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Chances of winning:

1/number of entries in the giveaway you entered. I'M A GENIUS

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This. Your in college but you cant do division or pull up a calculator?

Edit: or just look and see that a giveaway has 1000 entries. That means you have a 1 in 1000 chance to win. If there are multiple copies then divide that by the entries <_<

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Op is talking not about showing chances to win each giveaway separately but to display your chances in wining in ALL giveaways you entered at the time.

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... but that makes no fucking sense whatsoever. You still calculate it individually.

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Then your odds are 1/14 and 1/358. It's really not hard to figure out. I really hope you dropped maths already, because you're going to fail the next exam at this rate.

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"Take the number of giveaways (while also being mindful of multiple copies) and divide by the sum of all the entries in said giveaways."
Wrong, the formula isn't that easy. I don't know how to explain it in English though.
For example you enter 3 giveaways, each has 3 entie. With your formula your chance to win would be 100% but in reality you can loose all giveaways.

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3*3/3

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Had a bit of spare time after reading your post. When you're using Google Chrome, create a new text document, name it whateveryoulike.user.js (the user.js is important, also check that you really renamed it that way and didn't forget to delete ".txt") and copy the following code in it:

// ==UserScript==
// @name Steamgifts probabilities
// @description
// @version 1.0
// @namespace 0x442E472E
// @author 0x442E472E
// @run-at document-end
// @include http://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/
// ==/UserScript==
if(window.top == window) {
var load,execute,loadAndExecute;load=function(a,b,c){var d;d=document.createElement("script"),d.setAttribute("src",a),b!=null&&d.addEventListener("load",b),c!=null&&d.addEventListener("error",c),document.body.appendChild(d);return d},execute=function(a){var b,c;typeof a=="function"?b="("+a+")();":b=a,c=document.createElement("script"),c.textContent=b,document.body.appendChild(c);return c},loadAndExecute=function(a,b){return load(a,function(){return execute(b)})};
loadAndExecute("//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js", function() {
var entries = parseInt($('.rounded.entries').html().split(" ")[0].replace(/,/g, ""));
var regexp = $('h1.title').html().match(/((\d+) .+)/);
var copies = regexp != null && regexp.length >= 2?parseInt(regexp[regexp.length - 1]):1;
$('.rounded.entries').html($('.rounded.entries').html() + " "+ (parseInt(((copies/entries)
1000000))/10000)+"%");
});
}

Save the file, open the extension tab in Chrome and drag&drop the file into it. You should be asked to install that script. That's it. It shows the probability at the giveaway detail page (not "featured" at the top of the page and also not at the quickview of the enhancement addon). And please no complaints about the code, i wrote it only quickndirty :P

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Well this code is rather safe since it's very short and simple :D. Also, i only wrote the 4 lines that calculate the result. The rest is taken from an example of how to include jQuery. Theoretically, this is not needed since Steamgifts already includes jQuery but (i think) this script is parsed before page load (but executed at the end) where jQuery is not included. The Enhancement Addon solves this by reducing the script to a few lines that include the real script (hosted at Google Code) at the end of the page code. Another possibility could be creating a real addon that consists of an include-script and the real script where the first includes the latter at the end of the page, but i was not in the mood to make things complicated :D

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inb4
"I LOOKED WHEN I ENTERED AND IT SAID 100% CHANCE TO WIN, BUT I DIDNT WIN THIS SITE IS A SCAM"

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You could also say this about the "Enter to win" text.

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