NationStates Jolt Archive

McDonald's has started the monopoly game again.

Anyone here actually win anything of real value, or even know anyone who did?


Any guesstimations about ho0w long before you here about someone finding boardwalk in the trash and winning the grandprize (come on, that story floats around every time)?


Are you even bothering?

I seem to remember winning free hash browns. Hash browns FTW.

I would participate, but McDonalds gives me this strange feeling in my stomach. I feel like I want to throw up, but my body cannot find anything to throw up.

I usually win coffee... then again, I don't do the McDonald's game. Roll-Up-The-Rim-To-Win FTW.

I'm not bothering, like 99% of the populous, I never win anything:(

I usually win coffee... then again, I don't do the McDonald's game. Roll-Up-The-Rim-To-Win FTW.I swear Ice Caps have fucking crack in them.

I've won 3 mc flurries, which happens to be my fav thing from mickey dees, besides heart failure.

I won ice cream last time, valuable enough for me!;)

I always win coffee which means I have to get up before Breakfast finishes and buy everything that goes with the coffee (which means I have an excuse to buy hash browns really)

edit: I hope the OP is from the UK because I'm so popping in McDonalds tomorrow

Nope sorry. I'm American.


If it makes you feel any better, I voted against bush.


So far I've only won a small pop or coffee. I have NY Avenue and St. James Place. I hope I can get the last piece T_T

Tell me about it......I have Pennslavania and North Carolina Avenue, just need one more.........

I swear I think they simply don't print one property for all the sections.

Monopoly! Yay! Dibs on the Battleship player piece!

I swear I think they simply don't print one property for all the sections.I think they legally have to. They have to display an odds of winning X, which has to be reasonably accurate (two sig figs?). I think what they do do is try to abuse geography as much as they can to keep winning combinations from coming up too much.

I used to work in the print industry and we quite often cut out promotional game cards. They start out as big sheets with perhaps 20 or 40 cards on. A typical promotion could be 50,000 sheets with the 'commons' (ie the cards that don't win anything) and 1,000 sheets with small prizes.

When the commons and the small prizes were all cut out and sorted into batches, the men in suits from the company that was running the promotion would come along with a handful of individually cut-out 'rares' and randomly insert them into the stacks

So the major prizes are out there, but the chances of actually getting one are remarkably slim

I've never won anything.

*has Pennsylvania Railroad & NC Ave.*

Monopoly! Yay! Dibs on the Battleship player piece!

everyone knows the hat always wins :p

SNIP

this brings up some interesting questions:

1) have you ever ben tempted to steal a sheet and use it as your bed sheet
2) how many rares have gone missing whilst you where in the area ;)

Tell me about it......I have Pennslavania and North Carolina Avenue, just need one more.........

Hey! Gimme my damn pieces back!

this brings up some interesting questions:

1) have you ever ben tempted to steal a sheet and use it as your bed sheet
2) how many rares have gone missing whilst you where in the area ;)

Funnily enough, no - I prefer cotton to glossy card :)

Secondly, security was very tight on these jobs every prize winning sheet had to be accounted for - and even a McFlurry's not worth being sacked for gross misconduct and possible criminal charges