Once again, new and unique idea.
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Yay, I found them all. I may have found the tab limit in Chrome (99 or 100) in the process, but I did it. I think I may have done something wrong the first time because I did it again and I didn't have to open as many tabs.
Thanks once again for the fun giveaway hunt and of course for all the games.
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YeA it was interesting but I was going to leave a comment about running out of points. Then realized oh wait I can't post a comment since it's against the rules. Then my adhd got me and I couldn't remember what the title of the post was when I remembered that there was a train I hadn't completed.
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Well, that was hell of a tree :D Thank you for such original train tree :)
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Bump, found every ga, including the legendary one. Already own it though but put a lot of effort into finding it. I even copied your tree pic, put it in paint and wrote the numbers on every ga in the branches to check if the numbers had anything to do with it and to also keep track of every ga. Keep an eye on the winner of the legendary ga, even if you own that edition it still lets you enter for it, just a heads up. Thanks for the great ga tree though :) was really confusing to start with.
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This was fun... But as a computer scientist it annoyed me that <down> meant back, cause we all know that the root is at the top, right? RIGHT? ;-)
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Depth-first traversal FTW! Thank you so much, PieceOfMind. That was a fun climb :)
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I think i finnaly able to explore the entire tree and entered everything...
Thank you and have a nice bump!
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thanks for the tree,were many branches, I almost go crazy trying to find them all xD
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Bump. And guys, get on the tree, it's really fun enjoyable climbing. :)
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My hair is still messy from the spider web :'c
Great tree tho. Thanks! C:
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28 GAs left it seems, not sure which ones I didin't find vs didn't enter because I have the game already, lol
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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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