1) I think the people who have earned 21,000 tickets in a week have nothing better to do. I pick it up when I can (kinda like flyertalk). I am curently up to about 3500 points, and have played off and on the past week.
Actually, they're most likely botting the games, which is against the rules but MS doesn't seem to care too much. Live Search has been around for about 8 months, although the miles conversion is new.
Just tried it yesterday, thanks OP for the heads-up, and since I'm a x-word freak anyway I watched football and played simultaneously. Not "net" loss of time...
We'll see if anything comes of this, they make sure they tell you repeatedly that your award of miles is subject to review and that essentially if they suspect you've used a bot they won't reward you the miles.
Now I do 4 or 5 x-words everyday b/4 bed, so these were unbelievably easy and msn probably thought I was a bot the entire time b/c it kept sending me the authentication code page at least once per puzzle. It seems like any time they don't want to pay your reward they'll just claim you used a bot and that's that. Seems like they've learned a lot about one-sided reward programs from the airlines.
Just tried it yesterday, thanks OP for the heads-up, and since I'm a x-word freak anyway I watched football and played simultaneously. Not "net" loss of time...
Now I do 4 or 5 x-words everyday b/4 bed, so these were unbelievably easy and msn probably thought I was a bot the entire time b/c it kept sending me the authentication code page at least once per puzzle.
Glad to share, hope something comes of it. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Also, I keep getting the auth code page about every 3 or 4 puzzles. Well, nothing ventured nothing gained, right?
"2) Flexicon is the game that awards the most tickets in 1 game (25), and it actually goes pretty quickly. Every once in a while there will be something that stumps me and I will have to go away and come back. I would not call it hard. You also have clues and can always go to google if the particular one doesn't have a clue. Also, it's fun if you like that kinda thing (I do). They seem to add new puzzles daily, but I have worked all the puzzles currently available and had to wait until the next day (or whenever I got to it) to play again. I have played some of the others, they are okay, just not as rewarding."
OK, I open Flexicon, I do all 4 teeny interlocking puzzles, and that's it. No prompts for the next thing. Nothing. It just sits there, all done. At the top it says I've done 4% - so where is the other 96? I'm sure the answer is really obvious and I'll be really embarrassed, but I have no pride, I just need someone to tell me what to do.
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"2) Flexicon is the game that awards the most tickets in 1 game (25), and it actually goes pretty quickly. Every once in a while there will be something that stumps me and I will have to go away and come back. I would not call it hard. You also have clues and can always go to google if the particular one doesn't have a clue. Also, it's fun if you like that kinda thing (I do). They seem to add new puzzles daily, but I have worked all the puzzles currently available and had to wait until the next day (or whenever I got to it) to play again. I have played some of the others, they are okay, just not as rewarding."
OK, I open Flexicon, I do all 4 teeny interlocking puzzles, and that's it. No prompts for the next thing. Nothing. It just sits there, all done. At the top it says I've done 4% - so where is the other 96? I'm sure the answer is really obvious and I'll be really embarrassed, but I have no pride, I just need someone to tell me what to do.
hit the magnifying glass button next to each word.
This got me at first, too. You need to click on the little magnifying glass for each answer, to confirm you are right. (By the way, it also searches the 'net, which is the whole point in MSN's view.)
I'll give it a shot for a while... Chicktionary may be the fastest (wish I was a better typer) but not fun to me - Flexicon is more fun and challenging. I'll try to get to 4500 points for 2500 miles, unless I hear bad news here in the meantime.
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I missed the galss too at first. It said I finished all the puzzles last night, but tonight it is giving me more and they are all the same as yesterday, so very easy tonight.
Also for decent fast points, crosswire is pretty easy to do while watching tv also.
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anyone having a problem using Firefox with live search club games? seems after some games I get an error message - cannot connect to server?
Every time I try to go to club.live.com (on Firefox) it reverts to the MSN home page. If I use the search there, the same thing happens. No error message, though. I AM on an antiquated MAC system, but it worked fine yesterday.
