You forgot to put "potato" D:

Now that's an elaborate form of "why don't I ever win?".

2229 hidden games might give you a hint about my answer ;)

No "enter giveaways of games with trading cards regardless of if i want it or not" option :(

Anyway my process is this:
-If I know the game do I like it and want it? If I don't know the game does it look interesting/cute in steamstore? If yes enter. If not then does it have trading cards and I have no other giveaway that interests me in the first few pages? If yes enter. Otherwise I just wait for something else to come.

i'm a card junkie ;_;

At first i was entering in all giveaways, but then i realised that i would never play some of the games that i won so i gifted to a friend or something. Now i only enter in giveaways of games that i would play...

It's ever-evolving. When I first got here I was spending all my points everyday on anything I didn't hate the look of. Now I sit on 300 points most of the time and have done for a few months. I don't often look at the giveaway page and only really enter giveaways in the groups I'm in. Gone from one extreme to the other over time.

If I enter a group giveaway it's because I want the game. Getting round to playing them is a different matter even though I had good intentions. Just quit a couple of the groups in part to feeling guilty about that kind of thing, although mainly 'cause the whole group thing was feeling a bit stale to me.

I'm only interested in games that..

• I don't own
• AND which seem to be cool :>

(Same goes for free keys I spot; I don't redeem them if I don't like them. :p)

Honestly :

1. Games that i want to play them ( No matter that they have Trading card or not ) . wishlist games as example !

2. As second priority, i focus on Indie games that have TC . because i know myself and i know that i will not play unknown games without steam reward system ! ( Trading Card ) and yeah, sometimes i find out them as an enjoyable game .

if I know the game && I want it -> enter
else if I don't know the game && >80% positive users review on steam && seems worth the bandwidth -> enter
else skip

Even though I trade cards a lot, I don't join a giveaway based on whether the game has cards or not. I only join them if they are for a game I want.

i only enter giveaways not blacklisted which are for games i really like and i know i will play.

For me the priority is as follows:

1. Wishlist games.
2. Games that I know are good and I'd like to try them.
3. Games that I've heard about, seem interesting or have "space" or something similar in the title - I check their store page first, and then enter if the game looks like something that may be fun to me.
4. I also always enter Fortix giveaways.

I skip the rest.

I don't enter giveaways any more but there is no option for that D:

WHERE IS MY POTATO

I enter for games I'd want to play eventually. Not in any mood, not immeadiately - but only games that I'm truly intrested in. This is why I have low number of multiplayer FPS games (maybe none?) amongst my wins - I'm not that good in FPS and versus-multiplayer is a thing I don't really like.

If the game catches my eye, I check the Steam page and its reviews. If there is a lot of them with at least 90% positive (the ratio may vary) I enter. Otherwise I add the game to filter. (177 games filtered so far) So I'm basically just scrolling through the things I'm too lazy to filter. :)

The strategy seems to be pretty off though, 1200 entered since the new site and won... Just... 30 entries... Invite only... Bad Rats... *sigh* I'm not complaining about the Bad Rats itself actually, since it costs 5€ in the EU2 region – because reasons – I was unable to buy it FOR THE LULZ myself.

I tend to buy a lot of games and bundles, so most of what i enter for is stuff that looks interesting, but that I'm not willing to pay full/sale/whatever price for. If i was willing to pay for it, I'd probably already have it. There's also some stuff that I've entered for while waiting for a better sale, but the large majority of it is just "I won't buy this, but I'd like to try this."

I suppose it's not as nice as only entering for games that I really actively want, but it also means that when a game does turn out to be a lot of fun, it's a very pleasant surprise. I never would have seen the glory of Just Cause 2's grappling hook if I hadn't won a copy, because I wasn't a fan of the first one and would never have paid money for #2, but I kept hearing that it was worth a play and so I kept entering for it.

I now enter games I would like to win only, a couple months ago I was entering games I might want to play, and that sins of a dark age that I was stubborn enough to enter

I only enter GA for games I know something about, I'm interested in playing and currently can't purchase. I have no interest in Postal 2 (random example taken from soon-to-end GA) but someone else might, why would I want to contest his chance to get it? I don't even enter most of the mass GA (5-10 thousand copies) if I'm not going to play the game.
I'm actually not entering a lot of GA these days, maybe a handful a week. I managed to get most of the games I cared about and I have time to play.

I am either blind or you forgot to add an option for entering giveaways for games that are on my wishlist.

I enter only giveaways of games I want to play.

1,900 additional games are currently being filtered.

1,603 filtered games on my list, and I still filter games every day.
Every time I see a game that don't know I check the game on the Steam Store. First, the community rating, next the most voted reviews and, lately, the gameplay video and images. If I don't like something that will make me regret winning it, it goes to the filter.
(Sorry for my english)

I'm a game collector more than a player.

I enter the giveaway for games I want, if I have points left, I left them pile up and hit the cap :o

I enter games I want to play, if it is possible games from my wishlist :P