Best Chance to Win McDonald’s Monopoly Instant Win Prizes 2014

While many people focus on trying to get the rare game pieces to score the big prizes offered as part of the McDonald’s Monopoly game, there are also a lot of instant win prizes available. In fact, with all the instant win prizes, your chance of winning something when playing the game is just over 1 in 4. For those who really take the game seriously, you can start preparing for it even though the game doesn’t officially begin until September 30.

While you have that 1 in 4 chance of finding a instant win prize, in all likelihood your winning prize will be some type of food item. These are by far the most common instant win prizes given away in the contest. There are more than 10,000,000 of each food prize being given away in this year’s sweepstakes. Of these, the most likely prize you’ll win is a medium fries, which is a winner in 1 out of every 9 game pieces. Below is a full list of the instant win prizes available, along with the odds of winning, as part of McDonald’s Monopoly 2014:

Instant Win Food Prizes

Medium Fries (1 in 9)
Any Breakfast Sandwich excluding McMuffin (1 in 28)
Quarter Pounder with Cheese (1 in 45)
Small McCafe Frappe or Smoothie (1 in 45)
Regular McFlurry or Fruit and Yogurt Parfait (1 in 45)

Other Instant Win Prizes

1 Alex Morgan Experience (1 in 578,332,650)
1 Hobbit Experience (1 in 651,841,628)
1 Jamie McMurray Experience (1 in 578,332,650)
1 LeBron James Experience (1 in 651,841,628)
1 Patrick Kane Experience (1 in 578,332,650)
2 One Hundred Thousand Dollars on Big Mac (1 in 150,254,000)
2 One Hundred Thousand Dollars on Bacon Clubhouse sandwiches (19,585,000)
2 Super Bowl XLIX Trip (1 in 289,166,325)
10 Cessna Discovery Flight (1 in 65,184,163)
20 Two Thousand Dollar Target GiftCard Shopping Experience (1 in 28,916,633)
260 VIZIO P-Series 50-inch Class Ultra HD Smart TV (1 in 2,224,357)
350 Polaroid Cube Action Video Camera (1 in 1,862,405)
2,000 Hasbro Monopoly Board Game (1 in 325,921)
3,000 Skullcandy Navigator Headphone (1 in 217,281)
3,500 Twenty-Five Dollar Shell V-Power Gift Card (1 in 165,238)
5,000 Ten Dollar Shell V-Power Gift Card (1 in 115,667)
6,000 Twenty Dollar Target eGiftCard (1 in 96,389)
10,000 One Hundred Dollars Check (1 in 65,185)
20,000 Ten Dollar McDonald’s Arch Card (1 in 28,917)
30,000 Ten Dollar Target eGiftCard (1 in 19,278)
100,000 Five Dollar Target eGiftCard (1 in 5,784)
1,200,000 Shutterfly Photo Mug (1 in 482)
2,000,000 Shutterfly 8×8-inch Photo Book (1 in 290)
2,800,000 Shutterfly Magnet (1 in 207)
4,000,000 My Coke Rewards 50 Bonus Point Bundle (1 in 145)
5,600,000 Redbox One-Day Rental (1 in 104)
10,000,000 One Month Hulu Plus Subscription (1 in 58)

While the odds of winning a big instant win prize is remote, if you’re going to go for it, there is a strange quirk in the odds of one of the big prize items. The odds of winning $100,000 is greatly increased if you buy Bacon Clubhouse sandwiches rather than Big Macs when you go to McDonald’s. In fact, you have more than a 7 times better chance to win the $100,000 from buying Bacon Clubhouse sandwiches rather than purchasing Big Macs. The reason is simply because McDonald’s sells a lot more Big Macs than it does Bacon Clubhouse sandwiches. Since they sell so many more Big Macs compared to Bacon Clubhouse sandwiches, it increase the odds of winning from 19,585,000 to 1 to 150,254,000 to 1. In fact, you have a better chance of winning $100,000 buying Bacon Clubhouse sandwiches (1 in 19,585,000) than you do one of the twenty $2,000 Target GiftCard Shopping Experience (1 in 28,916,633).