Shop, Play, Win!® MONOPOLY Hack 2.2.28 + Redeem Codes

I didn’t have any bugs with the app like some others, but my roommate summed up this year’s version of the Monopoly promotion perfectly, after watching me open and scan these codes for 90 minutes: “What a waste of customers’ time!”

Prior years, the promotion was a nice little collection game. You had a gameboard, you knew what to collect, and there was some digital integration for bonus content but it wasn’t everything.

No longer does this feel like a fun little reward for being a regular shopper: it’s WORK!

You can’t enter multiple codes at once, the buttons aren’t all available on one screen so you have to constantly scroll to enter more codes, and you have to play a pointless chance game that gives you the illusion of choice but really manifests itself as 4 extra inputs. On top of THAT you have to tear each of these things open without damaging them.

If you want to get value from your Monopoly tickets—and spend say, $150—you are conscripting yourself to an hour of free time post-shopping of using this dinky app at least.

Simplify this process, automatically load them onto your account, SOMETHING. This was truly excrutiating for the little value I got back from it. I had to have spend at least $2000 at Safeway during this promotion, and felt like I lost far more in time than I earned in cash.

This app must’ve been designed by a 6 year old. No self respecting app designer would claim this. An absolute MESS of an app. The functionality is terrible! The stupid pointless match game that shows up every time you scan a card? A colossal waste of time and annoying EVERY SINGLE TIME. If you could scan multiple cards at once everything would be so much easier. Also the fact that you can only enter one entry sweepstakes at a time?? Are you kidding? I had over 300 tokens and there’s absolutely no way I’m gonna spend all that time entering 300 times for a cost of 1 token each time. Who came up with this honestly?!

Also the fact that they've reverted to entirely digital is shameful! My elderly parents used to love playing this game when it was a paper board they would give you, now they have absolutely no idea what to do. Acme should be ashamed of themselves, they must know no one wants to waste their time entering all these stupid tickets in. Absolutely disgusted and will no longer be playing or shopping at Acme.

I remember when I moved to the Bay Area my housemate and I played monopoly that year and we thought it was amusing but grew frustrated with the great effort involved in figuring it out and keeping track of the little pieces of paper. So I’ve ignored it for years. But this year I opened some and realized there was an app. I had a little trouble with the login, but I made an account on their website, and then I was able to scan in my tickets, and it was quite painless. I could imagine kids and parents having a lot of fun with it, getting to scan bar codes like a checkout person, which honestly is still like a little magic trick that happens everyday at the supermarket. Thanks for making this app, and I hope you keep working on the bugs, but it has real promise and is now a fun little addition to shopping.

When I first started playing the game this year the app worked fine. Awkwardly built, but it worked at least. The second time I went to scan more tickets, I became stuck in an endless circle and never got past the initial login. The third time I tried, I got logged in, but just got a screen showing a list of the participating brands and could not enter any codes. Now, I can enter codes, but only manually. There is no scanning option. I have too many tickets to be willing to spend hours entering all of the codes manually. I’ve deleted and reinstalled the app multiple times. Most frustrating of all is that there is no customer support! I’m sure that if I knew how to Completely remove the app I could reinstall it and maybe it would work.

Please provide a way to get tech help. I’ll be very annoyed and disappointed if I wasted all of this time collecting game pieces, opening them, and trying to get the app to work for nothing but I am about to give up!

Last year I downloaded this app and there were a few things that were irritating about it. First thing was I had to log in every single time I opened the app, which was fine till one day I tried to log in and it said my account didn’t exist. So I thought well maybe I’m being stupid and typing it in right- tried few more times- searched for my name and stuff.... didn’t find me. I created the same exact profile, same number, everything. Lost all of my tokens (62 tokens! I was saving...) and obviously I threw away those papers. So I stopped playing game... heck I stopped going Safeway cause I didn’t even deal with it (yes I was being a baby about it.)
So this year seems to be good, I don’t have to log in every time and nothing weird seems to be wrong. I thought I would write a somewhat good review cause I noticed there was a lot of bad ones.

I better call the boss and tell them I quit because I won at the game of Monopoly!!!

Big promotions all over the grocery store! Tags all over items making it difficult to figure if something is on sale or just attached to this gimmick... The app is pretty shoddy for a large grocery chain... the scannable link didn’t work and i had to go directly to apple apps and search for it. You also have to sign up for the other Safeway app to have any of this work.

I spent $500 in groceries and got 60 tickets. 32 were dumb coupons. 20 were scan to play. 5 were other gimmicky offers and 3 were “instant winners”! 1 loaf of french bread, 1 sack of flour, 1 can of stewed tomatoes.
Of the “scan to play” rewards I seen I think the $1 off your next purchase was the best offer. I won probably 5 16 oz bottles of water but still have to pay crv and tax.!!! I better call the boss and tell them I quit because I won at the game of Monopoly!!!

All in All downloading the app, opening all the entries and trying to get the camera to scan the barcodes probably took me 2 hours. If I do it again I will open the entries toss the coupons I don’t want and then just focus on the scan to play tags. I still have to try and figure out how to correctly redeem the “Prizes” it’s not cut and dry go up to the check stand and get them or show the winning ticket...

iPhone 6+ = Works fine
This is way, way, way easier than only dealing with tickets by hand.
You do need to either sign up for the app with an email and password that you create.
Alternatively, if you already have a login for the store app of a store that is running the promotion (like Vons for example), you can sign in using the email and password for that app.
Using the app, you can scan the small QR codes on the back. That records and tracks the pieces you got in each ticket.
Contrary to other recent reviews, I saw no error tracking pieces ever made by the app.
Remember that the app only tracks your pieces. You will still need to keep them to turn in if you win something. So make sure you hang onto your pieces until the event is done.
Also, you can use the app to scan the entry bar/letter codes for the 2nd Chance Sweepstakes.
Each 2nd Chance scanned gives you a random reward of 0-many “tokens”.
You can then use your tokens to buy chances at winning other prizes. You can also turn in tokens in order to claim grocery rewards like a couple of dollars worth of groceries or individual items, like a free donut, tinfoil, etc.

This app is simply a website, which would be convenient enough for quickly entering the (god-aweful) game piece codes, but the site/app has been completely broken this year: Log-in is never saved, site freezes/is unresponsive much more often than it actually working, and if you can get as far as the QR scanner, it doesn’t seem to work unless you have great, natural light (Seems to have trouble if an overhead light is casting glare on the game piece). Terrible. Not worth playing this year if they don’t fix their multitude of issues. The alternative - the physical game board - has its own significant issues, where I don’t think there was any quality control involved. I think their policy is “If it IS broke, don’t fix it,” because they’ve been using their completely non-sensical 5-digit codes with zero actual references to Monopoly for years! Don’t waste your customers’ time on this garbage.

Just started ShopPlayWin with 4 tickets and won a package of organic coffee which would normally cost me $10-$12 (depending on the brand) in a grocery store. Plus I won a free token but I had to go online to find out how to use the token because I could not find the information on the big game board. Unfortunately I had already tossed the scannable barcodes on the ticket apparently necessary for the tokens since I was using the board and had not yet downloaded a scan barcode app. I figure the whole process is a numbers game and the game is entertaining once you start. Besides, who does not like winning a free prize? I am looking forward to seeing what else I might win. I say keep a positive attitude and go for it. If it becomes annoying or too tedious you can alway stop.

I have participated in almost every time this game was out and have never won anything other then like a free game ticket or 50 cents off something...and I was a little shocked at the fact that now there only 2 tickets per “game piece” and I only received 5 pieces for spending $100?!! What happened to 1 (with 4 pieces) per $10? I’m going to play since I have the pieces anyway and you can’t win if you don’t try! BUT seeing LESS tickets for MORE money AND only 2 tickets per “game piece”!? It’s very discouraging considering actually winning something big is already next to impossible...they just made it so much harder :( just my opinion. And I will not go and spend a bunch of money I didn’t plan to spend just for tickets, especially with this apocalypse going on...good luck everyone!