I'm curious fellow steamgifts users: who has beaten the longest odds on a giveaway? Like, the most wanted games with public giveaways usually get thousands of entries, and one person has to be the winner.

So I want to know, who's the luckiest of us all? Doesn't have to be one of the most wanted games either, just the winner of the giveaway with the most entries.

Feel free to also post with your personal longest odd win, and how happy/excited it made you to win it! My longest odd: Shortly after I joined the site I won a copy of Beyond Good & Evil out of 1,683 entries. I was totally jazzed and even a little shocked to win, especially so soon after joining!

This is just for fun, all you get are bragging rights if you make the top ten!

Gonna (try to) keep a list of the top 10 from this thread for reference:

1) Ellegon - Skyrim: 10,211*
2) IronFang - Max Payne 3: 6,221
3) Gary0ak - Skyrim: 5,835
4) Morgeek - Bioshock 2: 5,561
5) Anubisfr3ak - Orcs Must Die! 2: 5,518
6) AtomicWoodchuck - Killing Floor Bundle: 5,226
7) fangmich - Dishonored: 5,100
8) ThePejlka - Quakecon Bundle: 4,727
9) MatheusCRO - Battlefield 3: 4,366
10) dirtling - Trine 2 Collectors: 3,560

*Note: Giveaways with 5 or more copies and developer giveaways don't count for this list. This number is completely arbitrary, and might change if people take this too seriously and make a fuss.

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My only wins were 1 / 126 and 1 / 510. So I won't win this.

12 years ago
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Well this isn't a competition itself, I'm not giving anything away. Still gotta appreciate those odds though!

12 years ago
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Everything is a competition, even if the prize is a slightly bigger ego.

12 years ago
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ahhahahah I just edited the OP to say basically this

12 years ago
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:D

And there is my ego feed for today.

12 years ago
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My biggest win was 1,638 Entries for Tropico 3 :D

12 years ago
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sweet!

12 years ago
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My best was 1 out of 1,251.

12 years ago
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Huh, I actually entered this same one that you won

12 years ago
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1/724 . I rarely enter giveaways with more than 300 entries though.

12 years ago
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this certainly is a wise strategy in the allocation of points... but you gotta try sometimes for those games you would really like to have!

12 years ago
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Exactly, those are the ones(specifically, the ones I have in my wishlist) I do enter regardless of number of entries, specially if the points regenerate as well as they for now :p

12 years ago
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i won fortix. That should be enough....

oh, and Trine 2 collector with 3560 entries.

Edit: i hate all skyrim winners... not really... i just want to be one of you guys!

12 years ago
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GREAT JOB, GO HOG WILD

e2: BUMPED down to #4, sorry!

12 years ago
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Dishonored with 5100 ;)

12 years ago
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Hot damn! You're now in the lead fangmich

e: now 2nd

12 years ago
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My first win was with the highest entries, 1,409 for Half Life 2.

12 years ago
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1/475, I didn't enter if it has more than 500 entries.

12 years ago
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517 entries, HiB 3 but the user gave away 3 copies. Also a developer giveaway with 18K entries and 1000 copies :D

12 years ago
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If the one you're talking about is Clones, it's 19k+, not 18.

12 years ago
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Not Clones, Bloody Trapland

12 years ago
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The highest I've won got to be the dev ones for Clones and Faerie Solitaire.
Out of that, it's Nexuiz with 662 entries.

12 years ago
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nexuiz huh

I wouldn't call that "winning." :P

12 years ago
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Well, it's a decent game if it doesn't screw up my computer alot. Even Crysis 2 runs a lot better than it.

12 years ago
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This. Also, the online is pretty much dead :/

12 years ago
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6.6k. I WIN! (Max Payne 3 preorder

12 years ago
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the new leader! all hail!

12 years ago
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My best was 1 out of 2114 for Humble Voxatron Debut. Not the best here but that bundle was awesome.

12 years ago
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Once i won SAW - 1,368 Entries

12 years ago
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:(

12 years ago
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Try to get into one of those "haven't won anything yet" groups dude! Keep trying, you deserve it you're a contributor :)

12 years ago
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I am :(

12 years ago
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man that's a total bummer. You should enter more giveaways though, 8 months on here but only 655 entered? Waste dem points buddy!

12 years ago
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Haha yeah. I don't like to enter things I may not play. I still have some 'long' games to play through so it's not like I'm twiddling my thumbs waiting for a new game. Congratulations on your win btw.

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This is the nicest thing, I hope you win something good soon

12 years ago
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This one was exceptionally lucky...

5,226 entries, although with two games on offer, it should really count as 2,613...

12 years ago
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Nah buddy, this still counts. I only mean giveaways with loads of copies, like over 5-10 or some other arbitrary amount. So let's say 5 or over doesn't count.

12 years ago
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worst rule i have seen.

AtomicWoodchuck is totaly right

12 years ago
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Arbitrary number of copies is arbitrary! This is just for shits n' giggles, I'll change it if people want to really take this seriously.

12 years ago
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Searching closed giveaways for popular but new games. ie Borderlands/Borderlands 2 turns up plenty of people who have beaten better odds than any of the above. Some of these giveaways topped 10,000 entries!

A decent number of these giveaways were faker than a 14th Century Ikea swivel chair, but there are enough genuine ones to put our efforts on this thread to shame :)

12 years ago
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Well yeah, I could've just looked at this, but where's the fun in that?

12 years ago
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True :)

12 years ago
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Wow, and IronFang is still leeching.

12 years ago
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Nope, the few codes that I have gotten (not from sgifts ) I have dropped in chats, mostly charity ones!

12 years ago
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Let's not do this, IronFang hasn't done anything wrong in the least.

12 years ago
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Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 -
2,092 Entries

12 years ago
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The best I had is 1/83 and the other one was 1/28 with 2 copies (so 1/14th basically :/)(The Ship Bundle)

12 years ago
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2x Humble Indie Bundle #2 - 1155 entries

12 years ago
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that doesn't even count -_-

12 years ago
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nah, it counts. Not in the top ten though anyway!

12 years ago
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i won Isaac - 1,702 entries

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True

12 years ago
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King Arthur the role playing game - 559 entries

:( didn't make the top 10

12 years ago
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I don't think that would even be in the top 500.

But don't stop dreaming!

12 years ago
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I won Torchlight II

1 copy, 2023 entries

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I won Flatout: Ultimate Carnage out of 1448 people... And that game's actually very awesome too. That reminds me that I should play it sometime again. My other big win was Sanctum collection out of 1343. Like the other, it's also a very great game, so I consider myself a lucky bastard.

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I won Half-Life 2 , 1,835 Entries

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Closed 12 years ago by logan5.