...at how much time I will burn sitting here playing Chicktionary, Spelling Bee, or the Word Slugger games. I've been reading this thread for a while but hadn't started playing until today...work blocks out any game sites (among hundreds of others) due to acceptable use policy, so I haven't had the oomph to sit at home and play online games after staring at a screen all day!
Now I'm all sorts of addicted. The anagram solver method for the word games is getting me going like crazy! I started today, and somehow surpasses 1,000 tickets...I'm at 1,600. It takes me about 70 seconds to complete a round of the word games (though sometimes I'm slowed from the bot killer, since I type so dang fast), so I figure in about 75 or so minutes I'm at 1,000 tickets.
After all the math, and if they really limit you to 1,000 tickets/day (like I said, I was over that in the hour I played from 4:30pm-5:45pm Mountain Time time frame), and one has the patience to play daily, a free basic economy RT ticket is 43 days of play, with is about 8 1/2 tickets per year. Pretty snazzy!
Now it's just a matter if I want to dump them in AA or DL!
(My parents town of MQT is serviced by NW and AA, though AA not as frequent)...but with the DL changeover, I'm debating. Really, I'm trying to see my options at what the lowest amount of miles for a ticket is AA seems to have cheaper international flight redemption, but DL cheaper domestic. Hmmm...
The reason you were able to go over the 1000t/d limit is that you were playing during rollover. For some odd reason, a new "day" begins in the early evening, US time. You used up some tickets from one day and then from the following one. The game will tell you when you hit the limit: you can keep playing, but you'll earn no more tickets. If you quit playing, you won't be allowed to start a new game until the next day begins. You shouldn't play after you max out because you'd be burning the theoretically limited supply of puzzles for no reward.
I figured I hit at rollover time. I've read most of this thread, but when I went back to look at what time rollover was, it was hard to remember which of the 122 pages it was on. I couldn't find it on the site, either.
Now I realize that I didn't hit my max for yesterday since I was on rollover, but at least it will all about equal out in the end and I'll still make the 2,500 mile mark in about 5 days Such is life...at least I don't have to put quite as much effort into it this afternoon.
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This is such a long thread and i could have thousands of tickets in the time it takes to read every post. sorry if this is a duplicate
My question is how many people have been marked as cheaters by using tools such as anagram solvers and lost their points or denied redemption? I earned 400 points in one sitting using it now i'm worried that i'm totally banned and wont be able to redem any of the points I've earned on my own.
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CD, I also started playing fairly recently, and I asked the same question. The basics seem to be as follows:
1) MS doesn't care how fast you solve individual puzzles. That's what the bot-stoppers ("Captcha," etc) are for. I don't use artificial aids of any kind and I have to consciously pause a few beats on every grid because otherwise I'll trip the bot-stoppers. I am assured this is not a problem.
2) MS doesn't seem to care if you max out your points every day. Keep in mind that the whole point of LSC is to raise their search count. They WANT you to play because every clue you solve is a search click.
3) What they DON'T seem to like is multiple accounts feeding miles into one FFP. Their fulfullment company has allegedly taken negative action on people who do that.
A lot of the concerns date from when, as far as I can tell, the points limits were either higher or there were none at all. That's when the bots got really obnoxious and really expensive for the fulfillment company. If their numbers are seen as "tainted" by bot-generated searches, MS's ad rates for LS are suspect, and even at the low rate MS probably pays for FFM, they can't afford to give away thousands a day to individuals.
...3) What they DON'T seem to like is multiple accounts feeding miles into one FFP. Their fulfullment company has allegedly taken negative action on people who do that...
Who has stated this has happened? I've seen several posts from people who've successfully fed from multiple accounts. I must have missed the posts from those who have had something negative result from this. I would like to know what happened.
Who has stated this has happened? I've seen several posts from people who've successfully fed from multiple accounts. I must have missed the posts from those who have had something negative result from this. I would like to know what happened.
Same here. I've seen posts and heard of numerous people using a few LSC accounts to feed into one FF account without any issues. Why would they care where the points go?
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Who has stated this has happened? I've seen several posts from people who've successfully fed from multiple accounts. I must have missed the posts from those who have had something negative result from this. I would like to know what happened.
The problem is multiple overlapping requests from different LSC accounts. I have heard mention of a few people being successful, but I have heard from far more who got nothing when their requests should have posted on the same day.
I have no problem using different accounts to redeem miles at the same day, as long as each redemption request has a specific comfirmation number. It usually takes two weeks for the miles to post (AA Tue!) and I've received emails confirming the deposition one day after.
I got to know LSC thanks to this thread from late June and played really hard in August. So far, I've reedemed 67.5k AA miles while 37.5k posted. I am now thinking how to use these miles
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The problem is multiple overlapping requests from different LSC accounts. I have heard mention of a few people being successful, but I have heard from far more who got nothing when their requests should have posted on the same day.
Same here. I've seen posts and heard of numerous people using a few LSC accounts to feed into one FF account without any issues. Why would they care where the points go?
It's a Flexicon thing. Doesn't matter how fast or slow you type in the solutions, what matters is how quickly you hit the solve button. You may as well hit the solve after every word. See Post 1442 in this thread for an explanation.
As for the Captcha, I just hit enter until there is one I can read. Doesn't seem to matter how many you refuse.
Same situation I'm having. Every four games, one of the captchas with the colored backgrounds pops up and it usually is the same one that I entered in last time and when I enter the code, it doesn't release the game. I end up closing the window and opening the game up again. Anyone else seeing this happen?
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I have no problem using different accounts to redeem miles at the same day, as long as each redemption request has a specific comfirmation number. It usually takes two weeks for the miles to post (AA Tue!) and I've received emails confirming the deposition one day after.
I got to know LSC thanks to this thread from late June and played really hard in August. So far, I've reedemed 67.5k AA miles while 37.5k posted. I am now thinking how to use these miles
Well, if it works for you, then great. However, I know of way too many people who have had all overlapping requests rejected, so I'm not going to risk it. It's just as easy waiting a week and redeeming on the second account.
Well, if it works for you, then great. However, I know of way too many people who have had all overlapping requests rejected, so I'm not going to risk it. It's just as easy waiting a week and redeeming on the second account.
What, exactly, happened? Did the requests simply not go through, with no points deducted, or did they lose points? Could it not simply have been related to the problems others have occasionally had in redeeming for miles?
In any case, I didn't redeem more than two awards a day from my single account, just in case, and they did all go through eventually. There's merit in being overly cautious.
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What, exactly, happened? Did the requests simply not go through, with no points deducted, or did they lose points? Could it not simply have been related to the problems others have occasionally had in redeeming for miles?
In any case, I didn't redeem more than two awards a day from my single account, just in case, and they did all go through eventually. There's merit in being overly cautious.
On 3 separate occasions when I had redemptions from 2 accounts in the same week, none of the miles arrived, but the tickets were deducted. Subsequent redemptions from the accounts worked, so I do not believe I was marked as cheating. In discussing the issue, several others have repeated the same circumstances.
I've been reading this thread for a while but hadn't started playing until today...work blocks out any game sites (among hundreds of others) due to acceptable use policy, so I haven't had the oomph to sit at home and play online games after staring at a screen all day!
AA seems to have cheaper international flight redemption, but DL cheaper domestic. Hmmm...
