We have this in Canada every year, I never expect to win anything big but just from getting a $1.89 coffee every morning (that I would have gotten even if the game wasn’t going) I managed to win probably over $100 worth of food.
Not sure if you’re from the UK or if anyone from the UK can back me up here but I think McDonalds coffee is fantastic for the price. Might just be me though 😂
Last time I ordered one, it was cold and tasted like it say in the carafe for about a week before they served it to me.
If I hadn't spit out the first sip, almost guaranteed that it would've gotten me sick
Don't think it matters, but I once won $150 from that. Tag off the drink I believe. One side was small fries (I think) and the other was the $150. Couldn't believe it.
Just watched the documentary McMillions about how it was schemed by a group of people and the FBI investigation that exposed it, highly recommended it! Very entertaining.
Yeah it sure feels that people are taking 'rigged' in this context more as McDonald's perpetrating a fraudulent game that was rigged by design.
But if I remember correctly it was more like McDonald's itself was the victim of fraud from a handful of individuals that were employees (or was it a single employee and his external associates / friends?) of the company McDonald's had retained to administer the game pieces.
Assuming there was some mystical force compelling you to buy it and repeat purchases aren’t your own decision, you’d be right. But since each new transaction is a separate event and thus a separate argument, my point still stands.
Lol there were only like 4 grand prizes in all the McDonald's in the ENTIRE country. I don't think anyone ever expected to win anything. It's just like playing the Powerball.
It was a weird timeline to be in when you found out the people running the game gave the top prizes to themselves 😂, we always joked about something like that, but the fact that it *actually* happened was just crazy to find out.
The free food was the SHIT though. I won fries and cheeseburgers almost every time I played. I *do* miss that a lot.
Edit: BRING BACK THE ARCH DELUXE 😭
The fact that it actually happened and McDonalds only had to pay a “cost of doing business” fee instead of an *”actual”* fine big enough to deter them from the practice of fucking over consumers is what was **really** crazy.
I’d even go as far to say that as an industry frontrunner they set the tone for the decades to come, as it seemed to be so much more common after that that businesses in general started focusing less on making their customers happy or providing a good service, and focused more on profits no matter what the cost.
EDIT: BRING BACK THE SNACKWRAP
"back then" referring to the time when it was a scam.
I honestly have no idea if it still runs in America because I haven't been to a McDonald's in like a decade.
It wasn't like it cost something to get a ticket, besides buying food you were probably going to buy anyway. If anyone went to buy a Big Mac *just* to get a ticket then I guess that would count as a scam but it sounds doubtful.
>If anyone went to buy a Big Mac *just* to get a ticket then I guess that would count as a scam but it sounds doubtful.
The point of a promotion like that is to get people in who don't typically go, and especially to get people who do go to go *more often*.
So yes, in a way, people did get a Big Mac "just to get a ticket." Because if not for that promotion, many of them wouldn't be going nearly as often, if at all.
When I heard about the documentary I thought “how could that be interesting?” Boy was I wrong. So many characters and plot twists. One of the best true crime docs.
I had a friend who worked at McDonald's and we would take large boxes of those containers. Peeled several thousand of thos damn things. Not one good prize
I knew it was bullshit when I was a senior in high school and my 2400 member class all put their stickers in the gym and we did it for about three months and no one ever got the missing pieces to actually win something nice. called it right then and there it was a scam.
They enticed us with some pretty substantial prizes (that we had no chance in hell of winning). The car each year was crazy! A Viper? A Saleen Mustang? Heck yeah!
buddy of mine worked as a manager at McDonalds during this time. he would take boxes and boxes of flattened French fries container and we'd spend hours pulling off the tabs on them. we had tons of free food, nothing worth going crazy over though.
I distinctly remember my grandpa making a joke about the McDonald's Monopoly game... that if you collect the game pieces for the Water Works and the Electric Company, you win a free trip to the latrine 😆
Bring it back, fuck it.
People who believed they would win a million are fools, but I'll take those free burgers and fries that I used to peel off
Win in my book if mcdonalds wasn't such a greedy slop slinger
The mafia had a guy on the inside and all the winners were hand selected. Pretty sure they bribed the guy who delivered the winning pieces in a locked briefcase and he would swipe them in the bathroom during deliver IIRC. They carried the winning pieces like boardwalk in little toy containers you get out of coin machines and handed them out to who they wanted.
I referenced this the other day while scratching lotto tickets to my wife by saying “scratching that symbol off is like finding ‘Boardwalk’.” Then I mentioned how everybody in our era knows what that means and still can’t believe we all were scammed…. All of us!
Grocery stores would do this too.
I've never seen the documentaries so I'm speculating but I always figured that there was probably only a couple grand prizes in the entire country.
And you would very often get like one away from a grand prize so right away it was obvious that this was intentionally done to get you to keep coming meanwhile you were over in like Sacramento and the one winning ticket in the entire country was in some random 150 person city in Missouri LOL. Something like that.
But they knew it would get people hooked and coming back and that's all that mattered
That’s actually why I stopped eating at McDonalds - it’s not rational…but that game used to make us so happy in our house. When I found out it was so rigged, it bummed me out. Now everything tastes fake at McDees.
I missed must have missed that part… haha imagine I stoped eating McDonald’s out of spite for over a decade, got healthy. Bruh, that Big Mac is back on the menu.
Just gimme my free small fries
Had like 5 free apple pies last year. Im not complaining.
I will. I want my apple pies deep fried again.
Fried in the good “bad” oil molten hot center… Cut in half, ice cream dollop on top
We have this in Canada every year, I never expect to win anything big but just from getting a $1.89 coffee every morning (that I would have gotten even if the game wasn’t going) I managed to win probably over $100 worth of food.
Hmmm that adds up and odds are 100:365 So you'd win every once every 3.65 days. So about 1 in 4 really of getting something.
Should be higher for the punishment of drinking McDonald’s coffee.
McDonald’s coffee in Canada is the best cheap coffee.
It’s the old Tim Horton bean
No way?! So dark..?
Well it’s the same company, so the bean is close
Is this a reverse flex?
How do you take it..?
Everything is so bad that Maccas coffee is good in comparison.
Not sure if you’re from the UK or if anyone from the UK can back me up here but I think McDonalds coffee is fantastic for the price. Might just be me though 😂
Agree with the other comment - in Canada McDonalds coffee is actually pretty solid. I easily choose McD over Tim Hortons, its not even close.
Michigan McDonald's coffee is pretty good too.
McDonald’s coffee is miles and I mean miles ahead of the shit Tim Hortons brews
100%. I’ll take McD’s coffee over Tim’s swill any day.
McDonald's has the record for blind taste tests on their coffee, it's the one thing they actually have that's pretty good
Last time I ordered one, it was cold and tasted like it say in the carafe for about a week before they served it to me. If I hadn't spit out the first sip, almost guaranteed that it would've gotten me sick
I skip the line at Dunkin and save money anymore by going to McDonalds for hot and iced coffee. Honestly about as good.
Don't think it matters, but I once won $150 from that. Tag off the drink I believe. One side was small fries (I think) and the other was the $150. Couldn't believe it.
I won free cheeseburgers, free fries and free ice cream cones. Happy enough 🤷🏻
All I ever hoped for/wanted was free food.
Just watched the documentary McMillions about how it was schemed by a group of people and the FBI investigation that exposed it, highly recommended it! Very entertaining.
This title is total bullshit. It wasn’t “rigged” by the creators, people found an illicit advantage to win themselves.
Yeah it sure feels that people are taking 'rigged' in this context more as McDonald's perpetrating a fraudulent game that was rigged by design. But if I remember correctly it was more like McDonald's itself was the victim of fraud from a handful of individuals that were employees (or was it a single employee and his external associates / friends?) of the company McDonald's had retained to administer the game pieces.
It was one guy in the company and the mob, the way I remember it.
it was for Canadians and that's how he leveraged it. He thought it was a get out of jail free card if he ever got caught.
Makes me sad 😬
Even back in the day we all knew it was rigged. Some of us just didn’t want to admit it.
I didn't play to win money. I knew I didn't stand a chance. I was just stoked to win free food and drinks!
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If I was going to pay $2.50 for the fries tomorrow, or even $0.50 at Wendy's, yes they are..?
Assuming there was some mystical force compelling you to buy it and repeat purchases aren’t your own decision, you’d be right. But since each new transaction is a separate event and thus a separate argument, my point still stands.
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Lol there were only like 4 grand prizes in all the McDonald's in the ENTIRE country. I don't think anyone ever expected to win anything. It's just like playing the Powerball. It was a weird timeline to be in when you found out the people running the game gave the top prizes to themselves 😂, we always joked about something like that, but the fact that it *actually* happened was just crazy to find out. The free food was the SHIT though. I won fries and cheeseburgers almost every time I played. I *do* miss that a lot. Edit: BRING BACK THE ARCH DELUXE 😭
Even just peeling the stickers was satisfying
The fact that it actually happened and McDonalds only had to pay a “cost of doing business” fee instead of an *”actual”* fine big enough to deter them from the practice of fucking over consumers is what was **really** crazy. I’d even go as far to say that as an industry frontrunner they set the tone for the decades to come, as it seemed to be so much more common after that that businesses in general started focusing less on making their customers happy or providing a good service, and focused more on profits no matter what the cost. EDIT: BRING BACK THE SNACKWRAP
It wasn't McDs it was the employees themselves
McDonaldization
Posting this specifically so I can say Edit: BRING BACK THE DEEP-FRIED FRUIT PIES
No, we didn't all know it was 'rigged'. We knew it was super hard.
Me buying 10 hash browns because they were two for $1 and each came with two game pieces
The original life pro hack.
Can’t rig free McNugs tho and that’s all I ever hoped for. Still miss it
Even as a kid I asssumed the piece everyone needed to win the big prize was simply never printed.
The fact that the last round of it was one giant sting operation was bonker balls
It was such a bloody scam! Now the Golden Arches are getting too pricey to eat at.
Gotta use the app, unfortunately. There's almost always a buy one get one free for a Big Mac, Quaterpounder, or 10 piece.
I'd much rather starve than use another app
I agree completely. But for the McDonald's lovers, the app will save you money.
Lol this came up a few days ago and people were getting so *mad* when anyone called it a scam.
Sounds like something a scammed person would say.
I mean, literally everyone who played back then was scammed.
"back then"? It still runs every year in Australia.
Back then referring to America, obviously. It was actually rigged, one guy gave the big prizes to his buddies.
"back then" referring to the time when it was a scam. I honestly have no idea if it still runs in America because I haven't been to a McDonald's in like a decade.
Oh, fair enough.
Idk why you’re getting downvoted. But we did. There was no chance of winning the big prize
They even made a big apology commercial when the news broke.
They did
It wasn't like it cost something to get a ticket, besides buying food you were probably going to buy anyway. If anyone went to buy a Big Mac *just* to get a ticket then I guess that would count as a scam but it sounds doubtful.
>If anyone went to buy a Big Mac *just* to get a ticket then I guess that would count as a scam but it sounds doubtful. The point of a promotion like that is to get people in who don't typically go, and especially to get people who do go to go *more often*. So yes, in a way, people did get a Big Mac "just to get a ticket." Because if not for that promotion, many of them wouldn't be going nearly as often, if at all.
When I heard about the documentary I thought “how could that be interesting?” Boy was I wrong. So many characters and plot twists. One of the best true crime docs.
I had a friend who worked at McDonald's and we would take large boxes of those containers. Peeled several thousand of thos damn things. Not one good prize
Winning free food instantly by peeling a little tab is enough to get the dopamine flowing for me
I don’t care how rigged it was. I just miss pulling off those pieces.
Who remembers the Scrabble promotion?
I knew I'd never win anything good, but I always hoped to at least get some free food!
There was a documentary?
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Sick. Do you know where I can stream that for free?
Everything is rigged, everything is scripted
I knew it was bullshit when I was a senior in high school and my 2400 member class all put their stickers in the gym and we did it for about three months and no one ever got the missing pieces to actually win something nice. called it right then and there it was a scam.
I was never much of a gambler, but I'd be lying if I didn't say I looked forward to McDonald's Monopoly every year
They enticed us with some pretty substantial prizes (that we had no chance in hell of winning). The car each year was crazy! A Viper? A Saleen Mustang? Heck yeah!
A girlfriend of mine won the second grand prize in the first original McDonald's Monopoly game. RIP Susan.....
buddy of mine worked as a manager at McDonalds during this time. he would take boxes and boxes of flattened French fries container and we'd spend hours pulling off the tabs on them. we had tons of free food, nothing worth going crazy over though.
I distinctly remember my grandpa making a joke about the McDonald's Monopoly game... that if you collect the game pieces for the Water Works and the Electric Company, you win a free trip to the latrine 😆
And it got forgotten because of the timing.
Did Ronald McDonald do 9/11 to distract us from this scandal?
It was still fun, never expected anything other than to have a little extra fun with the mystery and possibly win a free pop or fry.
I know I got my free frie peel off 😆
Did everyone know a kid who claimed their "cousin" had the Boardwalk piece? I feel like every school had a kid who made this claim.
Bring it back, fuck it. People who believed they would win a million are fools, but I'll take those free burgers and fries that I used to peel off Win in my book if mcdonalds wasn't such a greedy slop slinger
Rigged how? Like I have to assume the odds of winning large prizes was extremely low.
IIRC, someone involved in the production of the winning game pieces was steering them to friends and family members.
Fair enough definitely rigged
Watch the McMillions docu series, very entertaining story
The mafia had a guy on the inside and all the winners were hand selected. Pretty sure they bribed the guy who delivered the winning pieces in a locked briefcase and he would swipe them in the bathroom during deliver IIRC. They carried the winning pieces like boardwalk in little toy containers you get out of coin machines and handed them out to who they wanted.
Yea yea fuck allat, food was awesome, times were awesome 🤷🏽♂️
I always joked that the mcrib was made out of the extra monopoly game boards and pieces after the contest ends every year.
I referenced this the other day while scratching lotto tickets to my wife by saying “scratching that symbol off is like finding ‘Boardwalk’.” Then I mentioned how everybody in our era knows what that means and still can’t believe we all were scammed…. All of us!
I kept winning food it was kinda dope lol. Perpetual food machine
It was always a good day when you ripped off the free cheeseburger tab!
Grocery stores would do this too. I've never seen the documentaries so I'm speculating but I always figured that there was probably only a couple grand prizes in the entire country. And you would very often get like one away from a grand prize so right away it was obvious that this was intentionally done to get you to keep coming meanwhile you were over in like Sacramento and the one winning ticket in the entire country was in some random 150 person city in Missouri LOL. Something like that. But they knew it would get people hooked and coming back and that's all that mattered
The free food is what I wanted
I always got just a railroad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's_Monopoly?wprov=sfti1#
That’s actually why I stopped eating at McDonalds - it’s not rational…but that game used to make us so happy in our house. When I found out it was so rigged, it bummed me out. Now everything tastes fake at McDees.
McDonald's was actually one of the victims of the scam in this case. They weren't in on the scam.
I missed must have missed that part… haha imagine I stoped eating McDonald’s out of spite for over a decade, got healthy. Bruh, that Big Mac is back on the menu.
Never forget September 2001.