Hey guys, very sorry for the MIA! haha, been very busy with ProjectWork and A levels. If any of you who have taken the same path as me, you should understand the shit I'm going through! Anyway, today, Peter Chao is ... Sorry, I'm going to talk about YOUR ODDS OF WINNING McDonald's Monopoly Game =)

Think you have collected everything and left JUST 1 MORE PIECE to winning that SUPERB prize? Congratulations! You have won yourself an INSTANT WIN of gaining 3kg of fats + donating to McDonald's Annual Profit Margin!

Jokes aside, let's examine the ODDS of YOU WINNING THE GAME.



Ok, I just skip the Instant Win prizes and list out the Collect-to-Win prizes.

1. $50,000 cash (x1 winner)
2. 7D Hawaii Flycruise for 4 pax on Pride of America worth $24k,000 (x1 winner)
3. 100,000 Esso Smiles Points worth up to $4,000 each (x15 winners)
4. Samsung 40" LCD TV by Courts or HP HDX18 Premium Notebook by Courts (x10 winners)
5. 2N Malacca/KL Cruise for 4 on Superstar Virdo worth $2,360 (x15 winners)
6. $400 Jetstar Travel Voucher (x20 winners)
7. $200 ToysRUs Gift Voucher (x100 winners)
8. 32GB Touchscreen MP3 Player worth $420 each (x50 winners)

There are 8,670,000 games labels have been printed for the Monopoly game. For Instant Win, there are 1,536,490 McDonald’s meal labels and 631,000 for Partners labels. So after deducting the Instant Win, we will leave only total of 8,670,000 – 1,536,490 – 631,000 = 6,502,510 collect-to-win game labels.

This might sound like you have a great chances to win, almost 3 out of 4 is the collect-to-win label. The basic assumption is only they have evenly printed out collect-to-win labels. The tricky part is I also don’t believe they have printed out evenly.

If I were McDonald, I will only release the key winning labels at the last few weeks of the games. And the key labels will be so rare such that people will just keep buying more and more Extra Value Meal! That time my sales must sky high. Damn, it is like TOTO, too bad I never strike TOTO before; else I’m definitely going to be addicted to it.

Quote from yuxiang.sg, indeed there are some rare pieces.

50 pieces of Joo Chiat Road (m112)
100 pieces of Toa Payoh (m114)
20 pieces of Thomson Road (m118)
15 pieces of Tanjong Rhu (m121)
10 pieces of Shenton Way (m122)
15 pieces of Scotts Road (m127)
1 piece of Orchard Road (m129)
1 piece of Sentosa Cove (m132)

Since there are 212 collect-to-win prizes, so I bet there will be slightly more than 212 rare labels among 6,502,510, just in case some prizes are not claimed. The chance of you getting the collect-to-win prizes is 1 in 30,672.

Therefore, the odds is lower than TOTO but higher than 4D. Just like Singapore Pools, you will see all the uncles and aunties queuing up for thier "pot of gold", McDonald's is another "legal" game of betting for the younger generation.

Think you can beat the game?

Comments appreciated (tagboard or comments) =)