McDonald's Game Cheats

McDonald's is running one of their Monopoly games again. . . where if you collect game pieces of all of the properties from one color group, you can win massive cash prizes. The way they do it: For each color group, there's always ONE property that's really rare.


--We've got the list of which properties those are. . . so if you're on one of your trips to McDonald's today and you get one of these rare game pieces, in your lust to eat as many double cheeseburgers as you can during your lunch break, you won't just throw it out.


--PURPLE: Mediterranean Avenue is the rare one. Together with Baltic Avenue, which is easy to get, you'll win $50. There are 5,000 Mediterraneans out there.


--LIGHT BLUE: Vermont Avenue. With Oriental Avenue and Connecticut Avenue, you'll win $500. There are 500 Vermonts out there.


--MAROON: Virginia Avenue. With St. Charles Place and States Avenue, you'll win $1,000. There are 250 Virginias out there.


--ORANGE: Tennessee Avenue. With St. James Place and New York Avenue, you'll win $1,500. There are 100 Tennessees out there.



--RED: Kentucky Avenue. With Indiana Avenue and Illinois Avenue, you'll win $5,000. There are 50 Kentuckys out there.


--YELLOW: Ventnor Avenue. With Atlantic Avenue and Marvin Gardens, you'll win $10,000. There are 10 Ventnors out there.


--GREEN: Pennsylvania Avenue. With Pacific Avenue and North Carolina Avenue, you'll win $50,000. There are only TWO Pennsylvanias out there.


--BLUE: Boardwalk. With Park Place, you'll win $1,000,000. There's only ONE Boardwalk out there.


--RAILROADS: Short Line. Together with Reading, Pennsylvania, and B&O railroads, you'll win $5,000,000. There's only ONE Short Line out there.


--According to the McDonald's website, your odds of finding Short Line are one in. . . 41,497,391,308. (--That's 41 billion, 497 million, 391 thousand, 309.) Seriously.


--Your odds of getting Boardwalk are one in 468,485,000. Even your odds of getting $1,000 by finding Virginia are bad: One in 26,571,839. (Amazing-Bargains.com / McDonalds.com)