thehawk75 - I think I have it now. I appreciate the explainations.
Glad to be of help.
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Originally Posted by buddlakecoflyer
For those trying this - I'm now at all of three days trying - One thing that seems to make it easier is the time of day and day of week. Think "off peak".
EX - This morning early (Monday) - once I "synced up" the two accounts- they kept syncing up. Went about 12 games in a row just by clicking the play now with new partner at the same time after playing the 3 in a row.
As I mentioned before, off peak does help, but, sometimes unless the two windows are on the same 'seed' (using a bit of computer programming lingo here in regards to random number generation), you will never partner up your two accounts. Thus the 'full refresh' to re-generate the seeds. Of course this is just assumption, but, in the past prior to me doing full refreshes, I would sit there with only 4 players playing the game (2 of which were me), and I could NEVER get paired up to myself. The game would literally wait for one of the other players to finish
saying 'searching for players...' all that time. Doing a full refresh of the two original browser windows puts an end to that nonsense.
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Originally Posted by buddlakecoflyer
Also, the stupid captchas (verify you are a human) are a pain! They are coming up about every 3-4 games.
They come up exactly ever 4 'clicks' to start a game (i.e: 'Play now', 'play with new partner', 'play with same partner') whether you play the game or not. I try to get both accounts on the same 'captcha' cycle (i.e. both at the same time). Having it appear in one window and not the next guarantees that you'll have to cycle the next one anyway as you won't be able to enter the captcha fast enough before the other window partners with someone you do not want it to -- during peak hours anyway. Which btw, I play at peak hours now as the 'refresh method' always gets me partnered to myself, even when 95 players are online.
Might as well let you know that you should count the games you've played, as you can earn 1039 tickets per account per day on this, not just 1000.
Before finishing your 25 complete game (25 X 40 = 1000), allow one of the games to only accumulate 39 tickets (that would be 98 or 99 points), and let the timer run out. After 25 games you will only have 999 (24 X 40 + 39) tickets for each account. You can then play a 26th game, for up to 40 tickets. Thus 999 + 40 = 1039. It's how I've been winning all those 'Match King', 'Super Mega Gam-ah' and 'Ultimate Play-ah' trophies... which when you combine those with about $2 bucks will get you a large coffee from Starbucks.
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Hate them!
So ordered 2500 Delta miles in Dec, never happened, follow-up emails said that it was being processed, then they just cancelled the order and reposited the points 6 months later. Re-ordered them in June and still no *%&# miles yet....
Don't waste your time on bing!
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I just got the delivery confirmation for the Food Network Favorites cookbook scheduled for delivery exactly at the 5 week mark of the order date. It's the frist time that it actually came before the prize did if at all.
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Finally, since my initial request for Delta miles in Dec, I've got my miles.....at least it was before the deadline so that I can transfer them into my Northwest account before the end of August.
Bing is SO NOT WORTH YOUR TIME!!
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On 7/20/09, I placed a prize request for 2,500 AAdvantage Miles, because I thought that perhaps since I earned the 4,300+ tickets for installing the toolbar, and not searches and/or game playing, that perhaps Microsoft would consider this separate from the tickets earned for playing games on Live Search Club/Club Bing. Furthermore, I hoped that since I only redeemed this prize in the past under the Live Search Club, not Club Bing, that perhaps I would received credit.... no dice.
I received the somewhat expected rejection e-mail about prize fufillment on 8/17/09, and the 4,300 tickets were returned.
If I knew that Microsoft was going to consolidate Live Search Club/Club Bing tickets from playing games and also earning tickets for searches using their installed toolbar, I never would have installed their toolbar.
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I've given up on this, but I just used the miles I'd collected when it was worth doing for an award trip to SIN in business class, so overall it was well worth it. Many thanks to the OP.
I've given up on this, but I just used the miles I'd collected when it was worth doing for an award trip to SIN in business class, so overall it was well worth it. Many thanks to the OP.
Well, I bought their entire bloody store, and still have over 10K tickets left in two accounts. And yes, when I say I bought everything, that does include the 'Tote bag', the 'organic mens t-shirts', MoMA mirrors, the twill hats, etc. Everything.
I figured everyone I buy Christmas gifts for can get some 'Club Bing' swag this year, and judging by previous experience and posts, I 'might' just get the stuff by Christmas if I order now.
At any rate, I should have stopped playing ages ago. I can only hope they add new prizes or drop that ridiculous '1 prize type per household' rule. As it stands, I literally can not buy anything without violating that rule and have thus orphaned those points.
Is there some way to earn more points per day than the 1k? How long did it take to accumulate that many points?
As it is right now you can earn 1039 tickets per account per day.
Important fact to remember: Club Bing either gives you points for playing a game -- all the points you earned that game -- or they give you none.
Thus, when you earn 40 tickets per game of picture this. Simple math says that you earn your max points in 25 games (1000 / 40).
However, now apply that simple fact I mentioned above regarding how they award points.
Thus, on picture this, on your 25th game (or any 1 game prior to your 25th actually), do not complete the game, only earn 39 tickets.
You will then have played 25 games, and only have 999 tickets.
Club Bing then considers you below your daily max for the day and allows you to play another game -- and earn full tickets on that game. Therefore go play 1 more game (your 26th game for that day) of 'Picture This'. Play it to completion, and collect your 40 points.
You've now earned 999 + 40 = 1039 tickets for the day.
This btw, is how people are also winning the weekly trophies with more than the 7000 tickets that Club Bing's own rules would imply.
As an aside, back when the 'club live tool bar' still worked, you could earn 10 bonus points for running a search through it, thus for ages the maximum tickets per day was 1049.
Further aside, back when they also had that search perks promotion for running search queries, 25 of them, you could earn an additional 25 tickets per day (awarded much later in a bunch), but, bringing your actual total tickets per day at 1074.
Every once and a while (very very very rarely), Club Bing runs a double ticket day. It caps at 1000, so, if they do run it again some day, you'll earn 2039 tickets that day (prior to them capping the bonus to 1000, folks were able to exploit the fact that the double ticket day clock was on PST and the game day clock was on UTC, therefore one could have earned a bonus 2078 tickets from this).
I gave up several months ago when they deleted my multiple redemptions (different accounts to AA) and didn't post them. They recently changed the layout of the site and brought in some kind of social networking/profile thingie. I noticed that none of my old redemptions show up anymore, even the ones I got. In light of the US Grand Slam promo, I am having another go at this because it might count as an incentive partner. Costs nothing, worth a try!
I gave up several months ago when they deleted my multiple redemptions (different accounts to AA) and didn't post them. They recently changed the layout of the site and brought in some kind of social networking/profile thingie. I noticed that none of my old redemptions show up anymore, even the ones I got. In light of the US Grand Slam promo, I am having another go at this because it might count as an incentive partner. Costs nothing, worth a try!
Did you check under the tab "My Prizes"? That's where past redemptions are now shown.
&# miles yet....
