MCDONALD'S has revealed that lucky fast food fans could win £100,000 in cash and an Ibiza holiday in this year's Monopoly game.
The fast food chain's game started today – and prizes include a Lay-Z-Spa hot tub and £1,000 to spend on home entertainment gadgets.
Monopoly willrun for six weeks, with a £500 Missguided shopping spree also up for grabs.
McDonald's previously revealed that 1,000 lucky winners will get a VIP card to claim a free meal every week for a whole year.
There are also thousands of 'instant win' items too, including when purchasing breakfasts like a hash brown, sausage, and egg McMuffin.
Mayfair, Bond Street and Strand are the rarest tickets out their as they offer the best prizes.
Read our McDonald's Monopoly live blog for the latest updates…
- John Hall
HOW MANY McDONALD’S OUTLETS ARE THERE?
There are a total of 39,198 McDonald’s outlets in more than 100 countries and territories around the world.
This number has increased year-on-year for the last 16 years.
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WHAT ARE THE RAREST STICKERS?
Money Saving Expert explains that within each set of properties there is a rare or uncommon sticker.
If you manage to find one of these, make sure you keep hold of it as the remaining stickers in the set will be much easier to find, giving you a good chance of winning the prize for that set.
The list of rare monopoly pieces are:
Dark blue: Mayfair – £100,000 cash (four available)
Green: Bond Street – Ibiza villa or UK getaway (30 available)
Red: Strand – Lay-Z-Spa hot tub (175 available)
Yellow: Coventry Street – £1,000 to spend on home entertainment with ao (100 available)
Train stations: Liverpool St Station – phone of your choice with a one-year Sky Mobile contract (750 available)
Orange: Marlborough Street – £599 shopping spree with Missguided (700 available)
Pink: Northumberland Avenue – relaxing or adventurous experience with Buyagift (5,800 available)
Light blue: Euston Road – £100 JD Sports voucher (1,500 available)
Brown: Old Kent Road – free McDonald’s medium Extra Value Meal or Big Flavour Wraps meal (2,000,000 available)
- John Hall
HAVE PEOPLE EVER WON?
The fast food chain says it’s given away “millions of prizes” to “millions of people” in the UK over the years.
“In 2018, a whopping 8,006,175 prizes were claimed, including 6 Mini Coopers, three £100k prizes, two £25k prizes and a Universal Holiday.”
Maccies also has a website where there’s a daily update on how many of each prizes have been won.
That means you can check what’s still up for grabs before you tuck into your next meal.
- John Hall
MONOPOLY COVID CHAOS
The game was due to return in March 2021 but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The cancellation means that more than 200million Monopoly game pieces had already been printed and dated.
That means customers will have to check the dates on McDonald’s website to make sure they don’t miss out on a chance to bag a prize.
In total, the game has been delayed for two years due to restaurant closures during the pandemic.
- John Hall
WHAT DEALS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE APP?
Every Monday, the app has a host of deals available to cash in on.
They’re exclusive to the platform too, so you won’t be able to find the prices anywhere else.
This week you can get a Big Mac for just 99p, usually the fast food favourite would cost £3.69 so hungry deal hunters can save £2.70.
You have to order it on the app and claim it from your closest McDonald’s by 11.59pm today.
You can also get things like a £1.99 breakfast roll, roughly 80p cheaper as it’s normally £2.79, before 11am.
Previously, you could pick up a McMuffin for 99p too.
But the specific food item on offer can be subject to change each week, so next week there could be a totally new item on offer for one day only.
- John Hall
HOW DO PRIZES COMPARE TO PREVIOUS YEARS?
In 2019, the last time McDonald’s ran Monopoly, £100,000 in cash was also the top prize available for four winners.
Like this year, all you had to do was collect both dark blue properties.
One difference this year is that there’s no car up for grabs.
Last time, there was an offer of a Mini Cooper for 20 lucky winners who collected all three green properties.
Plus you could have won £2,000 holiday spending money and a PS4 console.
One of the most likely prizes you might have won in the last game was a £50 voucher for Boohoo as 18,000 were available.
- John Hall
THE NEW EXPIRY DATES:
- Collect to win non food prizes: old date June 4, 2021, new date November 11, 2021
- Collect to win food prizes: old date May 18, 2021, new date October 19, 2021
- Instant win non-food prize or discount: old date June 4, 2021, new date November 5, 2021
- Instant win food or Just Eat vouchers: old date May 18, 2021, new date October 19, 2021
- Instant win discount voucher (excluding Just Eat) old date, August 31, 2021 or earlier, new date January 31, 2022
- Online game: old date May, 5, 2021, new date October 15, 2021
EXPLAINED: HOW DOES THE MCDONALD’S MONOPOLY WORK?
Customers can collect game pieces on qualifying McDonald’s products, including the co-ordinated road names like Mayfair and Fleet Street, just like you would in the board game.
You will find them as stickers which will appear on the packaging of whatever food or drink you buy from the chain.
Each game piece represents a tile on the Monopoly board which you can pick up for free in the restaurant or play along online – when you collect a set, you get a prize.
Prize-seekers should ignore the dates on this year’s game pieces, as they have been reused from last year’s game that did not go ahead.
Pieces which show a “play until” date of May 4, 2021, will actually be valid until October 5, 2021.
MCDONALD’S WORTH
According to the latest figures, McDonald’s is worth a whopping $170billion – about £125billion.
It features ninth in the top 10 most valuable US brands of 2021, with a brand value – what someone would pay for it if it were for sale – of $155billion.
In 2020, McDonald’s generated a staggering $19.2billion in worldwide revenue.
- John Hall
DISCOUNT VOUCHER PRIZES
- 10% Off AO.COM – 1,500,000
- 20% Off Urbanears – 1,000,000
- 30% Off Missguided or Mennace – 2,000,000
- £10 Off buyagift – 2,500,000
- 12 Premium Retro Photo Prints provided by Photobox – 2,000,000
- One Month Comedy Subscription provided by NextUp -1,000,000
- 30% Off Mobile Accessories provided by Juice – 1,000,000
- £5 Off Personalised Phone Case provided by Wrappz -2,000,000
- £5 Off provided by Prezzybox.com- 2,000,000
- £4 Off When You Spend £10 on Food provided by Just Eat – 500,000
- 15% off at popsockets.co.uk – 1,000,000
- 15% off a Beauty Box provided by Glossybox.co.uk -1,000,000
FOOD VOUCHER PRIZES
- Big Mac or Big Flavour Wrap -2,609,614
- 6 Chicken McNuggets or Double Cheeseburger – 4,175,382
- McFlurry or Fruit Bag -6,263,072
- Small fries or veg bag – 11,485,298
- Medium Coca-Cola Zero Sugar or medium milkshake – 10,960,375
- Quarter Pounder With Cheese or McChicken Sandwich – 4,175,381
- Apple Pie or Fruit Bag -6,263,072
- Regularhot drink – 6,263,072
HAVE PEOPLE EVER WON?
The fast food chain says it’s given away “millions of prizes” to “millions of people” in the UK over the years.
“In 2018, a whopping 8,006,175 prizes were claimed, including 6 Mini Coopers, three £100k prizes, two £25k prizes and a Universal Holiday.”
Maccies also has a website where there’s a daily update on how many of each prizes have been won.
That means you can check what’s still up for grabs before you tuck into your next meal.
HOW MANY McDONALD’S OUTLETS ARE THERE?
There are a total of 39,198 McDonald’s outlets in more than 100 countries and territories around the world.
This number has increased year-on-year for the last 16 years.
WHY DID MCDONALD’S GET RID OF RONALD MCDONALD?
McDonald’s announced its mascot Ronald McDonald would be taking a hiatus in 2016.
It followed a disturbing craze which saw pranksters jump out at people dressed as spooky clowns.
Some wielded weapons to spread terror and the trend travelled across the globe.
It began in the US but soon took off in the UK, with police declaring it “no laughing matter”.
It is not known if the clown will ever make a full comeback.
MONOPOLY COVID CHAOS
The game was due to return in March 2021 but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The cancellation means that more than 200million Monopoly game pieces had already been printed and dated.
That means customers will have to check the dates on McDonald’s website to make sure they don’t miss out on a chance to bag a prize.
In total, the game has been delayed for two years due to restaurant closures during the pandemic.
- John Hall
WHAT DEALS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE APP?
Every Monday, the app has a host of deals available to cash in on.
They’re exclusive to the platform too, so you won’t be able to find the prices anywhere else.
This week you can get a Big Mac for just 99p, usually the fast food favourite would cost £3.69 so hungry deal hunters can save £2.70.
You have to order it on the app and claim it from your closest McDonald’s by 11.59pm today.
You can also get things like a £1.99 breakfast roll, roughly 80p cheaper as it’s normally £2.79, before 11am.
Previously, you could pick up a McMuffin for 99p too.
But the specific food item on offer can be subject to change each week, so next week there could be a totally new item on offer for one day only.
- John Hall
HOW MUCH DOES MCDONALD’S MAKE IN A DAY?
There are 39,198 outlets around the globe in more than 100 countries and territories.
These regularly serve an estimated 69 million customers.
It is not reported exactly how much McDonald’s makes each day, but it is widely acknowledged to be between $60million (£44million) and $70million (£51million).
- John Hall
THE NEW EXPIRY DATES:
- Collect to win non food prizes: old date June 4, 2021, new date November 11, 2021
- Collect to win food prizes: old date May 18, 2021, new date October 19, 2021
- Instant win non-food prize or discount: old date June 4, 2021, new date November 5, 2021
- Instant win food or Just Eat vouchers: old date May 18, 2021, new date October 19, 2021
- Instant win discount voucher (excluding Just Eat) old date, August 31, 2021 or earlier, new date January 31, 2022
- Online game: old date May, 5, 2021, new date October 15, 2021
EXPLAINED: HOW DOES THE MCDONALD’S MONOPOLY WORK?
Customers can collect game pieces on qualifying McDonald’s products, including the co-ordinated road names like Mayfair and Fleet Street, just like you would in the board game.
You will find them as stickers which will appear on the packaging of whatever food or drink you buy from the chain.
Each game piece represents a tile on the Monopoly board which you can pick up for free in the restaurant or play along online – when you collect a set, you get a prize.
Prize-seekers should ignore the dates on this year’s game pieces, as they have been reused from last year’s game that did not go ahead.
Pieces which show a “play until” date of May 4, 2021, will actually be valid until October 5, 2021.
Discount voucher-prizes:
- 10% Off AO.COM – 1,500,000
- 20% Off Urbanears – 1,000,000
- 30% Off Missguided or Mennace – 2,000,000
- £10 Off buyagift – 2,500,000
- 12 Premium Retro Photo Prints provided by Photobox – 2,000,000
- One Month Comedy Subscription provided by NextUp -1,000,000
- 30% Off Mobile Accessories provided by Juice – 1,000,000
- £5 Off Personalised Phone Case provided by Wrappz -2,000,000
- £5 Off provided by Prezzybox.com- 2,000,000
- £4 Off When You Spend £10 on Food provided by Just Eat – 500,000
- 15% off at popsockets.co.uk – 1,000,000
- 15% off a Beauty Box provided by Glossybox.co.uk -1,000,000
FOOD VOUCHER PRIZES
- Big Mac or Big Flavour Wrap -2,609,614
- 6 Chicken McNuggets or Double Cheeseburger – 4,175,382
- McFlurry or Fruit Bag -6,263,072
- Small fries or veg bag – 11,485,298
- Medium Coca-Cola Zero Sugar or medium milkshake – 10,960,375
- Quarter Pounder With Cheese or McChicken Sandwich – 4,175,381
- Apple Pie or Fruit Bag -6,263,072
- Regularhot drink – 6,263,072
- John Hall
HOW DO PRIZES COMPARE TO PREVIOUS YEARS?
In 2019, the last time McDonald’s ran Monopoly, £100,000 in cash was also the top prize available for four winners.
Like this year, all you had to do was collect both dark blue properties.
One difference this year is that there’s no car up for grabs.
Last time, there was an offer of a Mini Cooper for 20 lucky winners who collected all three green properties.
Plus you could have won £2,000 holiday spending money and a PS4 console.
One of the most likely prizes you might have won in the last game was a £50 voucher for Boohoo as 18,000 were available.
- John Hall
HOW TO USE THE MCDONALD’S APP
The My McDonald’s app is free to download on Apple or Android devices.
McDonald’s app allows you to browse the menu available at your closest restuarant including popular items like the BigMac or summer specials like the McCafé Iced range.
You can also order virtually, and collect rewards all in one handy place.
Here’s how to use it.
- John Hall
EXPLAINED: HAS THERE BEEN A MILKSHAKE SHORTAGE BEFORE?
McDonald’s has had shortages before but never specifically milkshakes and to this scale and time length.
In June 2021, Chicken Selects and Big Flavour Wraps were taken off the menu due to a nationwide shortage of chicken.
- John Hall
HAVE PEOPLE EVER WON?
The fast food chain says it's given away "millions of prizes" to "millions of people" in the UK over the years.
"In 2018, a whopping 8,006,175 prizes were claimed, including 6 Mini Coopers, three £100k prizes, two £25k prizes and a Universal Holiday."
Maccies also has a website where there's a daily update on how many of each prizes have been won.
That means you can check what's still up for grabs before you tuck into your next meal.
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