McDonald’s Monopoly 2021 is back – here’s everything you need to know to win big. The sticker collecting game has prizes including £100k cash, a holiday abroad or in the UK, and free food.
You may just enjoy getting a free McFlurry for after your meal, but there are millions of bigger prizes up for grabs and you can cash in.
Take a look at how you can maximise your chances to win a big prize.
McDonald’s Monopoly is returning
Although the game was cancelled in 2020, McDonald’s Monopoly is returning for 2021.
The game usually starts in March each year but is launching later. This is no doubt because of “freedom day” and the end of restrictions.
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When is McDonald’s Monopoly 2021?
It was confirmed on Twitter that McDonald’s Monopoly will start in summer 2021.
They shared a short video with the caption: “The news you’ve all been waiting for… Monopoly returns Summer 2021.”
McDonald’s Monopoly launched on Wednesday 25 August 2021.
One thing to be aware of is that the campaign and expiry dates printed on the game pieces will appear wrong.
Instead of reading the “play until” date in May 2021, the game will now be played until 5 October 2021, with prize cut off dates extended too.
Allowing a later launch date gives the fast food restaurants a chance to get all staff back. Due to social distancing, they can only have a certain number of people working simultaneously, which is why items are missing from the menu.
By the summer, it was hoped that things should *fingers crossed* be back to normal, with a mostly full menu, and the sticker game can begin.
How to play 2021 McDonald’s Monopoly
With most items of food you buy, you can a little McDonald’s Monopoly sticker.
Each sticker is based on the classic Hasbro board game, and you need to collect each set.
You can collect the stickers eat time you eat or drink, save them up and you can swap them for free McDonald’s food or big prizes!
You can enter the online game pieces online and can collect the food wins or money off in your food wallet.
For the game board, I’ve not been able to find out if the restaurants are giving away copies so you can stick property sets to them. However, you can download and print a copy of the 2021 game board from here.
What are the prizes?
There are loads of different things you can win. Each of the stickers can get you different prizes:
Online game pieces
Every single sticker has a unique code that gives you the chance to win a prize in an online draw from the McDonald’s site.
Online cash prizes are allocated at the rate of 2 winning moments every minute!
You can win £5 – £100 instantly, as well as non-cash goodies like shopping vouchers and free McDonald’s food.
Just in case you’ve “wombled” some stickers, there is a daily limit of 24 entries per person per day.
Instant win prizes
With some Monopoly stickers, you can get an instant win prize.
The sticker will say what you’ve won which could be free McDonald’s food to get straight away in the restaurants, like a McFlurry or Apple Pies (which is what I’ve usually won). There are also loads of other prizes like shopping vouchers, 50 inch 4k TV, cash, and you can even get a prize from the main properties set.
Property prizes
I think, deep down, it’s what everyone wants to get – and get a whole set in one meal – we can but dream!
With a property game piece, you get a street or station. You then need to collect a whole set on the McDonald’s Monopoly play board to win the prize.
So, depending on the set, you will either need to collect, two, three or four different properties.
The big prizes everyone wants are £100k in cash, an Ibiza holiday, vouchers for a shopping spree, Lay-Z-Spa hit tub, and more!
Rare McDonald’s Monopoly
Each group of property pieces has one that’s much rarer than the others.
Don’t give up hope!
Rare stickers
There are a fair few rare pieces that you MUST keep if you find one. The chances of getting one of the other colours are higher, so you will likely win.
Rare McDonald’s Monopoly stickers 2021
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)
Hot 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)
Rare McDonald’s Monopoly stickers 2019
Dark blue: Mayfair – £100,000 cash (four available)
Green: Bond Street – MINI Cooper (15 available)
Red: Strand – PS4 Pro (500 available)
Yellow: Coventry Street – £2,000 holiday spend with loveholidays (20 available)
Train stations: Liverpool St Station – phone of your choice with a one-year Sky Mobile contract (300 available)
Orange: Marlborough Street – Urbanears wireless headphones (1,000 available)
Hot pink: Northumberland Avenue – £50 JD Sports gift card (5,000 available)
Light blue: Euston Road – £30 boohoo or boohooMAN voucher (14,000 available)
Brown: Old Kent Road – free McDonald’s medium Extra Value Meal or Big Flavour Wraps meal (2,000,000 available)
How to increase your chances of winning
Eating more burgers might be one way to score more stickers, but it’ll cost you ££ and you’ll gain lbs!
One of the better ways to go about it is to be more selective with how you eat.
Eat carefully
Your usual might be a Big Mac value meal, but you won’t be getting the best sticker value. In fact, you’re not going to get many at all!
You don’t get sticker with some items, so you’ll miss out.
Number of stickers with the menu items
| Menu items | Number of stickers |
|---|---|
| Chicken & Bacon Salad or Chicken Salad | 3 |
| Chicken Selects® 3 or 5 Pieces | 3 |
| Chicken BBQ Smokehouse | 3 |
| Chicken Legend® (mayo, BBQ or Spicy) | 3 |
| Big Tasty® with or without Bacon | 3 |
| Any Big Flavour Wrap | 3 |
| Medium or Large Carbonated Soft Drink | 3 |
| Any item from the McCafé® Iced range | 3 |
| Medium or Large Fries | 2 |
| Mozzarella Dippers or sharebox | 2 |
| Cadbury Dairy Milk or Cadbury Caramel McFlurry® | 2 |
| Shaker Side Salad (with medium or large meal) | 3 |
| Vegetable Bag (with medium or large meal) | 3 |
| Fruit Bag (with medium or large meal) | 3 |
Fries are considered an unhealthier option, so have been demoted to 2 stickers from 2019.
To get more, the best thing you can do is switch out the fries for a side salad.
The famous Big Mac or nuggets don’t come with any stickers either. So, it’s best to switch over to perhaps a Big Tasty or the Chicken Selects while it’s running.
Pick your online game times carefully
As I mentioned above, there are two winning moments a minute for online games.
This can also mean you’ve got more chance of losing at certain times during the Monopoly promotion.
Don’t run to a computer after lunch and pop the code in – everyone does that. Hold back.
Try and enter the code first thing in the morning, or even in the middle of the night, as you will have less competition with others.
You can also only enter 24 times per day for the online game.
Wombling
You may have already done this with receipts for loyalty apps…I’m not sure how thrifty you are? If you see litter on the ground (not in the bin as it’s actually considered theft), you can use the receipt to get extra loyalty perks.
With McDonald’s usually, you can get the free coffee stickers (although they are being phased out now for app only collection).
During McDonald’s Monopoly, you could happen to find a number of extra stickers from a customer who isn’t collecting the game pieces.
Staff may not be too happy; some may not care.
When did McDonalds Monopoly start?
The fast food chain started the sticker collecting phenomenon back in 1987 in America.
It’s an annual McDonald’s Monopoly promotion and giveaway which runs from March until the end of April or the beginning of May each year with huge instant prizes.
Does anyone ever actually win McDonald’s Monopoly prizes?
McDonald’s has given away millions of prizes to customers as part of the game including instant win grub, shopping vouchers, weekend breaks, technology, cars and cash prizes.
In 2018 alone, 8,006,175 prizes were claimed, including 6 Mini Coopers, three £100,000 cash prizes, two £25k prizes and a Universal Holiday.
McDonalds Monopoly rules
Just in case you want to have a look at the rules, old and new, here they are:
In short, to play McDonald’s Monopoly, you need to be over 16 to play, but any under 18s need a parent or legal guardian to claim on their behalf.
Plus, you can only use the game pieces from the year we’re in. If you’ve kept last years, they are now worthless.
McDonald’s Monopoly rules 2021
McDonald’s Monopoly rules 2019
McDonald’s Monopoly rules 2018
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I have 4 £100K stickers to redeem. How do I go about this? and when do I go about this?
You need to have two different stickers for that set; Park Lane and Mayfair. If you’ve got two different ones then HUGE congrats!! Go to the Mcdonalds Monopoly website for details on how to claim.