Sometimes things don't go as planned. This is one of those times.


TL;DR version: End of post links to train of cheap leftovers. Somewhere in that train is a hidden GA which is certainly not a cheap leftover. See if you can find that one!


Long version:
As a contribution to xScreaMx Midsummer Madness event, I set up an elaborate amount of nonsense here to hide a single giveaway.
That GA is for an award-winning game that's on the first page of the S.Gifts group wishlist, and is not a preorder or early-access title.

To hide that GA, I cobbled up a short train from bundle leftovers and the cheap but worth playing games that had 96% off discounts the past few months. Then I buried that train in the shitpost linked above. And now, there's a small problem:

So far, the number of entrants is much lower than I anticipated. While I wanted to keep the number of entries for that GA somewhat limited, I was aiming for a double-digit number at least, lower hundreds at most. And at the current rate, it looks like I'll not get that number of entries.
So this time around I'll strip off most of the shitposting, and just drop the link to the train at the bottom of this post:


All aboard

9 years ago

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Thanks for the puzzle. Might wanna check that first link though, think it's unintentionally broken.

9 years ago
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Damn for giving up

9 years ago
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Don't give up, bear with it!

9 years ago
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I went through the train a couple of times and found one hidden giveaway but nothing from page one of the S.Gifts wishlist.

9 years ago
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You're driving me crazyyyy, I found one of them but can't seem to find the important one

9 years ago
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Look at all those nice giveaways in this b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l train!

9 years ago
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Going to give this a quick bump.
No extra hints, there are enough people who've proven finding the big prize this is doable.

9 years ago
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And a last quick bump for the last 3 days...
Also, GA to find has dropped a few spots on the group wishlist (probably due to summer sale), but is still on the front page

9 years ago*
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Thanks for train.

9 years ago
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Bumpity bump and thanks.

9 years ago
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Bumps.

9 years ago
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Can you provide the solution for a secret non-bundle giveaway since it has already ended?

9 years ago
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The 5-letter code was hidden in one of the URLs to the Midsummer Madness thread. And it's harder to notice, because the part of the URL where it was gets overwritten in the address bar when you click the link.

Also, the giveaway was this: http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/4Bbe2/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-game-of-the-year-edition

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