Marathon achievement in Microsoft Ultimate Word Games (Windows)

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If you do not want to wait a whole month to get this achievement, then you can change your local time in your PC settings. Somehow you will be able to play every challange of every past day/month and still get the achievement.

EDIT Credit: Espio Idsavant
"Changing the date on your computer does work (that's how I did it), but there is an important step the instructions above leave out: completely close the game, force closing it through task manager if you have to. Method summary:
- Ensure you are starting a month that you have not done any challenges in yet
- Make sure the game is closed - check task manager - I've seen this game close but without ending the actual task.
- Change your clock to the first day of the month
- Open the game, do at least one challenge
- Close the game, increment the day by one, reopen, repeat

The other thing I did - which I'm not sure if it is required - is I didn't backtrack once I moved to further days -- if I had only done 1 challenge for day 2 before moving one, I didn't try to do the other challenges for day 2 until after I unlocked the achievement."

This method will also help you to get the following achivements "faster":
- Win 12 bronze DC badges
- Win 10 silver DC badges
- win 8 gold DC badges
- Win 1 diamond DC badge
- Complete every Daily Challenge in 1 month
- Play DC 5 days in a row

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Has anyone been able to confirm changing the date works?

Posted by xXOdessaXx on 07 Aug 17 at 18:49

I can confirm changing date works.

Posted by xXOdessaXx on 08 Aug 17 at 00:25

Can you elaborate on the steps you took to unlock it xXOdessaXx?

Posted by Unky Ky on 22 Aug 17 at 23:47

Maybe start with the first day of the next month? Maybe that's it. Since it's September 7th, you want to start with October 1st instead of going back in time to do the start of September. I'll give it a try and let you all know what happens.

Posted by VRETENAR 906 on 07 Sep 17 at 15:08

So far I was able to get the 5 days in a row. Pretty much what I'm doing is...
Start game up with Time set automatically
Select daily challenges
Now turn "Select time automatically" to off.
Change the date starting with the first of the month obviously.
Click on the calendar to refresh the daily challenges for the month you're working on.
Complete the easiest challenge.
Click to return to the daily challenges and you will receive a message saying you can't.
Close the game and turn back on "Select time automatically".
Start the game back up and repeat for each day.

Once you complete all days in the month, the achievement might not pop just yet. Instead try doing this (It's how I got my 5 days in a row).

Select the last day of the month for the month you're working on,
Click on Calendar
Select Day 1
Select the challenge you completed
Once it opens up, select Cancel
then move onto Day 2 and so on

I will update if this works for Marathon as well. That's what I did for Gimme Five (5 days in a row).

Posted by VRETENAR 906 on 07 Sep 17 at 16:03

So yeah. That was a waste of time.

Posted by VRETENAR 906 on 07 Sep 17 at 17:34

Changing the date on your computer does work (that's how I did it), but there is an important step the instructions above leave out: completely close the game, force closing it through task manager if you have to. Method summary:
- Ensure you are starting a month that you have not done any challenges in yet
- Make sure the game is closed - check task manager - I've seen this game close but without ending the actual task.
- Change your clock to the first day of the month
- Open the game, do at least one challenge
- Close the game, increment the day by one, reopen, repeat

The other thing I did - which I'm not sure if it is required - is I didn't backtrack once I moved to further days -- if I had only done 1 challenge for day 2 before moving one, I didn't try to do the other challenges for day 2 until after I unlocked the achievement.

Posted by Espio Idsavant on 13 Sep 17 at 04:43

I confirmed that the game must be closed by the Task Manager before the date changing!

Posted by KGaA on 12 Nov 17 at 13:29

Closing the game and changing the date worked for me. I had some trouble getting the Jumble for March 18 or so to load, so I did a Crossword for that day.

Posted by mrbellek on 16 May 19 at 15:10

May 2022- just went to december 1, made sure it wasn't open in task manager, went 1-31 straight and it unlocked after 31st.

Posted by tonyx on 22 May 22 at 03:15

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Marathon achievement in Microsoft Ultimate Word Games (Windows)

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