McDonald’s Monopoly 2025 – How to win
For many, McDonald's Monopoly is a nice way to win an extra free side with your meal. But for some, it's a chance to win big prizes such as a free electric car, holiday or £100k!
Every time McDonald's Monopoly pops up, the whole country seems to go into a mad frenzy – and students get especially competitive.
So, you'll probably already know that it's a competition where you collect stickers from special menu items in order to win a range of prizes. You need to be 18+ to take part.
If you're anything like us, you probably use McDonald's Monopoly as an excuse to eat far too many fries in one month. But while you're at it, you may as well play to win too!
In classic Save the Student style, we've done the research on how to maximise your chances of winning.
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What's in this guide?
When is McDonald's Monopoly 2025?
It's not yet clear when the McDonald's Monopoly scheme will run in 2025.
In 2024, it ran from 4th September 2024 until 15th October 2024.
There were some huge prizes last year and it's likely to be the same in 2025. We go through them below, along with tips on how to increase your chances of winning.
What can you win with McDonald's Monopoly?
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Often, there's so much you can win with McDonald's Monopoly – and so many ways to win it all – that things can get a little confusing. But, before you start discarding your stickers after eating your burger, make sure you read our simplified tips below.
Put simply, there are usually four ways to win at McDonald's Monopoly:
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Instant win prizes
This is your best chance of winning. Plus, who doesn't want free food?
These are pretty self-explanatory. Just take the peel-off sticker that says something like "hash brown or cheesy bacon flatbread" or "Big Mac or McChicken Sandwich" (or whatever else) to the till before the expiry date and enjoy your free food.
There are millions available, so your chances of getting one of these were pretty good.
Among other things, it's possible to win vouchers for chicken nuggets, hash browns, apple pies, burgers, fries and plenty more.
There have even been some non-food goodies up for grabs (like cash, cinema tickets and a McDonald's Gold Card), and some of the property set prizes (listed below) have also been available via instant win, including the wireless earbuds and the holiday.
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Online prizes
If you find a property sticker during the McDonald's Monopoly, you can also win online prizes. Simply scan the sticker or enter the codes in your McDonald's app. You have an extra chance to win with the Digital Peel every time you add a property to your app.
In 2024, you could win between £5 – £100 in cash, or some non-cash prizes like gift cards or food vouchers to use at McDonald's. But it also includes big prizes like £100,000 in cash or a MINI electric car!
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McDonald's Gold Card
This is technically one of the digital prizes, but it's so good that we thought it deserved its own point.
As part of McDonald's Monopoly 2024, there was a chance to win a McDonald's Gold Card.
McDonald's gave away 2,000 Gold Cards as part of the Monopoly promotion last year. If you win one, you're entitled to a free Maccy's meal once a week, every week for a whole year.
One Save the Student reader was previously lucky enough to win a Gold Card in the first week of the Monopoly promotion and kindly shared the pictures you can see above. So it really is possible to find this most coveted of prizes!
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Property 'set' prizes
We all know that in real Monopoly, once you've bought all properties of one particular colour, you get to double the rent you charge for them. But collecting a complete set in McDonald's Monopoly can be even more lucrative.
However, don't think that, just because you have two of a certain colour, you're definitely on to a winner. There's usually one property per set that is rarer than the others. If you see any of these on your McDonald's meal, keep hold of them!
Rare McDonald's Monopoly stickers
As a guideline, we have previously understood these to be the rare McDonald's Monopoly stickers:
- Stations: Liverpool St Station – £200 train credit with TrainPal (2,010 available)
- Brown: Old Kent Road – free McDonald's medium Extra Value Meal or Big Flavour Wrap meal (2,050,000 available)
- Light blue: Euston Road – £100 Virgin Experience Days voucher (5,650 available)
- Pink: Northumberland Avenue – Hisense TV and Soundbar provided by Currys (600 available)
- Orange: Marlborough Street – JBL audio bundle (205 available)
- Red: Strand – Merlin annual pass for four (235 available)
- Yellow: Coventry Street – £2,000 Jet2holiday (80 available)
- Green: Bond Street – A MINI Electric car (21 available)
- Dark blue: Mayfair – £100,000 cash (5 available).
As mentioned, though, these are just intended as guidelines as we have been unable to confirm the 2025 rare stickers with McDonald's.
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Mayfair Monday
In 2024, McDonald's Monopoly introduced Mayfair Monday. This gave the opportunity to win £20,000 every Monday throughout the promotion except for 14th October.
To have a chance of winning, you had to peel on the pack, and then peel again in the app on a Monday (any time of the day).
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Mr Monopoly Bonus Reward
Another way to win in 2024 was the Mr Monopoly Bonus Reward.
You can collect towards winning by getting property codes from physical game pieces and entering them in the app. These don't include properties banked through the Community Chest, Bank or Swap features.
To win, you'd need a lot of property codes (30!). If you do enter that many, you'll win a Mr Monopoly Bonus Reward and 1,500 points for MyMcDonald's Rewards.
To be eligible, you had to be signed up to the MyMcDonald's Rewards scheme and all property codes must be scanned by 29th October. You can also only win a maximum of one Mr Monopoly Bonus Reward.
How can you increase your chances of winning?
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Pretty much the only way to increase your chances of winning prizes with McDonald's Monopoly is to get your hands on more stickers.
There are a couple of easy ways to do this (that don't involve buying hundreds of burgers).
Which McDonald's meals have the most Monopoly stickers?
If you want to get the maximum amount of stickers available, you might need to slightly game your usual order. Some McDonald's menu items are 100% sticker-free, so you'll want to avoid these if you're trying to win.
These were the food and drinks that come with stickers in 2024:
- Cold Cups (400ml and 500ml)
- Medium or large fries
- Chicken Selects (3 or 5)
- Philly Cheese Stack
- Chicken Big Mac
- Large salad tray
- Cheese Sharebox
- McPlant
- McSpicy
- McCrispy
- Mozzarella Dipper bag
- Blended Ice (300ml and 400ml)
- Core McFlurry
- Deli wraps
- Veggie wraps.
How many Monopoly stickers does each McDonald's menu item have?
In 2024, each McDonald's Monopoly game piece label came with two game pieces.
Avoid Big Macs and regular McNuggets
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As much as it pains us to say this, if you want to get the maximum number of stickers for your buck, avoid Big Macs and McNuggets.
As the list above shows, Big Macs and McNuggets usually have no Monopoly stickers (except for chicken Big Macs).
Sure, the side and drink you go for might have some stickers. But given that pretty much every other main comes with stickers, we reckon it's worth sacrificing the old favourites while the Monopoly promotion is running.
Use McDonald's tricks and vouchers
Getting your meal for as little as possible is always a bonus. But can you combine McDonald's money-savers with the Monopoly promotion to get the most out of your meal? You bet you can.
You can use our sneaky trick to turn old McDonald's receipts into endless £2.99 Big Mac and fries. Of course, Big Macs don't come with any stickers, but the side could. And as you're getting a full meal (minus a drink) for £2.99, you can't really complain.
As we mentioned earlier, we also have an entire guide to getting to free and cheap McDonald's.
Womble to get more stickers
If you're an avid reader of Save the Student, you might have seen our guide to wombling – essentially using other people's rubbish to bag yourself free stuff. This trick works especially well during McDonald's Monopoly, as some people don't check for stickers.
Often people will only take the instant win food vouchers and leave behind the online codes or property stickers, so it's worth your while to take a look if you see any discarded McDonald's packaging.
It's best to be discrete about wombling for Monopoly stickers, and if staff do spot you having a womble it's probably a good idea to use any stickers you find at a different McDonald's – or even wait a while before coming back.
Wombling isn't illegal, but you could find that members of staff might take issue with it.
Sell or buy your stickers on eBay
This may not be totally worth it but you could get lucky.
It's highly unlikely that anyone will be selling the rare McDonald's Monopoly stickers on eBay, but you never know. If you are lucky enough to snag any rare stickers, you could use eBay to complete your set.
Check out our guides to buying and selling on eBay to find out how to get the best prices.
McDonald's Monopoly review
Our previous Head of Editorial, Laura Brown, tried the McDonald's Monopoly in 2023. Here's her review:
This was my first time trying McDonald's Monopoly and I was surprised by how easy it was to win free food. Although, I still don't think I'll try it again in future because I'm not fully convinced it is the best way to save money.
My partner and I got a McPlant, a Big Tasty with Bacon, medium fries and a raspberry McFlurry. Each food item had two game pieces each, and three of the four items came with instant-win stickers for freebies like chicken nuggets and a Big Mac. That might have been beginner's luck though!
The closest we got to completing a set of properties was yellow (we had one to start with and got another by swapping them on the app). But the one we were missing was Coventry Street which we knew was rare so we resisted the temptation to go back to McDonald's purely for the sake of trying to complete the set.
As we've essentially got another free small meal each from the instant-win stickers, it worked out well, but I don't plan to try it again. The burger was okay but I feel like I could cook a similar meal at home for less money. And as there's no guarantee you'll win freebies, I'd overall say it's not worth doing the Monopoly unless you'd be going to McDonald's anyway.
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