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"Keep eating McDonald's, and you'll be THIS wide!"

Every year I tell myself that I am not going to play the McDonald’s Monopoly promotion.  And every year, I end up playing it anyway.  It starts off innocently.  I swing by McDonald’s and I tell myself, “You were going to eat here anyway.  Go ahead and get a few Monopoly pieces while you are here.”  I know I’m not going to win.  I would have better odds of winning the state lottery, but I just can’t resist.  Soon, I am telling myself, “Get a large fries.  Two more pieces!”  Before long I’m scanning trash cans to see if the game pieces are still attached to the cups inside.  Needless to say, these endeavors are both disgusting and fruitless.

The main thing that gets me angry is the online portion of the contest.  It works in the same way as the Monopoly board game, in which you are rewarded if you are capable of gathering a Monopoly (all of the properties of a certain color).  However, the online game is rigged such that you can never win.  Now, perhaps this is not correct, but I just don’t have any other explanation for it.

Here is my board from the online game.  You’ll notice that I am one property away from a Monopoly on every property color, except for the light blue properties.  Just from random chance, I should be able to get at least one Monopoly considering that I have entered 56 codes.  Yes, 56 is a lot of Monopoly pieces.  I’m not proud of that.  However, that means I have rolled the dice 56 times, not counting doubles.  It usually takes around 6 or 7 or rolls to get around the board, so my poor little dog token has circled the board almost 10 times in a fruitless quest to get a monopoly.  And, interestingly enough, the coveted properties that would give me the monopoly are the same properties that I don’t have in my actual game pieces.  It’s rigged, I tell you, rigged!

And yet, I can’t stop playing.  Thankfully, the contest is almost over, so I can go on my McDiet until they bring back this contest next year.

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