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People actually do win things, but mostly stuff like modest grocery-shopping sprees and various gift cards.
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Did I win big bucks then? No, because there are a bazillion of the evil little tickets given out at stores across the country and only a handful of winning ones for big prizes. The store ran this Mephistophelian version of Monopoly last year too. Monopoly, lures innocent grocery shoppers into the addictive collect-and-win game going on at Safeway stores. ANGELA HILL/STAFF I’ve spent the last 27.5 minutes carefully tearing apart those little game tickets they give you at checkout, sorting them by their zombie-brain-eating number system (8C95E, 8V26B and so on …) then licking them like stamps to stick on the paper game board (instead of Baltic Avenue and Park Place, it has images of things like Skippy peanut butter and Bounce dryer sheets), but the stickers taste like dryer lint and they don’t stick very well so I’ve Scotch-taped them in place but, having finally just now read the game rules, it seems using tape or glue will VOID YOUR ENTRY!! Omg, omg, I’ll have to start over. Sure enough, the store chain is running that evil, diabolical, tortuous, infernal Monopoly contest again, and I’ve been sucked in, mortgaging my soul for the chance to win $1 million or a $10,000 family vacation or at least a 25-cent coupon for Heinz ketchup.
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And as I passed through the deli section, I spied with my little eye a banner featuring the Monopoly guy - you know, the cute little cartoon fella with the mustache and top hat whose name has evolved through the years from Rich Uncle to Rich Uncle Pennybags and then to Rich Uncle Milburn Pennybags, although some just call him Mr. I stopped at Safeway today to get olives, drain cleaner and three bars of 72 percent cacao Ghirardelli chocolate.