McDonalds Monopoly Game Online
By jayita, Gaea News NetworkTuesday, October 27, 2009
The McDonald’s Monopoly game is a type of sweepstakes advertising promoted by McDonald’s and Hasbro. It has been offered in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Australia and Singapore. Best Buy has been given the charge of promoting the game in the U.S. version and very recently also in the Canadian version .
McDonald’s Corporation is the world’s largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants.It is serving nearly 47 million customers daily. McDonald’s reputation as the largest global restaurant chain has now been surpassed by multi-brand sandwich chain Subway.
McDonald’s Monopoly game has been given lots of other names including “Monopoly Best Chance Game” and “Monopoly/Millionaire Game”, a version based on the famous TV show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire “.
The name of the game is very much associated with the economic concept of monopoly, signifying exclusive control of a market by a single entity.
Monopoly is the most commercially-successful board game in United States history, with 485 million players worldwide.
Since Charles Darrow patented the game in 1935, approximately 750 million people have played the game, making it “the most played (commercial) board game in the world.” according to Hasbro. The 1999 Guinness Book of Records cited Hasbro’s previous statistic of 500 million people having played Monopoly. Games Magazine has indroduced Monopoly into its Hall of Fame. The mascot for the game is a mustachioed man wearing a monocle and morning dress named Rich Uncle Pennybags (often referred to as Mr. Monopoly).
You can get game pieces from Angus Burgers, Chicken McNuggets (20 piece and 10 piece), large fries, medium and large fountain drinks, large hot McCafe drinks and hash browns. Since no purchase is necessary, you can also write in by November 2 and get a game piece by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope (and other info) to 2009 MONOPOLY at McDonald’s Free Game Piece Request, P.O. Box 49189, Strongsville, OH 44149-0189.
You can also play Monopoly via mobile and via Facebook. There are both instant win contests as well as collect-and-win . There is a limit of ten codes per day.
In the past ,to play the game, you had to buy something, get a game piece and place it on your special Monopoly board. But now players who want to take their best shot at prizes ranging from $50 to $1 million must navigate Facebook, send text messages, log into McDonald’s online sweepstakes site and watch NBC’s Jay Leno show to see what, if anything, they’ve won.
Now during lunch or dinner, you have to buy expensive items in order to get the coveted game pieces. Buying a small Coke is not going to help you in this case,we can assure you that.
With all of the new rules and ways to play, you need a scorecard to keep track of where you stand .online monopoly game site is mcdonalds.com
McDonald’s Monopoly game 2009 is being played at McDonald’s restaurants around the globe . Like every year at this time people are rushing to the shop to buy fries and soft drinks in an attempt to play the game .Their joy and enthusiasm might get faded while buying expensive food, but good news is that in this year as many as 36 people can win $1 million daily unlike the previous years when only one or two people can win.
Tags: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Guinness Book of Records, McDonald's and Hasbro, McDonald's Monopoly game, Portugal, Singapore, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States
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October 30, 2009: 5:14 pm
This is my first time playing McDonald Monopoly on the internet. Please be patience with me. Thanks! |
Lynda Falley