Lucky Day App - Review (3+ years of use)

Background: I have a bit of an addictive personality. If I start using an app/program where there are rewards and points, it's very difficult for me to stop until I reach a certain threshold. I had made the agreement with myself that I would casually use this app until I could redeem (3) $10 gift cards, regardless of whether I would get a cash payout or not (see below in "Basic Parameters"). Now the app has changed over time. I initially signed up for this in late 2015 or early 2016 and there use to be a slot machine feature, tokens and cash were lumped together in the form of tokens which could be redeemed for either.

Basic Parameters (Parameters involve my most recent uses of this app as of September 2019):

• You play games or perform activities for tokens. These include: scratch off cards, blackjack, lottery, and other activities like completing surveys, tasks, 3rd party app downloads and transactions, watching videos or referring friends. These can be redeemed for gift cards of other merchandise.
• Cash is only awarded on lucky scratch-offs, raffles, spinning a "prize wheel," or the lottery.
• Each day, a user is awarded 22 daily scratch-off cards as well as about 10 supplementary scratch-off cards throughout the course of the day that can be redeemed. Other games are eligible to be played by using tokens and activities are limitless or re-generated periodically.
• Cash cannot be redeemed until the total cash accrual is $10.00 or more
• Tokens roughly translate to 1 million = $1 in gift card credit + 10% - 33% additional tokens depending the denomination of gift card. Merchandise appears to be priced on proprietary market costs. Gift cards come in denominations of $10, $5, & $2 for popular merchants.
• Cards and other activities are refreshed every 24 hours, but prize inventory is not restocked on a consistent cadence, although it appears it is greater than a week window.

Observations:

• Initially, when I started playing, incremental cash amounts like 25¢, 50¢, are paid out gradually over a honeymoon period until the total cash amount gets into the $9.00 dollar range. After that, I never saw incremental amounts paid out again
• The daily lucky Lotto did seem to be completely random so I would win sometimes 250,000 - 1,000,000 tokens if I was randomly lucky
• 30 second video ads would play about every 3 scratch-off cards
• Tokens on scratch-off cards were hit and miss (3 symbols needed to match for prize; otherwise, honorary 1,000-5,000 amounts given away with each card). In some cases, getting 400,000 or even 500,000 tokens was not out of the question, though it was very rare. Almost always, one of the 10,000 or 15,000 cards would get all 3 symbols
• On average, I think each active day of full use (without going overboard) would result in about 70,000 tokens per day
• Blackjack would often result in wins at first and become a lot more conservative if play was extended (required betting with tokens)
• Prize Wheel always landed on 8,000 tokens (daily use for 5 days opens this feature)
• Surveys usually worked, but qualification was not guaranteed
• Other activities required payment for another third party program or constant use of another app
• I got (1) $10.00 scratch-off once in early 2018

My Earnings: Over a period of more than 3 years, I earned:

• 36,001,057 in tokens
• $19.00 in cash

This will allow me to redeem $19.00 directly to my Paypal and I can redeem (3) $10 gift cards and (1) $2 gift card with about 2,000,000 tokens left over.

My Conclusions: It took more than 3 years to earn a little more than $50.00 in cash/card. There is a lot of red tape to get there: constant engagement with app, having to exit out of videos and re-open app to avoid watching 30 second ads, messed up surveys that led to missed points, notifications of random Lucky Day deposits which never affected my account, daily raffles that I never won. It is definitely a time suck. While I did not spend all my time on the app, to do the bare minimum of use with of app to get max points would take a solid 10-15 minutes a day. It's not a scam, technically. I can speak from personal experience when I say the app can pay out. I think winners are highly randomized and I do believe that the $119.75 or $500.00 "winners" Lucky Day highlights are factual. I would strongly urge those with addictive tendencies not to do what I did and get your hopes up for a payout that was not easy to come by. The yield will take a lot of sweat, blood, and tears, and there is no guarantee that the interface or point algorithm of the app will not change in the course of trying to earn milestone rewards.

In summary, the most important take-away is to treat this app like what it is: a game. Hope this helps! **I just created this account, but hopefully these screenshots will give credibility: https://imgur.com/a/5UJobgV

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