Reply To: Where to Get Gifts?

@maiasatara — A couple of comments: According to what Rovio has said, your opponent’s game play is recorded from one of their previous attempts at the identical set of rooms, so whether or not they get an extra bird is not dependent on whether or not they are winning. As for getting multiple cards, that I find very suspicious.
In the thread on extra cards at the start, someone said they thought if your opponent did not use any spells, but showed an extra card in their hand at the start, that was an indication that they got an extra card at the end. I’ve started paying attention to this, and it may be correct. The extra card also seems to disappear after the first room, or first bird, but it does reappear at the end after the opponent is greyed-out. I have not yet seen someone with more than one extra card at the beginning, but I’ve not been paying careful enough attentions long enough to know if they sometimes get multiple extra cards at the end even when they show only 1 extra card at the beginning.
You mentioned that your scores were higher than some of your friends even though they had higher level birds. This is not surprising since many of us have not bothered to go back and replay all the levels since the scoring system was changed. I have 3* on all available levels and almost no motive to replay old levels. People have said that they are finding more blue gifts when they replay levels, but that sure is a hard way to get them.
I started out entering my scores on the ABN leaderboards, but stopped even before they changed the scoring system.