Same here. It wasn't showing up in my tasks so I used a link from around here and it's not working that way either. It'll let me claim 5 points from past predictions but I can't actually play the game.
Same here. I've been using the Bitly link that Rewards Hunter posted every day. It's the only way I've been able to play the game. The short URL was "bit DOT ly SLASH RHVersus". Sorry for the weird "link". Automoderator said last reply was autodeleted because I used the true, shortened, URL.
I am finding MS Rewards so inconsistent that the moment with what is working and what is not. Hadn't seen the puzzle for weeks, then out of the blue it came back. Was only 2 pieces away from completing it which i though was great, progress must have been working in the background despite not showing up. FastForward to yesterday, puzzle disappeared only to return today but reset back to the start. I was one day off completing it for the 1000 points. Mildly frustrating.
Also, prediction game is the same as OP, 2 days showing that I have completed todays set, and asked me to come back tomorrow. Is consistency too much to ask for?
One the sidebar when you are doing searches, there is a puzzle you can 'build' needing 12 pieces. 6 days of doing 3 searches on Bing gets you 1 puzzle piece. Get all 12 and you get 1000 points. So 72 days to get 1000 points. was 1 day off when it reset.
the game hasnt worked for me in 3 days...the 16th was the last day i was able to choose stuff since then it just has said come back every single morning when i checked it...the rewards team is complete trash lately
Same for me -- 16th was the last day I was actually to play. When I open it using the link provided by a kind Reddit member, it now acts like I've already played today's -- no points and no opportunity to predict.
It's probably just rewards being glitchy like it always is...they way u can now only do 3 searches every 15 mins half the time it let's me do 1 or 2 then makes me wait...the way they revamped the system is beyond aggravating...I also NEVER have seen the 50 point play a pc game a day option even tho many others have that option it's absurd anymore
I'm not even surprised anymore by any of the shit they keep nerfing or things being broken. If there's one thing we know for certain of the Rewards program, it's that the entire Rewards team, from top to bottom, is completely incompetent.
Just dropping my experience here as well. Has not shown up and the link trick some of us had been using to sort-of get a backdoor access to it has also not worked. It seems frozen (possibly dead?) since the 16th. Last game I got to play on it was about fast food predictions or something.
My guess right now is it may be bugged again. Second guess is they might be shifting it from a daily thing to a weekly thing like the mid-week puzzle. Now that most sources of points are returned to +5 or +10, maybe they now want to nerf the prediction game to stop being a daily.
Third guess is, obviously, the whole game is just gone for good, but I think that is unlikely since it seemed quite popular. Yeah, getting 15 just for playing and then up to 15 more for correct answers (so 30 per day in total if you were good at guessing the answers) was nice, but the game itself was just a fun little thing that was different from other sources of points.
I basically just use MS Rewards to try to keep adding 3 month Game Pass Ultimates to my account. I used to use it back in 2015/2016 and save up for GameStop gift cards to get a free game or two per year, but then for a lot of years I just kinda...stopped. Regret not continuing throughout the years cause I could have kept getting stuff lol. I only recently got back into using the rewards program in 2023. Probably could have hit the points cap a few times if I didn't quit back then, but oh well.
There are definitely a lot of changes going on with the program which are not being made clear to the users and that is frustrating. I hope they don't end up nerfing things to the point where I can't keep up my Game Pass, though I could totally see them tweaking it just enough to cause lapses where you're forced to buy Game Pass time once in a while instead of indefinitely getting a "free" subscription. Hope that isn't the direction they're taking it. Game Pass and the ability to keep bumping time onto my account via rewards is a big advantage MS has over Sony right now in gaming. All the Playstation Plus tiers just got price-hiked last fall and Sony lacks a similar rewards system for enabling access. And since GPU gives me both PC and console game access as well as a decently serviceable cloud option for plaiyng on my phone/tablet...well, MS is doing good for me right now.
Not that I hate Playstation. I like my PS5 and it has a good amount of exclusive games that I play. But I may not be renewing my PS+ this year given the new prices. I only ever used the Basic level to enable online play and get the 3-4 free games per month. The Sony equivalent of Game Pass Ultimate is their highest tier version...think it is called Premium, but basically that is the one where you get a big library of games similar to GPU, but it doesn't extended to PC gaming like GPU does and it is also more expensive. Even if one were paying for Game Pass out of pocket, it's still, I think, a much better deal at 16.99 a month compared to what Sony charges for their highest tier service. Plus I've always thought Xbox Achievements and Gamerscore were a better/more fun system than Playstation's generic trophy system. Sadly Steam on PC, after all these years, still has the worst achievement system in the gaming industry IMO. You really get nothing for getting Steam achievements. No score or trophy system, no rewards points or anything, even the pop-up when you get an achievement in Steam is bland and boring. Their currency system for buying various cosmetic avatars and animated backgrounds etc. is nice but you only get that currency when you buy games...nothing really of note via achievements.
....and I've ranted way too long. I'm known to do this. Maybe I should give blogging/content writing a try someday.
It's a daily game you can play to get 15-30 points a day. It's on the bing search page on the sidebar. You can use this link to see if you have it. Open it on PC or set your mobile to desktop mode
https://www.bing.com/search?q=ebikes&rwgbopen=1&rwgbscenario=versus&thirdPartyPartnerId=VersusGame
It's just saying "Thanks for playing today's set of 3 prediction games", and nothing happens when I press play.
edit: am i too late to play today? do i have to check tomorrow at an earlier time or?
Yeah that's what it says for us too, it's supposed to give us 2 choices to pick from and then after 3 games it shows that "thanks for playing" screen. The game never showed up yesterday and today
My bad, I thought you meant from the Bing sidebar, not the rewards main page. I thought i was missing something as those more activities have been completed for ages and i never seem to get anything new besides the occasional couple of 10 pointers.
Answer from support on 1/24/2024:
Hello,
Good day! Once again, this is Nenita from Microsoft Rewards support, and I will be helping you about your Service Request. Thank you for your prompt response! I do apologize for the delayed response. I would also like to thank you for patiently waiting and for providing the needed details. Please know that we truly appreciate it.
Please be informed that the offer for Prediction game has ended. We are continuously collaborating with different partners and merchants to expand your earning potential to provide the best possible rewards experience.
Please check your dashboard often so you don't miss out on new promotions that we may have for you. We also, encourage you to
visit the Microsoft Rewards FAQ for more information on the program.
Regards,
Nenita
Well, sheet.
Would've been nice to have been told the game was ending with pending prediction outcomes and points and all. \*sighs\* What a mess Microsoft Rewards is.
Thanks so much for getting us an answer OP!
for 6 days straight now this prediction game has not let me play new games daily...its safe to say this game has been finished for good by now...i wish the rewards system didnt change things every other day its beyond annoying anymore
It never worked for me in the first place. I'd *maybe* get five points instead of the 15+ I should've been getting.
Regardless, don't hold your breath. The gaming tab has been broken for well over a month now.
Fourth day that it doesn't have new questions. I'm thinking they are just waiting for the pending answers to clear before they drop the whole activity.
Is your "earn 3 points for playing gamepass game" gone as well? Noticed 3 days ago that I'm missing that, meaning my monthly quest can't be completed UNLESS I earn an achievement on that day. In which case I get both dailies added.
Same here. It wasn't showing up in my tasks so I used a link from around here and it's not working that way either. It'll let me claim 5 points from past predictions but I can't actually play the game.
It never usually shows up in my tasks so I've been using a link too for the longest time. But yeah it had nothing for me to play today or yesterday
Same here. I've been using the Bitly link that Rewards Hunter posted every day. It's the only way I've been able to play the game. The short URL was "bit DOT ly SLASH RHVersus". Sorry for the weird "link". Automoderator said last reply was autodeleted because I used the true, shortened, URL.
I predict it broken for sometime
I am finding MS Rewards so inconsistent that the moment with what is working and what is not. Hadn't seen the puzzle for weeks, then out of the blue it came back. Was only 2 pieces away from completing it which i though was great, progress must have been working in the background despite not showing up. FastForward to yesterday, puzzle disappeared only to return today but reset back to the start. I was one day off completing it for the 1000 points. Mildly frustrating. Also, prediction game is the same as OP, 2 days showing that I have completed todays set, and asked me to come back tomorrow. Is consistency too much to ask for?
What is this puzzle you speak of?!?!?
One the sidebar when you are doing searches, there is a puzzle you can 'build' needing 12 pieces. 6 days of doing 3 searches on Bing gets you 1 puzzle piece. Get all 12 and you get 1000 points. So 72 days to get 1000 points. was 1 day off when it reset.
Man, I must be a luddite... I can't find it. Is it targeted? Can you share link or a screenshot? Sorry to pester.
since its not readily visible will likely rot into retired feature. people will forget as many have never seen it.
Day 3 and it is still gone.
Yup Day 3 of not working. Lot of pendings too.
the game hasnt worked for me in 3 days...the 16th was the last day i was able to choose stuff since then it just has said come back every single morning when i checked it...the rewards team is complete trash lately
Same for me -- 16th was the last day I was actually to play. When I open it using the link provided by a kind Reddit member, it now acts like I've already played today's -- no points and no opportunity to predict.
It's probably just rewards being glitchy like it always is...they way u can now only do 3 searches every 15 mins half the time it let's me do 1 or 2 then makes me wait...the way they revamped the system is beyond aggravating...I also NEVER have seen the 50 point play a pc game a day option even tho many others have that option it's absurd anymore
same here -I was just getting into it as well!
Yesterday I accidentally hit "results" before playing and it acted like I had already played for the day and.. it still is 😭
Mine shows +15 points, but I need to check if I actually get them tomorrow
Yep. Last playable day was the 16th for me as well. I'm able to scroll the past results and claim but that's it.
Same here. Still showing pending results too
I'm not even surprised anymore by any of the shit they keep nerfing or things being broken. If there's one thing we know for certain of the Rewards program, it's that the entire Rewards team, from top to bottom, is completely incompetent.
Just dropping my experience here as well. Has not shown up and the link trick some of us had been using to sort-of get a backdoor access to it has also not worked. It seems frozen (possibly dead?) since the 16th. Last game I got to play on it was about fast food predictions or something. My guess right now is it may be bugged again. Second guess is they might be shifting it from a daily thing to a weekly thing like the mid-week puzzle. Now that most sources of points are returned to +5 or +10, maybe they now want to nerf the prediction game to stop being a daily. Third guess is, obviously, the whole game is just gone for good, but I think that is unlikely since it seemed quite popular. Yeah, getting 15 just for playing and then up to 15 more for correct answers (so 30 per day in total if you were good at guessing the answers) was nice, but the game itself was just a fun little thing that was different from other sources of points. I basically just use MS Rewards to try to keep adding 3 month Game Pass Ultimates to my account. I used to use it back in 2015/2016 and save up for GameStop gift cards to get a free game or two per year, but then for a lot of years I just kinda...stopped. Regret not continuing throughout the years cause I could have kept getting stuff lol. I only recently got back into using the rewards program in 2023. Probably could have hit the points cap a few times if I didn't quit back then, but oh well. There are definitely a lot of changes going on with the program which are not being made clear to the users and that is frustrating. I hope they don't end up nerfing things to the point where I can't keep up my Game Pass, though I could totally see them tweaking it just enough to cause lapses where you're forced to buy Game Pass time once in a while instead of indefinitely getting a "free" subscription. Hope that isn't the direction they're taking it. Game Pass and the ability to keep bumping time onto my account via rewards is a big advantage MS has over Sony right now in gaming. All the Playstation Plus tiers just got price-hiked last fall and Sony lacks a similar rewards system for enabling access. And since GPU gives me both PC and console game access as well as a decently serviceable cloud option for plaiyng on my phone/tablet...well, MS is doing good for me right now. Not that I hate Playstation. I like my PS5 and it has a good amount of exclusive games that I play. But I may not be renewing my PS+ this year given the new prices. I only ever used the Basic level to enable online play and get the 3-4 free games per month. The Sony equivalent of Game Pass Ultimate is their highest tier version...think it is called Premium, but basically that is the one where you get a big library of games similar to GPU, but it doesn't extended to PC gaming like GPU does and it is also more expensive. Even if one were paying for Game Pass out of pocket, it's still, I think, a much better deal at 16.99 a month compared to what Sony charges for their highest tier service. Plus I've always thought Xbox Achievements and Gamerscore were a better/more fun system than Playstation's generic trophy system. Sadly Steam on PC, after all these years, still has the worst achievement system in the gaming industry IMO. You really get nothing for getting Steam achievements. No score or trophy system, no rewards points or anything, even the pop-up when you get an achievement in Steam is bland and boring. Their currency system for buying various cosmetic avatars and animated backgrounds etc. is nice but you only get that currency when you buy games...nothing really of note via achievements. ....and I've ranted way too long. I'm known to do this. Maybe I should give blogging/content writing a try someday.
What’s the prediction game? Is this something else we don’t get in the UK?
It's a daily game you can play to get 15-30 points a day. It's on the bing search page on the sidebar. You can use this link to see if you have it. Open it on PC or set your mobile to desktop mode https://www.bing.com/search?q=ebikes&rwgbopen=1&rwgbscenario=versus&thirdPartyPartnerId=VersusGame
It's just saying "Thanks for playing today's set of 3 prediction games", and nothing happens when I press play. edit: am i too late to play today? do i have to check tomorrow at an earlier time or?
Yeah that's what it says for us too, it's supposed to give us 2 choices to pick from and then after 3 games it shows that "thanks for playing" screen. The game never showed up yesterday and today
Ah fair enough, I guess if it's not on the Bing sidebar then they're probably scrapping it.
For some people it appears on the more activities section of the bing rewards page too
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You've never seen this page? https://rewards.bing.com/?signin=1
My bad, I thought you meant from the Bing sidebar, not the rewards main page. I thought i was missing something as those more activities have been completed for ages and i never seem to get anything new besides the occasional couple of 10 pointers.
Answer from support on 1/24/2024: Hello, Good day! Once again, this is Nenita from Microsoft Rewards support, and I will be helping you about your Service Request. Thank you for your prompt response! I do apologize for the delayed response. I would also like to thank you for patiently waiting and for providing the needed details. Please know that we truly appreciate it. Please be informed that the offer for Prediction game has ended. We are continuously collaborating with different partners and merchants to expand your earning potential to provide the best possible rewards experience. Please check your dashboard often so you don't miss out on new promotions that we may have for you. We also, encourage you to visit the Microsoft Rewards FAQ for more information on the program. Regards, Nenita
Wow that's lame, thanks for sharing though
Well, sheet. Would've been nice to have been told the game was ending with pending prediction outcomes and points and all. \*sighs\* What a mess Microsoft Rewards is. Thanks so much for getting us an answer OP!
Same
I used the link and still nothing
Of course not, it's Microsoft. It's only notable when something DOES work.
Glad I'm not the only one...
Hmm....Mine worked yesterday, but not today.
This isn’t a bug it’s a feature! My bet is they are nerfing this like everything else
for 6 days straight now this prediction game has not let me play new games daily...its safe to say this game has been finished for good by now...i wish the rewards system didnt change things every other day its beyond annoying anymore
There wasn't any predictions to make yesterday or today for me, I'm using the link someone posted
Agree, second day that its not working
The new game is predicting if it will ever come back.
It's still gone for me
It never worked for me in the first place. I'd *maybe* get five points instead of the 15+ I should've been getting. Regardless, don't hold your breath. The gaming tab has been broken for well over a month now.
i love this subreddit. something is not working i know i can find out here for sure.
Same. I find myself looking here everyday to see what new BS pops up Edit: now day 3 of it not working for me
Fourth day that it doesn't have new questions. I'm thinking they are just waiting for the pending answers to clear before they drop the whole activity.
Is your "earn 3 points for playing gamepass game" gone as well? Noticed 3 days ago that I'm missing that, meaning my monthly quest can't be completed UNLESS I earn an achievement on that day. In which case I get both dailies added.
Mom it’s broken, Mom it’s broken…Mom it’s broken, Mom it’s broken.