Heya,

the first week of the 6th Anniversary Contest is now over. Yes, it also means that the second week begins at this very moment with 48 shinny new prizes to find on a brand new game grid! These first 7 days proved to be very successful with over 37 million clicks made on the contest grid by more than 850 thousand different MSN users. Messenger Plus! is popular or what?

I received many requests for statistics so I decided to post some of the most pertinent numbers. I’m also publishing a heat map generated with all the clicks made during the week which I find quite interesting. For those wondering about the long diagonal line, it’s the result of the simulated clicks made by some of the not-so-bright cheaters. Some people tried more advanced techniques but all failed. Once again, yes you can cheat but no you won’t receive any prize as a result so don’t bother. For starters, the individual click map of each winner is manually generated/checked and most of the time, that’s all it takes to disqualify cheaters .
 

Individual clicks: 37,622,098
Individual players: 865,478
Average clicks made by each player: 43

Average clicks made by winners: 665
Lowest amount of clicks made by a winner: 5
Highest amount of clicks made by a winner: 2,913

Lowest amount of clicks on a particular point: 6
Highest amount of clicks on a particular point: 45,371

Heat map of every click. X marks the shirts, O marks the big prizes.


And finally, the list of this week’s winners can be found at msgpluslive.net. As announced a couple of days ago, more people than intended won an Xbox 360 Elite but don’t worry, 2 more will still be added in the grid before the end of the contest . Also, if the winner of an important prize fails to reply to emails sent to him/her within a week, his/her prize will be put back in the contest before the end of the event.

Have fun
Patchou

Nice, congrats for all of you guys.

Thank you Patchou! The contest reborns!

I'll play WAY more now. I must win!

I never thought so many people would try to click the middle of the shutdown!

nice stats =p

im still not going to play again... too addictive and too little prizes ;o

lol i find the heatmap pretty funny. The clicks concentrate where the prizes are shown. You can even notice the tshirt at the bottom left, with the plus! logo on it

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Taiwanese Name, Taiwan

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That heat map and stats are great, they're like my prize for spending so many hours clicking for he comp.  It's a shame that we are al so uniform and click the same area.... makes it very hard when the coordinates are randomly generated.

* user44571 saves the heat map and goes back in time.

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Originally posted by markee
It's a shame that we are al so uniform and click the same area.... makes it very hard when the coordinates are randomly generated.

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You right patchou... All is LUCK!!!

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Patchou can you contact me please??? I have something very important to me to ask you...
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wow..

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btw patchou, what are those colors for those message boxes represent? (example, orange = prizes could be somewhere near, blue = prizes could be somewhere further apart from here, grey = prizes aren't anywhere near here, etc.)

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Originally posted by xJ +
btw patchou, what are those colors for those message boxes represent? (example, orange = prizes could be somewhere near, blue = prizes could be somewhere further apart from here, grey = prizes aren't anywhere near here, etc.)

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The change of the color in the "try again" window, could be random. Just aesthetic.

Or maybe, it could be to fool cheaters, that rely on macro program that can detect a change in the window. Different colors = harder to make an automatic method?

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Originally posted by robochief
The change of the color in the "try again" window, could be random. Just aesthetic.
Or maybe, it could be to fool cheaters, that rely on macro program that can detect a change in the window. Different colors = harder to make an automatic method?

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you can click the same coordinate once, and you'll get a different color. (most probably)

If this is the second week of the 6th anniversary contest, why am I only finding out about it now??

I've been a MSN Plus subscriber now for at least 5 years

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Originally posted by xen0h
that's what they want u to think

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Originally posted by lilmissnorti
If this is the second week of the 6th anniversary contest, why am I only finding out about it now??

I've been a MSN Plus subscriber now for at least 5 years

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Originally posted by lilmissnorti
If this is the second week of the 6th anniversary contest, why am I only finding out about it now??

I've been a MSN Plus subscriber now for at least 5 years

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Originally posted by John Anderton

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Originally posted by xen0h
that's what they want u to think

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They?
Patchou is the one who designed the whole contest so he is the one you refer to when you say "they"
Also if he doesn't know how the competition works, who would?

Come one people, at least read whom you are replying to
Those messages on the try again screen are random

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Originally posted by John Anderton

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Originally posted by lilmissnorti
If this is the second week of the 6th anniversary contest, why am I only finding out about it now??

I've been a MSN Plus subscriber now for at least 5 years

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5 years and you don't even know the name?
And I hope by subscriber you mean user
You should check up on the site more often Use the rss feed with your feed reader

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Originally posted by Chrono

as if it was our fault

You better start clicking!

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Originally posted by Chrono
lol i find the heatmap pretty funny. The clicks concentrate where the prizes are shown. You can even notice the tshirt at the bottom left, with the plus! logo on it

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Originally posted by lilmissnorti
if you forget about previous years, why am I only alerted to it now in the SECOND week of the contest via a popup??  why wasn't I alerted to it at teh START of the contest???

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Originally posted by John Anderton
Plus! checks for updates once a week or so.. If you sign in quite regularly, it would tell you sooner rather than later.

Also, http://www.google.com/reader/view/
You don't need to download anything..

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i don't know why i decided to make this but i think this looks easyer to see where people were clicking, also where the prizes are

Thanks NiteMare it make it a lot easier to read.
So close to winning a prize

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Originally posted by Patchou
Lowest amount of clicks on a particular point: 6

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well seeing as there were 37,622,098 clicks, and only 536,996 pixels, even at random the chance of some pixels not being hit are small.

Err, isn't it strange that there's a diagonal line striking from top to bottom? BAN DA CHEATERS!

Nice heat map, let's hope this week brings me a prize.

Congratulations to All Winners!

why do the prizes go so quickly

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Originally posted by ahmetgns

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Originally posted by Patchou
Lowest amount of clicks on a particular point: 6

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I have just noticed that means there is no point which wasn't clicked or doesn't it mean this? I'm not sure but if I understood correct then, 536996 points are all clicked

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Noo, not necessarily!

Yes,you are right.

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Originally posted by Jesus
it also means that some people clicked on the pic while there were no prizes left otherwise the minimum would be 1

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Very interesting!
Congrats to all the winners

* Chris4 gets clicking

http://www.hostingfiles.net/files/20070603031734_vinto1.JPG
I THINK THAT i've win
but when the window of explorer are opened the page is reset annulled
sorry for the inglish!!!

Heatmap looks sweet. Ready. Set. Click!

Good to see that I didn't click even near one of the winning spots!

http://www.hostingfiles.net/files/20070603060023_vinto2.JPG
i had won
i'm sure that i won
it's guilt of internet expolorer!!!
it is not right!

What about "highest number of players online at once" Patchou?

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Originally posted by gamberok
http://www.hostingfiles.net/files/20070603060023_vinto2.JPG
i had won
i'm sure that i won
it's guilt of internet expolorer!!!
it is not right!

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I CLICK  then are open a explor page in the window of the game
but...BUTTT!!!! the page where are written you  win
has been cancelled because my internet explorer   have often error therefore i do not turn out in the winner list
I hope that you have understood

wOw!
i was clicking for 2 hours and i didn't win =/

congrats, winners!

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Originally posted by gamberok
I CLICK  then are open a explor page in the window of the game
but...BUTTT!!!! the page where are written you  win
has been cancelled because my internet explorer   have often error therefore i do not turn out in the winner list
I hope that you have understood

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Originally posted by Patchou
I used my own program for the heat map, much more appropriate for this specific job.

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thanks for you bad response...

Hi,

I want to ask, if its possible, to see his own heatmap? ^^
Im interested in how i clicked.
so higgledy-piggledy xD

ok, thank you for you'r answer.
im going to click some more ^^
*yes, im a freak*

MFG, Melkor

Indeed, it would be very interesting to see our individual heatmaps. Maybe for 7th Anniversary Contest it will be possible. (As if every year we have to play the same game)

Off or ontopic, you name it: Number of prizes has just increased to 35 from 32. what is happening? Is this result of another glitch? Or are such things being done intentionally?

And another question:
were there NO coordinates with under 6 clicks?

At the end of the contes I'll probably give all of you the possibility to see your own click map, but not before the end (as it could overload the server)

And yes, there was no point clicked less than 6 times last week.

I also got this message when i clicked on one, is this some sort of glitch.
http://www.hostingfiles.net/files/20070603060023_vinto2.JPG

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Originally posted by daggerer
I also got this message when i clicked on one, is this some sort of glitch.
http://www.hostingfiles.net/files/20070603060023_vinto2.JPG

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Originally posted by Melkor
And another question:
were there NO coordinates with under 6 clicks?

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