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13 Things You Might Not Know About McDonald's Monopoly
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:21 pm
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1. The winner of the million dollar prize receives an annual check for $50,000 for 20 years.
2. To become a millionaire, you must collect both Park Place and Boardwalk. The odds of finding Park Place are 1 in 11. But, the odds of acquiring Boardwalk are around 1 in 651 million. So, your chances of getting them both are about 1 in 3.5 billion.
3. The 2010 million dollar winner, Jon Kehoe, managed to beat those odds. He had been jobless for 11 months when he bought a McRib containing the Boardwalk piece with some money from his final unemployment check. Park Place was the piece on his drink.
4. It may not be easy to become a millionaire, but there’s a 25 percent chance of winning an in-store prize like a McFlurry or medium fries.
5. The giveaway has been going on for 27 years now. It started big in 1987, in multiple countries with over $40 million of prizes.
6. In 1995, a clerk at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened an envelope containing the $1 million prize piece.
7. It was revealed in 2001 that a group of eight people had been rigging McDonald’s Monopoly along with the restaurant’s other promotions since at least 1995. None were McDonald’s employees, but one person was the Chief of Security at Simon Marketing, the company that ran the game. By the time the con was discovered, the group had taken over $20 million.
8. McDonald’s Corporation attempted to sue Simon Worldwide for the debacle, but it backfired. The fast food chain ended up having to settle and pay Simon Worldwide $16.6 million.
9. The con artists who rigged the game were the ones who mailed the winning piece to St Jude’s. The hospital said they would return the money, but McDonald’s allowed them to keep it.
10. McDonald’s Monopoly would be illegal without a “no purchase necessary” clause. In 2012, lawyer Alan L. Friel took advantage of this rule by mailing one hundred handwritten letters to McDonald’s, along with self-addressed and stamped envelopes, asking for game pieces. He determined that the cost of stamps were cheaper than the lowest-priced menu item containing game pieces: 99 cent hashbrowns. He did end up receiving ninety-eight of his envelopes back with the pieces.
11. The giveaway has increased McDonald’s sales by 1 to 6 percent in the past.
12. Between 2003 and 2011, there were 4.2 billion game pieces created. Those pieces would cover the circumference of the earth one and a half times.
13. The current spokesperson for McDonald’s Monopoly, LeBron James, probably wouldn’t eat at McDonald’s with you. He recently went on a no sugar, no dairy, and no carb diet.
This post was edited on 10/21/14 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:22 pm to JS87
4. Jon Kehoe continued to collect unemployment.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:22 pm to JS87
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1. The winner of the million dollar prize receives an annual check for $50,000 for 20 years.
I could live with that.
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2. To become a millionaire, you must collect both Park Place and Boardwalk. The odds of finding Park Place are 1 in 11. But, the odds of acquiring Boardwalk are around 1 in 651 million. So, your chances of getting them both are about 1 in 3.5 billion.
That's discouraging.
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3. The 2010 million dollar winner, Jon Kehoe, managed to beat those odds. He had been jobless for 11 months when he bought a McRib containing the Boardwalk piece with some money from his final unemployment check. Park Place was the piece on his drink.
And Darwin just took a shot to the testicles.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:23 pm to JS87
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bought a McRib
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He had been jobless
Do you see?
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:23 pm to JS87
Can you quote all 13, I'm not going to click on the link and shift through a slideshow
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:23 pm to JS87
That's a brilliant move by McDonalds. Put Boardwalk in the McRib. Nobody eats that shite.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:27 pm to Spaulding Smails
It's not a slideshow.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:28 pm to CaptainsWafer
Oh, well can you quote all 13 then. The site is blocked at work and I want to read them.
Thanks
Thanks
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:29 pm to Spaulding Smails
4. It may not be easy to become a millionaire, but there’s a 25 percent chance of winning an in-store prize like a McFlurry or medium fries.
5. The giveaway has been going on for 27 years now. It started big in 1987, in multiple countries with over $40 million of prizes.
6. In 1995, a clerk at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened an envelope containing the $1 million prize piece.
7. It was revealed in 2001 that a group of eight people had been rigging McDonald’s Monopoly along with the restaurant’s other promotions since at least 1995. None were McDonald’s employees, but one person was the Chief of Security at Simon Marketing, the company that ran the game. By the time the con was discovered, the group had taken over $20 million.
8. McDonald’s Corporation attempted to sue Simon Worldwide for the debacle, but it backfired. The fast food chain ended up having to settle and pay Simon Worldwide $16.6 million.
9. The con artists who rigged the game were the ones who mailed the winning piece to St Jude’s. The hospital said they would return the money, but McDonald’s allowed them to keep it.
10. McDonald’s Monopoly would be illegal without a “no purchase necessary” clause. In 2012, lawyer Alan L. Friel took advantage of this rule by mailing one hundred handwritten letters to McDonald’s, along with self-addressed and stamped envelopes, asking for game pieces. He determined that the cost of stamps were cheaper than the lowest-priced menu item containing game pieces: 99 cent hashbrowns. He did end up receiving ninety-eight of his envelopes back with the pieces.
11. The giveaway has increased McDonald’s sales by 1 to 6 percent in the past.
12. Between 2003 and 2011, there were 4.2 billion game pieces created. Those pieces would cover the circumference of the earth one and a half times.
13. The current spokesperson for McDonald’s Monopoly, LeBron James, probably wouldn’t eat at McDonald’s with you. He recently went on a no sugar, no dairy, and no carb diet.
5. The giveaway has been going on for 27 years now. It started big in 1987, in multiple countries with over $40 million of prizes.
6. In 1995, a clerk at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened an envelope containing the $1 million prize piece.
7. It was revealed in 2001 that a group of eight people had been rigging McDonald’s Monopoly along with the restaurant’s other promotions since at least 1995. None were McDonald’s employees, but one person was the Chief of Security at Simon Marketing, the company that ran the game. By the time the con was discovered, the group had taken over $20 million.
8. McDonald’s Corporation attempted to sue Simon Worldwide for the debacle, but it backfired. The fast food chain ended up having to settle and pay Simon Worldwide $16.6 million.
9. The con artists who rigged the game were the ones who mailed the winning piece to St Jude’s. The hospital said they would return the money, but McDonald’s allowed them to keep it.
10. McDonald’s Monopoly would be illegal without a “no purchase necessary” clause. In 2012, lawyer Alan L. Friel took advantage of this rule by mailing one hundred handwritten letters to McDonald’s, along with self-addressed and stamped envelopes, asking for game pieces. He determined that the cost of stamps were cheaper than the lowest-priced menu item containing game pieces: 99 cent hashbrowns. He did end up receiving ninety-eight of his envelopes back with the pieces.
11. The giveaway has increased McDonald’s sales by 1 to 6 percent in the past.
12. Between 2003 and 2011, there were 4.2 billion game pieces created. Those pieces would cover the circumference of the earth one and a half times.
13. The current spokesperson for McDonald’s Monopoly, LeBron James, probably wouldn’t eat at McDonald’s with you. He recently went on a no sugar, no dairy, and no carb diet.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:31 pm to SabiDojo
quote:yea, it's basically free retirement if you just save it all
1. The winner of the million dollar prize receives an annual check for $50,000 for 20 years. I could live with that.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:35 pm to JS87
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2. To become a millionaire, you must collect both Park Place and Boardwalk. The odds of finding Park Place are 1 in 11. But, the odds of acquiring Boardwalk are around 1 in 651 million. So, your chances of getting them both are about 1 in 3.5 billion.
Those are the odds of getting them both at the same time FWIW. Not just getting them at all.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:35 pm to JS87
I would like to know how truly random it is. For example, is it even remotely possible that sending a SASE for a free game piece would result in a major rare piece, like Boardwalk? It wouldn't be good press for the million-dollar winner to have never been a McDonald's customer.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:36 pm to Spaulding Smails
Heck if you would have said that the first time, I still wouldn't have. But it would have been nice to know.
This post was edited on 10/21/14 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:37 pm to JS87
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13 Things You Might Not Know About McDonald's Monopoly
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LeBron James recently went on a no sugar, no dairy, and no carb diet.
no, I did not know that about mcdonalds monopoly.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:38 pm to JS87
14. REB BEER once won a $50 cash prize on a hash brown container at the Port Allen McDonalds in 2002.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:38 pm to illuminatic
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That's a brilliant move by McDonalds. Put Boardwalk in the McRib. Nobody eats that shite.
Shut your whore mouth.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:39 pm to Volvagia
If you found the boardwalk piece it seems like you could get the park place by putting an ad on craigslist if the odds are 1 in 11.
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:41 pm to Volvagia
Wait...Boardwalk is the hard one to find?
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:41 pm to nes2010
Here's a question:
Let's say you don't eat fast food, but you're drunk or something one night and go to mcdonalds and get boardwalk. Would you either:
-start going nonstop to mcdonalds trying to collect every other gamepiece, or
-sell boardwalk for a few hundred grand?
Let's say you don't eat fast food, but you're drunk or something one night and go to mcdonalds and get boardwalk. Would you either:
-start going nonstop to mcdonalds trying to collect every other gamepiece, or
-sell boardwalk for a few hundred grand?
Posted on 10/21/14 at 1:41 pm to Rouge
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8. McDonald’s Corporation attempted to sue Simon Worldwide for the debacle, but it backfired. The fast food chain ended up having to settle and pay Simon Worldwide $16.6 million.
Why?
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