How cool would it be if Monopoly game sets contained real cash instead of the famous, multi-hued fake currency? Well, some Monopoly players in France are about to find out.
For the iconic board game's 80th anniversary, game-maker Hasbro has hidden real money in at least 80 game sets to be sold in France.
"We wanted to do something unique," Hasbro France brand manager Florence Gaillard told The Guardian. "When we asked our French customers, they told us they wanted to find real money in their Monopoly boxes."
Only one fortunate individual will win the major jackpot: A complete real bank of 20,580 euros (about $23,268). The 79 other game sets will contain hundreds of euros mixed in with the usual fake bills.
The boxes that contain real cash will bulge slightly and be a different weight than the original sets, according to the Guardian.
Hasbro says its capitalism/real estate wheeling-and-dealing game is available in 111 countries and in 43 languages, and there are 500,000 sets sold each year in France alone.
The 80 lucky sets are hidden within 30,000 boxes of different types of the game: classic, junior, electronic and "vintage."
