E: 30/06 Win a magnum pleasure card

orange_plastic

Thriftkitten wrote: »

Oh and also PMS-ing so I can't be held responsible for my skint and fragile state of mind lol:eek:

Lucky you've got a few Magnums as comfort food then...

Thriftkitten

orange_plastic wrote: »

Lucky you've got a few Magnums as comfort food then...

After 12 boxes in 1 week its more torture than comfort lol

orange_plastic

kimmy393 wrote: »

Hmm maybe I just cant see how people can guess these codes. I have two sticks here that look like they start with a 7, I have tried to work them out but keep getting that the code does not exist - so I guess if these so called ''cheats'' are out their they must be amazing at cracking these sticks.

I'm guessing the codes are actually massive prime numbers worked out in base 32-ish (I'm guessing there are approx. 32 characters: the numbers 1-9 plus the alphabet without the 'O', cos I haven't seen a 0 or an O) so they'd be pretty impossible to work out. More likely anyone trying to guess would start with the first 4 or 5 characters they've taken from a stick and keep using trial-and-error until they get a code.

If I've worked it out right, there are 1,125,899,906,842,624 combinations, ie. over a quadrillion (using the generally accepted US re-hash of names of numbers above a million over the etemologically-correct old European definition). Given that there are 2184 draws and 25 prizes per draw, hence 54600 prizes, and estimating that one stick in 5 wins a prize over the duration of the comp, I estimate there are about 273,000 sticks entered over the duration. Of course Magnum will probably have produced many more than this as some will have been thrown away and some will still be in the shops after the promotion ends, but even if we double the figure to 546,000 sticks by my mathematical analysis we can conclude that people trying to guess codes will really be up s**t creek.

But I digress...

orange_plastic

kimmy393 wrote: »

I have two sticks here that look like they start with a 7, I have tried to work them out but keep getting that the code does not exist

I assume you've tried a 'Z' in place of the 7?

blackmidnight

wish I'd read this before trying to enter codes! Just had the error in the last two draws will alsoo email them

orange_plastic

orange_plastic wrote: »

1,125,899,906,842,624 combinations... 546,000 sticks

Oh yeah, they would have a 1 in 2,062,087,741 chance of getting a code each guess by my rough estimation, ignoring the fact that they might use known characters for the first four. Otherwise, starting with four known characters it would be a 1 in 1967 chance, but that ignores the chance that the code hasn't been used already (very probable at this stage in the game). I think it would take a very long time to try 1967 codes, but I wouldn't be surprised if a handful of codes have been oh Christ there must be something on the television!! AAaaAAAaAaarrRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!

:-)

kimmy393

LOL you have totally confused me orange, but from what a gather you are saying; it would extremely hard to guess them LOL

evelyn192

Ive just tried a code and got the error, tried it again and it says already registered, maybe it did go through after all, also just had another wem but the time seems a few hours out to when I entered.

Thriftkitten

I text my code in at 19:26pm and havent yet had a confirmation!!!
Looks like the text system is up the creek too!

calash

did i start something off about cheating??? I think the site is not working properly as I tried to confirm a win and came up with technical problem and didn't get claim email then tried doing it again and said claims already made!!!