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Xyth

I believe there is a 1000 point cap on both crosswire and chicktionary. This is alot of fun though, I have to ask though: have they actually SENT OUT any prizes? Somehow I just don't see microsoft willingly sending out 100 ipod zunes to people who payed them almost no money...

Mantrid

From the Goon-made Wiki: <a href="http://clublive.pbwiki.com/Received+Prizes" target="_blank">http://clublive.pbwiki.com/Received+Prizes</a>

douchebagatron

is it a 1000 point cap per day? because on the top scores ive seen people get 7000 points in a week. theres also a couple who get 7020 somehow.

Xyth

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is it a 1000 point cap per day? because on the top scores ive seen people get 7000 points in a week. theres also a couple who get 7020 somehow.
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Certain games are only 1000 per day before they say they are out of puzzles. However I've made 2000 points today between chicktionary and Crosswire.

edit: So in total I think you can make an unlimited amount of points per day, since I believe only a few of the games are capped. Or they just have very high caps.

A_Boojum_Snark

I got 1000 points from chicktionary the day after this thread was made... and it's still telling me I've done all the puzzles. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />

Liku

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Would anyone be interested in shipping a copy of vista, if I got one?
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Shipping to you from the States?

im_lost

I didn't hit a cap with flexicon; I used <a href="http://www.anagramssolved.com/flexicon-solutions.html" target="_blank">http://www.anagramssolved.com/flexicon-solutions.html</a> to get through that quickly. More points per game (I couldn't tell if the games were longer or shorter), and my fingers weren't getting worn out like they did with chicktionary (especially my pinky from constantly hitting the Enter key).

Liku

From what I know, Flexicon doesn't have a cap only Chicktionary and Crosswire.

Abra

sure...!
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UltimaGecko

I find entering things quickly in Flexicon becomes somewhat frustrating, because sometimes it takes obscenely (relative to typing the word in, anyway) long to load the live search after pressing the button to check the answers. Plus there just doesn't seem to be a really quick way of entering the answers in Flexicon like you can with Chicktionary...it's like mouse-clicking is mandatory.

A_Boojum_Snark

Behold, the so-broken-it-is-unsolvable <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v401/aboojumsnark/sigh.jpg" target="_blank">flexicon of doom</a>. All due to an apparently mis-aligned/placed flexicon. Oh joy. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />

Xyth

With some playing around I've found that flexicon has a cap of 10k, not too bad.

Thansal

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I find entering things quickly in Flexicon becomes somewhat frustrating, because sometimes it takes obscenely (relative to typing the word in, anyway) long to load the live search after pressing the button to check the answers. Plus there just doesn't seem to be a really quick way of entering the answers in Flexicon like you can with Chicktionary...it's like mouse-clicking is mandatory.
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Ahh!

I get that in both Flexicon and Chicktionary.

Close down the game and start it back up, it seems to happen when you actually click in the lower half of the window.

Xyth

While the source is of questionable accuracy...

<a href="http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u209/Chitown021/live.jpg" target="_blank">Uh oh.</a>

For those of you using bots, this could be an issue.

Mantrid

Apparently the captcha only comes up if you enter the same thing over and over in Flexicon or something like that. I've been done with this for a while, so I can't confirm, but even if you are botting, it shouldn't be an issue.

Caboose

So, they removed Vista from the prize list... Luckily I ordered 2 before they did.

Petco

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So, they removed Vista from the prize list... Luckily I ordered 2 before they did.
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I knew something like this was going to happen.

cshank4

Those ######s <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />

Drfuzzy

well atleast i got my stuff before the caps and stuff, bots ftw <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

Maybe i should had gotten vista.... NOT

scaryface

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So, they removed Vista from the prize list... Luckily I ordered 2 before they did.
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I don't even know what to save up for now.. i don't have the time to sink for a zune, so i guess ill just get a headset now.. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
You think there's any chance of it coming back?

Petco

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You think there's any chance of it coming back?
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Maybe for 10k points or something instead of the low 6k.

cshank4

Welp, I just got a ZX6000 headset, should be coming soon. Going to start a new account before work and run it all through the night. Hopefully I can get a zune

Drfuzzy

or atleast home edition <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />

Abra

######tards

Xyth

I ordered my Zune last night... Ill see how things go.

ChimpZealot

The flexicon "human check" or whatever only seems to come up when you try to check a large number of answers in a short amount of time, which is what I usually do, so depending on how the bots work it shouldn't affect them.

cshank4

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I ordered my Zune last night... Ill see how things go.
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How long did it take you to get one of them?

I ordered my headset on one account, Now I started a new one that has 10k from a bit of chick and a draining of flex. Do I need to pop it onto all the other games to get 20k or what?

Xyth

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How long did it take you to get one of them?

I ordered my headset on one account, Now I started a new one that has 10k from a bit of chick and a draining of flex. Do I need to pop it onto all the other games to get 20k or what?
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Yeah, if you max out almost every game you just get 20k. I think the total max you can get is 22k, assuming without resets

cshank4

What are the caps per game? I know Flexi-whatever is 10k

Mantrid

Chicktionary - 1000
Clink - 2900
Crosswire - 1960
Dingbats - 987 (?)
Elvis = Lives - 1176 (?)
Flexicon - 9525
Red Carpet Reveal - 935
Seekadoo - 4335