Show HN: A website for exchanging McDonald's Monopoly stickers
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Show HN: A website for exchanging McDonald's Monopoly stickers
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Re: Show HN: A website for exchanging McDonald's Monopoly stickers
#2Hi everyone! A fellow classmate and I have exams approaching, so we thought that the best way to procrastinate will be to build something. That's why we hacked Monopoly Exchange quickly (in about 2 days) to allow people to exchange stickers in the McDonald's Monopoly game and we are interested in your opinion!
Re: Show HN: A website for exchanging McDonald's Monopoly stickers
#3This idea is presumably based upon the notion that there is an even distribution of the relevant monopoly "tokens" across a given market.
Think about that a little - in terms of the potential prize liability for MacDs.
The normal way of controlling such (to all intents) lotteries is to have a few "golden tickets" capable of winning the more interesting prizes that are only dropped into the market in very small numbers - sufficient only to match the pool of prizes.
My experience of such marketing schemes (now rather historic I will admit) is that many prizes remain unclaimed - but giving them away was not the purpose of the exercise anyway.
Still the exercise was a worthy one - and it should be fun watching everyone looking for exactly the same missing tokens.
Re: Show HN: A website for exchanging McDonald's Monopoly stickers
#4This idea is presumably based upon the notion that there is an even distribution of the relevant monopoly "tokens" across a given market. Think about that a little - in terms of the potential prize liability for MacDs. The normal way of controlling such (to all intents) lotteries is to have a few "golden tickets" capable of winning the more interesting prizes that are only dropped into the market in very small number…
I agree with you! My guess was that there's probably a very small number of stickers with very high demand, too. But really, we wanted to create something that people could potentially be helpful to people while not feeling bad that we are not revising :)
Re: Show HN: A website for exchanging McDonald's Monopoly stickers
#5You might get a spike in traffic when the game is on, so consider making one for the US version. But otherwise it will only be useful in the niche case where someone with a rare winning token got in on the last days and couldn't buy more to find the common matching tokens.
Re: Show HN: A website for exchanging McDonald's Monopoly stickers
#6You might get a spike in traffic when the game is on, so consider making one for the US version. But otherwise it will only be useful in the niche case where someone with a rare winning token got in on the last days and couldn't buy more to find the common matching tokens.
Yeah, we realize that. As for the US version - the template is applicable to any country as long as the game rules stay unchained. Of course, we would need to check that.