And now that it’s back up, there are fewer prizes, less interesting, and generally cheaper ones.

I mean, ONE eyeshadow? Really? For 75 tickets per chance?

Well, it’s been a week. Still no Tumble Tiles or Match & Merge.

And trying to branch out, I just tried “Landing Party” and got… NO tickets. At all.

I’m totally getting the problems with the ads! I like playing Arctic Tri-Peaks Solitaire, which is a relatively fast game to play, and today when I’m trying to play, EVERY TIME I hit PLAY AGAIN, I get the HBO ad for the Harry Potter films, which is NOT a short ad and doesn’t allow you to skip past it after a few seconds. I swear I’m spending as much time waiting for that ad to get over as I do playing the game! It would be one thing if it were, say, every fifth time, or just the first time I tried to play it. But before EVERY SINGLE GAME?! Really, HSN?! What were you thinking???

…And now we’re back to the fixed, non-random sequence of blocks that make it impossible to win…

Ditto. I never click on ads, because you never know when one of them is going to infect your machine. I’m a writer and my laptop is my livelihood and I won’t risk it. If I need a break from writing to let an idea for a scene percolate, I play games. If I need to shop I go direct to the website.

Yeah, and since they’re actually showing (in some cases) competitors’ commercials, I really think they rather messed up big-time on this…

Well, the problem with Cubis seems to be more or less fixed. I went all the way through all of the (very many) levels and out the top of the game. And got…
…60 points.
Whoopie…
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…Actually, I can’t seem to get any game to load now. All of them are giving me the same error message.

And now it won’t load at all. I keep getting:

Error.

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