I'm posting today and in the next Fridays a series of private giveaways for forum members. Your SteamGifts account must be at least 3 weeks old and you can enter only one of the giveaways of the list.

There will be more rounds but the special rule applies to all giveaways linked in the thread, you can't enter in one of the giveaways of the first round and later enter again.

You will not know what giveaways will be created and how long this event will last. You can try to guess, though. I don't want set my Steam inventory privacy to private, but you can't be sure all the giveaways will be from the Steam store, or if I buy the game after the giveaway has been closed, or if the giveaway is always from me, or so...

You will have to pick your giveaway wisely, considering what you can win and how many chances you have to win.

This special rule was approved by Support. If you ignore the rule and enter multiple giveaways and win one, I'll request a new winner.

All rounds will start, indicatively, Friday, and end Monday, 19:00 CEST (17:00 GMT, it's the time when the Steam store front page gets updated with the new deals). They can be private giveaways or puzzle giveaways (not hard puzzles, presumably).

Everyone is welcome to enter my giveaways, just make sure you follow the rules.

--- Round 1 (10 April - 14 April) --

Total participants: 760 (69 invalid)
Total entries: 923 instead of 760 (163 invalid)

They are all quality games. That is critically acclaimed games or games I enjoyed. And I'm going on with this.


--- Round 2 (18 April - 21 April) --

Total participants: 1021 (102 invalid), 305 (round 2 only, 37 invalid)
Total entries: 1214 (193 invalid)

More good games here. Sorry, I was forced not to use direct links, due to an unwanted number of invalid entries. I feel like I forgot something but let's start...


--- Round 3 (25 April - 28 April) --

Total participants: 1117 (106 invalid)
Total entries: 1316 (199 invalid)

They are hungry and want to eat you. Do you hear them coming? You should, they are not sweet-smelling. I don't know how can they always attack by surprise so easily in the movies and so...

I hope you aren't disappointed for the number of giveaways, there is no fixed number for that.

1 decade ago*

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I hate these rules, im not gonna win.

1 decade ago
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i'll wait for round 2 :)

1 decade ago
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Fresh idea! It deserves a bump!

1 decade ago
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Thanks for the interesting giveaways. I went with Brutal Legend since it's something that I really want to play. It was difficult not holding on for round 2 though.

1 decade ago
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Thank you i hope i win the Resident Evil 5 :X

1 decade ago
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Ze bump for puzzle!

1 decade ago
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One of the Old Guard, finally!

1 decade ago
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bump for solved!!! :D

1 decade ago
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Congrats!

1 decade ago
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first of all many many thanks

so i understand the rules :D
but i am out of points
so is there a round 2 :D
or just one round and i missed it :D

1 decade ago
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Bump for not solved.

1 decade ago
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The Game protected by puzzle was Metro: Last Light, nothing special for me. ;)

I'm waiting for 2 round. ;P

1 decade ago
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Bump for waiting til round 2! Can we get the answers to the puzzle please?

1 decade ago
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La secondy bumpity!

1 decade ago
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If i enter round 1 can i enter round 2?

1 decade ago
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If you enter round 2, you can't enter round 3 (if I will do round 3).

1 decade ago
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Solution Puzzle #1
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Thanks to all who participated and apologies for the delay in posting the solution. I hope the puzzle it wasn't for you all just frustrating but you could get some fun. I usally like to create puzzles where you have more ways to solve it. This one was (intentionally) quite strict instead, despite of the multiple answers in a few of questions.

QA1. Team Fortress 2 or Pyro - 378 solvers (59%)
QA2. Bee Gees or Barry Gibb - 26 solvers (96%)
QA3. Medicine - 10 solvers (100%)

As said in the introduction, auxiliary questions barely can be called "question", so you have to use as answer one of the first things that come to your mind. In the case of QA1 and QA2 are accepted two answers not only to help you not get stuck but also because 'Pyro' and 'Barry Gibb' should help the solvers to shift the focus on them instead of the rest of the videos. Now, everyone here on Steam should be able to recognize Team Fortress 2, I think; while, for QA2, those unfamiliar with this pop musical group could just open the video on Youtube or look at the top of the embedded player window; and, finally, the Rod of Asclepius image was a direct link to Wikipedia.

Q1. Connoisseur's Cap - 27 solvers (7%)

Well, you see in the video a pyro, a mumbling pyro imitating an air guitar... wearing a tie and a hat. You are aware Team Fortress 2 is very well known for its hats, isn't it? There is a visible white hat, very cute, quite ironic as pyro uses a flamethrower as primary weapon, and the name of this hat is the correct answer for Q1. You could find the name searching in the web or in the Team Fortress 2 wiki or in my TF2 inventory (one of the first items).

Q2. Falsetto - 10 solvers (38%)

The answer isn't clearly something related to John Travolta and that famous movie (see QA2), must be something clearly noticeable (see Q1) because I would not waste your time, and isn't something you can see, as said in the description. If you don't notice there is something... in how the song is performed, you can still read a few of Wikipedia articles for example. In Bee Gees: «Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the late 1970s and 1980s», in Stayin' alive is said: «Barry sings falsetto on the whole song, except on the line "life’s going nowhere, somebody help me"...», in Barry Gibb «He was also known for his high-pitched falsetto singing voice».

Q3. Child sexuality or Oedipus complex or alternative forms - 6 solvers (60%)

This clip was from a remarkable movie directed by John Huston, Freud: The Secret Passion, Dr. Sigmund Freud was portrayed by Montgomery Clift. Clift isn't an actor everyone can identify I think (this was including me) and reverse image search seems not to be working with these frames, but still it was a weak point of the question.

Apparently an ordinary crying baby to call mother's attention back, but it can't be just that. QA3 tells you it's something related to 'Medicine'. I posted a hint for inviting you to guess what branch of medicine. This is a childhood recollection where Freud is discovering his famous theory about child sexuality. His mother was going to lie down beside the young him, he would have cuddled against her soft, warm body, but his father drew her into his room and the young Freud couldn't stand that.

It could be very hard to solve if you never heard about Freud and psychosexual development. On the other hand, if you need any very interesting movies to watch, that is a good one.


So, that is the solution. I'm sincerely still disappointed by the results of the question number 1, about the hat. Only 27 solvers of 378 participants. It wasn't what I wanted. Was it really that hard? Even with hint like this? Really?

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Yes it was that hard (as evidenced by only 7% of solvers for Q1 -- the numbers speak for themselves), and I'm glad I didn't spend much time on it. I saw absolutely nothing in that video that gave any sort of clue or indication as to give a hat as an answer. You could have picked any random object or prop and it would have been as equally valid with the sort of reasoning that you used for the puzzle, meanwhile what was going on the video -- the whole air guitar thing -- does not seem to have anything to do with the answer. A "read my mind" thing indeed. And even if I had been able to so do it still requires specific knowledge of TF2, which I don't have.....

1 decade ago
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Thanks! This rule was a good idea, sadly not everyone follows it.
If I participated in round 1 can I join round 2?

1 decade ago
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Well his rules state: "[...] you can't enter in one of the giveaways of the first round and later enter again", so I guess not.

1 decade ago
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And then he throws a curveball with "Everyone is welcome to enter my giveaways."

1 decade ago
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Hmm... People who open this thread should at least read the subject, I presume. Anyway, I just added a "just make sure you follow the rules" to that sentence.

1 decade ago
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looking forward to round 2

1 decade ago
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yaay today theres a new round :D

1 decade ago
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Yess round 2 here I come

1 decade ago
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Solved the puzzle-protected giveaway, sadly I'm not really interested in that game.
I'll have to wait for (hopefully)the next round again.

Anyway thank you for these giveaways

1 decade ago
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Ah, you're one of few elected! Congratulations.

1 decade ago
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sad...so many good games and only one entry :(

1 decade ago
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It isn't a good reason to be sad. :)

You have more odds to win that one you enter.

1 decade ago
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still can't decide which... :(

1 decade ago
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dont quite understtand the first question of skyrim .-.

nvm solved

1 decade ago
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Cough So uh...TOTALLY unrelated question here, but...what does your username mean? :D

Edit: Solved it!

1 decade ago
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why cant we enter round 2? i think nobody really understood that rule, if they did, so many people would wait.

1 decade ago
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His giveaways, his rules... Many people understood the rules, but not everyone, it seems...

For the people who don't read English very well, or the script-assisted clowns, I'm sure there will be many rounds of rerolling... :(

1 decade ago
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im not complaining but you will notice its not that "many" when you see the valid entries:D 700 people already joined and there is not soo many people who check the forums. my opi :)

1 decade ago
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Clearly many people didn't it, considering the total number of entries, especially those who have entered before I added the fake Half-Life 3 giveaway. And in this second round I made clearer the rules to everybody, apparently. Nevertheless, I haven't edited my original text here in the thread, if that is clear enough and doesn't need improvements, it isn't exactly my fault what happened.

1 decade ago
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Darn, too bad i can't enter in the second round also, wanted to sign up for that assassin's creed 2 :)

Bumped for fun rules :)

1 decade ago
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Heh, I got the first question wrong when I tried to get through to Skyrim. I looked at the ratio and thought I got the game right but it said "Wrong!". I did figure out pretty fast though that you had misspelled the name on your first post of this thread and it was not a valid answer for the question.

1 decade ago
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Thank you for reporting that. I fixed everything.

1 decade ago
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BUMP, damm i should not have join the first round.Hope you will not get that much invalid entries next rounds.

1 decade ago
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Am I missing something in that Risen 3, or will the link be added later?

1 decade ago
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I'd be curious to know the price of this game.

1 decade ago
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the game will be released this summer and there is no pre purchase avaible so no risen 3 giveaway

1 decade ago
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Closed 1 decade ago by BrutoDetestsDT.