Y Fellow humans,

3 I recently made a public level 0 giveaway for Wooden Floor, a cheap and mediocre game that nearly everyone already has or does not want. In the description of that public giveaway, I very clearly put a link to an invite-only giveaway with 25 more copies to reward humans who read descriptions. It was not hidden in any way.

v The public GA got 735 entries. The private GA got only 3 entries... and within that GA I mentioned that I like comments, too, and zero of the three entrants commented.

a So, if you are reading this, congratulations. You're already doing better than most other SG users. The remaining 22 copies are up for grabs. Considering how few people still need or want this game, I'd say you'll have a very good chance of winning.

P The giveaway lasts 24 hours. Good luck! Bumps, comments and gifs are always appreciated.

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**reads**

So, if you are reading this, congratulations. Ask autojoin scripters to add a feature to scan links inside giveaways for maximum leeching. You're welcome!

fixed 💸❤️️

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"always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it"

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I'm perfect for any job then.

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Be the first US President to run the country well since JFK.

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I'll need dozens of assistants.
I'm really good at delegating (unless I have to work at it).

It's much easier for me to nominate you instead.
Yes. I nominate you.

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You have to nominate people for specific positions.
You can't just lob swords at them like a watery tart.

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potatoes count?

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If you cross out the nothing, only nothing will remain in your to-do, to-do, to-do list.

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That's really nice of you!
Sad too see how greed can make people rude and ungrateful :/

Bump!

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It is hidden in the message I wrote (the category is Puzzles) ;) Good luck!

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I figured so afterwards, so I edited my message :)
I entered the GA, thank you again!

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Bump for solved 🐱
3/735 - unbelievable result 😮

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Okay, I thought I got it, but it didn't work...

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If you go to a giveaway page on SG, like this for example, look at the URL in your address bar in the web browser... see where these 5 characters might go ;)

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It's the slash at the end. Always gets me.

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I guess I'm just bad at puzzles.

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look inside the grey boxes example

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I did and I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with them.

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If you go to a giveaway page on SG, like this for example, look at the URL in your address bar in the web browser... see where these 5 characters might go ;)

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Yeah I did that too and it says not found.

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Be sure the upper case & lower case is correct. ABCDE is considered different from AbcDE. And be sure to have / after the 5 characters code

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I think I had it as Wooden Floor

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I belong to the "doesn't want" catagory but bump for those who do

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I can't blame you for that, really. :) have a random gif

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So, is it scrambled?

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a bump for you

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ah, I see :P

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Yesterday I joined a public giveaway with about 700 entries and there was a link for invite-only gw and guess how many entries was in invite-only giveaway. Only 4 including me. Won that game btw.

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It pays to pay attention! :)

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Public level 0 giveaways can be traumatic reading your results, out of my own public level 0 giveaway experiences and remembering the public level 0 (test) giveaways that Talgaby posted with as result a truckload of re-rolls.

There is a reason why I transitioned most of my public giveaways to SGTools giveaways.

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Yes, I've tried to have fun experiments while at the same time organizing it in such a way that I can minimize the posisbility of rerolls. Now that SG automatically removes entries for winners it makes things much better.

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Bot bump!

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I am not surprised that the 700+ people did not find your link, because nobody cares about that game. So, they were likely all bots or blind clickers with 3p to spare.

So the only real complaint is that the 3 people who obviously do read decided not to comment in spite of the fact that they probably read your comment that you like comments.

So, really, just a complaint about 3 people who also want to win Wooden Floor - so not the best sample.

Chin up! You haven't yet proved that most SG-ers are cretins!

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You've restored my faith in humanity. Thank you. :)

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Excatly!

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I have a similar experience. I hid a link to a Saints Row 4 GA inside a bunch of crappy GAs. The shitty ones got +1k enters. Saints Row got 20-30 people.
I stopped doing public GAs because of bots+autojoin scripts. :/

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It would be interesting if captcha was added to the "enter giveaway" button how many entries would go away.

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People would just find a way to circumvent the captcha. invite-only GAs with easy Itstoohard or sgtools is still the best option imo.
btw, with that captcha i would give up easily even GAs for highly wishlisted games xD

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Now let me see the robot select which images have rivers and storefronts. :D

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Oh god how much I hate those xD
And tbh i think that some bots may actually perform better than me with those xD

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I admire the patience of people who make low level public GAs. I am sure as hell not making them ever again.
Have a bump!

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I usually make higher level giveaways these days, though sometimes I like to suffer.

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Fellow humans

But I'm a tower ^^

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I won my most played SG win through reading.
I give you the start.

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Even though I was looking for it, it was still a bit hard to see the link unless you actually read the text hint :) Good job!

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YAY! I read, so it means me!
Thank you!

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I would guess you would have had more entries if it was a link. There may be auto-entry scripts in use, but lazy people are all around too

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You'd be surprised... I've tried w/ obvious blue links as well in prior experiments and these usually have between 1-3% entry rate for the second giveaway. Certainly better than this but the point is to reward people who read, so I don't want to make it toooooo easy, you know? :P

We'll never know for sure if it's scripts/bots, people who blindly enter without reading, people using the mobile app, people who can't read English, or people who see the text/link but do not have the curiosity to hover their mouse to see where it goes. :)

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meow bum

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awww

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puzzle too hard beep please send advice boop

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Humpty Bumpty :)

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I guess it was about 700 bots and 3 better bots that search for links in description xD
I hid all ga for this game and probably all those people just wanted cards/+1 to library and set their bots to enter anything cheap xD

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The joke's on them, this fine game doesn't even have cards. :P

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It's still +1 to library xD

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Yes, of course, and I hope the winners will at least enjoy counting if they don't enjoy the game. ^_^

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