The Twelve Days of Keysmas

Did you know Christmas has twelve days? It's true. And contrary to what many people seem to believe, it doesn't end on December 25! It starts on December 25 (Christmas Day) an ends on January 5 (Twelfth Night). You may be familiar with the song that mentions them, and the outrageous gifts that go along with it. If not, here's John Denver and the Muppets to educate you. So I thought, why not adapt it for SteamGifts? The original song has 364 gifts, if you count them carefully. Unfortunately, even Santa hasn't been spared by the economic crisis, so I'm afraid I only have, oh, 120 to give away, in the form of keys. Fortunately, that means we've got a nice round number: 10 per day.

Here's how we're going to do this. I have made this nice new group that you can join. Every day, at 00:00 UTC, beginning at Christmas (find out what time that is in your time zone), Santa's workshop will open a new thread where you can pick from the 10 keys for that day. You make one (1) post in that thread with all the keys you would like, 23 hours pass, and then I pick 10 lucky winners who each get one key, all chosen at random. Simple, right?

As you'd expect, there are some rules:

• You must be registered on SteamGifts. This is to reduce possible fraud with alt accounts. Obviously having an account on SG doesn't prevent that completely, but it's good enough for my purposes.
• You can only win one key over the whole period of 12 days. Each of the 120 keys will go to a different person, one key per customer, you don't get to choose another if you don't like what you got. You are at the mercy of the random number generator and the games are of wildly varying quality and value -- don't participate unless you like a bit of risk and can handle disappointment!
• No begging, no trading, no spamming, the usual things you're not allowed to do on this site you're not allowed to do in the group either.

Aside from that, there are no rules as I have no time to enforce them. There are no points, no CV requirement, you're not disqualified for already owning the game, I don't even care if you trade the key for something else or sell it to buy ice cream or crack cocaine or whatever else is of value on the streets these days. It's yours, do what you want with it! If you want my advice, though: if you can't make yourself happy with it, use it to make somebody else happy, and you'll be happy too. Trust me on this, I have some experience. :-)

Merry Christmas, good luck, and have a glorious new year in advance.