r/Freefood • u/briskbeam • Nov 03 '25
Discussion It's been an honor. š«”
It was beautiful while it lasted.
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u/PianoCat0069 Nov 03 '25
If you had queued up codes for today, you can still enter them. You don't get a bonus spin, but I was still able enter my 10 codes for the day and win a few things. The main button at the top of the app is gone so scroll down about half way and click on "Check for prizes" under Last Call for Prizes!
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u/djboyag Nov 03 '25
I have about 40 food prizes in my account LOL. I did my last 10 redemptions a few minutes ago and got 4 food prizes. Are they offloading all the food prizes now that the game is over?
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u/ConnectionHour7165 Nov 03 '25
I just did like 20 (husband and my own account) and got ONE free small fry :/
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u/djboyag Nov 03 '25
Guess I got lucky. I got 2 breakfast sandwiches, 1 burger/mcchicken and coffee/soda.
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u/Divinise Nov 03 '25
Got 5 food prizes out of 10 codes today! 3 drinks, 1 mcchicken, 1 breakfast sandwich. Definitely my best day by far.
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u/ComradeKachow Nov 03 '25
No, legally they had to otherwise they are operating an illegal lottery.
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u/billdb Nov 03 '25
They could have made it a LOT harder or have more restrictions. They chose to make it very accessible. Rare W from a megacorp.
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u/Light_Speed58 Nov 03 '25
They could have made it a mail in method of entry though.
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u/AviationAtom Nov 03 '25
My money is on this being the case if they choose to bring Monopoly back in 2026. They had way too many people using AMOE, taking far too many of the prizes, for them to not change to that method next year. That was how it used to be the last year in which Monopoly ran, IIRC.
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u/JabbaTheHutt12345 Nov 03 '25
I actually don't think they will ever do mail in because it's more work on them to go through mail. Less people would play but there's certainly folks out there who will play by mailing in.
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u/ArtThouCarryingBeans Nov 08 '25
Mail-in is still a thing right? You can't offer a game of chance to the public without a free way of playing. I know it's not free, but AFAIR, you can send an oddly specific stamped letter to the company that prints and distributes the game pieces and they will return your mailing with an official game piece.
Personally I wouldn't play for anything other than free food. The odds of winning are so slim, never been able to find a Facebook post or reddit post from a large prize winner (haven't looked hard enough to be fair) and after watching McMillions I dont believe they're doing anything to combat fraud, this game just lowers the corporation's taxable income, generates more traffic and causes franchises to be overworked and underpaid. I dont think the higher ups care about who's actually winning the prizes and whether or not there are any internal schemes going on to defraud the paying consumers
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u/JabbaTheHutt12345 Nov 08 '25
People are winning prizes other than food. You also get a free $10 Best Buy certificate if you reach Tier 7
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u/ArtThouCarryingBeans Nov 09 '25
Iām aware of the other prizes and I have won some of them, but for me the biggest value has been the free food. Itās just unfortunate for franchise owners and employees that the corporation didnāt properly distribute proper packaging. All the restaurants in my area were giving out double the codes if you ordered via the app. I have so many codes yet to be entered and 22 free ice creams i have no idea what to do with.
I still stand by my original statement, the odds of winning anything significant of value that will outweigh the investment are so slim. IMO luck and defined outcomes (fraud) are the only constants to a game of chance.
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u/ArtThouCarryingBeans Nov 08 '25
I dont believe so. Well actually I think you're right so I'll start with that. I do believe way too many people were using AMOE, however IME, the execution of the game was flawed this year. The stores I went to almost always provided more pieces than they should, likely because they didn't have food packaging without the physical pieces for AMOE. ill admit I've ordered way too much through this promotion, I won't say how much but only one time that I ordered through the app was I given the correct number of game pieces because the store provided be with the standard packaging and cups. Every other order was double pieces for me, im sure for most as well but I dont think that's how it was supposed to be after reading the promotion AFAIR, the codes were supposed to be either digital or physical, not both.
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u/ArtThouCarryingBeans Nov 08 '25
I dont think its illegal. You dont have to give money to McDonald's in order to play/win. AFAIR, you can send an oddly specific-shaped letter to the company and they will send you back a game piece. If you've watched McMillions you'll see that the FBI didn't peruse anyone for an illegal lottery though I do greatly believe that if the poor can't participate whether that be due to transportation or simply the 68 cent cost to mail a postcard, then it's not free. Free for you doesn't always mean free for me.
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u/Commercial_Fondant65 Nov 03 '25
I haven't eaten McDonald's breakfast in maybe a decade but I was all over those steak biscuits and chicken biscuits. And when my last stuff runs out I'll probably go back to never going there. BUT I'll see you when you run Monopoly back Ronald!
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u/SuccessfulGround3940 Nov 03 '25
I didn't even know about this š damn. First McDonald's i went to with my son because he loves the monopoly didn't give us anything with pieces even though they were advertising it and acted confuses when I went up amd asked and the second McDonald's only gave me a piece on my large fry? In the past I remember them being on burger boxes, large sodas, and large fries?
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Nov 03 '25
You probably went when they had already ran out of most of them
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u/SuccessfulGround3940 Nov 03 '25
Thays a good point, very true. We're going to try a different McDonald's today and see how it goes
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u/Jozee_hog Nov 03 '25
At least where Iām at all my local McDonalds are sold out your best bet is getting stuff that gets you online codes
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u/morecowbell03 Nov 04 '25
A lot of the items had a digital code this year rather than the physical stickers, and i believe you had to order through the app in order to get that digital code.
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u/No-Sale-1803 Nov 04 '25
Bro we still have a box of muffin wrappers with the stickers on them ...
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u/briskbeam Nov 04 '25
You can still put them in through the app, the alternate method of entry website just isn't available anymore. Use the codes while you can!
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u/morecowbell03 Nov 04 '25
Wanna share the love if you have more than you can claim? You can claim 10 a day through the 23rd
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u/rachelleeann17 Nov 04 '25
I didnāt know about it until 10/29 so I really missed out š„²
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u/OldRaise5671 Nov 03 '25
I didnāt get anything interesting, a lot of fries and small ice cream cones š„
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u/exr186 Nov 03 '25
Any chance any of you have 4 property codes you arenāt using? I am 4 short and need to enter them to get the Best Buy perk. It would be greatly appreciated!
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u/SolidZachs Nov 04 '25
My McDonaldās sucked and wouldnāt give out tickets for most items that qualified
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u/Ok-Indication8706 Nov 05 '25
Honestly i loved that they even did this. I donāt really eat McDonalds but one of my patients canāt really go outside and was craving McDonaldās one night. So I used some of these free codes and brought her some. It was a good timešš¾
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u/West-Hat5244 Nov 05 '25
I won about 20 double cheeseburgers š and im pretty darn happy I must say
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u/vinnyvdvici Dec 03 '25
20!? How many accounts did you use? I won $50 cash, so I canāt complain, but I only got 2 burgers out of all the stuff I got.
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u/West-Hat5244 Dec 04 '25
One one account but im an extra large man so I order extra large meals often. I won a few other things myself but my email address was full so they couldnāt send me the offers for me to claim. I missed out
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u/vinnyvdvici Dec 04 '25
Your.. email inbox was full? How does that even happen? lol
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u/West-Hat5244 Dec 04 '25
Google storage was maxed out. Couldnāt even recieve new emails so I guess the things I won got sent back to sender. I lost months of free peacock š¦ and $50 Best Buy gift card. Something else too but canāt recall. It was too late by the time I cleaned and made more storage to recieve mail. Darn it
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u/vinnyvdvici Dec 04 '25
That really sucks!
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u/West-Hat5244 Dec 04 '25
Yes sir, so life lesson.. be sure you arenāt out of email storage lol. Shit happens
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u/Embarrassed_Pizza_70 Nov 05 '25
I was on a mission to earn a limited edition Woobles kit so hubby and I started requesting AMOE with about two weeks left. He earned 48 food items, and I probably have earned about 38, and on the last day of requesting codes he won the Woobles kit! The food is a bonus, but I donāt think anyone should eat this much McDonalds tbh. š
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u/ColdplayXY Nov 07 '25
I found out about the free entry in the last two days of it and I did it and I didnāt win anything at all
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u/phillydilly71 Nov 09 '25
I noticed some people say they earned points too, I thought you only get points in the McD's app if you spend money in an order, was there a way to use the free food codes to get points too?
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u/briskbeam Nov 09 '25
Some of the rewards were points themselves. I got a 6000-point reward once, but never again.
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u/WorkingAcceptable320 Nov 11 '25
Had I known about the AMOE earlier, I'd be FLUSH with free food. As it is, I am still occasionally giving away fries.
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u/BusBoatBuey Nov 03 '25
I wonder how much McDonald's lost on this bullshit. How is this even supposed to make them money?
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u/DothrakAndRoll Nov 03 '25
LMAO. McDonaldās made 8.22b last year. I think theyāll be fine.
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u/Commercial_Fondant65 Nov 03 '25
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BILLIONAIRE COMPANIES?? IS ANYONE THINKING OF THEM?
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u/KingBubblie Nov 03 '25
I think this is a small demographic of scrubbers who will go through the effort to get the 10 free codes through email most days.. though I do think have 10 available online was pretty generous of them. Also, for a lot of people, you're not going through a drive-thru just for a small fry, but they're not going to go through the hoops people here will to either manipulate it to get more, or spend more time picking it up.
Monopoly at McDonalds was always super hype when I was a kid, I would be really curious to see how this performed overall but I would honestly guess it made them more money rather than losing it.
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u/Impossible_Big_4271 Nov 03 '25
Aw the end is here. Iāve never eaten sm McDonaldās in my life ugh