(Pre-promotion period begins Sept 22 '09 and ends Oct 6 '09)
game runs OCT 6 too NOV 2 SHORTER Then all of the years before
Every day, Oct. 6 – Nov. 2, we’ll be giving an Online player the chance at $1 MILLION* and every night you can tune in to NBC to see the 2009 MONOPOLY Game at McDonald’s $1 MILLION* Dice Roll!
Open to residents of U.S., Guam, Saipan & Canada. Void in Puerto Rico, Am. Samoa & where prohibited. Game begins 10/6/09. In-Store Game ends 11/2/09, or while supplies last; Online Game ends 11/16/09 at 11:59:59 pm ET. Must be 13 or older to play Online. Online Game not available in Guam & Saipan; text play not available in Canada. Subject to Official Rules to appear at participating McDonald’s & PlayatMcD.com. See Official Rules, when available, for prizes, ARVs, odds, and how to play without purchase. *Land on Chance Online and receive as a prize the results of a Monopoly dice roll to occur the following day. A roll of two sixes (6&6) results in a $1 Million prize, payable $50,000 per year for 20 years without interest; for any other result, winner receives $10,000. See roll results at PlayatMcD.com. $1 Million daily opportunities (U.S. & Canada combined) Online 10/6/09 – 11/2/09 (12:00:00 midnight ET to 11:59:59 pm ET).
(Pre-promotion period begins Sept 22 '09 and ends Oct 6 '09)
McDonald's® Brings MONOPOLY® Game, Big Cash Prizes to NBC Viewers with '$1 Million Dollar Dice Roll' McDonald’s® and NBC Universal announced an unprecedented partnership to promote the 2009 MONOPOLY® Game at McDonald’s new “$1 Million Dollar Dice Roll” on-air during the Network’s highly-anticipated Fall line-up, including “The Jay Leno Show,” “Sunday Night Football” and other primetime programs. For 29 consecutive days beginning October 6, NBC’s primetime talent will trigger a MONOPOLY Game at McDonald’s Dice Machine on behalf of McDonald’s customers vying for a chance to win either $10,000 or $1 million dollars.
McDonald’s customers who enter the code found on their game stamps will get the chance to have the Monopoly dice rolled on their behalf on-air by logging on to www.playatmcd.com. One game player each day is guaranteed to land on “Chance” on the virtual game board, and will be the recipient of the on-air Monopoly Game at McDonald’s dice roll by NBC’s primetime personalities. If a double six is rolled, the player will win the $1 million dollar prize, while all other combinations will result in a guaranteed $10,000 prize.
I guess they are not partnering with anyone for coupons on the tickets this year? I wish they would go back to Best Buy and make them accept as many tickets at once as you want to use
Thanx for the heads up!
Mike
slidecage
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Aug. 25, 2009 @ 6:08p
no news yet on the bucks..i dont think they have them this year cause i think they would at least added that...i dont think there will be many ONLINE prizes either (cause you had to land on chance to get a free prize and now its only 1 person per day)
slidecage
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Aug. 28, 2009 @ 10:00p
little werid thing cant remember if it was the same last year
In-Store Game ends 11/2/09, or while supplies last; Online Game ends 11/16/09 at 11:59:59 pm ET. Must be 13 or older to play Online. Online Game not available in Guam & Saipan; text play not available in Canada. Subject to Official Rules to appear at participating McDonald's & PlayatMcD.com. See Official Rules, when available, for prizes, ARVs, odds, and how to play without purchase. *Land on Chance Online and receive as a prize the results of a Monopoly dice roll to occur the following day. A roll of two sixes (6&6) results in a $1 Million prize, payable $50,000 per year for 20 years without interest; for any other result, winner receives $10,000. See roll results at PlayatMcD.com. $1 Million daily opportunities (U.S. & Canada combined) Online 10/6/09 – 11/2/09
it says IN STORE GAME ends nov 2 but online agme ends 11/16 but then again it says only ends 11/2
sort of werid ...i always though the game ended the same time online and instore
mikecism
Member
posted: Aug. 29, 2009 @ 12:42p
The McD game used to be good when they had Best Buy Bucks, but they stopped that in 2007 and did worthless Foot Locker ones last year.
The worst thing is they used to honor mail in (SASE) entries, but stopped doing that in 2007. There were some lawsuits around it because it broke US laws.
2004,2005 and 2006 were the golden years. There were people who made hundreds of thousands of dollars on the promo by redeeming Best Buy Bucks and selling stuff on eBay. Not bad for a couple of months work.
Sadly, these contests, where the diligent FW can score, have gone away.
I use to eat a lot of MickeyD's (but I exercise and am in shape), butsince they decided to not honor SASE during the 2006 promo, I go here very infrequently.
And the online games are a joke...they were decent in past years, but last year they sucked, and the odds were beyond horrible.
Since Circuit City died, Best Buy has no motivation for the promo. McD should partner with Amazon - that is Best Buy's main competition now.
Yeah, I was around for a few of the good ones. First year I did it (the SASE thing) I redeemed mine at bestbuy for a 4 slice toaster, the next year I did alot more and got an ipod. Oh well.
i've eaten at MCd about 3 times in the past 6 years. Just wondering how the SASE thing worked back in the day.
Did people use bulk mailing rates and send 10,000s of requests for game pieces? did they receive food pieces as well as best buy bucks? just wondering how the strategy worked.
Thanks.
mikecism
Member
posted: Sep. 7, 2009 @ 5:39p
In 2005,2006 and 2007, people would send in individual SASE. Bulk mail was done by some, but it still was stamped - not metered.
You got back 4 monopoly piece and one Best Buy Buck (either $1 or $3).
So let's say you sent in 1,000 entries. That cost about $800, (or $400 if in VT) but you would get back:
200x$3 BBB 800x$1 BBB Hundreds of free food items.
So that was $1400 Best Buy Bucks for $800 (or $400 if in VT) People would buy iPods or World of Warcraft cards and sell them on eBay for close to retail.
Some guy sent in 50,000 entries...he cleared closed to $500,000 cash (non-taxed, no less) when all was said and done. Not bad for 2-3 months work.
The biggest challenge was peeling and redeeming everything within the time parameters of the game.
This doesn't count the thousands of free Snapfish photo prints and other game prizes.
It was the golden age of contests. Not as good as pudding cup dude, but close.
The worst part is that after 2006, the employee and manager started stealing the in-store supplies, and had their buddies cash in. And of course McD stopped honoring SASE in 2007, so that made it a lot less fun.
slidecage
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Sep. 9, 2009 @ 8:13p
mikecism said: In 2005,2006 and 2007, people would send in individual SASE. Bulk mail was done by some, but it still was stamped - not metered.
You got back 4 monopoly piece and one Best Buy Buck (either $1 or $3).
So let's say you sent in 1,000 entries. That cost about $800, (or $400 if in VT) but you would get back:
200x$3 BBB 800x$1 BBB Hundreds of free food items.
So that was $1400 Best Buy Bucks for $800 (or $400 if in VT) People would buy iPods or World of Warcraft cards and sell them on eBay for close to retail.
Some guy sent in 50,000 entries...he cleared closed to $500,000 cash (non-taxed, no less) when all was said and done. Not bad for 2-3 months work.
The biggest challenge was peeling and redeeming everything within the time parameters of the game.
This doesn't count the thousands of free Snapfish photo prints and other game prizes.
It was the golden age of contests. Not as good as pudding cup dude, but close.
The worst part is that after 2006, the employee and manager started stealing the in-store supplies, and had their buddies cash in. And of course McD stopped honoring SASE in 2007, so that made it a lot less fun.
yea back in the day you could of quit your job and moved to vermont and made more cash in 2 months then working the entire year .. sadly those days are LONG gone .... CHECK OUT SUBWAY THOUGH... SUBWAY IS the new mcdonalds
those game pieces are getting insane amounts i seen 100 pieces unpeeled go for 100 bucks..
100 pieces would be 50 meaning 100 stamps (if not in vermont) mean
45 bucks in stamps for 100 profit 22.50 for 100 in vermont
times that by 10 or even 100
100x in vermont would mean 2,250 bucks in stamps say 2300.... if the 100 kept up 10,000 bucks or even say 7500..
5200 buck return is very nice.
Man i thought rules be up by now but found this
The online Game will only be open to residents of the U.S. and Canada. For complete details and official games rules, visit www.playatmcd.com beginning Sept. 22
so sounds like rules will not be told until SEPT 22 same day as the pre release starts
hoppieness
New Member
posted: Sep. 10, 2009 @ 10:19p
Someone said they had already sent off for game pieces.Said it was in thier Sunday paper!
cburk
Senior Member
posted: Sep. 11, 2009 @ 1:17p
Well the rules should be out any day now. Monopoly rules links from 2006 and 2007 redirect back to http://monopoly.promotions.com/postmonopoly/index.html
The 2008 rules link goes to a somewhat broken 2008 monopoly site: http://monopoly.promotions.com/monopoly08/rules.do?page=rules.html
Any monopoly related link you click on the 2008 page redirects you to the http://monopoly.promotions.com/postmonopoly/index.html page.
Hopefully this gives people an idea of what to be searching to find this years rules earlier than released to the public. Years past Sept 17-18 is when the rules website was first discovered.
slidecage
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Sep. 12, 2009 @ 6:26p
says in their press kit RULES will be out SEPT 22 so i wouldnt be looking for anything before then
mikecism
Member
posted: Sep. 13, 2009 @ 10:01a
Can you share more about the Subway game and prizes (and yes I searched, but I'm mobile and get limited results).
It looks like the prizes are weak with no resale. What am I missing?
Thanks.
cburk
Senior Member
posted: Sep. 14, 2009 @ 10:01a
You may be right. However I have found the rules a couple days early 2x in the last 4 years. Mcdonalds obviously has to get the website online and check it out before it goes live to the public. Even a couple days early lead time is worth it if you are planning on sending in a bunch of envelopes.
slidecage
Senior Member - 1K
posted: Sep. 15, 2009 @ 10:46p
mikecism said: Can you share more about the Subway game and prizes (and yes I searched, but I'm mobile and get limited results).
It looks like the prizes are weak with no resale. What am I missing?
Thanks.
the pieces themself were going 100 pieces for 70 to 100 bucks (2 pieces per request)
So 50 request x 45 cents 27.50 for vermont people toget 75+ bucks
and its a easy way to get 10x years for free on pogo (save yourself 40 a year there)
cburk
Senior Member
posted: Sep. 16, 2009 @ 8:01a
Just a quick update. Mcdonalds has started making some updates to the website for Monopoply 2009. Rules are not posted yet but I'm betting they will show up soon at one of these 2 links.
What is shocking first year in what 6+ years no BUCKs or discounts at ALL
cburk
Senior Member
posted: Sep. 29, 2009 @ 10:54a
Yep, with the recession Mcdonalds business has grown like crazy. They no longer have the need to offer good prizes to get people in the door as their cheap food prices are doing that already. We need an economic rebound that leaves McDonalds worried about the competition. Until the happens promotions and contests are going to get increasingly more pathetic.
h438dlk34 said: Rare Code List Mediterranean (#101) - $50 Vermont (#104) - $1,000 Tennessee (#110) - $5,000 Boardwalk (#122) - $1,000,000 Short Line Railroad ( #126) - $500 Virginia Avenue (#108) - $2,000 Kentucky Avenue ( #112) $10,000 Ventnor Avenue ( #116) - $25,000 Pennsylvania Avenue (#120) $50,000Thanks. Do they have a unique feature like a phone number printed on them?
h438dlk34
Member
posted: Oct. 18, 2009 @ 10:43p
ANightShopper said: h438dlk34 said: Rare Code List Mediterranean (#101) - $50 Vermont (#104) - $1,000 Tennessee (#110) - $5,000 Boardwalk (#122) - $1,000,000 Short Line Railroad ( #126) - $500 Virginia Avenue (#108) - $2,000 Kentucky Avenue ( #112) $10,000 Ventnor Avenue ( #116) - $25,000 Pennsylvania Avenue (#120) $50,000Thanks. Do they have a unique feature like a phone number printed on them? i think that they look exactly like the non-rare pieces, just with a different #, name, and code
Can you tell us where you were able to get this list?
ChicagoDude
New Member
posted: Oct. 19, 2009 @ 2:32a
The "dice" shown on the Jay Leno show I believe have weights under the "6" so when it stops, it will never stop on six, only one dice would need the weight to keep anyone from winning $1 million since a double 6 is needed. Watch the videos posted on the website from the previous show's drawing's, look closely when the dice just about stops, it rock's or does not slide a little. Is this just me seeing thing's? Or does anyone else believe this is happening? I think this is the oldest trick in the gambling book, weighing dice!!! If you do believe me, could there be one day when they will weigh it at opposite ends so someone WILL win $1 million bucks, you know, so the game looks legit?
ChicagoDude
New Member
posted: Oct. 19, 2009 @ 3:03a
The "dice" shown on the Jay Leno show I believe have weights under the "6" so when it stops, it will never stop on six, only one dice would need the weight to keep anyone from winning $1 million since a double 6 is needed. Watch the videos posted on the website from the previous show's drawing's, look closely when the dice just about stops, it rock's or does not slide a little. Is this just me seeing thing's? Or does anyone else believe this is happening? I think this is the oldest trick in the gambling book, weighing dice!!! If you do believe me, could there be one day when they will weigh it at opposite ends so someone WILL win $1 million bucks, you know, so the game looks legit?
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Piedone
Senior Member
posted: Nov. 3, 2009 @ 11:50p
ChicagoDude said: The "dice" shown on the Jay Leno show I believe have weights under the "6" so when it stops, it will never stop on six, only one dice would need the weight to keep anyone from winning $1 million since a double 6 is needed. Watch the videos posted on the website from the previous show's drawing's, look closely when the dice just about stops, it rock's or does not slide a little. Is this just me seeing thing's? Or does anyone else believe this is happening? I think this is the oldest trick in the gambling book, weighing dice!!! If you do believe me, could there be one day when they will weigh it at opposite ends so someone WILL win $1 million bucks, you know, so the game looks legit?
It's intentionally impossible even for the following reason: They bough TV spots on Leno's TV show for a couple of weeks, there's a big chance 1 mill or double sixes will hit in first couple of throws ... What's McDonalds gonna do with the rest of the reserved TV spots ?
There was a huge fraud and real monopoly with previous McDonalds Monopoly plays if anyone remembers, has anything changed since then?
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