![]() Then there’s the guy who tried to take advantage of a technicality. McDonald’s restaurants in Canada did the same thing. In 2011, over 120 McDonald’s restaurants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, accepted Monopoly money for a short time in exchange for a large order of fries. McDonald’s even helped a couple of times itself. Over the years, people have tried different schemes to beat the odds. The best odds for pocketing a cash prize with a set of Monopoly properties was 1 in 30 million if you got the brown Mediterranean Avenue, which would win you $1,000. The easiest one to find was the red Kentucky Avenue piece at 1 in 15 million with 40 winners of two plane tickets each. For example, in 2014, the odds of getting a blue Boardwalk game piece was 1 in 602 million for a $1 million prize paid out as $50,000 per year for 20 years. Finding that last property of the color you need usually has astronomical odds. It’s somewhat easy to get all but one property of the same color on the Monopoly board. The problem for players is that McDonald’s makes certain game pieces scarce. However, the Monopoly game board pieces hold out the tantalizing possibility of winning up to $1 million. After you subtract the food prizes, there’s about a 2.5 percent chance of winning a non-food instant prize, which ranges from a DVD to $100,000. However, almost 90 percent of the prizes are food prizes like fries. In 2014, for the McDonald’s in-store game, Business Insider calculated the odds of winning a prize at 25 percent. For the game board, you’ll win a prize if you collect all of the railroads or all of the Monopoly properties with the same color. ![]() The stamps show an instant prize or the equivalent of a space on the board of the famous Monopoly game. ![]() Since the 1980s, for a limited time each year, McDonald’s gives away a game piece with two stamps each time you purchase certain menu items. Maybe that’s why some people get creative when playing sweepstakes like the annual McDonald’s Monopoly game. To realize the dream of winning big in a lottery or sweepstakes, you have to beat almost insurmountable odds. His crime ring collected top prizes worth a total of over $20 million before the FBI arrested them in 2001 and the scheme was finally stopped. But starting around 1995, one man who worked on the security team for Simon Marketing, Inc., which ran almost all of McDonald’s promotions, stole valuable game pieces from the promotions. Some people have tried to beat the odds legally. However, the odds of winning the top prize of $1 million are a whopping 1 in 602 million. In the McDonald’s Monopoly sweepstakes, the odds of winning a prize (mostly food prizes like fries) are about one in four. dbr:St.“That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.” - Adam Smith, “The Wealth of Nations” In A Nutshell.dbr:Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom_(July–December_2020).dbr:List_of_McDonald's_marketing_campaigns.wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Mcdgamepieces.jpg.dbr:St._Jude_Children's_Research_Hospital.dbr:Toronto_Pearson_International_Airport.dbc:Games_and_sports_introduced_in_1987.The promotion has used other names, such as Monopoly: Pick Your Prize! (2001), Monopoly Best Chance Game (2003–2005), Monopoly/Millionaire Game, Prize Vault (2013–2014), Money Monopoly (2016–), Coast To Coast (2015–) in Canada, Golden Chances (2015), Prize Choice (2016), Win Win (2017), Wiiiin!! (2018), V.I.P. in 1987 and has since been used worldwide. ![]()
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