Food News: Monopoly Back at McDonald’s
Starting Tuesday, September 27th, Monopoly returns to McDonald’s.
For your chance to collect all the hot properties and win instant win prizes like Walmart gift cards, cash, and free McDonald’s food, stop on by your local arches and purchase any of the following menu items:
- Medium Fountain Drinks (2 pieces)
- McCafe Smoothies (2 pieces)
- Hash Browns (2 pieces)
- Big Mac® (4 pieces)
- 10-piece Chicken McNuggets (2 pieces)
- Egg McMuffin (2 pieces)
- Oatmeal (2 pieces)
- Filet-O-Fish (2 pieces)
- 20-piece Chicken McNuggets (4 pieces)
- Large Fries (4 pieces)
As a personal aside, this also marks the only time all year I bother to buy Hash Browns, as they remain the cheapest way to collect game pieces. The contest will run through October 24th. Happy hunting!
Good time to get my Mcnugget on!
1Another year to win a bunch of small fries! whohoo..
2I’m not going to lie, even though I never win, the monopoly game always makes me more tempted to go to McDonald’s than other fast food places.
3According to http://www.playatmcd.com/en-us/Main/Gameboard, the Big Mac has 2 game pieces, not 4 as reported.
4YES!
5I dont even eat at mcdonalds but Im going to get drinks and yogurt parfaits or whatever to get some pieces.
this monopoly gimmick WILL work on me!
just kidding no yogurt parfaits…oatmeal it is!
6You have not lived until you have had a Filet of Fish…with ketchup
7In most places, all size drinks are a buck…so along with the hash browns, pieces are cheap! Ha!
8Good point! Actually in my area they are (or at least were) .89 to compete with the gas stations. Although technically I think the cheapest way to get pieces would be to send in an SASE, but I can’t remember the price of a stamp.
They used to just give you a piece if you asked at the counter; as you know the have to have ‘no purchase necessary’ or else it’s an illegal lottery.
@Adam – I keep hoping for a good Filet-o-Fish deal (with ketchup!) I love the sandwich but they’re rediculously priced.
9Yea, gotta wait until Lent when they’re a buck or 2 for 3
10It’s a good marketing ideas.
11I’m a sucker for this game. I’m such a loser though, I keep all the game pieces in a little dish, then I forget about them and find them 6 months later. Never learn…do the same thing every year!
12I sometimes wonder what percentage of the non-instant win prizes (that is, the ones where you have to collect all of the greens, purples, or whatever) that they actually end up having to give out. I’ve got to imagine it is 10% or less. It would take someone recognizing or going to the effort to look up whether they have the “rare” piece and then going about getting the other more common pieces. I can’t imagine that happens too commonly.
It’s kind of a brilliant contest, in a way. And I’m totally a sucker for it as well.
13This is the best time of year to get McDonalds food! My fiance are determined to win something this year!
14So far today…
2 Hash Browns: $2.17
4 Game Pieces yielding:
1 Free Breakfast Sandwich (Excludes McMuffin) ~ $3?
20 Digital 4×6 print from Snapfish ~ $5 retail (so they claim)
Total $8.
I’m up $5.83! I’ll keep everyone posted. I gain weight during these promos.
15Yesterday for lunch, I went again… shameful.
20 McNuggets: $5.41
4 Game Pieces yielding:
1 Free Small Frappe or Small Smoothie: $2.29.
Total Spent: $7.58- 2 Hash Browns, 20 McNuggets
Total Retail Value: $10.29
Difference: $2.71
Still a net profit!
16Breakfast:
1 Sausage McMuffin (no game piece)
2 Hash Browns
$3.25, or $2.16 if you’re counting just the Hash Browns
4 Game pieces yielding:
1 Free Regular McFlurry or Fruit’N Yogurt Parfait
Retail: $2.79
30 Coke Rewards points
Retail: No retail, but I can trade it for a 20oz soda coupon or 32oz Powerade, so call it $1
Running Totals:
Total Spent: $9.74
Retail Winnings: $14.08
Difference: $4.34
A Winner is you!
17I bought Two large value meals .Trying for 20 game pieces (half the monopoly board) in one visit . Surprise sucker only got 4 game pieces (on the 2 drinks) because they were out of game pieces and forgot to tell me at the window . $12 down the drain , no winners , count me out , I will never go back .
18always an interesting promo.
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