Do you want to win when the edge rolls up? This Waterloo researcher has Tim Hortons online prizes suggestions

If you want to win prizes from the Tim Hortons Roll Up to win the game this year, an associate professor of the University of Waterloo says that the best time to play online is in the morning on the weekends.

“I had the maximum success at 8:30 in the morning (in) the weekend, winning about once in three,” Michael Wallace told CBC News, which is at the Department of Statistics and Actual Sciences of the University of Waterloo.

Almost every year since the game of the coffee chain moved to a digital platform, Wallace has used the data that Tim Hortons publishes on his website to try to understand The best time to play for the highest winning rate.

In 2023, Wallace said he won three times out of four at 3 in the morning, the best time to play at least for that year. This is a winning rate of 75 %. He said he didn’t deal for 2024.

The glasses of paper are back

Wallace said the game was simpler when only the physical cups were.

“You bought a drink, you took the cup, roll the edge,” he said. “Your chances are one in six and there is nothing you could really do about it.”

In 2020, the game moved to a digital app, but this year Tim Hortons decided to report the glasses of paper while still keeping the digital version of the game.

With the physical cups added to the equation, Wallace said that the players had to strategies a little more. He said the players had to choose where they would have had the highest possibilities to win.

“Are you better to receive that extra digital entrance or are you better with those out of six probability on the paper glass?” he said.

Austin Adair, who plays the game, who spoke with CBC News while he was about to go to the center of Kitchener, Ontario, Tim Hortons.

Adair said she was surprised to learn that someone had understood the strategies for the highest winning rates.

“It is actually a little nice,” he said. “I find myself not getting anything more than I do a free coffee or a donut.”

With the winning rates on low paper tapo, Wallace said players can instead get digital items and play when winning possibilities are higher.

He said that the best time to play this year seems to be around 8:30 in the morning during the weekends, when – according to his calculations – the chances of winning a person are about one in three.

Adair said that nice people are still paying attention and playing.

“Overall it is fantastic to see that some people are still having fun.”

Changes to the distribution of prizes

Wallace also noticed how Tim Hortons redistributed the prizes this year, so more than them “are available when more people play”.

He said that 3 in the morning are no longer a good time to play, unlike the previous years when the game was completely digital. This year, the winning rate at 3 in the morning is one out of nine, or about 11 %.

“There are fewer prizes available, let’s say, in the middle of the night, when fewer people play,” he said. “(It is) drastically more complicated, strategies in terms of time to maximize your chances of winning.”

Tim Hortons claims to appreciate the “passion” behind Wallace’s efforts.

“We know that there are many Roll -Up enthusiasts like Prof. Wallace who commit themselves to playing every year and we appreciate their passion to maximize all the ways in which they can earn rolls,” said a TIM Hortons’ media representative in a news of the CBC in an E -mail.

Wallace said that even in previous years, Tim Hortons has not expressed concern about what he did.

“Once we had a chat and established what was happening, they were really useful,” he said. “In reality they contributed to donating some of my charity prizes … it was really good on their part.”

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Not in it for the prizes

The Tim Hortons Rollit Up to win the game this year has a wide range of prizes, including fully electric vehicles, all-inclusive trips, electronics, gift cards, coffee, donuts and timbit.

Despite his strategies, Wallace said he won mostly coffee and donuts over the years. In fact, he said, he actually won his biggest prize this year.

“For the first time ever, I won something bigger than a coffee or donut,” he said. “You have to cling to your hats … I won a TIM Hortons gift card from $ 25.”

Wallace said he is not trying to break the game for the prizes.

“As I said, you will only win coffee and donuts,” he said. “I do it mainly because I’m just a little curious about the numbers … (e) because it gives me really good stories and examples that I can use in my statistics lesson.”

Tim Hortons declared in his and -mail which is “the proud Roll -Up has become an exciting way for the professor to introduce his students in the world of statistics and probability”.

Rollevare to win races until March 23. The prizes must be claimed by May 4th.