Three days ago, the most newsworthy event I can think of occurred. McDonald’s brought back the Monopoly game. Now you can get fat AND win money. It’s like the best white trash lottery, short of birthing nine children and getting a television show.
McDonald’s came under fire a few years back for skewing the contest by mailing different Monopoly pieces to different locales, thereby making it impossible to actually get all of the best properties. And somebody had to investigate that. Somebody had to investigate where McDonald’s was shipping their little pieces to. God, that would be the worst job in the world. Grabbing people by the lapel and shaking them to demand where tiny pieces of a boardgame-lite version were shipped to.
But now, people are finding different ways to beat the system. Websites have been popping up where people can trade the pieces. Mailing addresses exist where you can ship in cash and get a handful of pieces. Basically, people are treating a McDonald’s contest like a drug ring. Screw heroin, let’s be all secretive and shadowy with hash-browns and Angus burgers. The contest runs until November.
If somebody actually wins something, let me know. Cause I want those bragging rights. That I know someone that beat the system.
I’m still laughing at “white trash lottery”
Broad assumptions in an attempt to be humorous. McDonalds isn’t my fast food place of choice, but it’s far from a white trash hang out in the city where I live…where do you live?
the white trash joke was stupid and unnecessary. Besides, I see mostly minorities working and eating at Mcdonalds…..dare you to make a joke about that.
Apparently the author of this article doesn’t have the first clue about anything he’s talking about.
First of all, the fraud associated with the Monopoly game was nothing at all like described in the article. The fraud involved the company contracted to run the game for McDonald’s, Simon Marketing. People in the company were removing the winning rare pieces before shipping them out and keeping them for themselves.
Secondly, the whole “beating the system” thing is completely ignorant. There is no system to beat. For each group of pieces that needs to be collected, there is ONE rare piece. Trading pieces with other players would get you absolutely nowhere as the other pieces in the group are trivial to find and are practically worthless. Either you have the winning rare piece or you don’t. Nobody with any brains is going to trade it to you; and if you trade it away, you’re a dope.
Finally, the author seems to insinuate that nobody ever wins, in part due to his false allegation that McDonald’s has created a system that makes it impossible to win. In fact, there are and have been winners for each prize every year. The caveat is that until the fraud was discovered, the only winners were those associated with the ring of scam artists working for Simon Marketing.
Seconding Jason – this is one of the most misleading articles ever written. I assume you were going for humor, you destroyed integrity in your failure to achieve it. By law, McDonalds (or any other company running a promotion) HAS to subcontract the promotion to another company, with the intention being that fraud is avoided. Simon Marketing failed, and McDonalds paid the price by having their reputation unfairly damaged because of people like you who completely misrepresented what actually happened. There is more than enough about McDonalds to poke fun at, or even completely slam, without having to blatantly spin facts to try to make a point. The only reason this is so annoying is because this article comes up on a Google search for “mcdonalds monopoly”.
This article was a waste of bandwidth.
i rolled the dice online i rolled a ten which would have landed me on boardwalk for 10,000 dollars but MCDONALDS scammin ass only gave me a roll of 9 one short of boardwalk. what a scam first it was super size me now its scam the people. Ray Crocs ethics are crap.just like his food.Also brand new pieces have said they have already been used wonder who has a list of codes to enter for thier pleasure.
To James, who said the white trash joke was rude and unnecessary, you probably are white trash yourself, sit down, shut up, and eat your crappy food.
Wow…I feel extremely numb reading all this. Don’t any of you have anything more important to do than argue about a fast foods promotional game???
First, I have found so many articles, blogs, news ads, and you are to take a peek at EBAY this year. Some idiot is selling a rare secret list. What that person does not know is the list is published online. Each set or color group has one rare piece. Pretty easy since they are in alpha order (rare pieces) and the list is published but they are selling on EBAY.
Just for anyone who is reading up on the entire Monopoly Game. This article like many others is very incorrect.
White Trash huh? Last time I checked people we refered to as White Trash wrote articles and spoke in the manner this author writes. It is a shame that this entire world is made up of incorrect information. If everyone spent his or her time educating themselves and speaking highly of others this world would be better off.
Three game codes for free play have been issued this year. Rare game pieces are listed online for FREE. FREE GAME PIECES can be obtained via mail which is listed in the rules at playmcd.com. This is GAME, not hand me money. People choose to eat at McDonald’s, they choose to play Monopoly. The main thing here is that we as people also REGRET the things we do like read this article.
If you want to slam someone gather your information first and make sure it is correct please.
This was a 200-word article written a week ago about a fast-food contest. If you’re still that invested in it, nothing I can write will help you.
Is the online game rigged? I can’t say for sure. I only know that I went around the board twice, and somehow managed to land on all the same properties both times.
wow, i’ve been looking at people selling mcd’s lottery pieces and i’ve noticed that alot of people are getting the same pieces. Can we say this is happening again?
LMAO @ all the white trash responding and taking offense at being called it. hmmmm I believe every one has way to much time to waste and ha ha too much burger eating going on. lame
I won from the mcdonalds monopoly game. I hit 50 bucks! woot.