What do you all say to starting a thread up here where we can discuss and trade what McDonald Monopoly pieces we have so at least somebody I know will win something more than a medium fry or value meal. Just a thought.
Well I’ve got
Railroads
— B & O, Reading
Light Blue
— Oriental
Dark Blue
— Park Place
Damn Park Place!
I’ve got
Railroads:
B&O
Red:
Indiana Ave
Here’s the ones a person should hold onto:
Mediterranean Ave
Vermont Avenue
Virginia Ave
Tennessee Ave
Kentucky Ave
Ventnor Avenue
Pennsylvania Ave
Boardwalk
Short Line
Everything else is easy to find.
I have
St. James(orange)
Connecticut(lt. blue)
Reading Railroad
Pennsylvania
That was just from one visit
So vanilla already has one of the hard to find ones???
Pennsylvania Railroad or Pennsylvania Avenue?
Pennsylvania Railroad.
I’ve got 2 railroads from 1 visit.
I’ve been throwing the damn things away. I peel em off the cup, fries thingy or whatever and if it ain’t for some free McD’s goody I toss it.
:eek: Go directly to Jail. Do not pass Go.
Getting one of the ‘hard to find’ pieces is probably in the one in hundreds of thousands. Why do they offer a million bucks or whatever the big prize is this time? Because NOBODY is going to win it. They might give away a flatscreen tv or something (still more likely to be hit by lightning a few times), but the big prizes are just there to get people to go through the drive-thru one more time thinking they’ll get a new car. The ‘peel and stick’ method is common with the Prize Patrol style lottery giveaways, scratch your winning piece, stick the game piece to the board, try your free key in the car to see if you’ve won, check your local paper for a game card, etc…
When you make the customer get involved in whatever little game your company is offering through these “Roll up the edge of the cup” methods you get more customers trying to win while all you have to do is give away a small fry from time to time. Good luck.
(watch this thread end up winning someone a car)
This morning I got: One Free Soda
Who wants it?
Ooh, ooh! I like soda!
Ok, ill mail to Texas for you. But you’ll have to pay for the stamp. That’ll be 37 cents please. Hey, 37 cents for a free drink, not bad!
I just got States and St. Charles today.
During one of the first few years of the game, there was an incident where a garbage collector found a cup with a winning sticker still on it in the garbage. He won one of the more major prizes, and the person who had thrown the cup away sued to get it back. I’ll have to dig up cites and find out what happened in the end…
What did the guy say? That’s my trash! That garbage collector stole my trash! The thieving garbage collector! And how the hell did the guy know it was his cup? This just don’t sound right. Not that I’m saying you’re making it up (even though I happen to know you are a loon :D), but it just don’t sound right.
Well as to the last question, I believe that the garbage collector had actually said where he’d gotten the cup. I’ll dig up cites in a few.
A few years ago you could win a million bucks in the McDonalds Monopoly game if you just paid the guy in charge of the game’s security $50,000. From this page:
Considering all the negative publicity this fraud earned McDonalds, I’m sure they’ve probably cleaned up their act and the current game is legit. But I am a lot more skeptical about these sorts of promotions than I used to be…
There was an incident when Smarties ran a promotion offering prizes to anyone who could make their name out of the letters inside the cap. As you can imagine the vowels were in extremely short supply. This didn’t bother a Mr Vlk who won a considerable quantity of prizes before Smarties got annoyed with him…
goes citehunting…