I'm sure Woot loves all the penetration and load testing. Yes I'm aware of how bad that sounds.

Overall good April Fools Woot. Managed to get a bag on level 1 and 2 last night so I'm happy.

For those that want to play the game some more, here's the link:

http://www.woot.com/crapshoot

No it's not broken or poorly coded, just random chance.

eg6sir wrote:all you damn cheaters ruin it for the rest of us

It's April Fools Day. You've gotta give us cheaters credit for fooling the system.

The page keeps changing from teh sold out woot to a sold out car audio kit.

I've just wasted a portion of my life which I can never get back. Thanks woot!

Can anyone tell me what happens when you win and click the button to buy the Big Orphaned Cetacea?

Last night I made it to level two in the first few minutes, and clicked the button.

But, all that came up was a screen with multiple choice answers, no links (other than to tweet my results). Nothing. How close was I to getting the crap after that? And how was I supposed to get it from there?!?

smeh wrote:Woot -

Some serious criticism here:

The game is garbage. There is nothing fun about a game that randomly kills the player with no chance to avoid it, then starts the player over.

The only reason to put up with this awful game design is to attempt to get the privilege of purchasing the Big o' Cosmos.

You will note that the high scores are obviously all fake, and the forums are full of people trying to find ways to cheat.

In other words, your game is so bad, the only way to win is to cheat.

I would also talk to your lawyers about the legality of this. You're essentially setting up a kind of sweepstakes here, and there's a good chance you're breaking some laws.

A nice effort, but a terrible implementation.

I got a Big o' Cosmos on level 1 and didn't cheat.

finally got it!!!....click here to order your won Box of Cobwebs...and it just links back to the woot.com home page, and "I want one" just opens the game again.

wootywoo4444 wrote:Thanks woot! Stayed up til 2am playing before I realized I am a grown woman with a real job that needs to be in bed! Played again before my shower, rushed to work (earliest I've made it all year) and began to play for 2 and a half hours before I scored my Bling Of Cherubs. Great Aprils Fool Day Chase!

I think I want your "real job" where you can play Big o' Cosmos toss for 2 hours! Oh wait. I'm working and playing Woot too. Curse the power of the Woot!

I liked the game, but the frustration of 2 roadblocks coming at once so the game is un-winnable is what finally encouraged me to go on to work.... and keep playing there. Hehe. Seriously though, unemployed people must have gotten all the bags o crap.

aoikiretsu wrote:A few wooters have said after level 5, the 'sceneries' reset. So level 5 would be the countryside again and so on. But I haven't seen any screencaps for proof, so I don't know if it's true :/

It's true. I made it to level 7, but the Big o' Cosmos was on level 8... so not Carp for me

All I can say is Crap Crap Crap Played for eternity only to come up empty handed.

MegaloX wrote:The page keeps changing from teh sold out woot to a sold out car audio kit.

Mine too. The community lists all kinds of stuff that have been sold, but I'm still looking at level 10 Burritos of Cheese.

You've "won" the "privilege" of buying some crap. "Congratulations".
I finally won! Yeh!
Dear Woot:
If you are reading this. I can't seem to find the ordering page. Please send my Big Orphaned Cetacea C.O.D. to the address on my account. C.O.D. stands for Cash On Delivery.
Here is my personal promise to pay: I.O.U.
Thanks in advance.

bellsandy wrote:If they hadn't made the game impossible to win no one would've needed to cheat.

When it wasn't impossible to win between 12 and 2 AM Central, the servers were crashing. That's when I gave up and went to bed.

mathetes121 wrote:so the people who actually were playing it to try to win(me) got screwed by people clicking links. thanks.

I would feel a little remorse except last nite i played for an hour and finally made it past level 3 when that was the required level but woots Flesh module was fuxd so i didn't get the "get your crap" button when i died. I don't think I've ever swore so loudly at my comp at 1:30 in the morning.

The game was fun as I only made it to level 4. I have a question to my fellow wooter. When you have two objects coming at you in both lanes then it would appear to me that your only option is to die. That is what would happen to me consistantly. Am I missing something here or did I have another option. The game did not seem to involve skill but only luck.

Apparently, there was a game cheat code that some people were using to get ludicrous scores and then there was the copy and paste link that I missed out on.

I guess cheating does pay but once again I did not get a Big o' Cosmos.

I am curious if anyone could tell how to beat the game. Thanks.

it was a new scene- in blue- real easy to just snail to the end of both levels 1 (=5) and 2 (=6) (this was to buy after surviving "level 6") - sorry no screenshot...

aoikiretsu wrote:A few wooters have said after level 5, the 'sceneries' reset. So level 5 would be the countryside again and so on. But I haven't seen any screencaps for proof, so I don't know if it's true :/

One more gargleblaster! I've been on Woot for over 6 years and FINALLY got my first Big o' Cosmos! I can die happy...as soon as I receive it in the mail.

Again the question must be asked: can we expect a link to download the mp3 of the music from the game?

ayla16 wrote:One more gargleblaster! I've been on Woot for over 6 years and FINALLY got my first Big o' Cosmos! I can die happy...as soon as I receive it in the mail.

yahh, it always takes forever - thats the only thing that really annoys me about woot.

Glad I got my Level 2 Big o' Cosmos, although I did waste a bunch of time playing the game after that.

cyd420911 wrote:I would feel a little remorse except last nite i played for an hour and finally made it past level 3 when that was the required level but woots Flesh module was fuxd so i didn't get the "get your crap" button when i died. I don't think I've ever swore so loudly at my comp at 1:30 in the morning.

same thing was happening to me.. i passed the level but no crap.. then we got the cheaters in here and ruined it

Will this be the thread where all of us that were lucky to score some crap will post our frustrations at how long it takes to get to us, how crappy the stuff is when it gets here, and how we're never going to order a Big o' Cosmos again?

I don't get it?

Dear woot
Thank you for making the Big o' Cosmos available to phone users.

Got one from Level 10 by using the link, but I missed the coupon code. Had to pay full price for the Blight of Cholera. Great April Fools' Day, Woot!

I wondered why on level 4 or 5 I was parachuted back to the beginning... second level 1 was actually level 5 or 6. Or something. Not sure I'll even touch the game today again, though, I'm glad the music was on mute the whole time.

I won a Big Orphaned Cetacea and it screwed me - not a fun april fools day joke boo woot boo. All I ever wanted in life was a Big Orphaned Cetacea and you have shattered my hopes and dreams woot.

Thank You for the misery

I was able to get to the make a payment screen and submitted the payment but I never got an e-mail... =/ This was around 10:10 am too.

Joshua: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"

darianwiccan wrote:Again the question must be asked: can we expect a link to download the mp3 of the music from the game?

yep, that tune really got in my head. Gonna be humming it all day arghh!

I got in on level 1. I got really lucky. I tried to get in on one of the other levels, but the page kept messing with me last night.

I finally broke out and got lucky and got to level 7, but the page was messed up.

I know I was tring to be greedy, but it's the bag o crap. I need to be greedy. Maybe I'll just try my luck at the lottery. See if I can win that one.

BTW woot gods. Please make this a nice bag o crap. I'm getting married at the end of the month and need some crappy wedding gifts. I'd register here, but then I'd have to register everyday. And that is a bit of a hassel. If I get something extra crappy, it could mean the begining of a crappy life with my future wife.

Woot is jerking you around on April Fool's Day and you are surprised/shocked/mad? You are obviously new around here.

Signed an addict who will most certainly have her Woot window open and her f5 key busy all day.

I succeeded on level 7, after who knows how many tries...Hint, I started trying when the objective was level 4. Level 8 and 9 sold out before I could succeed at reaching those levels (which I never did), and by the time I read about the shortcut link on level 10, I got a "quit trying to bogart the Big Orphaned Cetacea, you already got one" message once...after that it was all redirects to wine.woot or kids.woot. Then it was all sold out. But hey, I was thrilled to score one.

Be nice if Woot's Flesh programmers changed it the game so that it wasn't random chance whether or not you got blocked with no chance to avoid the obstacles. Or maybe that is their intention, that your success at the game IS up to random chance.

jshrop wrote:The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different outcome.

The funny thing about that is that's exactly what you had to do to get the links to work.

rebeltreble wrote:Someone just said in another forum they got an email from Woot that the BOCs from the external links are invalid and their order what cancelled. Can anyone confirm?

This would make me happy.

why is every one so negative.

every one who didn't get on, stop being mad, you didnt get the joke the people that did got a bag. it was a joke. calm down.

and the people that got one and are complaining it took forever, you got a bag unlike the rest of us, so be happy you got one.

and every one stop being mad about the fake woot off. it was again a joke, woot got you calm down, they already gave you a chance to get a bag.

did you expect any thing less from woot. on april fools day.

This was brilliant woot! People were “fooled” because they didn’t want to risk being “fooled” (by persistently trying the link) while those who were willing to risk being fools scored the Big Orphaned Cetacea.

750 sold per level

10 levels

7500 sold... that's way more than usual. Probably going to be real junk this time.

That was... FULL of FAIL and SUCK.

Seriously, the game's stacked, and I'm not even supposed to be playing games at work. HR violation for a whole lotta NOTHING.