Not long ago, I made a giveaway train with a thread titled Patience is a Virtue. To those who participated there, you might have discovered it was a very long train indeed. Portal 2 was waiting at the end. The idea was to test your patience, and to some extent your attention to detail and sanity.

This time, and to celebrate my 6th Steam birthday, I present a giveaway TREE! Unlike a train, a tree does not list all the giveaways in sequence. At each giveaway, you can choose which branch to climb, going ever higher (all giveaways are level 2+). Some of the highest branches will bear rich fruit. Namely:

Bioshock Infinite - Columbia's Finest
Crusader Kings II
Poker Night 2

Finding all the giveaways may pose a logistical challenge. It's a tall and wide tree, and there may also be a web connecting some of the branches at the Sky Edge, a Legendary giveaway if you will. Only the keenest eyes will gain entry to that one.

What are you waiting for? Grab hold of the trunk and start climbing

(Oh and by the way, a bump to the thread every now and then would be appreciated.)

UPDATE 1: Giveaways have now ended. I'll update the thread soon with more info.

UPDATE 2 (read below)

Many of you would have noticed that that each giveaway in the tree was accompanied by a number in binary. These numbers went from 1 to 63, so there were 63 "branches". Each time you climbed to the left, you mutiplied the number by 2 (equivalent to putting a 0 on the end of the binary number). Each time you climbed right, you multipled by 2 and added 1 (putting a 1 on the end of the binary number).

The structure of the tree, much like a mathematical fractal, was exactly as shown in the first attached image. If you counted all the line segments you would get 63. The smallest segments were 32 in number (the top of the tree).

The so called "fruits" were at branch locations 101100, 100001, and 100001.
Also hidden in 5 of the highest branches were five letters which if put in the right order revealed the Skyrim Legendary Edition giveaway. The correct order for the letters was simply the same as ordering them in binary from smallest to largest.

The five letters could be found at locations 101111, 110011, 110111, 111011, 111111 (47, 51, 55, 59, 63)

Setting up these giveaways was quite a challenge. It took a spreadsheet and some fancy functions to mostly automate the creation of the descriptions for all the giveaways. Working out which links to put in each description was not too hard if you looked at it from the binary side of things. Left was multiply by 2, right was multiply by 2 and add 1, and down was divide by 2 and round down.

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9 years ago*

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Apologies, forgot to mention all giveaways start in 3 and a half hours from now and will last a week.

9 years ago*
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Thanks ^^

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Had me laughing out loud. :D

9 years ago
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No fruit for him, just as well I suppose.

9 years ago
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A giveaway tree seems cool, But I'm still the best tree. Congrats on six years on steam!

Edit Added Creepy photo of me being the best tree.

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9 years ago*
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paint skillzzz

9 years ago
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Looks epic, I'll climb. :)

9 years ago
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I broke a few legs, but thank you :3

9 years ago
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I love this idea. Much more interesting than regular trains, will probably go through it just to see whether I can get to the end. Thanks for the time you took in making this.

9 years ago
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Looks complicated so I'll give it a try.

Cheers!

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bump for tree

9 years ago
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bump ... climbed all over the tree, saw some fruits and entered a few GAs.... thank you :-)

9 years ago
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Bump

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Bump!

9 years ago
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Looks like a lot of fun. :) I'll try climbing in a sec.
Thanks for the giveaways!

9 years ago
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Bump for Thanks, and neat tree!

9 years ago
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bump

9 years ago
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Well, I found to of the 3 fruits, so will stop there before I go crazy with this tree;)
Thanks for the climb, have a bump:)

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9 years ago
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Bump. Found all three but can only enter one ^.^ Nice format btw :)

9 years ago
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Fun! Thanks and have a bump!

9 years ago
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bumpidy. thanks for skyrim

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lol, it was crazy. thanks dude

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That's some serious tree climbing

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good idea! Thanks for the tree, bump

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thank you :)

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raped by her own underwear, nice

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Saying raped and nice in one sentence.

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well, that just killed me.

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why shy ronnie T.T

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hmm, where is that gif from?
i think it's an actor from where i'm from, but not sure...

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That's Andy Samberg from the U, S and A. :D
http://youtu.be/6_W_xLWtNa0

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than no ;)

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Bump!

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Thank you that was fun, i ran out of points, so i bookmarked a couple branches on the tree.

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