ok, i won a cup of coffee........................por fin!!

I actually have a timmies cup infront of me... I won a *drum roll*...

donut!. go me.

got another muffin the other day....sweet.... ever notice that the quality of the coffee varies huge store to store. one near my office downtown is just terribly bitter, while one near my house is very tasty.

So a doctor buying a cup of coffee and winning is the "wrong people"? Who are the "right" people? :rolleyes:

I was unsure if lucifer's post was meant as sarcasm or not. 2 doctors wona camping trip... good for them

I win cookies all the damn time. I really dont eat many cookies... but usually I just win the chance to play again...

I notice the same thing. Out of the 3 Tim Hortons that are convenient for me (2 of the 4 on campus ones, and the one just off campus), 1 of them always has horrible coffee (and service too). The other ones are usually pretty decent.

My biggest pet peeve with Timmies... The cups. They're horrible and always spill and leak.

Also, I'm getting mighty annoyed with my lack of winning. Averaging a cup a day and still no prize :|

I would guess that the variation in coffee flavour would have to do with the following
- The water - The quality and taste of the water is not controlled by Tim Hortons
- The amount of time a pot is left on the burner - coffee is supposed to be poured out after a certain time yet if the employees don't do it the coffee could start getting a burnt flavour. Also note, scott_p_1, that this would be congruent with your bad service in some locations.

after 4 cups a day so far i have won 3 free coffees and one free muffin. not very good odds

6 cups of coffee, no wins. The Gods must hate me.

It's a sign from Tim Horton on high... drink more coffee. :lol:

I swear, in the last week I've had more than 11 cups of Timmies. I win every so often, which boosts my caffein count.
Hope my liver doesn't explode.

3 to 4 times a day and still nothing, oh well i'll keep trying

I finally won a donut! You're all jealous.

I was also talking with my girlfriend, and she heard (probably just a rumour) that the winning cups are all marked.
So when we looked at our cups (my donut winner, and her loser), we noticed that there was a difference in the colouring of the front driver side wheel in the SUV. My wheel looked like it was coloured properly, whereas hers had a white space on it. It looked to me like the colouring machine was just off a tad and left a small piece uncoloured.

Anybody else want to look me look into the Tim Hortons conspiracy theory?

What would be the purpose of marking them?

I have a question though. In the rest of Canada, outside of quebec, are the cups printed in French and English. I don't remember. What I am asking is, is the winning or losing message bilingual or is it only in English?

Yeah, I assumed it wasn't true until we noticed a difference between my winning cup and her loser. But, after a couple more losing cups, it's been debunked. No marked cups.
Also, everything it bilingual (as far as I know)

I have bought my father in law two coffees this past week and both were winners? hmmmmmm.........

I'm pretty sure that they are english only, at least here in Alberta. I haven't unrolled very far, but right where the arrow points, it is all english.

Two or three a week since the rolling of the rim started. 0 wins so far.

A mind boggling figure occured to me as I stared at a cup. Odds are 1 in 9 to win. 25 million prizes. That means 225,000,000 cups of coffee during this promotion.
That is quite a few pots.

Hmm if there are some english and some in frenchand some bilingual - Do you think they know which language they printed the grand prize winners in?

(alienated albertan rant)

Well, they would print the winners in a random method. Then all the winners from Alberta, parts of Ontario, and sometimes BC have to give thier winning cups to the rest of the country, mostly to the east coast and a disproportionatly large amount going to Quebec. Those winning cups are then reprinted to be bilingual and sold accordingly.

Or I don't really know.

I like to think of it as 10 cups of coffee for adult in Canada during the promotion.

man, im on like my 12th one, and all i have to say is 1 in 9 my ass =P

some coffee place out there is stocking up on my winners!

Another loser today.

I tried a larger size today based on the following question that entered my mind.

Do you think that the proportion of winning cups is different by size?
- A larger size means a higer sales value for Tims
- A smaller size means more margin on the sale (although the actual cost of the coffee in a cup is probably negligeable so the difference in margin may be so minute).

Some funnies for y'all:

http://www.resonation.ca/archives/rollup.jpg

Hmm, and I have another funny one here, but can't find the pic online. It's a blowjob winner!

edit: Here it is.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ind/Winner.jpg


Btw, I've only won a donut, which I can't bring myself to redeem and eat. Yucky things, those.

I know the girl who just won the Envoy here in Medicine Hat. She's selling it....

i on a 15-0 run of winning a chance to play again....nice!

OK... Here is a "DIRE WARNING" for all of you Hortons Fans.

The other day I won Coffee and a Donut in two separate "rolls" of the rim. I tore off the top of the cups and placed them in my pocket. When I discovered them again they had been laundered... I was emptying the dryer.

The portion of the winning rims that tell you what you have won is WATER SOLUABLE.

NOW I AM OUT A COFFEE AND A DONUT! WAAAAAAHHHH!

It's a good thing that wasn't one of the Big prizes.

Have a great day !

I don't think that I'd tear the rim off a cup that won one of the big prizes. I'd be too scared that I'd somehow void the rim.

Does anybody know the verification process that the big winners go through? It can't be just as simple as showing them a torn off rim saying "Won Envoy". Is there a verification number there too? Do you have to keep the whole cup?

Never been able to win anything in these contests

the missus got a coffee today, damn near floored me, stopped our combined 23-0 streak.

missus got another coffee today, 2 in a row. its like xmas in april.

I have a free donut rim in my locker at work. I'm bound to forget it there until the contest ends. I suppose I could turn it in next year. Haha!

The cups will probably be different next year

Shhhhh, don't say that! I want that damn free donut!

just got an email from a buddy who was out last night at work to pick up coffees and got freaking 2 camping gear wins out of 6 coffee's he bought for co-workers. good for them i guess....grrrrr

I lose again.


Take a look at this:
http://timhortons.com/en/pdfs/2005ContestRules_en.pdf

This is a PDF of the contest rules. I has the total Roll Up the Rim cup distribution by region as well as the prizes (and therefore chances of winning - for the big prizes) by region.

SHOCKING!

The Tim Horton's that I visit ran out of Roll up the Rim to Win cups in my preferred size.

Another year passes with no prizes coming my way.

I just realized that I had Tim Horton's this moring and I didn't roll up the rim... I think it's still in the car.

I'm still waiting for my "just give up, you're not winning this" rim.

Aha! The coveted 'Get Lost,Eh!?' rim.