"Win it in a minute" trivia
Feb 7, 2011, 2:01 pm
#331
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Feb 7, 2011, 2:12 pm
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Feb 7, 2011, 2:26 pm
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I think Monday will consistently be the hardest day to win, since all the top 50 will get the daily pts, but after that, a lot of the people trying for the weekly top 100 will have already won so they are out of the running for the daily wins.
Feb 7, 2011, 2:27 pm
#334
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I actually submitted a feedback to ePrize about the cheating last week, probably nothing will come of it.
Feb 7, 2011, 2:46 pm
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Sounds like this game is eay to rig in 3 steps:
1. Create a fake account.
2. See what the answers are by first signing into the fake account.
3. Use the answers to sign in to your real account and win.
Unless PC figures a way to identify accounts, most of the winners will be cheaters. Lets be blunt, Americans are not very good at Geography, yet the results so far would say quite the opposite. Maybe the questions should change for each account?
1. Create a fake account.
2. See what the answers are by first signing into the fake account.
3. Use the answers to sign in to your real account and win.
Unless PC figures a way to identify accounts, most of the winners will be cheaters. Lets be blunt, Americans are not very good at Geography, yet the results so far would say quite the opposite. Maybe the questions should change for each account?
Feb 7, 2011, 3:04 pm
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If you do as you said, you'll find that they do not ask the same questions for each account. My wife and I occasionally have a repeat question, but it's not like we each get the same set of questions each day. Today I had one she got wrong last week (and silly me, I still picked the wrong answer).
Feb 7, 2011, 3:09 pm
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.Also relevant: American PC members are at least as likely as Europeans to be well informed about IC properties in places like Bora Bora. And of course the USA is home to tens of thousands of bright and often well travelled students and academics who grew up elsewhere. There's probably more than a handful of them on our leader board.
Feb 7, 2011, 3:14 pm
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No, questions are different. You WILL get the odd repeat from previous days if you play for different family members, but frankly you still have to memorise the answer from the previous time which is not easy - you don't have time to look anything up on a piece of paper.
Feb 7, 2011, 3:17 pm
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Feb 7, 2011, 3:47 pm
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Also relevant: American PC members are at least as likely as Europeans to be well informed about IC properties in places like Bora Bora. And of course the USA is home to tens of thousands of bright and often well travelled students and academics who grew up elsewhere. There's probably more than a handful of them on our leader board.
Feb 7, 2011, 4:31 pm
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I certainly didn't indulge in any, and I don't think zacktravel's comment counts as a serious attack. My main point was intended to be that "well travelled" and "frequent reader of travel blogs" are every bit as useful for this particular trivia quiz as school geography knowledge.
Feb 7, 2011, 6:04 pm
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Many of the questions are not answerable with school-learned knowledge anyway.
Feb 7, 2011, 6:59 pm
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Dang! I'm also beginning to wonder what kinds of shenanigans are keeping my respectable scores out of contention.
I think PC has stumbled across the perfect way to deal with loopholes in their promos - have them affect us and not them!
I'm going to pass on the rest of this promo - one less player for the rest of you - best of luck everyone!
I think PC has stumbled across the perfect way to deal with loopholes in their promos - have them affect us and not them!
I'm going to pass on the rest of this promo - one less player for the rest of you - best of luck everyone!