You can only earn a maximum of 1,000 tickets per day.
It probably gave me some credits cuz I signed up 2 hours ago and I now have 1105 points.. but given 1,000 points everyday, is it worth to play 43days straight to try to get a US Airways roundtrip?
It probably gave me some credits cuz I signed up 2 hours ago and I now have 1105 points.. but given 1,000 points everyday, is it worth to play 43days straight to try to get a US Airways roundtrip?
Based on the high possibility that the new rules are being enforced, I would say not.
I always fly United, but since UA is not in the Bing! list of prizes, I am thinking I'll go with a Star Alliance partner - US Airways - I could get 20 points every 3 minutes or less if I really want to -- but is it worth it?
I mean, I've heard that you can only redeem 2,500 miles once -- is that true? or can i keep playing and earn 4,300 points everyday (for 2,500 miles) and do it for 10 days and redeem it for 25,000 miles?
What do you guys think?
-j
I think your answer can be found in careful reading of both the rules and the anecdotal reports on this board, and then evaluating how much time you want to devote to earning mileage awards that may or may not materialize.
Rule: "Please note you may only order one of each prize item per household. For airline miles your household may receive no more than one of each quantity of airline miles that is offered in the prize mall (for example, your household may order one of each of the following, when offered in the prize mall: 100 airline miles; 500 airline miles; 1000 airline miles and 2500 airline miles)."
Reports: Some people have posted that they have received more than one of the same award per account or household. Several others, including myself, have had redemptions rejected and miles redeposited.
So the rules clearly state that your plan to obtain multiple 2,500 mile awards should not work. (And as pointed out by flashware, you can only earn 1,000 tickets per day, not 4,300, so it will take a lot longer to reach your ticket goal.) Based on the experience of others, you might sneak by with one or more awards. However, with some sort of enforcement process in place, even a flawed one, receiving ten awards would seem to be a long-shot, IMHO.
When 'picture this' still existed I would earn the maximum 1039 X 2 'tickets' per day. I let the points build up in hopes that MS would change their mind on the 1 prize type per household, however, nearly 7 months later; no such luck. I eventually capitulated and just got an XBOX and a Zune (both are nice add ons to my home theater). Still have nearly 150,000 tickets, but, don't really know what to use them on. I have pretty much stopped playing since 'bing' came and 'picture this' was removed. It takes way too long to earn the max tickets per day (now 1019 instead of 1039) on any of the other games, the anagram games (Chictionary, Word Slugger, Spelling Bee) being the only games where it is even possible to max out the tickets in a day IMO.
2500 Delta miles redeemed 5/4, listed as posted 16/JL (actually only showed up within the last couple of days).
thehawk75, I can max out on Flexicon and the various anagram games in less than 1-1/2 hours. I never tried Picture This.
Given the award slowness and possible non-issuance, I haven't spent any time on this for a few weeks, but I may dabble a little now and then.
'Picture This' was the ultimate ticket earner, despite lack of automation available for it. You could max out two accounts (as you had to play two accounts for 'Picture This') in about 25 minutes or less (2078 tickets total); Just put your screen into high res, make the two windows only just big enough to fit 9 pictures in it (and your match counter), put the windows close together, and make sure you have a good mouse
The anagram games would take about 1.5 hours (give or take) for the same two accounts.
Never really tried Flexicon to the extent that I could see it as a big/quick ticket earner.
Another 2500 AA miles have trickled in. I'll have to figure out which one it is, but that's two AA and one DL now since I started playing again in late April. Bad sign, though -- the DL went to a relative's account, but one redeemed the same day to another relative's account hasn't shown up yet a week later. So I'm not willing to put any time into this right now.
Edited to add: it's the next one from the same account, so it appears that they let me have two 2500 awards after the rules changed.
Picture This is back! It appears to be the same as before, allowing the same point-earning possibilities as before.
Awesome! Thanks for the information!
I had not visited 'club bing' in almost 2 months, I might be compelled to start playing again, since getting tickets will be almost 4X than the best of the anagram games.
Of course, it seems they're removing any and all decent prizes now, and with 1 prize type per household rule... the prizes really are getting lame now. They don't even offer the XBOX any more, not that I have faith in what they're giving us -- two of the XBOX's they sent me were defective (original order, and replacement), and, the warranty on the replacement seems to have expired 8 months prior to my having ordered any xbox from them. Obviously the higher ticket stuff they're giving out is refurbished junk IMO.
Looks like if you play the game 'too fast' for more than 2 games in a partner session, you will NOT be given the option to 'Play with same partner again'. Thus, you've got to either 'slow down', or have to keep trying to 'rematch' with yourself.
Overall, definitely removes the appeal of this game.
But, I guess the previous version had an obvious exploit that was getting abused, thus the change...
'Picture This' was the ultimate ticket earner, despite lack of automation available for it. You could max out two accounts (as you had to play two accounts for 'Picture This') in about 25 minutes or less (2078 tickets total); Just put your screen into high res, make the two windows only just big enough to fit 9 pictures in it (and your match counter), put the windows close together, and make sure you have a good mouse
The anagram games would take about 1.5 hours (give or take) for the same two accounts.
Never really tried Flexicon to the extent that I could see it as a big/quick ticket earner.
Can you expand on how to do this a bit more? I'm new to Picture This...so I sign up for two accounts under different emails or something? And then login with both of them, tile the game and click like crazy?
Another 2500 AA award came in for me, but I still haven't started playing again. No redemptions sent to my son's DL account starting 5/4 have posted yet, and I'm guessing nothing will. If so, that's 12,500 miles lost.
The reliability of reward is no longer there, and the wait is way too long.
