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Why won't my Episode Race start? (Edited by CM: Fixed)!
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Hello @dumbledore no what you are experiencing isn't new and the stop/start nature of the Episode Race is a common complaint amongst those players at the end of the map and had been since the release of level 10,000.
My guess is that because you are near to the end of the map and because so few people have completed the Episode that you are in the Episode Race can't work. This is because the Episode Race is a record of how quickly people have completed Episodes rather than being a live race.
@QueenB the issue of the 'flag' appearing and then the Race not starting has been an issue since at least 2021
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That is why I have been hanging back a few episodes and I only play now if the race is available, they try to trick you with that fake start the race flag but if you wait it out eventually it will start!
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@Boybinary Yup I did that. I didn't do any new levels for 2 weeks. Guess that wasn't long enough. I will give it another try.
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I just started doing that in February, I had no gold, now I have about14.5 K just from episode and a few top that but that got old quick! On another note, how do you give so many lives? did you write a script or is it a Facebook thing?
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On the lives I have been retired for over 10 years so I don't mind spending an hour giving lives. I do the same as everyone else open and close the game. I used to play on Facebook it really had a lot of issues so now I only play on Windows for my main game and my tablet on the second game. Am I sending to many lives?
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Not at all! I personally don't use them because I rarely lose a life only if the game glitches!I have been retired since 2006 myself, I guess I am not as thoughtful as you!
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I do have a very short friends list. Under 20 on my main that includes you and 5 others from here. My other game have 5 friends so it's not that hard..
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I would like to add my own experience to this thread also and I'm not sure the statement that we lose the episode race because there are not enough recordings of other players can be the answer here.
I play on mobile only and I used to reliably get the episode race last time I was at the rainbow end (that is before I gave up at 15,000 when the levels got too boring). After I restarted playing I had the episode race and I was at the top of the game for several weeks until it suddenly disappeared three weeks ago. As we are always two weeks behind Windows players I cannot see how a lack of data from other players can be the issue here, King are finding excuses if that is the reason they give. Since the episode race is a timed event the other players are irrelevant anyway and King could pit us all against the same four players. If @Carol-38 gets the episode race then so should I and everyone else playing on mobile. However, as this does only seem to be an issue for players at the top of the map it probably is related to this somehow, so I will follow your advice @Boybinary and wait. I might play a few old episodes to gather boosters and start the episode race in a brand new game after reinstalling, then log in to my game and see what I find. In the meantime I have two other games to amuse myself with.
Thanks for all those lives @cookiemae ! I do use them, so do appreciate your generosity. But if like me you find that all that mouse clicking and swiping is hard on our aging joints then better lay off a bit. You'll need those joints for next year's All Stars!
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I find it all very strange @christinewupp I've had it happen a few times in the past, but a long time ago, and I didn't believe it was because there wasn't enough recordings of other players either. Think it's more to do with them keep messing around with the system, doing lots of different things, for example adding Yeti's with a bun one end and a stick the other 🤭 They need to stop messing around and concentrate on keeping things simple, oh and add a ⬇️ feature 🤞
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Hi everyone and Happy Friday 🤩
I wanted to let you know that I have passed on your feedback as well as your game ID so the team can investigate further.
We suspect that the reason could be that there are not enough recordings of other players to start the Race but team is going to take a closer look at this 👍
I'll keep you all updated once I know more,
Thank you all for your patience and I'm truly sorry for the inconvenience caused!
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