{"id":5817,"date":"2022-12-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5817"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:10:20","slug":"numerical-sequences-and-travel-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/22\/numerical-sequences-and-travel-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerical Sequences and Travel Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all those times that your math teacher said \u201cyou\u2019ll need to know this stuff when you\u2019re an adult, so pay attention\u201d? For me I guess that turned out to be true, but that was really a function of becoming a physicist and not because it was intrinsically necessary to survive as an adult.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that having some basic numerical sequence analysis skills can be useful though. For example, let\u2019s look at American Express offer URLs for possibly defunct pay over time links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>https:\/\/americanexpress.com\/activatenow38<\/li>\n<li>https:\/\/americanexpress.com\/activatenow39<\/li>\n<li>https:\/\/americanexpress.com\/activatenow40<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the sequence there? I\u2019d squirrel that one away and try different variations of the last two digits every couple of months for the foreseeable future. Chase operates the same way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>https:\/\/www.chase.com\/mybonus\/ink2q422<\/li>\n<li>https:\/\/www.chase.com\/mybonus\/inkq422<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Q1 of next year we\u2019ll probably see inkq123 and ink2q123 for example. We can probably replace ink with hyatt, united, ihg, southwest, or marriott (shudder) too.<\/p>\n<p>This trick works on offers, bonuses, applications, and in plenty of other places too, so always be probing. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5938\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"232\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1bc15055-54ef-4b24-a7f5-acee2139cfea-51937-00001c73dd63d4dd_file-300x232.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1bc15055-54ef-4b24-a7f5-acee2139cfea-51937-00001c73dd63d4dd_file-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1bc15055-54ef-4b24-a7f5-acee2139cfea-51937-00001c73dd63d4dd_file-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1bc15055-54ef-4b24-a7f5-acee2139cfea-51937-00001c73dd63d4dd_file-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1bc15055-54ef-4b24-a7f5-acee2139cfea-51937-00001c73dd63d4dd_file-1536x1187.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1bc15055-54ef-4b24-a7f5-acee2139cfea-51937-00001c73dd63d4dd_file-1320x1020.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1bc15055-54ef-4b24-a7f5-acee2139cfea-51937-00001c73dd63d4dd_file.jpg 1650w\" width=\"300\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The next bank anti-gamer strategy: The Fibonacci Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember all those times that your math teacher said \u201cyou\u2019ll need to know this stuff when you\u2019re an adult, so pay attention\u201d? 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