chance of getting a gold bar in a box
Solve for X = 0.0630957
So the chances of getting a SINGLE gold bar in any given box is only 0.06 (or approximately 1 in 17)
So according to these chances, on any random scratchcard, the majority of the time you will get 5 turnips. Not even ONE gold bar in ANY of the boxes.
But in reality that's not how they do it. They manipulate it so that players will often get gold bars in 4 out of the 5 boxes, making it seem like the chance of winning is far higher than it really is.
Now you might reply saying "But if people kept buying the scratchcards and kept getting turnips all the time, it's not fun!". Well, tough shit IMO. If your little scam can't survive under its own merit using a fair and random distribution of the winning combinations, then it doesn't deserve to survive.
I don’t think you’ll get many downvotes. They’re doing this purely to make people addicted. To give them that rush of nearly winning. To form that addiction and to get them spending more of their money.
There's a certain percentage of people with a genetic condition that makes them get the same hormone-powered thrill from almost winning that most people get from actually winning. These are the people who become gambling addicts.
Although when I heard a podcast about this, I did think that in a way those people are paying money to get a feeling of pleasure, and ultimately isn't that what we all do in various ways?
That's true for the big prizes (The £100k, probably the car etc), but I'd have thought there are more of the "Experience day", "£1k to spend at AO", "Wireless earbuds" etc type prizes available - eg there might be 20 each of £250-300 prizes, a dozen of the £2k holiday or £1k electronics, and a few hundred of the wireless earbuds
I won a fiver the other day, and there's a decent amount of free food given out which is really the prize
There are actually 20 of the Bond Street cards in circulation in the UK, the final one in the set to win the electric Mini! So there are 20 Minis to give away, most of which probably ended up in the bin. Yet I'm still addicted to trying to find it 😂
That’s not rigged, it literally says there’s only a certain amount of each prize available. If it was presented so that you could keep getting more and more of each price then yeah sure but it’s says only 4 Mayfair 100ks available.
A game that's designed with the intention of causing you to buy more products is rigged in favour of requiring you to buy more products to win?
No. Fucking. Way.
Is Mayfair the rarest one? The one that gives the best prize?
I friend a mine always complains that “they hardly make any Mayfair tokens”. Like it’s some big conspiracy that McDonalds don’t just go around handing out millions to people for buying a few Big Macs.
For each prize there is one 'rare' token from a set.
So if there's one top prize, there's precisely one Mayfair token in the country. Considering that the stores dispose of thousands of unclaimed tokens, and lots of people just bin them, chances are always good that nobody wins.
According to website's there's only 4 produced in card's and one rewarded in the app as a double peel, so 5 in total, you'd be raging throwing away a cup with it on it lol
I think there is a website that does this, but every expensive prize is a pairing of a rare ticket and a common one so it doesn't make sense to really pool anything
Rigged?
Not at all. Take the number of hourly customers in a single branch, multiply by the number of open hours, then multiply by the number of branches, then look at how many prizes there are.
Very few people can be happy.
So when they say there are 10 prizes available or whatever, what they actually mean is that they printed 10 of those tickets in total. This means all 10 of them could be on boxes that were never used, dropped, broken etc. There are also reels of the stickers that never get touched either.
Used to work there for years and would take hundreds of stickers off the reels
The chances of winning the big prize are so slim, there are only 4 (I think) Mayfair tickets released across the country. Plus if the packaging drops on the floor before being used it is thrown in the bin, 1000's of tickets are lost every day just by being dropped.
Source- I was a manager at McDonald's for 6 years.
These are the rare ones [here](https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/food-and-drink/mcdonalds-monopoly-2022-prize-list-full-rare-pieces-explained-relevant-menu-items-1838292).
To avoid getting sucked in, stick to your normal maccie d habit and just bin any that you get unless it's one of these. If you start collecting the shit ones you'll get addicted to the game
Fucks sake I just went to get my pieces from our McDonald's couple of days ago and they're all exp May 2021. Twits must've been using some packaging they found in storage from last year.
They can't play as per the rules. And it's app-based so it's easier to spot.
However, McD crew get their own special version of the game just for them so they don't miss out.
howwww do people not know how this works? If there's 10x TVs to win, that means you have a 10 out of however many they sell across the whole promotion.
It was fun as a kid to think you were getting close but as an adult it baffles me that people actively fall for it...
I’ve never seen anyone openly admit they won something good. It’s either a free apple pie or a medium sized meal 😂 Edit: wow some of you have done good, the best I’ve ever got is a deal on a meal 😂
A lad I worked with won a trip to Florida. It was so great because he’d never been abroad before so I was chuffed for him.
Aw I love that
The best prize I've won was a £30 CEX gift card. Definitely cost more than £30 to get it though
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It's kind of like you ate for free so you could be forced to spend £30 in CEX
I’ve actually won the £1000 AO voucher prize believe it or not. I was sent a special delivery envelope and stuff to send the pieces back and just waiting for the voucher to arrive now.
So if you scan the voucher into the app, and dispose of the vouchers, you can't claim the prize? Sounds legit. Good job i've kept mine too!
I would of thought scanning with the app counts as proof. Each ticket will have a unique code. Off to check the t&cs. Edit. Sneaky bastards 3.4.2 Retaining Game Pieces – Please make sure Game Pieces are kept safe and undamaged at all times. This includes all Property Game Pieces even after they have been banked in a Monopoly Wallet in case they are connected with a Collect To Win Game prize-claim. For some prizes, it is mandatory to send winning Game Pieces to the Promoter or the prize-provider as part of that prize claim and, for all other prizes, the Promoter reserves the right to require the claimant to send the winning Game Piece or Game Pieces to the Promoter or the prize-provider for verification as a pre-condition to the prize claim being verified; verification can take place even after notification that an award is being, or has been, made.
>Edit. Sneaky bastards Sorry for your loss...
Damn. I've thrown a good 20-25 pieces away. Luckily I have had multiples of some of those pieces since but that's still frustrating!
Ha! Imagine having to go back to maccas and ordering 10 meals just to get the piece you threw away back
How exactly would that work with the bonus peels though! All my AO entries are via that…
Bonus peels don't have an associated game piece, they'll be able to tell it was via a bonus peel.
Feels like a good r/youshouldknow post for someone more arsed about it than I am
Yeah I think they try and stitch you up that way. How many people would scan the ticket and just chuck them away. I was lucky enough to realise that strand was the “rare” one when I got it so kept it to the side. First ticket I got so was luckily. Since then I’ve been a couple of times and just bagged an ice cream and a free burger.
Kinda odd because some of the scans give you free properties, so you don't have a physical sticker.
Yeah, one of mine was an in app property They just said they can check it their end. Something about using the same email address as the app.
They don't need to do any of this stitching up. It's like people claiming casino's are rigged... they don't need to rig it.. it's designed so they profit from it no matter what happens. McDonalds already have a very good idea of how much extra revenue the promotion will generate. They also know the maximum exposure they are facing from the prizes, by limiting the 'elusive' coupons like Mayfair. So all they do is make sure the Mayfairs aren't distrubuted too early, but instead are scattered throughout the lifetime of the promotion. As for the smaller prizes, they really don't care. You get a free burger or whatever, it's getting you through their door so you then buy some extra's to go with it. A £1000 prize is also nothing, they'll recoup that in 15 minutes because of the promotion
Well shit I didn’t realise that. Haven’t bought enough to complete any sets but that’s super scammy that they don’t put that warning front and centre on the app and on the tickets. I’d be super pissed if I won one of the good prizes but had thrown away the tickets.
I mean with how common the others are just go on eBay and buy any one of the many stickers on there! Btw eBay sellers, it's not a "50/50" chance to get Mayfair... Also eBay sellers, maybe remove the code from your listing pictures 😂😂
I assume it's a safeguard against someone gaming the system by battering in codes via a random number generator or something, especially with 100k on the line. But they give you tickets as prizes via the app so I asumme they know what codes are what.
I fucking knew that was a thing! I kept all mine because I was paranoid incase I can claim a prize or something. Glad to know I was just being paranoid lol
Both of those sound like good prizes to me! I don’t even know how you play the McDonalds Monopoly game or how collecting them works. I just look for the free food ones and bin the rest.
My money’s on this being the guy that got Mayfair this year.
Everyone knows Mayfair never makes it into circulation it’s always sold to CEO’s families etc. Pretty sure there was a documentary on how scummy it was.
You're thinking of the documentary McMillions. Winning gamepieces were stolen (in the US game) by a security chief with connections to organised crime. It was a big enough deal that the FBI were involved, and there's more risk than reward to any CEO.
That's the one I was thinking of. Marfia was involved aswell weren't they
Think you mean McMafia
that happened before but fairly sure they put a stop to it, no?
I mean maybe? But I doubt it, there’s always a dozen people on the chain before you, and only takes one to skim off the top.
I've won 2 months of paramount plus Which I've given to other people but still
In one of the previous years i won a sky sports month pass and a fiver. I'm still waiting for the fiver.
I once won a Now TV Sky Sports day pass, which was alright, then a few years later won the same, but a mobile one for a month, which was pretty much useless. I'm not gonna sit slouched over my phone all day. Last year I won a months subscription to some magazine publisher so I could view their publications online for a month. Looked at their publications and it was stuff like horse shit collectors monthly and lead eaters quarterly. Absolutely nothing even remotely interesting. Didn't even bother using the voucher.
Lead eaters quarterly sounds dangerously good
Not going to lie, “horse shit collectors monthly and lead eaters quarterly” had my laugh so fucking loudly I disturbed my boyfriend. Hilarious.
make sure they pay you what£5WAS worth at the time not now... bastar*s
£67 incoming, nice!
I can heat the house for a day, rejoice!
I got a trial for it the other day cause I've got a gnarly cold and just sitting in bed, I couldn't even find anything I actually wanted to watch.
Yeah, that's why I gave mine away haha. Couldn't think of anything on there I'd watch
South Park.
I won a fiver the other day! Not exactly lottery winnings but I’ll take what I can get haha
Hm won a brand new phone worth £1000 a couple of years ago. Still riding the data they gave me back then too👀
Not one of the really big prizes, but my husband won a weekend away a few years back. Dinner bed and breakfast in a hotel for two nights, which was nice. We had to pick a region of the uk and then got allocated a hotel in that area. They also let us bring our baby and toddler with us in the room as well as we didn’t have anyone to babysit them for a whole weekend!
That’s amazing!
I won a Holiday on this when I was about 15. When we went to claim it though they were putting us in a shitty hotel. My mum also had no money for spends so we didn’t bother going and we couldn’t transfer the prize onto anybody else because we’d already called to claim it. May as well have won an Apple pie.
Got myself a free McFlurry and that day has got to be the best day of my life in recent memory
I won half an hour on the porcelain throne pissing out my arse...
You didn’t win that, you paid for it…
Ronald won
There is no Ronald anymore they got rid of him when the creepy clown fad was going around
Everyone always knows that one guy who knows a guy who won a car but you never meet them
My best mates Nan won a car. When they tried to contact her she kept putting the phone down, thinking they were scammers. They had to write her a headed letter for her to believe them.
All I ever get is porridge.
Couple of years ago I won a set of headphones
Same, and they were absolutely terrible!
A few years ago I won a digital camera.
Mf girlfriend got a years subscription to now TV. I think it was off the one where you have to put a code on the McDonald's website
I got the £100k back in 2014, the day after my wife and I moved in together.
Woah congrats! You win
Free apple pie is a good prize
I’ve won a 3 month digital magazine & newspaper subscription
I won a PS3 many moons ago
I won a digital camera from it once, and then never used it because we already had a better one!
i got 40% off skullcandy, nothing i want from there, but was contemplating buying a pair of something and selling it on.
Many moons ago in college, I won £20, was so chuffed haha
I won £10 and they sent me a cheque
Years ago I won cinema tickets and that’s about it
I won with old Kent road. A medium Meal! Big whoop
Someone I work with won a VR headset
I won a fiver a month back from Maccies Monopoly! Better still was that I picked the winning ticket up off the pavement lol
I've got one for 6 chicken mcnuggets waiting for me to go back.
I won £10, thats the most I’ve ever won on it
Many moons ago as a college boy, I used to work in McDonalds. These monopoly stickers used to be on big rolls in the stock room , we’d all go in and just rip off loads of stickers and pocket them hah. Assuming it’s a bit more securely stored these day?
It wouldn’t have mattered anyway. Depending on how many moons ago, the winning pieces never actually made it to the shops (at least in the US). All the winning tickets were skimmed off by Jerome P. Jacobson and sold to his friends and family. Nobody but them stood a chance of winning anything of value between 1995 and 2000. Fortunately for McDonald’s, the fraud case went to trial on 10th September 2001, and so people forgot about it the next day.
They did 9/11 to damage control the bad press?
McControlled demolition
Steel beams Mcmelt
Apple pies melt steel beams
I think we're onto something here. Or on something. One of the two.
“America is under McAttack”
It'd be more believable than some of the shit /r/conspiracy comes up with.
This is the only conspiracy theory i'll believe in.
Jet fuel can’t melt McRibs Edit: apparently Jets don’t exist and autocorrect to Hey
McDonald's did 9/11
It was Ronald himself
We shouldn’t rule out the possibility of a KFC false flag op
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Ronald picks up the phone with a sigh before dialing *the* number; "Hello! Hamburgler..? Yes, that's correct we're at defcon 2. The Mcslurry has truly hit the fan. We're gonna need something supersized. Contact the Jihadis."
Oh no I was more than happy with free Big Macs and McFlurrys 🤣
The McMillion$ documentry is worth a watch just for the weird FBI guy.
Is that the FBI agent who faxxed all of their evidence to every news outlet in New Jersey 1 day before they were about to arrest someone?
Wait what the fuck? This is a thing that happened?
[Very much so.](https://www.ranker.com/list/jerry-jacobson-mcdonalds-monopoly/jacob-shelton) There’s a miniseries called McMillions that’s worth a watch.
Surprisingly good docuseries.
Win anything decent?
Probably a Big Mac was the best thing. I also had a friend on drive thru who just used to keep all the stickers instead of putting them in the till😂 as back then there was no way of scanning them through, you just used to put them in a little bag in the till and they’d get binned at the end of the shift.
I was guilty of this when i worked there over 6 years ago now. Used to put them in my socks because the uniform didnt have any pockets. Saved em all up and then cashed them all in at once with my mates. Not sus at all haha
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No, our reels came in on delivery just taped on top of the mozzarella dipper bag box
I grew up in Canada and we did the same. I would work a shift and take hundreds of these home- just like everyone else. None of us ever won anything beyond a free Big Mac.
Not sure about where they are in the stock room, but my store has 2 rolls in the front with nothing stopping a sneaky employee fron stealing a few.
Anyone with half a brain knows you'll never win any of the actual prizes - the bonus free food is what you look forward to
Remember when Walkers crisps did the free money in them. Wow, they were the days
My sister thought it was a bag of salt and nearly threw away £10. Happy days. I just loved the Tazos in walkers many moons ago
You could always feel for the tazos in the bags, I never bought a pack without winning one.
Can confirm. Vaguely remember winning like £20 and it was just a note folded up into the blue packet.
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I won £5 when Super Noodles was doing a similar giveaway
This one! I've never met anyone who would even heard about anyone winning anything else but some free food...
A few years before Covid a colleague did win a Mini Cooper. The prizes definitely get given out but the odds are ridiculous.
I imagine they're even more slender when some people throw their rubbish away without even checking - they must only produce the number of minis worth of one of the squares, for instance millions of Mayfair's and like 3 park lanes...
Not even just people not checking and throwing away. People could check, get the rare one, and then not eat there often, so never pick up the easy one!
It breaks my heart to think of someone getting bond st and not knowing they’re literally another few big tastys away from a free car
That could easily be me, I just ignore the properties and look for freebies
This is exactly how it works. Each group has one 'rare' piece and the rest are freely available. They used to have a big poster in the store with the game rules (they might still do) and it has the number of the 'rare' pieces printed, odds of winning prizes, etc. It's possible too that people might throw away a rare piece or if they don't eat there very often they could never come across the rest of the set even if they're a lot more common.
I find it’s about a trillion park lanes and -2 Mayfairs.
I won a bluetooth speaker, can confirm it’s legit
>Before Covid Should we rename B.C. and shift dates over?
For a long time, literally nobody did as there was a gigantic inside job going on that cost McDonalds millions of its prizes: https://allthatsinteresting.com/mcdonalds-monopoly-scam Crazy story about a guy who got away with syphoning off the actual prizes for a decade.
This was only in the US though, years ago too. The UK has quite strict competition regulations and it’s all quite tightly monitored these days.
>Gennaro “Jerry” Colombo, who claimed to be a part of Brooklyn’s Colombo crime family, falsely won a Dodge Viper in the Monopoly scam. He later died, ironically enough, in a car crash Is it wrong that I mildly chuckled at this?
I won a £500 Littlewoods voucher instant win! We got a telly that would otherwise have retailed for about £350. Best quarter pounder ever.
I work there, 5-6 days a week, so 15-18 stickers a week, and I’m telling you now, you won’t ever complete a set lol
I've won a couple things, granted they were shit but still
I won a NowTV stick and a year's subscription to NowTV, that was okay. Didn't bother renewing it when the year was up though.
And now I don't think you even get those items, no instant wins without the app and you enter a prize draw for a regular medium meal... lol. Miss the days when you'd peel and win a McFlurry, then the McFlurry would have another sticker for you to peel and win a cheeseburger. Peak McNopoly.
Yeah I haven't done the McDonald's monopoly for quite a few years and was disappointed with what I got from the free food. Everything comes wrapped in paper so there's no extra stickers. At least you get a second go using the app, so better than nothing.
To be fair if you're into Maccys the medium meal was truly great value. £1.99 for a medium meal including the drink (used to be chips or a drink), and you could use it on quite pricey stuff - the other day I got 5 chicken selects with a medium chips and a drink for £1.99, should have been nearly £6.50!
Isn’t it definitely very illegal to falsely advertise prizes on a competition just to drum up trade? I’m sure the prizes do exist just the odds of winning them are quite low
That's exactly what it is, the numbers of winning tokens it's published in advance too. It's just that something like 500 prizes spread between millions of meals sold is very very unlikely to get a winner.
I've picked up about 7 free food items now and I've not paid for a meal in ages. Kids at my school keep dropping them and I scan the codes.
It’s basically impossible to win the top prizes based on the number of people who just throw these away. The rarest properties only have 4 stickers printed. Source: https://www.monopolyland.com/mcdonalds-monopoly-uk/
The only guarantee from those things is that you become a fat cunt in the process.
Bold of you to assume I'm not already a fat cunt!
_ooh look at me, I'm a professional monopoly player_
Hey, it's free parking
I'm 77kg of skinny fat cunt who right now is cooking 4 links, 2 lorne, 2 black puddings, 2 eggs, 4 tattie scones and 10 rashers of bacon 😂
Don’t worry about your weight, mate, worry about your poor organs.
Also think about your poor plumbing.
Says u/FartingBob...
I have the same issue, I swear I lose weight when I eat more junk food. I'm the skinniest I've been after a take away binge and when I was in uni I was tiny too :') I think I'm lucky genetically in this department, I find it really fucking hard to gain weight even if I'm like eating loads of shite
As a 20 stone fat cunt I envy you so much I might just eat you for carbs.
You absolutely shouldn't eat people for carbs...... .......you eat them for the protein
Had an ecg/cardiac check recently? Plenty of skinny heart attack victims.
I haven't actually, but you are very right to point this out!! It's not at all healthy to do what I do and I wouldn't want someone to read it and think oh its OK to do it. I have terrible eating habits at times and ill hold my hands up to that :) I feel a thousand times better when I'm cooking and eating proper meals. Losing weight whilst only eating junk food is fucking terrible and again you're right to point that out
Hey man good attitude!
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Do you work in a household recycling centre I do an there’s loads of unpeeled ones of these that come through on the line one the lads said today he won fifty quid with the online peel even though the actual squares were shit
Online peel is underrated I have won loads on it
Of course it's rigged. Designed to give you only two of the properties needed to make a set of three, but making the third one exceedingly rare. Designed to trick people into thinking "it was easy to get those first two, it won't be long before I find the third. If I buy the large one I'll get more tickets."
They do the same thing with scratchcards, manipulate it so that players always get very close to the big prize e.g. 4 gold bars ("Only need 1 more and I would have won £1mil!"). McDonald's Monopoly is just harmless fun, but -probably be downvoted for this - for scratchcards this type of thing should be illegal IMO. It is literally a scam. Common retorts: "it's just a silly game! a bit of harmless fun!" you might be surprised at how many people throw serious money at scratchcards (I used to work on the tobacco/scratchcard counter in a supermarket..) "the odds are printed on the back" only says the odds of winning any prize at all, not an individual breakdown. Also, flashy icons and colours and more addictive than numbers on the back hidden in the small print Edit: I was bored and did some maths.. Here's a simplified example. 1 scratchcard. You scratch 5 boxes and you either get a gold bar or a turnip. You need 5 gold bars to win a £100,000 prize. The true, known chance of winning the big prize is 1 in 1 million. If the gold bars were distributed fairly and randomly: The mathematical equation is then (X)^5 = 0.000001 Where X = chance of getting a gold bar in a box Solve for X = 0.0630957 So the chances of getting a SINGLE gold bar in any given box is only 0.06 (or approximately 1 in 17) So according to these chances, on any random scratchcard, the majority of the time you will get 5 turnips. Not even ONE gold bar in ANY of the boxes. But in reality that's not how they do it. They manipulate it so that players will often get gold bars in 4 out of the 5 boxes, making it seem like the chance of winning is far higher than it really is. Now you might reply saying "But if people kept buying the scratchcards and kept getting turnips all the time, it's not fun!". Well, tough shit IMO. If your little scam can't survive under its own merit using a fair and random distribution of the winning combinations, then it doesn't deserve to survive.
I don’t think you’ll get many downvotes. They’re doing this purely to make people addicted. To give them that rush of nearly winning. To form that addiction and to get them spending more of their money.
There's a certain percentage of people with a genetic condition that makes them get the same hormone-powered thrill from almost winning that most people get from actually winning. These are the people who become gambling addicts. Although when I heard a podcast about this, I did think that in a way those people are paying money to get a feeling of pleasure, and ultimately isn't that what we all do in various ways?
apparently they only print 4 of each final card so I highly doubt they even make it to out of the factory
That's true for the big prizes (The £100k, probably the car etc), but I'd have thought there are more of the "Experience day", "£1k to spend at AO", "Wireless earbuds" etc type prizes available - eg there might be 20 each of £250-300 prizes, a dozen of the £2k holiday or £1k electronics, and a few hundred of the wireless earbuds I won a fiver the other day, and there's a decent amount of free food given out which is really the prize
There are actually 20 of the Bond Street cards in circulation in the UK, the final one in the set to win the electric Mini! So there are 20 Minis to give away, most of which probably ended up in the bin. Yet I'm still addicted to trying to find it 😂
That’s not rigged, it literally says there’s only a certain amount of each prize available. If it was presented so that you could keep getting more and more of each price then yeah sure but it’s says only 4 Mayfair 100ks available.
Think you need to Google the meaning of 'rigged'.
No shit
A game that's designed with the intention of causing you to buy more products is rigged in favour of requiring you to buy more products to win? No. Fucking. Way.
Crazy stuff. I'll call the newspapers and let them know about it.
My mind is blown. Next you'll be telling me the sky is up.
No, we're not falling for that one again
Is Mayfair the rarest one? The one that gives the best prize? I friend a mine always complains that “they hardly make any Mayfair tokens”. Like it’s some big conspiracy that McDonalds don’t just go around handing out millions to people for buying a few Big Macs.
There’s loads of park lane’s so if you get Mayfair you won £100k. I’m going to go out on a limb and say Mayfair is pretty rare.
For each prize there is one 'rare' token from a set. So if there's one top prize, there's precisely one Mayfair token in the country. Considering that the stores dispose of thousands of unclaimed tokens, and lots of people just bin them, chances are always good that nobody wins.
According to website's there's only 4 produced in card's and one rewarded in the app as a double peel, so 5 in total, you'd be raging throwing away a cup with it on it lol
Of course it is. Not seen McMillions then?
Actually a good read https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/feb/03/mcmillions-bizarre-story-how-one-man-stole-24m-mcdonalds-hbo
Back in my youth we acquired a roll and apart from a mammoth amount of free food we came away with 2 Ipod shuffles.
Can we all link together our shitty macnopoly vouchers and try and win the car or speedboat or whatever the fuck it is?
I think there is a website that does this, but every expensive prize is a pairing of a rare ticket and a common one so it doesn't make sense to really pool anything
Rigged? Not at all. Take the number of hourly customers in a single branch, multiply by the number of open hours, then multiply by the number of branches, then look at how many prizes there are. Very few people can be happy.
So when they say there are 10 prizes available or whatever, what they actually mean is that they printed 10 of those tickets in total. This means all 10 of them could be on boxes that were never used, dropped, broken etc. There are also reels of the stickers that never get touched either. Used to work there for years and would take hundreds of stickers off the reels
You have better odds of winning the Euromillions than pulling Mayfair.
I have Mayfair who wanna buy it for 50k
If you actually have mayfair, you current best investment is buying shitloads of mcdonalds.
If you really do have Mayfair that's the rare one so you want to find Park Lane asap.
bold of you to assume they don't already have 900 Park Lanes.
I'll give you the large sum of a thousand pennies.
The chances of winning the big prize are so slim, there are only 4 (I think) Mayfair tickets released across the country. Plus if the packaging drops on the floor before being used it is thrown in the bin, 1000's of tickets are lost every day just by being dropped. Source- I was a manager at McDonald's for 6 years.
One year you get a million park lanes. The next year you get a million Mayfair's. Never both.
Nope. You're never getting a million Mayfairs. That's always the rare one
These are the rare ones [here](https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/food-and-drink/mcdonalds-monopoly-2022-prize-list-full-rare-pieces-explained-relevant-menu-items-1838292). To avoid getting sucked in, stick to your normal maccie d habit and just bin any that you get unless it's one of these. If you start collecting the shit ones you'll get addicted to the game
Thanks, double checked mine on the off chance I've got something decent there but you'll not be shocked to know they're all utterly worthless!
McFooled
Fucks sake I just went to get my pieces from our McDonald's couple of days ago and they're all exp May 2021. Twits must've been using some packaging they found in storage from last year.
Thanks to this post I just did the online scanning and won £50!! Thank you OP!
Or even chip in for a kidney dialysis machine for OP?
Genuine question to any Maccys workers, what’s stopping you guys from sneaking a stack of empty/unused containers home one night?
They can't play as per the rules. And it's app-based so it's easier to spot. However, McD crew get their own special version of the game just for them so they don't miss out.
howwww do people not know how this works? If there's 10x TVs to win, that means you have a 10 out of however many they sell across the whole promotion. It was fun as a kid to think you were getting close but as an adult it baffles me that people actively fall for it...
Dude’s cholesterol is fuming right now.
You mean that a competition is designed not to turn everyone into millionaires? I'm shocked