There's been a lot of changes to Game Pass and Microsoft Rewards of late, so here is a breakdown of the current maximum points available in the program in the United States as of October 2025. These points will vary by region and may change in time.
Let me know if I missed anything and I will update the list.
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You can earn over 23,000 points per month equating to ~$25. Per year this breaks down to being about $108 from Xbox Rewards, and $188 from Bing Rewards.
GRAND TOTAL: 23,451 points = $24.69 Microsoft credit (if buying $5 cards for 4,750 points)
BING TOTAL 14,906 Points
Bing Mobile Search (100 per day * 30) = 3000
Bing PC Search (150 per day* 30 ) = 4500
Bing Daily Set (~40 per day * 30) = 1200
Bing Daily Set 10-day Streak Bonus (150 per 10-days *3) = 450
The middle activity has been known to fluctuate between lightspeed quizzes through the week and just needing to be opened through the weekend. The lightspeed quizzes don’t need to have the answers guessed. [under review]
The right activity is a daily poll to open through the week, sometimes it requires voting for an answer, other times it doesn't. [under review]
Monthly punch card:
The current monthly punch card for the website dashboard is located below the daily set
This usually lasts for a month at a time, expiring at the end of the month. Some regions can do all activities at once. Some regions have to wait to complete one of the activities per day. This appears to be around 50 points for completion.
More activities: This normally consists of actions to complete
If you have these, you will find them underneath your daily set and/or punch cards, usually worth either 5 or 10 points each. The only ones you need to click on are the ones that indicate points will be added with a golden + in the top right hand corner. You might also find that you have previous quiz options for further points if you hadn't already completed them at the time worth another 30 points each.
When it comes to the actual Bing PC searches, all you have to do is exactly that. There are reported instances where there are delays to searching, from a 5 second delay to a 15 minute delay, this seems to vary from person to person. This can also help you attempt to complete a quest for bonus 1000 points for simply searching each day.
Some have noted it can take up to 12 weeks to actually get the 1000 points as you only get one puzzle piece each completed week and there are 12 puzzle pieces.
There is also streak protection but it's still confusing for a lot of people, this - Streak Protection explained - is the closest we've come to actually understanding it and even then people are getting mixed results.
The most recent threads regarding newsletters containing points are here, so it’s worth checking the relevant link posted to see if you get points from these
Some of these activities have been deliberately added or removed from users and are are now deemed targeted as a result. May also include activities such as Weekly console bonus and other activities such as Game Pass quests which can also be seen from the Rewards area on Xbox console.
Some users are also showing/receiving incorrect points when it comes to individual activities such as the daily login.
Unless you wish to donate points, make sure on the Rewards dashboard that you have Give Mode turned off.
The redemption limit is 550,000 per calendar year, resetting the first of January every year. This has been confirmed. There is no limit to the amount of points that you can earn
Microsoft and Xbox gift cards both go onto your Microsoft account balance instead of a code sent to your email address
You get 20 points per $ spent for digital purchases like games if you have Live Gold (GPU), 10:1 if you're level 2 without Live Gold, 1 point for hardware per $ spent
When mixing Rewards Balance with credit cards/debit/paypal, STOP. People often have issues and their payment method gets the total charge to it. Buy gift cards online instead for the remainder (you can find them on sale too)
Design lab does not allow purchases with Xbox/Microsoft gift cards from the Rewards program or purchased gift cards according to support
Auto-redeem is usually DELAYED a few days. If you are getting GPU you will receive a code in your email or redemption history. You cannot turn auto-redeem on or off in the last 5 days of a calendar month
Technical issues may appear where your account may show it's lost a streak, whether it's a daily streak, a weekly streak or any other streak. In the majority of times for this scenario, it tends to be a glitch where upon completion of the week that appears lost, your next week should put you back at the streak you had plus the glitched week
If specific activities are not working, they may not be available in your region or they may have been removed completely.
If the answer you’re searching for can’t be found here, search the subreddit using the search bar function with the relevant keywords before posting in case someone else has mentioned it
'Today's points' are not based on what you've earned that day. They are based on what you have earned from all activities over multiple days.
If you experience a technical issue with your account, including but not limited to your account being suspended, punch cards not tracking or redemptions not being approved, ensure you haven't unintentionally broken the terms of service and then contact the Microsoft Rewards Support Team
The terms of service that you've agreed to which involves rewards can be found here
Came across the Official Rules page for the upcoming $2 Million Prize Drop event. It will run from the 29th, all the way through to the middle of January. 1 winner of $1,000,000, 2 winners of a car (down from 3 last time, combined value of $350,000) and presumably $650,000 allocated to instant win prizes on the Bing app (up from $490,000 last time).
I was waiting until my birthday week to purchase control resonant and mortal shell 2, but when I put them in my cart, it shows my card only and I have over 200k in rewards points. Is it because I can’t use those points during my birthday week or is something else going on?
Since Sunday I haven’t been able to redeem any quest it’s acting like I haven’t done them. I’ve been playing hours and hours of Gears on sunday and monday, this made me lose points from the weekly gamepass streak because i couldn’t have the last day and now also the first day as it wasn’t working yesterday too. I’ve tried everything, logging out, clearing my console’s cache, playing on cloud on my phone nothing makes it, I tried reaching the support but I haven’t had any answers. Has anyone ever had this bug before and if yes is there a way to fix it?
Did anyone else ever have any issues like this? Not asking for attention, purely asking if ya'll had trouble. If so, any ways you got it fixed? This has happened twice, once with some free sweepstakes entries and once in with a movie redemption
(Edit, that Payday 2 Mask picture was posted here on accident and I cant edit it out, its also been redeemed already, so please just ignore it)
Has the weather rewards been officially scrapped? I know that it had been saying MS was revising the program but I have not been able to access it all weekend.
Today I finally reached one million lifetime Rewards points, which was much harder in the EU than in the US due to fewer special offers.
I began collecting around 2015 but really got into it with my Xbox Series X in 2020.
I’ve spent nearly all my points on GamePass Ultimate, which is prepaid until May 2028, and invested only 60 bucks of my own money to have it since its release.
If i have 13k microsoft points what is the best way to get valorant points for value, like the LOL gift card kinda sucks for 6k for 475 vp, what is the best way to get the best value from the rewards points?
I am trying to buy a gift card for myself, to buy bethesda points ( don't judge me ) but apparently they are out of stock? How can something virtual be out of stock?
ok, might as well be fully honest. look, I've been Restricted for over a year at this point. I know I said it a lot, I delete my reddit account a lot because I don't use it a lot. but might as well be honest. I tried everything. and even support is no help so much that I just gave up & said "Screw this!" because them keep telling me "manual & genuine" so much that it becomes repeated just... doesn't work for me when I know what manual is but genuine just feels like a puzzle piece that I can't figure out. and there's no examples.
I mean, I just wanted help here. with getting unrestricted. but I just gave up & gone for 100 points for searches per day. because if I have no idea on what to do, they are not even going to help me out.
I have about 190K+ points, enough to redeem gift cards to get game pass ultimate maybe just 8 times over. and.... I just give up on help. because microsoft rewards just kept me in this restriction for over a year, October to October, 2025 to 2026. and even then, I just never got the help I needed. and I wanted a full, clear, consistent answer that I can understand.
so, I give up. unless anyone can explain better, I just give up on Microsoft rewards support unless anyone wants to give me an answer to just.... fix this quickly. and I don't care at this point, I'll ask on what I need to do.
so, there. I just don't know what to do to get unrestricted off microsoft rewards now, because I just got no help anymore.
For the free offer that's going on, I went down the list in order and redeemed my free movie, but now I cannot access the bing rewards offer page. There is supposed to be a "buy movie" button that let's you get $10 off. I know it's not even a great deal, but I was looking forward to it and now the page will not let me visit it. Is it possible someone has the link to share where the buy movie button takes you to?
BEWARE in case you want to buy that movie, do not redeem the free movie first.
Thanks to rewards program. Earlier this year Jun 28 preordered GTA VI for $85 after redeeming around $100 worth of points as I picked up some cheap easy achievement games as well LOL.
Had around $20 also from before expiring in oct/nov so redeemed $50 worth of points to have $70 in hand. I had a prepaid card with $20 bal in it and tried to purchase the x25 controller. It would go through. Tried few times than store AI bot / actual person then they told me to wait few hours as it seems some issue with the prepaid card. After few hours I tried again but order would go through. So redeemed $20 worth of points so I could cove full $85 and still it wouldn't. Again store AI bot / real person and finally they sent me a purchase link through which I could checkout using all the balance. With the prepaid card bought one bundle of games worth 5000 Gamer score and another 2 games for 3k gamer score each.
Like in the title, is it possible, or can i use it (i have 22 dollars) to buy xbox gamepass and then get on the xbox website to then transfer funds to my pc account, as i do not own an xbox, and i was talking about getting the xbox game on pc so I can transfer vp, (thats what xbox support told me at one point).
Or can I just buy it straight with the gift card?
If none of this works I might just spend it on robux lol.
I can't seem to redeem an Amazon gift card for some reason it keeps saying I'm either in a region not available or it's due to other restrictions but I'm in the US Does anyone else have this issue?
Had 0/12 last night, my search one time showed up today fine and got me to 1/12, but when I hit the daily check in I saw the puzzle piece animation go to the 1/12 like it was going to add then poof, nothing. Still stuck at 1/12 instead of 2/12 lol. Wasn’t sure if I’m the only one that deals with this or not.
So I accidentally forgot to complete my daily set through the rewards dashboard on the website and I'm also apparently out of protection days.
I completed the daily set yesterday and today and it's still saying "Oh you missed a day, complete the daily set to start a new streak" but it's not restarting... So i think it might be bugged