I went through about ten/twelve times and got to draw maybe 3 times for nothing.
Logged out dc from the internet logged back in went right back and got a pin and the pulled the sword so tried it again to see 2 rides and had another pin sword combo wound up with three total.
My friend was not having good luck at all so came to where I was rode and got a pin and pulled the sword first time in that room.
So I have no idea what is up I should have looked to see what instance of that room I was in that was giving so freely.
Ok, after all afternoon riding (instead of ghost catching) I tried about 100 times and was able to pull 17 pins from the sword. (was doing better near the end at winning) That is around 1 in 5 were good. 17% success rate which at one point I was down to 10%. So I have my pins for the month, thanks for all your support I got a lot of people "pulling" for me.
The sword is being quite generous today. I'll seen lots of people with the pin and many people who have 15 pins. Even I managed to pull out the sword and I usually have really bad luck lol (and no muscles )