Talk:McDonald's Monopoly

McDonald's Monopoly in Austraila

McDonald's Monopoly in Australia - in (from memory) 2002, there was controversy about Australian McDonald's Monopoly. People were claiming prizes but McDonald's was disputing them, based on the fact that they had last year's tickets.

I don't know the resolution of this one, but I'll watch it and can contribute in the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kirkbroadhurst (talk • contribs) 11:39, February 13, 2005 (UTC)

Duplicate Information

I added a merge to this because there's duplicate information about the scandal in 2001, and I don't know if the scandal deserves its own page. Georgehotelling 19:57, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Georgehotelling, your merger made two unrelated articles merge. The Monopoly Best Chance Game has only run from 2003 through 2005 (this year being the 3rd year, hence "Monopoly Best Chance Game 3.0 at McDonald's" being the official name of the promotion. The McDonalds Monopoly fraud had nothing to do with this promotion. The Best Chance Game, again for clarity, pertains only to the promotion from 2003 until the present, and only then, in the promotions in which Best Buy offered its "Best Buy Bucks" promotion. The actual "Best Buy Bucks" promotions are not the same as the "McFraud" scandal. That is why I am tagging this article. I have written extensively about these promotions on the site bearing the same username as myself. INeedAttention.com 17:22, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

I think, possibly as a result of this merge, we have very repetitious information in the "History" section. The opening section (two paragraphs) deals with the fraud, then the following sub-section, "McDonald's Monopoly Game Scandal" repeats this information in one paragraph. Then, "McDonald's promotional contests" is the only section that doesn't deal with the scandal, then the rest of the section (the sub-sub sections "The Fraud", "The Arrests", and "Update") again deal with the scandal. Due to the obvious impact the scandal had on the game (after all it's mentioned frequently in the article!), this should probably be cleaned up to give the scandal it's own section and the "History" section should reflect more of, perhaps, the history of the contest?? (For example, I don't know when the contest was first offered, which should be a fact reflected in this article. The earliest instance to it that I could see was 1999 when the "Update" sub-sub section mentions that Stanley Warwick fraudulently won his prize.) --Canuckguy 13:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, much of the text in the History section needs to be reorganized and merged together. -- HiEv 01:43, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I took care of this recently (note: this was after the above messages were posted^).. see the "History/Fraud section merger" section below. --Josh1billion 06:46, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Is it even a real contest?

From The official rules: Odds of wining the top collect an win prize:
"Odds of winning approximately 1 in 41,497,391,309"
One in fourty one billion? FOURTY ONE BILLION?! Gront 18:33, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

There is one piece out of 458,485,000 pieces. BUT you have to collect the other three common pieces as well. Short Line and another common piece will be stuck together, so you have to collect the other ones. 458,000,000 * 17/2 * 17 ~= 66 billion. Divide by two because there are two chances per pull tab, multiply by a bit because there are other prizes like food other than game pieces and you get the 41 billion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Calwatch (talk • contribs) 05:50, October 17, 2006 (UTC)

Merge

Let's go ahead and merge McDonalds Monopoly 2006 into this article. There's nothing especially different about the 2006 edition that requires its own article. Cas510 15:48, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Nix it

Adds no new content for 2006, Merge or just delete. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.95.71.55 (talk) 08:06, November 9, 2006 (UTC)

History/Fraud section merger

I have merged the "History" section with the "McDonald's Monopoly Game scandal" section. Both sections were focused on discussion of the fraud/scandal (this was all that the "History" section talked about). So, I have merged both sections, cleaned them up a bit, and named the new section simply "Fraud." I have removed the following statement, which was formerly in the "McDonald's Monopoly Game scandal" section: "It is believed that about $13 million (U.S.) was embezzled in this manner from 1995 to 2001." The reason I removed this was because it contradicts this earlier statement: ". . . had been participants in the scheme, netting more than $24 million". --Josh1billion 01:32, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Update: I changed the headers from that section around a bit. It's much better now. I didn't mess with the second paragraph of the "Fraud" section at all, though, so someone may want to check and make sure it doesn't repeat/conflict with any information discussed in the first paragraph of that section. --Josh1billion 03:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

I did a lot to merge the scattered information into a cohesive section and get rid of a lot of redundant information. I also merged a lot of the post-fraud history into a new "Aftermath" section. I think it looks better, but feel free to keep improving it. -- HiEv 19:21, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Rare Pieces changed?

I have no source on this aside from my own personal experience, but I do believe the rare piece in the different color groups has occasionally changed over the years. For example, I believe that for some years Park Place was the rare piece. I worked at a McDonald's and customers would constantly get Boardwalk and go nuts, thinking they'd won. Can anyone else find any research on this? --Ktwombley 17:09, 26 October 2007 (UTC)