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If you fill out the survey on the back of your Popeye's receipt, you get a free two-piece meal with a biscuit after buying a drink. But here's the kicker: the new receipt from that survey also has a survey on its back. So you can keep doing this again and again. Yep, a never-ending loop of free chicken as long as you keep buying drinks. Genius or glutton?
Loopholes come in all shapes and sizes - some let you score a cheaper snack or parking, others save you from shelling out big bucks or even keep you out of trouble. Basically, a loophole is a tiny legal cheat code. Sometimes they're mistakes, sometimes they're sneaky by design. Either way, they let you dodge boring rules and snag the fun stuff instead.
Pizza Hut teamed up with a coupon company that said, "Buy one pizza, get a second of equal or greater value free." One smart cookie figured out that ordering a plain medium cheese pizza scored a giant Supreme pizza for free. They stuck with this hack for two years. Imagine the pizza parties!
One grocery store would replace expired food with a fresh item for free. A broke guy took full advantage - bringing back tons of expired stuff and swapping them out. The store tried to add rules to stop him, but maybe the real solution is to not keep expired food on the shelves, huh?
A Walmart accidentally priced a certain flavor of beef jerky at just one dollar. One shopper didn’t mess around - they bought 70 bags over a week before the store caught on. Jerky heaven, here they come!
Mom got a timeshare with a dreamy pool featuring waterfalls and even underwater jazz speakers. So for years, the kiddo and friends had epic pool days and birthday bashes - without ever actually staying overnight! When people asked, Mom just said, “I have a timeshare,” and that was enough.
If you have a .edu email address and work in education, you’re basically sitting on a secret discount treasure chest. Services like Amazon and Spotify often give student pricing just for having that email. Score!
In Germany, clubs stamp your hand to show you paid and are old enough to drink. Some crafty art students figured out the stamps changed daily and used colored pencils to replicate the designs. With fake stamps in hand, they all got in. Party like a rockstar, sneak like an artist.
Dominos hands out a 50% off coupon every time someone’s order goes wrong - and they never change the code. One lucky customer jumped on that and had half-off pizza so often it felt like they were basically getting a discount for life.
A college freshman hacked a Papa John’s Super Bowl promo where guessing the coin toss right got you a free pizza voucher. So he made over 60 email accounts, guessed heads on half and tails on the rest, and ate free pizza for six weeks. Hello, pizza paradise!
One holiday season, vending machines at work stopped taking money and started handing out items for free. One person alerted the bosses, waited a week, and when nothing changed, told everyone at work the secret. Let’s just say those machines were empty the next day.
The UK £1 coin looks exactly like the Swaziland L1 coin. Vending machines in the UK would happily accept Swazi coins as pounds. One clever person stocked up on snacks and train tickets thanks to this tiny mix-up. Snack attack unlocked!
Someone got a parking permit that just said they were "allowed to park here" - without specifics. Cleverly, they used it to park in teacher-only spots while in college. Rules? What rules?
CVS mailed out coupons with discounts bigger than some items’ prices. One crafty shopper figured out if you bought something cheaper than the coupon, the leftover amount could be used on anything else, and all coupons could be stacked in one trip. Lucky for them, neighbors tossed coupons like confetti, so they ended up swimming in free lotions and shampoo for years.
A car wash near one person’s house charges $2, but it gets confused when a Canadian loonie is thrown in and charges only 50 cents. They’ve been using this loophole, slipping in quarters that the machine mistakes for loonies, for over four years. That’s some sparkling savings!
Back when Redbox’s app was less polished, a sneaky glitch let users add movies to their cart at $0 price. One wife and husband combo snagged free movies weekly - renting around 30 flicks - until the app got a fix. Movie night for free? Yes, please!
A young phone user found that if they turned off their internet connection, Family Link’s bedtime lock wouldn’t activate. So even if the phone seemed locked, the kid still played games saved on the phone. Parental controls? Pshh, youngster wins.
Somebody discovered a YouTube app trick: skipping to the end, hitting replay, and voilà - most mid-video ads disappear. Don’t expect to avoid all ads, but it sure beats sitting through them all. Tech hacks for life!
For years, Burger King’s double cheeseburger meal cost more than a two cheeseburger meal. So one clever customer ordered two singles, tossed the extra buns, and voilà - a double cheeseburger meal for less. Fast food math, nailed it.
During a crazy $.99 Amp energy drink sale plus a "buy 10 get $10 credit" promo, some teenagers cleaned out three stores over summer break. They spent just $30 but drank enough Amp to fuel 48 hours of non-stop summer desert biking. Ampocalypse avoided only by a 16-hour crash nap.
High school printing costs 10 cents per B&W page and a dollar for color. One clever student found a way to log into computers offline, getting admin access and printing for free. Total stealth mode activated.
In this hilarious school class, 80% of your grade was participation and only 20% paperwork. One student boldly asked, “If I skip all paperwork but show up every day, can I still get a B-?” Teacher confirmed. The student showed up, helped out, never did logs, and nailed the grade. Winner winner, paperwork dinner!
A night club gave customers two drink receipts per ticket. One student noticed that the library printed book return receipts on the same paper and printer. So every Friday, they returned loads of books, grabbed receipts, and used those fake drink tickets at the club bar. Party on, smarty pants!
Pizza Hut’s usual coupon rules said you needed to spend $20 and couldn’t stack coupons. But on Tuscany Tuesdays, pasta and breadsticks specials didn’t count as coupons. Pair that with a survey $10 off coupon and bam: 4 pans of pasta and 10 breadsticks for 10 bucks total. Wing Wednesdays? Get boneless wings for 50 cents each, and use the same coupon. Pizza party win!
In Australia, Dominos let you order a Supreme pizza for about $5, remove 3 toppings, then add any other toppings for free. That turned a ~$12 pizza into a $5 masterpiece. This loophole saved one fan a ton until Dominos fixed their website. Toppings freedom, sadly short-lived.
A broke middle schooler spotted that a theater’s large popcorn came with free refills. So, they grabbed old popcorn bags from the trash, ripped the side, took it to the refill station, and got a fresh fill in a new bag. Waste not, want not!
A local pizza joint gave a coupon for a free large 3-topping pizza if you ordered $5.99 garlic knots. One customer used the code over and over by just calling in orders but never actually showing the coupon. 직원들은 그냥 웃었지. Who could blame them?
A Target employee bought games, played them briefly, but couldn’t return them to Target because they were opened. Walmart would swap opened games, no questions. So they’d swap to unopened games, return those at Target, and rinse and repeat. Score!
Dorm laundry machines had vertical coin slots. Someone put quarters inside the fingers of latex gloves, slid the glove part in, started the machine, then yanked the glove out - quarters still nestled inside! Rinse and repeat for free laundry. Lazy or clever? Yes.
This science geek had to enroll in a science-related course to get perks like free tuition and a stipend. But the contract only said enroll - you didn’t have to stick around. So, many shifted to non-science majors after a semester. Contract loophole: engage!
YouTube Music stops when your phone’s off. Or does it? If your phone supports lockscreen mode (you’ll spot an icon near the navigation bar), it dims the screen almost off but keeps music alive while saving battery. Sneaky and sweet.
Fubo TV’s football package costs a fortune. But one fan found that the 7-day free trial didn’t require new payment info or emails each time. So every week during football season, they just canceled and restarted the trial. Football season just got much cheaper.
Back when Subway had a rewards card giving a free sub after 8 stamps, a buddy working there didn’t throw away redeemed cards. Instead, they saved them all. A lucky customer snagged that box and ate free subs 'til the program ended. Subway score unlocked.
A teacher realized that a vending machine full of overpriced Kinder Buenoes opened like a fridge. So over two weeks, they snuck countless chocolates - best secret office snack stash ever.
A savant at Little Caesar’s memory game (repeat the light-sound sequence) always won free pizzas - the top prize. For months, they scored inexpensive pizza courtesy of loyal employees sending them quarters. Eventually, the prize got downgraded, but hey, they tried again at a new location. Pizza mastery!
It was late, there were only 2 workers and they didn’t bother checking tickets. One genius walked into the movies acting like a ticket holder, and got away with free late-night flicks. Sneaky and smooth.
GameStop lets you return used games within 7 days for a full refund. One player simply bought a game, beat it in under a week, and returned it. Winning at games and saving cash? Double win.
In the game Lineage 2, one NPC sold crafting materials. Buying 9,999,999,999 items caused the price to overflow back to just 2 gold. Players bought huge stacks, sold them back, and repeated - gold farming 101 in a major way.
High school banned smoking on campus and leaving campus, but the official territory included the sidewalk out front. One kid cleverly smoked there every noon break, technically not leaving school. The only rule? Don’t tell others the loophole. Puff puff pass with style.
One kid struggled with spelling, so on a typing test requiring 20 words/min, they hacked the computer’s counter to count letters instead. Doing some math, they convinced the teacher they passed with flying colors. Sometimes busting rules is cleverer than sticking to ‘em.
Back in the day, Radio Shack managers claimed video game cartridges couldn’t be copied. One sneaky customer covered a cartridge pin with tape, dumped the data to cassette, then transferred it to floppy disks. Games galore. Take that, copy protection!
A group bought two tickets, two went in. One left pretending to smoke with the stubs, then came back with other friends using the same stubs. They kept recycling the tickets until everyone was in. Old school hustle, movie theater style!
A college student used a local food app’s invite-a-friend free entree deal to score multiple free meals. They invited friends and then logged into their accounts to claim freebies again and again, ending up with a big feast at local spots. Foodie hustle alert!
Workplaces closely watch 10-minute breaks, but bathroom breaks aren’t counted. Employees figured this out and took more bathroom breaks to sneak in extra breaks. Bathroom break = bonus break. Who knew?
One smart shopper hoarded buy one regular sub, get one free coupons from newly opened Jersey Mike's, eating free subs for three whole months. Subs, subs everywhere and not a dollar spent. Delish hacks, y’all.
In Need for Speed on PS1, players could race for car ownership. One trick: copy save files across memory cards, race to win cars, sell the car, reload old save, repeat. Soon, they had enough cash to buy the dream McLaren. Fast and furious... and clever.
A phone got accidentally submerged and supposedly flagged 'water damage.' But the user dried it out, swapped the battery, and swapped the phone for a new one because it wouldn't turn on. Submerged or not, hack successful.
Back when payphones ruled, one kid stuffed grass into the coin slot, then returned with a paperclip to fish out real quarters from the coin return. Not a loophole exactly, but it sure worked like a charm and wasn’t forbidden anywhere!
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