Surprise! In France, there are 80 Monopoly sets for sale with real money

If you pass go, you might collect a lot more than $200: To celebrate 80 years in France, Hasbro has released 80 special Monopoly sets that replace colorful faux money with actual euros.

One box will have an entire drawer full of money — 20,580 euros, or about $24,650, while 69 sets will have five 10-euro notes and five 20-euro notes, and another 10 will have five 20-euro notes, two 50-euro notes, and one 100-euro bill. "We wanted to do something unique," Florence Gaillard, brand manager at Hasbro France, told The Guardian. "When we asked our French customers, they told us they wanted to find real money in their Monopoly boxes."

So, in a clandestine operation that took place in the small town of Creutzwald where games are packed before being shipped, euros were dispersed to 80 different classic, junior, electronic, and "vintage" editions. "It wasn't easy to get the notes," Gaillard said. "They had to be escorted discreetly." Monopoly is turning 80 in the United States this year as well, but there’s no word yet if Hasbro will do the same thing with dollars.

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