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Originally Posted by jonas007
I realized that these contests have some cyclic property, i.e. when you start a round (and a contest is already ongoing for a few days) you can see that, as you answer the quiz, the codes get higher and higher, especially if you answer the quiz slower. E.g. you get 10%, 10% , 25%, 35%, 35%, ...
And that's it. Then, after a little while, you start another one. Only this time you end up in another cycle, i.e. you get 35%, 45%, 45%, 55%, 55%, ...
So I think that if you always hurry to quickly enter your user data and start a new round, you'll end up doing it in the same rhythm and, thus, more or less always in the same cycle, be it the one with low or high codes (depending which one you started with).
When I get only low codes, I try to delay starting a new round, just so I could end up in another of these cycles, preferably with higher codes.  It works most of the time, I can get in a rhythm of receiving 55%, 65% or 75% code almost every round.
Of course, there's always a random factor and it can happen that you get 10%, 10% and 75% after that.
I hope I was clear enough...  |
I've also noticed a cycle of similar codes, but I've put it down to lots of other people winning the codes I wasn't winning. That is, if I'm in a cycle of 'good' codes then I figured it was because other people have won the 'bad' codes and the cycle has moved onto the 'good' codes. And vice versa.
So for me it's picking a time in the day or night when the 'good' codes seem to be falling the most. And I suspect that that is when the most people are playing the Contest.
But I'm not a maths person. Maybe Paul could contribute to this discussion as well, because I think it's probably up his alley.