New Subway Gamepieces Exist Outside Of Normal Time
Justin sent us this gamepiece he scraped like a wet scab off the side of his moist Subway beverage cup. (I do not like gamepieces affixed to fast food drinks.) We're in awe at its nearly k?an-like phrasing. How is an instant win not an instant winner? How do you peel the gamepiece that has already been peeled? Feel free to use these in your meditations.
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This is simple-
The first "Instant Win" refers to your winning of the ticket. THe ticket you're holding is your winnings.
The second is referring to you're not winning anything better than the crappy ticket your holding.
@DrWebster: It's like those coupons that say "1/20th of a cent cash value" in the fine print. If you collect 20 of them, could you redeem them for a cent?
@Homerjay would like a refund for CoPilot for iPhone: So you're saying really it should just be "Instant Stasis!"
I just got one of these today. There are 3 types of peel-offs on the drinks: Instant Win, Collect and Win, Bonus Reward. Instant win is for...instant winning. If you notice, the "Instant Win" peel off indicates the user to peel the "Collect and Win" peel off...this is the one that you use on the website to get your letter and an additional chance to win instantly.
I kind of think the question of when is an instant win not an instant winner is kind of silly...do you also expect a lotto tickets that say $50,000 instant win on the rules or front of the card to each pay out $50,000.
Sorry if the last portion of this post is unclear, like I said...I went to subway today - I had a meatball sub and a large cola, I'm in a combo meat-coma and sugar crash right now.
@Homerjay would like a refund for CoPilot for iPhone: They just need a question mark. It should read...
"Instant Win?
Not and instant winner..."
Maybe we need to apply some Matrix-style metaphysical thinking to this.
There is no win.
There is no game piece.
There is no drink.
Or maybe there's other pieces that just aren't in the picture, but I prefer the former excuses.
All your win belong to us.
@ethereal_pete: this. the picture makes perfect sense to me, as well. and i haven't been to subway in years.
Subway is trying to create a paradox?
The cups have two game pieces, an 'instant win' piece and a 'collect and win' piece. Both are present in the picture.
The "INSTANT WIN" text in the green border is a title to help you differentiate the two pieces, it is not intended to indicate that you have won.
I didn't realize it was that difficult to understand
@guroth: This is Consumerist, where every corporation is run by fat-cat idiots who are simultaneously horribly inept and diabolically genius. When they're not trying to steal your hard-earned money they're horrible at everything they make and do.
That's why it was so difficult to understand.
They are also putting game pieces in magazines.
Except:
Both Entertainment Weekly & People had ones with the same code, so you could only use one!
@Homerjay would like a refund for CoPilot for iPhone:
Exactly! It's just like Lionel Hutz's advertisement. It says "No money down", but he points out the punctuation typo, giving us, "No, money down!"
There are two game pieces on each cup.
The piece on the left is for the "Instant Win" game, where either your game piece is a winner or it isn't.
The piece on the right is for the "Collect and Win" game, where you're trying to collect the game pieces that correspond to a certain prize.
They did some pretty bad copy work on that, but the concept itself isn't that hard to grasp.
I am in awe that you gave the "o" in koan a hat!
this really isnt that difficult, and I'm sure many people have seen something similar before.
It's quite obvious that there was ANOTHER "TAB" to peel off of the winzone area for the aformentioned "Game piece".
The Tab on Top was for the "instant win prize" (which he didnt)
And the tab Mr. Not observant enough, and shouldn't waste people's time sending in stupid stories DIDNT peel was UNDERNEATH
@Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!): Phonology Nazi here ;-)
It's a macron. Not a "hat" AKA circumflex.
Lol, I showed that to my wife last week when we were there. I got my hopes up when I saw "instant win", then of course it says "not a winner" underneath. Yes, yes, the other tab gives you a code for the internet, but that doesn't alleviate the poor design of the first label. Why even label them "instant win"?
There are two game pieces on the cup. The first is the "instant win" piece that is in this case, not an instant winner.
The second piece is the "collect and win" piece with is some letter of the alphabet that you collect to spell a word or something.
The phrasing is terrible.
@Nate128: Actually, yes. I have heard of people that do actually gather all the coupons they can and send them in for their cash value. It happens.
@DrWebster: There are letters that are collected for the "Collect & Win" portion of this game, much like the McDonald's Monopoly. If you collect the letters to spell a certain word, you win a price that is probably more significant than those that can be won through the instant win.
The Instant Win and Collect & Win are two different peel-offs.
Ceci n'est pas une Instant Winner.
There are at least 2 pieces on each cup.
One is called the "instant win" piece, labeled on the front as an "instant win" piece, and may or may not contain a message telling you you've won something instant. It's labeled "instant win" inside redundantly.
The "collect and win" are the letters.
What I'm confused about is the "collect and win" part...if the game piece isn't an instant winner, what is there to collect? If you collect enough non-instant winner pieces, do they magically become winning ones?