E: 30/06 Win a magnum pleasure card

pineapple77_2

orange_plastic wrote: »

As I calculated in an earlier post, with 32 possible characters (1-9 and A-Z without 'O') in 10 positions there are over 1,000,000,000,000,000 combinations and I estimate Magnum have released at most 500,000 codes. Hence if you take the first four (standard) characters of a code, the chances of guessing a valid code from the other six are around 1 in 2000. It would take long enough to try (on average) 2000 codes that one would be better off buying 6 valid ones from Asda at 50p each.

In other words, the more deternimed cheat who tried to guess codes wouldn't have managed to enter more than a handful before realising how stupid an exercise it would be.

Very true. It still seems very strange though that a lot of us have gone to enter codes only to get a message saying the code has already been used.:mad:

blackmidnight

orange_plastic wrote: »

I am more concerned that four of my entries last night got the error message an I was assured by Magnum today that they would be entered as usual, whilst others on this forum have been told they will receive new codes to replace theirs. Have I been lied to?

send the sticks off anyway - if they've been entered then it won't matter and if they haven't then at least this way you will get new codes

orange_plastic

crazygal27 wrote: »

My odds were 2 in 12 so one in 6. However my local tesco ran out of magnums about 2 weeks ago, i'm now suffering withdrawl symptoms from eating them.

You can come and eat some of mine if you like...

:-)

orange_plastic

purplebutterfly wrote: »

And do you know what? That is life. They won't "get their comeuppance" because life is not a happy, karmic ride. They will continue to use whatever means possible to get what they want.

Never forget that they are the one's who will never find happiness, satisfaction or value in life.

They can spend their lives searching under every stone looking for beauty, but never realise how beautiful a stone can be...

orange_plastic

pineapple77 wrote: »

Very true. It still seems very strange though that a lot of us have gone to enter codes only to get a message saying the code has already been used.:mad:

I get the impression from the posts on this forum that this message has nearly always been generated when trying a code again because of an error message the first time around (like last night) or because of some phones sending the same text twice (in which case that message is received plus another one accepting the entry).

gingin_2

I'm not going to say how, but husband is an uber techie and gets paid for being an uber techie. He says he would be able to write a program that could automatically generate correct codes.

I can hand on heart assure you that we would never do it, but it's just to show that it is possible.

My win rate is about 1 in 30 at the moment. There was a glitch early last week and I can't believe that over 600 winners were pulled out on those days.

purplebutterfly

orange_plastic wrote: »

They can spend their lives searching under every stone looking for beauty, but never realise how beautiful a stone can be...

:T What a perfect and poignant sentiment. Thank you

purplebutterfly

gingin wrote: »

I'm not going to say how, but husband is an uber techie and gets paid for being an uber techie. He says he would be able to write a program that could automatically generate correct codes.

Yep, you can get them all over the internet - they are the ones gamers use to crack the codes that link a PC game to one PC. So people can upload and fileshare games.

I imagine they could be used for these too - as gamer codes usually have a mixture of letters and numbers that are about 25 characters long.

orange_plastic

kittycatty wrote: »

Just sopken with Magnum, they have confimed that there is a cuurent glitch and they are not sure if it can be fixed????
Any codes that were entered last night that got the error message will NOT have been entered into the draw as they are lost within the system.
I going to send my stick off and hopefully will receive a new code before the end of the promo. Not sure what to do about the other sticks that I haven't entered yet though. ??

Just spoken to Magnum again and they assure me that the codes will have gone into the draw, including all the personal info. entered. The logic he gave is that if the code hadn't been accepted onto their system then it wouldn't have had the 'already entered' message when attempting to re-enter it and the other info. entered would have been accepted likewise (it makes sense that the system wouldn't accept the code but strip the personal info. off).

He also told me that normally there is about a two day backlog in answering emails so it's best to phone. I would suggest phoning AND emailing, so there's always something in writing.

orange_plastic

purplebutterfly wrote: »

:T What a perfect and poignant sentiment. Thank you

Yeah, somehow I thought you'd like that one ;-)