Is this cheating?

[PhoboxLX2]

Does WW actually allow one person to become elite on two accounts if they are husband/wife accounts? I know they're a husband/wife couple from when gifts were visible and the types of gifts with messages they sent to one another.

I took a screenshot of their victory points and sorted by "Last Time Played" and look what I found:

http://i48.tinypic.com/2elc7zp.jpg

With the exception of the last 3 games, they've played the SAME EXACT GAMES in the SAME EXACT ORDER.

They do pretty well in PVZ too :

http://i46.tinypic.com/2h5lgz6.jpg

http://i45.tinypic.com/21agyua.jpg


It's obviously the same person playing on both accounts...Is this cheating?

[Jacob]

If it's the same person playing on both accounts, of course it's cheating. But it's all about what you can actually prove...

[dpaull414]

I think you can explain away several of the games as being Freeplays (luxor, dond, scrabble, word mojo). If you like your free points, I think you may see a similar pattern on legit 2 account households.

PVZ has a ladder and w/scores that high I suspect they're on it so they'd probably play that daily at a minimum.

And I know it looks fishy when 2 accounts have similar high scores in several games, & it could be because 1 human is controlling 2 accounts. But I think it's quite possibly legit too. I know if you look at my wife and I, we have some overlap. Why? Because we talk and discuss strategy, coach each other, etc. So if you have 2 people deploying the same strategy you would tend to get similar results....

I assume that WW has the ability to query their databases and see if the 2 accounts play at that same time. And even more specifically if they ever play the same game at the same time. And then for those games played concurrently, is there any significant variation in scoring between the 2 accounts.

In my more paranoid days (thank you king.com), the only game my wife and I could really both hit the money in a freeplay was Zuma. So when Zuma showed up as a freeplay, we'd both play it at the same time such that if we were ever questioned as being dupes we could show that we played at the same time. You'd have to be super human to play zuma on 2 machines at the same time and get in the money on a freeplay...