In honor of Prince, who we lost this week, below are just a few of the purple items bought by the bot recently. ‘Purple’ is actually a fairly popular keyword. So if you want to start seeing everything purple show up at your doorstep, make sure to select it in your profile.

A bot participant kindly sent in these pictures of the first few items of someone she is pranking. He doesn’t know what is happening but Deadpool minifgures and strange jewelry are appearing at his door. He says, “I feel like this is the start of a fantasy movie and I’m being equipped with things that look strange together now but will be important later.” Note the furry handcuffs!

I wanted to share the below excellent unboxing video posted last week by the doom sacrafice (subscribe here). It appears that the bot sent him a ribbon cable. Perhaps older participants would recognize it as a fairly common piece of technology several decades ago. However doom hasn’t seen anything like it before. Progress!

I just added a page to the site listing the most common keywords used by the bot. Take a look! If you are signed up, make sure to log in to your account and add any keywords that look interesting.

I’ve written before about how the bot sometimes takes a keyword and buys something unexpected. For example, with the keyword ‘pickle’ it has bought seeds that can be used to grow vegetables which you can eventually pickle. Especially with some of the broader keywords it can have quite roundabout logic.

With keywords the bot uses an OR operator not an AND. If you submit a comma separated list of keywords (for example: red, gadget, craft, star wars) the bot will search for each keyword separately. That is, a selected package will only need to match one of the keywords not all of the keywords (red OR gadget OR craft OR star wars). The more keywords the better.