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McDonalds Monopoly

by mtucker
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Hello, I don't know if this is legal or not but couldn't find in the information that it is not legal so throwing it out there.

I have one yellow ticket, Atlantic Avenue, and we need all 3 yellow tickets to win $25,000 so looking for the 2 other tickets. We can split the winnings.

If I get a green or dark blue ticket, I"ll post it here.

Please reply if you have a yellow, green or blue ticket and maybe we could win something :-)

Cheers!

Mike
  • Profile picture of the author Dwight Anthony
    Now, that's what i call a joint venture. Lol, hope you win something out of it.

    Originally Posted by mtucker View Post

    Hello, I don't know if this is legal or not but couldn't find in the information that it is not legal so throwing it out there.

    I have one yellow ticket, Atlantic Avenue, and we need all 3 yellow tickets to win $25,000 so looking for the 2 other tickets. We can split the winnings.

    If I get a green or dark blue ticket, I"ll post it here.

    Please reply if you have a yellow, green or blue ticket and maybe we could win something :-)

    Cheers!

    Mike
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    • Profile picture of the author mtucker
      I hope We win something out of this :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Owen Smith
    This is actually a rather good idea

    I am sure it will be impossible to win though
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  • Profile picture of the author mtucker
    @Owen - I now have a yellow and a green and agree that it is far fetched but the good news is we do have a chance to win. Send an email out to your circle of friends and who knows what could happen :-) Good Luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Most likely, if this is similar to other games of this nature, two of the streets
      are common and the third one, there is only 1 of in the whole world.

      Good luck getting it.
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      • Profile picture of the author mtucker
        @Steve - Yes, the odds are really stacked against us but you never know until you try and if someone had a very large group of twitter followers or something like that, then the probabilities become a lot better :-) assuming McDonalds is ok with this type of thing!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Pauline60
    As I stoutly refuse to have anything to do with McDonalds I have no idea what you are talking about.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vulk
    Probably McDonalds planned this.

    Mass produce x and y tickets. Only produce one z ticket.
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  • Profile picture of the author AskiKaOwnzYou
    I THINK YOU JUST UNCOVERED A NEW NICHE THAT WOULD SUCCEED.

    This niche I am confident has not been taken, if you market it as a service everytime some competition like this arises, people can login to your website, perhaps like a "basketball card exchange, accept to win BIG prizes, then create a comments section for people bragging about their winnings on the website/s.

    If you manage to get atleast a few people winning thanks to your website, they will spread the word so "virally" it won't be funny the influx of unq's you'll receive.

    Consider implementing...

    "Did I think out of the box on this one?"

    (ACTUALLY NO I HAVE PROPABLY STARTED THIS FOR AUSTRALIA ALREADY LOLOLOL)

    - took me seconds with my automated website/content package. Let's see how it goes shall we.

    I will be marketing it as "a people's collective, trade/swap to win prizes etc etc - something like that, however I will also create my own competitions and setup a few winners who can vouch for my website and this might make others more inclined to trust it.

    "classifieds for prize paraphernalia, I like it"... YUP, no google adwords there yet, lol...

    Originally Posted by mtucker View Post

    Hello, I don't know if this is legal or not but couldn't find in the information that it is not legal so throwing it out there.

    I have one yellow ticket, Atlantic Avenue, and we need all 3 yellow tickets to win $25,000 so looking for the 2 other tickets. We can split the winnings.

    If I get a green or dark blue ticket, I"ll post it here.

    Please reply if you have a yellow, green or blue ticket and maybe we could win something :-)

    Cheers!

    Mike
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    • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
      Originally Posted by AskiKaOwnzYou View Post

      I THINK YOU JUST UNCOVERED A NEW NICHE THAT WOULD SUCCEED.

      This niche I am confident has not been taken, if you market it as a service everytime some competition like this arises...
      Well, the bamboo under the fingernails niche is still wide open I'm willing to bet.

      If you factor human nature into the above mentioned scenario you have a recipe for untold misery.
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Probably because the only hard ones to get are the winning ones.If you get a winning one, chances are you have already gotten several of every other one out there.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kurt
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      Probably because the only hard ones to get are the winning ones.If you get a winning one, chances are you have already gotten several of every other one out there.
      Kim's right. There are a few "winning" tickets, just like the lottery. These winners are tracked and Mcdonald's knows exactly which shop will get the tickets.

      I hate to say it, but all those other tickets are really worthless...It's a ploy used also by Las Vegas casinos in slot machines called the "almost win". You get two of the three tickets you need so you feel like you're close to winning, and keep going back to buy more stuff to get more tickets.

      PS...Anyone see the Canadian guy that had a big winner, went to turn it in and mcd's said the ticket was a misprint?
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    There has to be a winning combo of tickets out there or it is fraud. When you think of how many stores there are, you can see the odds of anyone ever winning this thing with a limited supply of the properties/colors. McDonald's can even buy insurance against a big win it's so unlikely.

    However - if you do meet up with the third ticket - as long as only one person claims it will be honored. And there's the catch - you can't have multiple winners on one winning combo. That means that any taxes from the win are taken from the winner - so taxes would have to be figured out by the signing party and that would be less that would be actual win for everyone.

    Still would be a bit of cash, so worth the effort. It's not costing anything or taking a lot of time to post for it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kurt
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      There has to be a winning combo of tickets out there or it is fraud. When you think of how many stores there are, you can see the odds of anyone ever winning this thing with a limited supply of the properties/colors. McDonald's can even buy insurance against a big win it's so unlikely.

      However - if you do meet up with the third ticket - as long as only one person claims it will be honored. And there's the catch - you can't have multiple winners on one winning combo. That means that any taxes from the win are taken from the winner - so taxes would have to be figured out by the signing party and that would be less that would be actual win for everyone.

      Still would be a bit of cash, so worth the effort. It's not costing anything or taking a lot of time to post for it.
      Nope. Kim and I posted how it works. It really isn't an opinion, it's a fact. Anyone that gives up the winning ticket to trade a percentge of winnings for other tickets is an idiot.
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  • Profile picture of the author mtucker
    @ AskiKaOwnzYou - good luck with you site, let us know how it goes...

    @ kurt - how do you know which tickets are the hard ones to get? I don't want to spend a bunch of money at McDs trying to find the winning ticket so I would be fine with a % of something...
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    • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
      Originally Posted by mtucker View Post

      @ kurt - how do you know which tickets are the hard ones to get? I don't want to spend a bunch of money at McDs trying to find the winning ticket so I would be fine with a % of something...
      I'm not Kurt, but the way the contest works is to have huge amounts of all but a certain ticket or two available.

      Think about it...millions play but only a very few actually win. It's called 'find the suckers'.

      Believe it or not, at one point in almost everyone's life they believe they have the ability to win any given contest. I know when I was twelve there was contest to win a brand new pair of 1964 Mustangs right when that car was introduced.

      I entered that contest and checked the mail box everyday to see if I had won.

      I finally gave up on it last year...
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      • Profile picture of the author mtucker
        @Bill - I agree with you how it works and was asking Kurt if there was a specific way to know what the hard tickets are to get. I might be able to go to McDonalds site and see myself but too lazy to do that so I probably just answered my own question.

        I started this thread to see if anyone else with kids that goes to McDonalds once in a while that might be throwing their tickets away wanted to try this. I don't expect to win but I'm pleased by the number of people responding. It just goes to show me how many people there are online that have an interest in helping people or voicing their opinion.

        I'm off to watch my son play soccer now :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author sparckyz
    Does this get you a free McDonalds lol
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  • Profile picture of the author DanGlobalizer
    I won free fries yesterday, does that count for anything?
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  • Profile picture of the author mtucker
    yes, that counts for free fries - Did you get any green, yellow or dark blue!!
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  • Profile picture of the author TheGuruHustler
    People actually WIN at the Monopoly game? For real?!
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    Haha smart, good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    I agree w/ Kurt. This would be like putting up a website that says - "hey we all bought lottery tickets. If you have a winning ticket, come in here and share it w/ the rest of us. " Not likely.
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    • Profile picture of the author DanGlobalizer
      Originally Posted by garyv View Post

      I agree w/ Kurt. This would be like putting up a website that says - "hey we all bought lottery tickets. If you have a winning ticket, come in here and share it w/ the rest of us. " Not likely.
      Speaking of buying all the lottery tickets: Group Invests $5 Million To Hedge Bets in Lottery - NYTimes.com
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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by DanGlobalizer View Post

        Speaking of buying all the lottery tickets: Group Invests $5 Million To Hedge Bets in Lottery - NYTimes.com
        They said "It's not like we have a button that says one of everything". Gee, maybe they should have one wildcard number per card that requires a person to pay the price for however many combinations there are! It would mean there would be a potential to reduce the number of cards by whatever that number happened to be. They could also have a golden ticket with ALL combinations, and it would just cost as much as the tickets it replaces. You STILL wouldn't know if it were a good bet.

        And they should maybe limit the purchase to like 20 per store per day. Of course, if they ALL had a wildcard, and each number happened to be up to 70, the 20 would be like 1400 tickets, and would cost that much more.

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      • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
        Originally Posted by DanGlobalizer View Post

        Speaking of buying all the lottery tickets: Group Invests $5 Million To Hedge Bets in Lottery - NYTimes.com
        That article was published on February 25, 1992. As I recall, this same group did this in California a few years later when the jackpot was substantially higher.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    For the record, here are the official rules...

    Official Rules | 2010 Online Game

    That should help remove any confusion about how prizes are distributed.

    All the best,
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  • Profile picture of the author rushindo
    I did something like this in the 6th grade. Pepsi gave prizes if you collected bottle caps with words under that cap that formed certain phrases.

    The grand prize was a $25,000 shopping spree (or was is $250,000?) at the Mall of America. The phrase you needed was "Shop Til You Drop." I collected bottle caps from the dump close to my house.

    I found a girl in my class who had the caps that I was missing to form the phrase. I wanted to split the shopping spree 50/50, but if I remember correctly, her mother got greedy and wanted more than 50/50 just because she had the one cap that completed the phrase! Don't remember what happen, but neither party gave the other party the caps to complete the phrase.

    I wish I was smarter back then, but I was the main negotiator with the woman and I was only in 6th grade. I think she tried to take advantage of me, but I wasn't stupid enough to fall for it.

    But as I look back on it, less than 50% of something is better than 100% of nothing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kay King
      The one or two tickets that are hardest to get aren't a secret for long - they are the tickets no one has. Every year there are articles about which one or two are the "winning" ones.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    You know, technically, they may not even HAVE to have a winner. Granted, every now and then there HAS to be a winner, to keep things going, but they can ONLY have so many possible winning combos, or else costs can skyrocket. And some will just throw tickets away. This means that EVEN if the contest weren't rigged, there might NEVER be a winner.

    Who is to say that they didn't forget to print one, or lose one in processing? Maybe a cup gets damaged and thrown away. The laws are probably something akin to there has to be a winner, all must have an equal chance, and they must not have to buy.

    Steve
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