A man ordered 100 large fries to win at McDonald's Monopoly — but it didn't end as well as he hoped

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A man ordered 100 large fries to win at McDonald's Monopoly — but it didn't end as well as he hoped

Madison Flager, Delish, Oct. 25, 2017, 11:41 AM, http://www.thisisinsider.com/m...lds-monopoly-2017-10

Pete's final receipt.Furious Pete/YouTube

Canadian vlogger "Furious Pete" went to extreme lengths to win some elaborate prizes from McDonald's Monopoly in Canada.
Pete ordered 100 large fries and a large diet coke, spending a total of $340.68.
With 202 chances to win, Pete was expecting to snag at least 40 prizes.
As shown in the video, his plan didn't exactly work out.
Pete won a total of 23 prizes, most of which were just free food.

McDonald's Monopoly is back in Canada, giving customers a chance to win prizes as elaborate as plane tickets, SUVs, and snowmobiles (Canada, ya know?). There are tons of smaller prizes, like free burgers and gift cards, and McDonald's says there is a 1 in 5 chance of winning every time you play.

One Canadian vlogger decided to put those odds to the test by ordering a staggering 100 large fries at once, much to the dismay of every McDonald's employee working that day. He also ordered a large Diet Coke, just for good measure. Since each large fry and medium or large drink comes with two game stamps, that amounted to 202 chances to win.'

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https://youtu.be/6DiWsdfHw2Y

10/27/173:37 PM

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"Furious Pete" was expecting to win at least 40 prizes, under the assumption that the odds were based on the number of stamps. As shown in the video, it didn't end quite as well as he hoped.

After Pete and his wife went through all the monopoly pieces, they discovered they had a grand total of 23 prizes. Most of them were food prizes, meaning they won "a lot of cheeseburgers," as he put it.

In the video, Pete says this makes the odds about 1 in 9, which would be correct if each game stamp had a 1 in 5 chance of winning. However, the Official Rules of the game state that the chances of winning are actually based on the number of game pieces (1 piece = 2 stamps). So in that case, McDonald's was pretty accurate in their odds.

mcdonalds monopoly McDonald's Monopoly in Canada. McDonald's Canada

After studying the rules a little too intensely, it appears that only the food prize has a 1 in 5 chance of being won, though; as the prize values go up, the odds go down. The chance of winning $10,000 in cash, for example, is 1 in 13 million.

In all fairness, if we spent $340.68 on McDonald's, we'd expect to win something a little better than a free sandwich too. Unfortunately, that's not how odds work.

h/t Foodbeast

10/27/173:39 PM

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