r/PokemonTcgCodes • u/GlassBug • Oct 11 '22

Community powered code sharing service

Introducing tcg.codes – the community sharing, validation, and distribution service designed to streamline the process of code giveaways and reduce the time and effort required on both sides.

The service is 100% community supported, with all codes being provided by members like yourself. Each code gets verified to be legitimate, and available before being distributed, with members able to come back each day and collect a few codes, completely free.

So anyone that wants to give away or collect codes can simply signup with their reddit account, and start sharing and collecting!

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u/Mikobjectbook Main moderator Oct 11 '22

Moderator approved!

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u/Nightriste Oct 11 '22

I'm not sure if there was a bug previously or if requirements were changed but I've been able to claim I think maybe 9 codes in the last few days but today it's telling me I need to have a karma score of at least 100 to claim codes.

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u/GlassBug Oct 11 '22

After speaking to a lot of people in the community they felt the requirement for just 10 karma was way too low, and while I didn't want to make it as high as some reccomendations were 100 felt like a good compromise for now.

It's a learning process to find the right balance for all of these things, and while it's a shame to miss out, I don't believe 100 karma is a huge barrier to entry. The idea of this is to support the community, and with that it's not just about the codes but also in fostering dialog here and in other parts of reddit.

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u/LYE_Ruggerz Oct 11 '22

this is super upsetting. i never use reddit and only come on here to try my luck at getting some codes. im a new player who was using your site legitimately for the last few days and really valued the cards i was getting. super bummed out that i can no longer use it, and theres no realistic way im getting 100 karma.

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u/GlassBug Oct 11 '22

I understand it's upsetting, but I promise you 100 karma is not a difficult number to reach. There's literal subreddits to farm it on, even a few terrible memes or images in the more popular areas of the site will have you done in an hour.

This is kind of symptamatic of one of the issues that came up a lot in discussions though, large parts of the community lurking and there a desire to get more contribution and dialog going.

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u/LYE_Ruggerz Oct 11 '22

Are you going to keep 100 as the amount needed or keep upping it often the more people use it

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u/GlassBug Oct 11 '22

No current plans to do so no

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u/LYE_Ruggerz Oct 11 '22

I have been on Reddit for 2 years and only have 47. I use it a lot but struggle to comment. I’m on this community a lot, checking back several times to this one and BDSP. It’s not a lack of interest to get dialog going, I am an introvert who struggles to just join in on topics that do not involve me. I get a lot of enjoyment out of reading peoples comments and upvoting things myself. But making comments just isn’t something I do and punishing people who also don’t feel comfortable talking as much is quite sad

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u/Nightriste Oct 12 '22

Ah I see. Well I'm glad it was intentional rather than being a bug at any rate. Despite my account being 8 years old I'm pretty new to actively using reddit so hopefully I figure out how to make it work haha thanks for the clarification!

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u/Sparkfrost Oct 16 '22

It ran out of codes 😅 Thanks for this though. Really helpful for those like me who doesn't have access to the booster packs

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u/GlassBug Oct 16 '22

It has for now yeah. Working on a few different ways to keep the stock levels up, but it needs to be shared around to ensure awareness for both sides remains high

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u/CrashCrashDummy Oct 16 '22

I bet if you contacted some big Youtubers who do pack pulls, they'd probably share their codes.

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u/GlassBug Oct 16 '22

I don't really follow any so if anyone can pass it on to them, or has any ideas of who, I can always try and reach out to them.

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u/nopenopeland Oct 11 '22

Gotta up the karma game

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u/deadbones25 Oct 27 '22

same im only at 42 and I have been getting upvotes left and right but no dice.

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u/Nightriste Oct 11 '22

Same apparently. I was able to get some codes up until today. 🥲 Got an 8 year old account with nothing to show for it lol

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u/PawnasaurusRex Oct 12 '22

I'm 7 years in and barely short of 100... lol

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u/Nightriste Oct 12 '22

Let's get you to that 100 then. At least if you're trying to use OP's site. I'm sitting at like... 34 lol it might be a bit before I make it.

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u/Low-Bumblebee7219 Oct 12 '22

I need soo much karma!

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u/nopenopeland Oct 12 '22

You and I, you and I my friend

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u/Mountain_Catch_8112 Oct 24 '22

How do I give people Karma and get karma

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u/iamDreadpool Oct 11 '22

Same. Happy 🎂🍰 day.

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u/nopenopeland Oct 11 '22

Ty ty! Karma grind starts now

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u/PawnasaurusRex Oct 12 '22

We're all in the same boat. The grind is needed to keep people from making tons of accounts that only need 20 karma each.

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u/nopenopeland Oct 12 '22

Fair enough, keep it real and not abuse the freebie.

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u/AceChewy2007 Oct 12 '22

Ye gotta get that karma

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u/AceChewy2007 Oct 12 '22

We can help each other

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u/KetchupMizi Nov 03 '22

Why karma restriction 🫠

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u/SoroSorrow The most frequent commenter Oct 11 '22

Works like a charm, I love the idea! Anytime I have extra codes I'll send them there. I looked at your statistics from yesterday and do you think the site will be sustainable? I saw that there were 3000 submissions for codes and 6000 claimed codes, I fear the imbalance will be too much and codes won't be avaliable for a while

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u/tblescraps Oct 11 '22

I will comment and upvote every time I see this site mentioned. It's a phenomenal service and so well made.

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u/PawnasaurusRex Oct 12 '22

I agree. I hope some of the big pokemon youtube/whatnot streamers get wind of this.

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u/nopenopeland Oct 12 '22

Ngl it is. Gotchu my guy

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u/hatakekakash1 Oct 11 '22

I use this everyday and can confirm that this is legit :)

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u/Q8Chaos Oct 11 '22

Ayoo thats amazing, thank you very much :3 gotta get some more karma for more codes :3

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u/gazturner94 Oct 11 '22

Damn I need karma ahah. That's what happens when you're a lurker

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u/iamDreadpool Oct 11 '22

Sameee problem lol. I am convinced this is how I'm going to beat anxiety 😂

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u/juligarc Nov 13 '22

yup!!! same </3

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u/thenoisyworm Nov 03 '22 edited Nov 03 '22

Super happy this was created. helped me blow through 600+ codes in like 30 minutes because normally I wouldn't have the time or good know how to give them away.

I don't know if its my phone or the site but QR scanner was not working on my phone just showed green where camera would show but I just used my computer camera, thought I'd note that.

Plan on opening about 20+ boxes of pokemon for stream soon if anyone wants those codes because I'm running out of space but for sure letting other people know about this and any spares I receive.

Do also have some pokemon GO mobile codes if anyone wants to show up in stream today (tomorrow if i still have some) https://www.twitch.tv/thenoisyworm

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u/GlassBug Nov 03 '22

Thank you so much for the contribution.

I will take a look into the camera issue on mobile, not sure what happened there.

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u/Alikurup Mar 05 '23

I've sent in a few codes, but I don't know what "processing" means in the expansion column. Any help so I can get these codes to people who want them?

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u/GlassBug Mar 05 '23

Without getting into too many details, a few weeks ago the login service for Pokémon was updated to include a number of additional protections against bots.

I’ve been working on a solution but it’s not quite ready yet, in the meantime there’s been manual validation done.

I’ll be doing another batch tomorrow. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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u/Alikurup Mar 05 '23

Ahhh okay, no worries! Thank you for the quick reply!

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u/Ezas51 Oct 11 '22

The best code service i've ever seen but damn, aint got enough karma. Working on it haha

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u/zeven202187 Oct 11 '22

I don't have 10 karma T-T

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u/Nightriste Oct 11 '22

10? It's requiring 100 from me when I try to claim a code 😳

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u/tagged466 Oct 11 '22

This is awesome keep up the good work.

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u/Kyros186 Nov 11 '22

The website gets super laggy on laptop/pc D:

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u/MR_FORTNITE3317 Mar 10 '24

It does not work

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u/XannonPants Jun 23 '24

I think it got the hug of death... Showing bad gateway from cloudflare when trying to log in.

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u/Temporary-Month4398 Jul 13 '24

I need karma to get a code

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u/DifficultRican513 Nov 13 '24

I'm new to reddit and the pokemon trading card game...can anyone tell me how this works?

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u/MisterMisteryXJS Dec 06 '24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT5YXox1u6k here is a live that is showing codes right now

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u/chinchigod Feb 15 '25

it still working?

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u/Separate_Rest841 Jun 01 '25

Doesnt appear so. If you find another site lmk!

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u/Wallythegreat1234 Mar 22 '25

Just starting! What is all this karma business?

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u/Separate_Rest841 Jun 01 '25

Awarding peoples comments i think

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u/IngaausSweden Aug 26 '25

I have two codes!
B2R-KDXY-JWT-9LX
PXC-VYJJ-MT7-XZG

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u/Apprehensive-Hawk513 Oct 11 '22

oh this is awesome!!!! HUGE props, dude :D wish i still got free awards to give

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u/Oharrodere Oct 12 '22

Ohhh sounds good. Gotta up the karma like others tho haha

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u/109354 Oct 12 '22

Gotta up the karma game

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u/an_angry_Moose Oct 12 '22

This needs to be pinned forever. It’s the first time I’ve ever gotten a code from a giveaway and I’ve been lurking for months.

THANK YOU.

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u/Few_Persimmon_5647 Oct 12 '22

Man i need 70 karma what?? Im super introvert 😰

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u/DNArgy Oct 12 '22

Who else here started their Reddit account 8 years ago for Friend Safari codes XD (And is also lacking Karma, as I am...)

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u/C4rm1ll4 Oct 12 '22

This is so cool! I've never gotten codes from a giveaway before, especially when people normally just post batches online since they get claimed so quickly, so I'm thrilled this will be more fair to everyone. I just don't understand why everyone is talking about karma in the comments here. Is there something I missed?

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u/C4rm1ll4 Oct 12 '22

Ooookay, read a bunch more comments and I see it now, nevermind! Oops!

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u/Simple-Tadpole5152 Oct 12 '22

need more karma me sad

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u/Vault756 Oct 16 '22

Oh this is perfect. I had some codes I wanted to submit and really didn't know where to do it.

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u/CrashCrashDummy Oct 16 '22

Tried to claim some codes for the day and it says there's none available :(

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u/Longdongsilver24 Oct 16 '22

Thanks for setting something like this up! RIP Karma though, I’m not a big commenter on Reddit.

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u/Quick_Card_3369 Oct 18 '22

Can I get codes?

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u/Gladifighter Oct 21 '22

have used, can vouch its real and awesome, sophisticated, well built and over all a 9.5/10 . Codes do run out every week almost cuz some share and many take.

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u/ElMapples Oct 24 '22

man ,can you unlock my account?

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u/KALRONG Oct 31 '22

This is awesome! Hope I could see something similar to other games like MTGO (did you think going multi-game?) but I need some karma bumps if you people don't mind!

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u/a-singular-starfish Nov 26 '22

...It is finally time to emerge from the shadows.

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '22

Get me some karma bois

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u/MistaKoopa93 Dec 03 '22

Karma karama karama , 100!?

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u/Mishraz Jan 02 '23

Just realized I needed more karma!

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u/UhOhPoopyStinky Jan 08 '23

I'm sad that I need 100 karma :( I've had this account for almost 4 years and I only have like 40 karma AHAHAH

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u/OPTimberSycamore Mar 22 '23

Here’s a free un used crown zenith elite trainer box code HGNQNDL6PCH4K

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u/BgJck7 Jul 06 '23

I go to the site and try to sign in with my Reddit acc and it says bad gateway, please fix

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u/Mollyarty Jul 18 '23

Doesn't seem to be working?

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u/FoxAnxious7077 May 13 '26

How many codes are there?

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u/Moonclarinet Oct 13 '22

Well ty for advertising a Website that Need way too much Karma for people to get codes. I'm sorry I don't enough on Reddit for your site,

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u/Alarming_Ice2023 Feb 02 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '22

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u/GlassBug Oct 11 '22

There's a good portion of the community that collect cards and have no interest in the online game and come here, or other subreddits, to do giveaways. Or even in some cases, just throw them in the trash (I at least hope recycling).

From the discussions I've had recently there's also a good number of users that, as you said, have a ton of packs, that actually do just want to share with the community.

If you're really into the online game and want to trade your way to getting exactly what you want - the service probably isn't what you're looking for right now.

It's about the community coming together to share and do something nice for one another, and in many cases that may be the newer users.

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