Not a plea for free games, just wondering if this is normal with the odds of the site?

I am in the official group, and one more so know and then I can enter a group raffle with better odds but still no luck.

Ps: I know my comments are a bit low compared to my entries, but when I first came here I didn't post comments, I only recently tried to say something on each contest I enter.

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The system chooses the winner randomly from all the people who are in the giveaway. The comments have nothing to do with your odds, you comment if you like to do that. Though, if you like to join some good groups to increase your odds, you have to comment in the giveaways you enter and visit the forum so people could see you're good a guy and so on. :D

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I have my first win after more than 500 entries (in S.Loosers group with very good odds). So... Good luck.

12 years ago
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If you are willing to make giveaways yourself, you will be able to earn spots in more exclusive groups with much better odds of winning

12 years ago
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I reached +500 entries before my fist win. And I won because only 4 people joined a private giveaway. Fuck my luck

12 years ago
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Winning anything is rare unless you're in a few good groups. But that requires that you stop leeching and start giving games away.

12 years ago
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I'm planning a giveaway after my first win ;-) been planned for a while now.

12 years ago
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Yeah, that may take forever.

12 years ago
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lol

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Ah, positivity is such a beautiful thing.

12 years ago
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You don`t say

12 years ago
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909 entries, only gift I've received is a faerie solitaire.
The alien swarm I didn't receive.
(And for those who are wondering the give-away marked as not received, the winner didn't want it, so he said I should keep it.)

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Lol ,that's the worst luck so far! XD

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And for those who are wondering the give-away marked as not received, the winner didn't want it, so he said I should keep it.

That sounds kind of unfair for the rest who entered that giveaway doesn't it? You probably should have contacted support about it or do a re-roll.

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At the very least, the person who didn't want it should've clicked gift received, since you did in fact intend to give him the game I assume. By clicking not received he is damaging your reputation, and that's not cool

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Nope, it was a private giveaway, there was only about 40 entries, after he said he didn't want it i put all the names into a list and generated a random winner manually.

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The statistical odds of winning the public giveaways pose a great challenge that is not for the impatient - a, say, 0.1% chance of having your name plucked out of 1000 is obviously slim, but that said, someone has to win. Expect nothing, and be pleasantly surprised with anything else, I guess.

(I wear my 0/700-odd record like a badge of honour!)

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This.

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Expect nothing, and be pleasantly surprised!
This should be the page subtitle.

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"This should be the [site motto]."

FTFY

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Word!

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You and me both pal...

12 years ago
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At least you aren't that guy Xarabas. Poor guy never wins anything...

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lol, yes poor him -_-

12 years ago
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S.Losers needs him.

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You should have entered the Faerie Solitaire giveaway.

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Yep.

That's where I got my first and only win.

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I won twice.. but none of my friends won inhere yet... its pure chance and thats how it should be.

You will ofc have a better chance of winning small games that the majority have (Fearie Solitair IE)

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I only recently tried to say something on each contest I enter.

You're better off being more active in this forum.

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Its all about luck and fully depends on the entry numbers. Also, do not enter everything- winning a game you dont really want is not satisfying. You already have 300 games, you have played 4 of them. Whats the hurry?

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Be more active in forums get invite to groups and yur odds increase more, but its never much because its still all about chance. I know its heart breaking never winning anything, but half the fun is finding games you want to enter in and trying your luck.

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The FAQ said there's no way to increase your chances of winning. Everybody has the same odds.

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Think he meant that you're better off entering group giveaways than public giveaways.

The stats tell me that you have 0.2% chance of winning a public giveaway, versus 5% for private and 8.7% for group.
However you'll easily find that number to change each day. Last week we were at 8% for private, and 5% for group.

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thank you for clarifying that for me.

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Saying "odds of the site" is irrelevant. Your chances are winning are based on the odds of each individual giveaway.

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Choose wisely smaller the number better the chance sometimes need to do some math I won 5 games with 572 entries :)

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I am not sure how people get the points to join so many giveaways in so little time.
I have been here for about 10 months now and on a mere 400 entered giveaways.
Yet I see people with 300-400 entered giveaways which they managed in 3 months or so.

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Enter for lots of cheap games rather than fewer, more expensive ones.

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indie titles.

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Ah yes, makes sense.
I tend to enter for the bigger stuff like Dota 2 currently.
Makes sense I suppose.

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Consistently being on the site and entering contests during times when people are constantly submitting giveaways helps, too. I don't know what giveaways have been throwing all the points at me the past couple of days, I either own them or have hidden them with my site plugin, but I've been at the cap for the past few days. If I were less discriminating, I could be entering as all the points came in.

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Don't worry, I've registered seven months ago and I won one public giveaway with 100 copies. ;)

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I was lucky and won on my 12th entry but after that I had to wait quite a lot. and btw the comments that most people have are not from the giveaways they enter, it's about being active on the forum where you can also sometimes find hidden giveaways so you might wanna try that ;)

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Try puzzle giveaways. Their private giveaways and have less people in them (depending how hard they can be). So you can have a better chance of winning.

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At least I'm winning the "most entries and no wins" prize atm. Woohooo.

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wow that is impressive.

12 years ago
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More "thanks" comments = better karma? :D

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Try being active in chat lol

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4 of my 6 wins were from talking in the chat

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You've got like, 100 games that have zero playtime on your account. Why are you wanting to win more? You're not even going to play them. I would kill for half the games on your list, and I would actually play them!

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Maybe he have not so much time atm.

I haven't played some very good games yet, cause i have not so much time atm.

But i really want to play this games in the futur. (on weekends and holidays)

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THIS IS WHY WE CANT HAVE NICE THINGS

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