Does anyone win McDonald's Monopoly? Chances of winning big revealed

McDonald's Monopoly finished in the UK back in May, but has now started in its fast food restaurants across Australia. The popular contest, available at participating McDonald's restaurants around the world, offers customers a chance to collect stickers and win special prizes. The top prizes include everything from video game consoles, to brand-new cars. However in an article for The Conversation, Sarah Belet, a postgraduate student from Monash University, and Jennifer Flegg, a senior lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Melbourne, crunched the numbers to find out what chance McDonald's diners really have of winning. They found the chance of someone bagging a top prize is just 1 in 136 million – which is about as unlikely as winning at the EuroMillions jackpot.