Do tell... what do we have to look for? I am now running under the guise of "If you can't beat them then join them"
Need to mow today but its drizzling here in Central Indiana so I had some time to kill.
I didn't weigh packs as I was opening them so did a little experiment. I have a digital postage meter (on the cheap end). Previously, I posted the repeating pattern of 6 packs that I found when opening my boxes. So I weighed the various pack combinations using just the cards, as I have opened all my packs. For each combination shown below, I weighed multiple times using different cards but results where consistant. So here were the results on a cheap postage meter in grams:
16 grams = 6 base cards - Pink border - Pack to the Future combination
17 grams = 6 base cards - Pink border - Magnet combination
16 grams = 6 base cards - Pink border - Movie combination
15 grams = 6 base cards - Sliver border - Pack to the Future combination
17 grams = 6 base cards - Pink border - Lenticular Tag combination
15 grams = 6 base cards - Pink border - Movie combination
So the real item of interest is that in the pack I opened with the sketch card... the sketch card was an additional card in one of the 6 base cards - Sliver border - Pack to the Future combination. This combination weighs 18 grams.Unless you were to run into some odd combination that wasn't planned , with something like two magnets in one pack,or 3 extra base cards (which I didn't when opening 8 boxes of packs),
clearly the heaviest packs should contain a sketch card. I can see how this helps if you are at home opening packs but is someone really going to take a scale into Walmart or Target? If so, they are more desperate than I.
My gold border card I opened came in one of the 6 base cards - Pink border - Movie packs and replaced the pink border card. Weight was no different than the normal pack.
Conclusions:
* Sketch cards can be determined by pack weight
* Silver border, tags and magnets can be predicted by the pack content pattern if you know
where you are at in the pattern (by openening the first two packs in a box stack).
* I have no idea how gold border cards can be predicted. I know where the one I found was in the pattern order. Perhaps a certain box in each case contains one? Don't know. I only have the 1 case/8 box data set to go by. If any benefactor would like to contribute more cases to my research, please feel free to contact me.