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This section may include overviews for Offers/Deals or Instructional Guides. Applicable, to individuals completing Offers on “Get Paid To” sites (e.g., FreeCash, InboxDollars, MyPoints, Swagbucks, and more).

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Swagbucks

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I often talk about Swagbucks and the various games, bank accounts, and debit cards I sign up for there. I also talk about the Gift Cards and PayPal Cash I have redeemed for using the service.

This is a guide to using Swagbucks, so you can get started earning some money on the side. If you find this information useful or entertaining, can I please ask you to hit that sweet Like button and Follow?

Swagbucks.com is the web’s most popular rewards program that gives you free gift cards and cash for the everyday things you already do online. Earn points when you shop at your favorite retailers, watch entertaining videos, search the web, answer surveys, and find great deals. Redeem points for gift cards to your favorite retailers like Amazon and Walmart, or get cash back from PayPal.

$2,795.27 Lifetime Earnings

You can install the SwagButton in your browser to alert you to deals and offers for the website you browse daily, and get credit for your online purchases.

Swagbucks Member Recognition Program: As you continue to earn points on the service, you will increase in Rank and earn additional benefits commiserate with your Tier. I am currently ranked at Sapphire, which includes getting up to five (5) Gift Cards instantly upon redemption ($50 each). So I don’t have to wait up to 3 days for delivery.

Rank rewards have been improved as of 2021.

  1. Pearl 
  2. Opal 
  3. Onyx 
  4. Amethyst 
  5. Jade 
  6. Topaz 
  7. Sapphire 
  8. Emerald 
  9. Ruby 
  10. Diamond 

Pearl 

Achieved with 250 Lifetime SB Earned

Benefits:

  1. 50 SB Rebate on your next gift card redemption.
  2. Double SB on your next survey completion.

Opal 

Achieved with 1,000 Lifetime SB Earned

Benefits:

  1. 75 SB Rebate on your next gift card redemption.
  2. Double SB on your next 2 survey completions.

Onyx 

Achieved with 5,000 Lifetime SB Earned

Benefits:

  1. 100 SB Rebate on your next gift card redemption.
  2. Double SB on your next 2 survey completions.

Amethyst 

Achieved with 10,000 Lifetime SB Earned

Benefits:

  1. 100 SB Rebate on your next gift card redemption.
  2. Double SB on your next 3 survey completions.

Jade 

Achieved with 50,000 Lifetime SB Earned

Benefits:

  1. 125 SB Rebate on your next gift card redemption.
  2. Double SB on your next survey completion.
  3. 300 SB Bonus on your next cash-back shopping purchase.*

* You will receive this bonus when your SB from a qualifying purchase is credited to your account.

Topaz 

Achieved with 100,000 Lifetime SB Earned

Benefits:

  1. 125 SB Rebate on your next gift card redemption.
  2. Double SB on your next 2 survey completions.
  3. 300 SB Bonus on your next cash-back shopping purchase.*
  4. Real-time shipment of 5 gift cards up to $50 (or £25) in value each month**
  5. Get real-time access to your shopping SB for 1 transaction, up to 1,000 SB per transaction per month. Excludes Travel. Credits within 2 hours.**

* You will receive this bonus when your SB from a qualifying purchase is credited to your account.
**This is a Sustained Benefit. To sustain and continue receiving this benefit, you must earn at least 2,500 SB within 6 months of reaching this level.

Sapphire 

Achieved 250,000 Lifetime SB Earned

Benefits:

  1. 125 SB Rebate on your next gift card redemption.
  2. Double SB on your next 2 survey completions.
  3. 500 SB Bonus on your next cash-back shopping purchase.*
  4. 2 additional hours to redeem any Swag Code**
  5. Real-time shipment of 5 gift cards up to $50 (or £25) in value each month**
  6. Get real-time access to your shopping SB for 1 transaction, up to 1,000 SB per transaction per month. Excludes Travel. Credits within 2 hours.**

* You will receive this bonus when your SB from a qualifying purchase is credited to your account.
**This is a Sustained Benefit. To sustain and continue receiving this benefit, you must earn at least 2,500 SB within 6 months of reaching this level.

Emerald 

Achieved with 500,000 Lifetime SB Earned

Benefits:

  1. 125 SB Rebate on your next gift card redemption.
  2. Double SB on your next 3 survey completions.
  3. 1,000 SB Bonus on your next cash-back shopping purchase.*
  4. 2 additional hours to redeem any Swag Code**
  5. Real-time shipment of 5 gift cards up to $50 (or £25) in value each month**
  6. Get real-time access to your shopping SB for 2 transactions, up to 1,000 SB per transaction per month. Excludes Travel. Credits within 2 hours.**

* You will receive this bonus when your SB from a qualifying purchase is credited to your account.
**This is a Sustained Benefit. To sustain and continue receiving this benefit, you must earn at least 2,500 SB within 6 months of reaching this level.

Ruby 

Achieved with 1,000,000 Lifetime SB Earned

Benefits:

  1. A 15,000 SB ($150) one-time bonus!
  2. Double SB on your next 3 survey completions.
  3. 2 additional hours to redeem any swag code*
  4. Real-time shipment of 5 gift cards up to $50 (or £25) in value each month**
  5. Get real-time access to your shopping SB for 3 transactions, up to 1,000 SB per transaction per month. Excludes Travel. Credits within 2 hours.**

*This is a Sustained Benefit. To sustain and continue receiving this benefit, you must earn at least 5,000 SB within 6 months of reaching this level.

Diamond 

Achieved with 2,000,000 Lifetime SB Earned

Benefits:

  1. A 25,000 SB ($250) one-time bonus!
  2. Double SB on your next 3 survey completions.
  3. 2 additional hours to redeem any Swag Code*
  4. Real-time shipment of 5 gift cards up to $50 (or £25) in value each month**
  5. Get real-time access to your shopping SB for 3 transactions, up to 1,000 SB per transaction per month. Excludes Travel. Credits within 2 hours.**

*This is a Sustained Benefit. To sustain and continue receiving this benefit, you must earn at least 5,000 SB within 6 months of reaching this level.

Gaming

Swagbucks – Afk Arena

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AFK Arena

Introduction: AFK Arena is one of the more visually appealing game offers on Swagbucks. The developer has spent quite a bit of energy on polishing the game and there have been some franchise crossover events due to the game’s worldwide popularity. I’ll write the guide based on your expectations of getting the best terms of Legendary+ in 30 days. Don’t forget to Like and Follow.

  • Offer Terms: There have been a couple different flavors of requirements for this game over the years. The basic requirement You may find is to get a Legendary+ hero. More difficult requirements ask for a Mythic or Mythic+ hero.
  • Expected rewards should be between $25 to $60 for completing the offer. Watch out for lower rewards from some of the lesser offer walls.
  • Time limits for the offers can be 14 days, 25 days, or 30 days. I would say 25 days is the minimum if you don’t to spend any money completing the offer. The 14 can be done but it will require spending more than $25. If the reward is 50-60 then that may be acceptable to you.

Heroes: You get new heroes mostly by summoning them at the Tavern. There are 2 Summoning Scroll types and a Friendship Summon option. The Basic Scroll will give you a random hero of any faction and the Advanced Scroll will give you a random hero from a specific faction.

If you collect 100 Hearts from players on your friends list you can summon 10 heroes, the same as the Basic Scrolls. The faction of the advanced summon changes each day and can be seen on the Tavern screen at the bottom.

Various shops in Rantarn offer additional ways to exchange for Purple heroes that may aid you in completing the offer terms. It is best to focus on a single Faction since you are limited in resources.

You can pay Diamonds to switch to a specific faction before completing your advanced summons. It is highly suggested you only complete summons in groups of 10 for improved odds of getting Purple (Elite) heroes. Diamonds can also be used to summon heroes and I would suggest saving up your Diamonds for this purpose.

Evolution Guide: There are 6 Ranks for heroes in the game. Green (Common), Blue (Rare), Purple (Elite), Yellow (Legendary), Red (Mythic) and White (Ascended). There are also 3 Tiers for leveling your heroes: Common, Legendary, and Ascended.

The Green ones are junk and can be exchanged at the Rickety Cart for fodder. You want the Purple ones as they can go up to Legendary+ for the offer. The Blues will be ascended to be used as ingredients for making your Legendary+ hero.

Mirael

There are a few Purple heroes that you will receive as a freebie during the first week and these are your best bet for completing the offer. The Lightbearers are the easiest to work on to complete the offer terms. You get the elite+ hero Belinda on Day 7 of the login event.

May 14th EDIT: I started a new account and have found that it is no longer Belinda. Other wikis still list Belinda. This will make the offer more difficult.

The steps for ascensions are as follows. To make a Rare+ hero you need 2 copies of the same hero at Rare rarity plus the one that will be upgraded. So 3 copies total. The Rare+ can be combined with another Rare+ of the same faction to make an Elite (Purple). To go from Elite to Elite+ you just need another copy of the same Elite hero. Upgrading the Elite+ to Legendary will require you to collect two other Elite+ from the same faction. Legendary+ is much easier to upgrade, you only need to get an Elite+ copy of that same hero to use as upgrade material. So for example, if I had Belinda up to Yellow and wanted to upgrade her I would need to get 2 more Belinda’s at the Purple stage and combine them to make an Elite+. The Elite+ Belinda would be fed to the Yellow Belinda to make a Yellow+.

In total, you will need 72 rare heroes as fodder and 8 Elites (4 copies of the same elite and 4 as fodder). The chosen hero does need to be one that can reach the Yellow tier. In the image below we see 2 blues and 3 purples, of the purples pictured only Rosaline would be useable for the offer. The other 2 purples are just lucky draws of Rare tier heroes and they would be saved as fodder for making the Legendary stage hero.

Lucky Summon

I would like to note that the Facebook share option will reward you and should be used every time it is available. Most importantly it still works even if you don’t have Facebook installed on your phone. There are a few other games where this holds true and you can get “Sharing” rewards without spamming your poor Facebook friends.

Returning to the above image example; If I wanted to make Rosaline my Legendary+ hero I would get another Elite copy of her and combine them to make an Elite+ version. Next, I would get another purple Ogi and Ira combining them to make 2 Elite+ as fodder. They would be fed to the Elite+ Rosaline and she would then become Legendary (yellow). The last step would be to collect 2 more Purple Rosaline’s which would be combined into an Elite+ Rosaline and then fed to the Yellow Rosaline who then would become a Legendary+ Rosaline. That would complete the offer terms.

Fan Art: Masks

Daily tasks: Scrolls, Diamonds, and Soul stones can be acquired each day and every week by completing the regular quests. You also have Guild daily tasks you can complete which will reward you with fodder.

Tips on heroes: For combat, you want to place your Tanks to the front and your casters/DPS to the back. A single healer should be all you need to keep the group healthy. You will get Faction bonuses to your hero’s stats depending on the mix in the group. I favored Lightbearers initially but later mixed in the Wilder heroes. Tasi the little fairy has a Stun ability which gives your heroes time to trigger their big moves like group healing, invulnerability AoE damage, and DoT’s.

2nd Lucky Summon

Events: The events run weekly and monthly and will offer chances at Purple Heroes and Diamonds. There are also Freebies available in the Store so check there often. Gift codes are frequently made available by the developer. Gift code: AFKMarkiplier is usable until June 2021.

If you need guides to Combat or other game functions not covered in this Offer Guide you can check out the AFK Arena Wiki. If you found any use in my guide please give a Like and a Follow.

Gaming

Evony TKR: 1 Gold Equipment

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The guide you may have seen here previously was sadly incorrect on several points. The below guide was written by a Reddit user and it has been confirmed as working.

Originally Posted on the “FreeCash.com” Reddit Sub by the user (u/Brave-Interaction511)

4 basic attributes mean King’s equipment, not just any gold equipment.

Cost: $25-50

Time: 6-14 days (this is based on people who I know did it, but that was also before this guide existed)

This credit is for me on Lootably btw. Others did it on AdGem (which paid a lot more, 140k).

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Want to address some things before the actual steps.

“Don’t want to spend”: I don’t think this can be done for free within 30 days because you can only produce 12 materials a day max w/o speeding and I seriously doubt you could make up for the rest purely through alliance, subordinate cities, events, etc. in the time limit.

“Can you do it in a day?”: Possibly, if you spend like $50 (mostly for gems). Keep in mind you have to keep refreshing the scroll chest (18,230 gems). (Also it should show up at market level 21.)

Packs and stuff: For the building part look for the most competitive packs (top of the inbox, use double down coupon). The pack price/contents reset daily. You need at least 2 to speed the keep. Keep an eye out for any good crafting pack deals, and collect your consumption event rewards!! (bottom, might be hidden by arrow). You might see some great gems deals I didn’t or something, so you’ll just have to use your best judgment on that.

Some numbers:

The equipment needs 60 gold materials in total.

1 gold material = 27 blue materials. 1 blue material takes 273 gems to speed up.

So 27 blue materials cost 7,371 gems to produce & speed up.

You will pick up a bunch of materials and random equipment to disassemble so you don’t need to produce all 1,620. Just most of them.

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Steps:

These steps sort of overlap so please read all before you do it. 🙂

1. Building. Level the keep to 21. Build the research factory & upgrade that to 21. Build a forge, work on leveling that to 21 too (but you won’t need it till the end). If you’re trying to buy the scroll then you need a level 21 market as well.

2. Alliance. Start trying to join a good alliance before you hit 21 so you can get a head start on the scroll. (There is a cooldown for switching alliances btw). You’ll get a bunch of resources and speedups that’ll help with your keep and other buildings too. If you tap the 3 dots above alliance, then go to ranks and look at kills you’ll see some good alliances to join. Once one lets you in, teleport there and whenever a powerful player starts a war against a monster/boss, join that with 1 troop. This is directly what I was told to do by my alliance so you’re not doing anything weird here.

3. Obtain the king’s scroll. Bosses Infrit, Griffin, and Junior Cerberus drop the king’s scroll chests. As mentioned earlier you can also buy it on the Black Market for 18,230 gems. The king’s sword doesn’t have credit.

4. Materials. Open up every witch’s bag and chest you have (except resource ones of course). Make sure you are checking events too. If you have any random equipment in your inventory, disassemble that too. Go to your forge and under craft you’ll see the gold equipment that matches your scroll. Just tap on those materials and compose. See what you need and go produce it at the research factory. I’ve already gone over the numbers above so you can figure out how many gems you might need to fill in what’s missing.

5. Craft. If you’re short on speedups then go to your monarch and look under “fame”, collect everything there, and then tap on the monarch gear and look if you have one that speeds up crafting. Equip that. Now assuming you have all the materials all you have to do is go back to the forge, go to “craft”, and craft it, and speed it up. (Also this credited within a few minutes for me but don’t forget to take screenshots of this process in case you do have a tracking issue.) You don’t need to refine it! You’re done.

6. Congratulations!! You’re a legend. Enjoy.

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MyPoints: A Detailed Guide for New Users

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MyPoints is from the same parent company as Swagbucks and InboxDollars. The main difference I have found is the point values are lower than the other two platforms. You are allowed to have a single account with each platform.

You can earn Points in a bunch of ways. For example:
Shopping online, using the site as a starting point
Clicking on emails they send out on behalf of partners
Booking travel with the sites you already trust
Taking surveys
Playing online games

Welcome Bonus for new users: Spend $20 or more (excluding taxes, shipping & handling, and special processing fees) through the MyPoints.com website, the Score! browser extension or Bonus Mail emails in the first 30 days of membership to receive a $10 Bonus in your account. A $10 Bonus will be awarded in the form of Points deposited into your MyPoints account: $10 Bonus = 1,750 Points. Full terms of the offer here.

Here is my Referral link MyPoints, which will get you an extra bonus, or if you prefer, you can use this non-referral MyPoints link.

  1. Click, sign up, register, and verify your account via email.
  2. You will also be prompted to verify via text message when you redeem your points.
  3. Complete some initial demographic questions to build your survey profile.
  4. Make sure to complete the signup on the landing page before navigating away, or it won’t count.

Completing your To-Do list each day can earn 10 points plus a little more for each task you complete.

A. Vote in the Daily Poll
Weigh in on the daily poll and see what other MyPoint members think.

B. Magic Receipts
Add an In-Store Deal to your shopping list.

C. Deal of the Day
Get Free Shipping On $85+ Order Earn 8 Points Per Dollar

D. Complete a Watch Activity
Earn 2 points while being entertained and informed.

E. Earn Points from Discover
Over 50,000 Points are waiting for you with MyPoints Deals.

F. Attempt A Survey
Earn up to 5 points for attempting a survey, even if you don’t qualify, up to 5 times a day.

G. Complete a Survey
Provide your opinions to partners and earn Points for completing a survey.

H.
Meet Your Daily Goal
Meet your personalized Daily Goal every day to earn 10 additional Bonus Points.

There are many other ways you can earn points that can be redeemed for gift cards.

  1. Shop: With the In-Store shopping, when you shop at participating local stores and pay with your eligible linked card, you will automatically earn points on qualifying purchases. You can also add items to your shopping list and then, after purchasing in-store, submit your receipts to get points for the corresponding items.
  2. Deals: On the top menu of the site, there is a Deals tab, and you can view Deals by category. You can search by category, including electronics, Health and Wellness, Home, Sports and Leisure, and Toys and Hobbies.
  3. Coupons: Earn 25 Points for each coupon you redeem at your local grocery store. Plus, earn 1 Point per coupon printed. A maximum of 500 coupon prints per month are eligible for Points, but there is no limit on the 25 Points per redemption. Points for the coupon print activity will be posted the next business day.
  4. Surveys: You can earn up to 5 points for attempting a survey. The surveys are sorted by Estimated time to complete, and they list the number of points you can earn if you qualify.
  5. Watch: Once you start the playlist, it will auto-play until completion or until paused by the user. You must complete this playlist to receive the points. It’s usually 5-10 videos.
    Videos are only available on the site via desktop or laptop, but you can earn additional Points for watching videos on your smartphone or tablet with the MyPoints TV app. Available in iOS and Android.
  6. Games: You can play “Cash” games that require a deposit and earn rewards. Cash Competitions is operated by WorldWinner.com. WorldWinner Rewards Points are different from the Points earned in the MyPoints program and may not be used for MyPoints rewards.
  7. Travel: You can use the MyPoints portal and links to book flights and hotel stays and earn points for the bookings. There are travel offers and travel deals available regularly.
  8. More: Some other options are the 7-Day Challenge, Search and Earn: using MyPoints as your default search engine will give you a chance at earning more points, and the Score! The browser extension will pop up offers and deals when visiting sites with a corresponding offer.

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Swagbucks: West Game

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West Game

UPDATE: GAME OFFER IS AVAILABLE AGAIN @ 6,000 SB | As of 12/25/21 | OFFER CREDITS AT TOWN CENTER LEVEL 16.

I finally got this one to work. I had received a mailing on the Swagbucks website advertising this game at 6,000 SB. The link didn’t go through, and it said the offer wasn’t available at the time.

Later on, I was having trouble with AdGem and thought I had been banned. However, it is working now, and I can access the AdGem offers again.

So maybe it was just a technical issue on their end.

Unfortunately, the game is no longer being offered at 6,000 SB.

I had seen it at 1,000 SB and later at 1,500 SB and was disappointed. Then last night it showed up as 3,500 SB, which is worth it in my mind.

Offer terms are to “complete” Town Center level 18, which usually means getting to level 19.

The town layout doesn’t really feel like any of the other games I have played, so I couldn’t really call it a clone.

Gameplay is very standardized and follows the same set themes of the genre. A nice difference is that the resource buildings are automated and will accumulate resources without having to tap on them to collect them every time.

There are caps on resource storage space, so you will need to keep an eye on the numbers if you are away for a time.

Starting out, you don’t have a lot of resources, and gathering resources is tedious. I would suggest only using Siege units for Gathering as they have the best Load capacity.

You can only use 1 March until Town Center level 8. Use up all your energy fighting mobs and bosses, and then send out your gathering units. Heroes can be imprisoned in this game, so never send your hero on the Gathering march.

Raising your VIP level is useful, and there are two tiers of VIP ranks.

The second tier unlocks after reaching VIP 10. I got to VIP 5 on the second day of gameplay, and it has made a big difference in getting through the building upgrades.

I have also crafted Equipment that supports Troop Load, Farm Production, and Coin Production. Crafting materials will mostly come from your Alliance gift boxes.

You probably don’t need to spend any money on this game other than maybe getting the 99-cent starter hero.

Everything else in the store seems to be $5 or more. I expect this game offer to take about a week to finish.