By Chris Emejuru, 2511053
An August 1, SFI President Gery Carson had announced the “merger” of SFI with GreatLife Worldwide. This in essence meant managing affiliates had ended at SFI, and affiliates were advised to go join GreatLife, paying for the first month of membership with Rewardicals.
However, life still goes on, for those not keen on joining GreatLife. The SFI website (sfimg.com) still comes up, though without all the bells and whistles it used to have. Instead it now starts with the merger announcement. The Games Division, Eager Zebra on TripleClicks, is still very much active and most of my activities now center on it. This allows members to generate Rewardicals. Once the Rewardicals hit 52,500 you can then turn them into $35 worth of Bitcoin. The following are my selected activities between August and November.
8026. August 2, Saturday. I did my SFI chores, playing games and doing the hits tracking download. The only task I could not do—as the button no longer showed on the SFI home page—was Daily Grand entry. The $9.99 I paid yesterday for “rank qualification” has a ₦16,483.50 local value and at the minimum ₦1.03 per Rewardical (based on Bitcoin exchange rate), I will need about 16,000 Rewardicals this month to break even, though at about ₦3 per Rewardical (based on Rewardical purchasing rate) it would be about 5,500 instead.
While reviewing SFI records, I saw that I earned 11,404 Rewardicals in July. The number one contributor was Daily Crown wins at 3,700 followed by HIDDEN at 3,439. Without even making any competitive effort, I was again on the top-10 list for HIDDEN last month. The hits download page still works at the SFI website, though I am not sure for how long. It is no longer accessible from the menu so I had to use the URL for it.
8063. Gery did respond to my post at the SFI Forum, and to his revelation that “2020 and COVID decimated SFI … been severely in the red every month for years” I thanked him and recalled how he used to be so positive all the time, like all had been going well. I was pleased to see later that someone had tipped me 50 Rewardicals for my reply post.
8100. With SFI affiliate operations stopped there was no need for me to set the usual hits-download alarm to wake at 5:45am, 15 minutes before SFI’s day ended locally; I will also need to revise our websites to remove the marketing links.
8203. During SFI chores I saw that the visiting of the Affiliate Center was still being tracked in the badges, and I now had a 7-day “active streak.” On July 31, my active streak was 3,568 days but with Gery’s announcement the next day stopping affiliate memberships I no longer saw the point in visiting the page daily. At SFI after completing more HIDDENs I created a Forum thread in the Ask Gery category, on how come SFI badges were still being updated; unlike before, I could not view it immediately after submitting. For the records, my 26 SFI badges at the end of July, 2025 are shown above.
8214. Someone had liked my Forum post about SFI badges enough to tip me 2 Rewardicals.
9011. Being the beginning of a new month, the first thing I did at SFI was to redeem 5,000 Rewardicals for the 200 ZCredit Gold Pack costing $9.99. I was a bit surprised to see that SFI awarded me 2,000 Rewardicals for maintaining SFI Badge Quest Grand Master rank in August. So SFI was not really over yet!
9066. After rounding off SFI chores with 5 HIDDENs I noticed that at the SFI Home page the FDM Premium+ badge was back, to replace the Limited Affiliate badge, and the ECommergy Member badge was also back. In terms of Rewardicals, I generated 7,542 in August (HIDDEN 1st with 3,627) but 11,404 in July (HIDDEN 2nd with 3,439 after Daily Crown winnings 3,700).
9206. Regarding the Grandmaster Poker streak that I lost on the 17th of this month, I considered sending a support ticket to SFI as it was due to the TripleClicks site timing out that day. I later changed my mind on seeing there was no extra points to be gained for a long streak, points and badge only got awarded on reaching 5 days.
9243. I was surprised SFI sent me an email marking my 10th year anniversary today. Why continue with this when affiliateship was supposed to be over? So again, SFI was not completely over yet!
9265. I played more HIDDENs with ZCredits—spotting a double white fox. Also, more Zackjacks with ZCredits, to hit the 5-day streak and get the badge.
9302. I was happy to see I’d moved up the Badge Quest ranking at TripleClicks to Grand Master, which I read came with 2,000 Rewardicals just like that of SFI.
10013. For a beginning of month I first bought the 200 ZCredit Gold Pack for 5,000 Rewardicals, and in addition to 2,000 Rewardicals I was awarded for being SFI Badge Quest Grand Master, I also got 2,500 Rewardicals from the SFI Badge Quest drawing. I never won from this drawing before, so I wondered if this was as a result of also being TripleClicks Grand Master.
10153. While on Card King I won the King’s Ransom for the second time in ten years, at 143 ZCredits. It actually turned out a good winning day for me. Along with the 143 ZCredits won for the King’s Ransom, I also won the Daily Crown, 100 Rewardicals. And while on HIDDEN, I spotted a double-white for 250 Rewardicals. Previously, the Daily Crown win could be as high as 1,000 Rewardicals (that I last received on July 12, 2025), but since August it has always been 100 Rewardicals each time.
10190. I decided to give up on Zackjack and lose the streak after spending 10 ZCredits and still not winning.
10234. I was notified by email that I won Card King yesterday. From the list of winners, I was number 1, with 3685 points. Several years ago, being number 1 would have resulted in a valuable prize, but now I only got 10 entries into today’s Daily Crown drawing. I may not win anything when the drawing is held.
11016. My efforts to make it to HIDDEN’s top-10 for October failed after two more games at dawn. From the Leaderboard, I realized that there was no way I could get over 70,000 points to supplant the person at 10th position. That would require about 7 more games or over an hour, time that I didn’t have before SFI’s day ended at 6am local time, just 15 minutes away. So I had to settle for 11th position.
Shortly after 6am, I renewed my ZCredit Gold subscription, later seeing a rain of Rewardical awards—2,000 each for Badge Quest Grand Master for both SFI and TripleClicks, 2,500 each for Badge Quest Bounty Drawing again for both SFI and TripleClicks. I had to wonder why I didn’t get 2,000 for BQ Grand Master for TripleClicks last month.
My total Badge Quest earnings today of 9,000 Rewardicals is more than enough to pay for the ZCredit Gold subscription of 5,000 Rewardicals. At this rate, my “membership” would be self-sustaining. I considered sending a support ticket on not receiving the TripleClicks Grand Master award for September on October 1. In addition to the email I got today saying I was SFI Grand Master, I also got one saying I was now TripleClicks Grand Master, but none was sent on October 1 even though I’d achieved the feat before end of September.
11020. I sent a support ticket about my TripleClicks Badge Quest new rank of Grand Master achieved in September not being processed on October 1.
11042. When it was after 6am I went to start SFI chores but then realized their new day would not begin yet until 7am, from now till March. Lincoln, Nebraska, USA where SFI is located, exited Daylight Savings Time at 7am on November 2, being the first Sunday in November. Henceforth our time difference would be 7 hours instead of 6, until DST becomes effective again next March.
My TripleClicks support ticket got a response yesterday, but the person only listed the two SFI Badge Quest awards I got on October 1, as if to prove me wrong. I replied pointing out that SFI Badge Quest was different from TripleClicks Badge Quest, and that on Novermber 1, I had gotten the correct number of awards.
11053. The new response to my TripleClicks ticket yesterday was an admission that they really should not have been awarding SFI Badge Quest Rewardicals anymore, so the ones awarded to me for October got reversed, and I was told the ones for September should be considered as being for TripleClicks instead.