How long did you have to wait to win your first game?

It's better to count it in number of entries, not days. Usually it takes ~2000 entries to win anything, unless you are very active on forums or a person everyobody likes for one reason or another. You have 91 entries at the moment.

months

If 1000 people enter each giveaway and there is one winner of each giveaway, you're likely to win once out of every 1000 tries. Each draw is random, of course, so you theoretically could win every single giveaway you enter. Or none at all. Your chances of winning each giveaway depends on the number of entrants and the number of copies.

So entering giveaways with more copies and/or fewer total entrants will give you better chances of winning.

This site has 4 primary ways you can restrict access to giveaways:

1. Levels. Right now you are level 0, along with over a million other users. You can level up by giving away games.Even giving away 1 game (that was not free) will improve your chances, giving you access to more giveaways, because most users never give away anything here.
2. Groups. Steam groups can be used to limit giveaways. Check the group recruitment forum here, some groups are private and have rules, but many are public giveaway groups to promote somebody's stream or curator or whatever.
3. Whitelists. Each SG user can add other SG users to their "whitelist" and then make a giveaway exclusive to those users. Most of the time those giveaways have just a few dozen entrants.
4. Invite-only giveaways. These are technically open to anyone who has the link, but the link is usually hidden on the forum or in a chat or behind a puzzle. If you check the forums here you will find a lot of those. They again usually have far fewer entrants than public giveaways.

As long as it took for a woodchucker to chuck wood.

I've been very lucky and won a public GA after 7 days when I joined, back in 2013.

2 months

if you want to maximize your chances you have to enter a lot of giveaway groups and make giveaways on your own to level up. The more you give the more you can win. Also being always nice and helpful helps too.

I didn't have to wait. I won on my first entry ;) Given it was a 100 000 copy giveaway where everyone won. In all seriousness, you'll probably win 1 in a 2000 of the public giveaways. If you level up you can access more giveaways which usually contain higher quality games, and you contribute to the community.

I strongly suggest Unlucky 7 group and ESGST add-on.

Day or entry counts doesn't matter. Your chance per giveaway matters. You should check puzzles and groups sections.

Btw making giveaways is a great gateaway.

my first win came just after my first 300 points spend
so i got pretty lucky back then

1 month 20 days 7 hours 20 minutes

With something like 863 entries total...

I won my first game in the first week (3 weeks ago) after maybe 200-250 entries. Since then it's been 650 entries, 3 weeks now and nothing)

I was pretty lucky, I won my first giveaway 2 days after registering, but that was in 2015.
There's already a lot of great suggestions in this thread so I'll just wish you good luck!

Hi. I am new here. Its my third day here.

Registered: Yesterday, 2:13 am.
How many accounts do you have?

If you really want to know then look at the users here: https://www.steamgifts.com/users
From their profiles you can see when they registered and when they first won

Mine was five months and nine days after registration.
Although the latest win is a longer gap, it was two and a half years ago.

15 months.

My first win was roughly 3 months after I registered and I was just over 3000 entries... it was a DLC I already owned (the site sometimes does this, worth double checking GAs every now and then). It gets better eventually, so just keep on keeping on'.

Congrats on your first win. :)
For me I think it took a few months.

It depends. I won 2 games within my first week of joining... but both had a large amount of copies available.

A mistake newbies make is just entering a bunch of things to see if they'll win. Try to go for stuff you do genuinely find interesting as you'll get more out of it in the long run. Check the forums for puzzles and things that you can solve to enter GAs with less entries. Also, if you buy bundles, consider giving away the games that you'll never play, that will increase your level so you can enter for more GAs with less entries.

Good luck. (and congrats on first win ^^)

Wow, I thought it had taken way longer than this, but according to the dates it only took me a week.

It took months for me to win a public giveaway, but for private group giveaways it took mere days or no more than a few weeks for me to get a win from them.

My very first win was actually from a whitelist giveaway one month after I joined SG.

Generally speaking, the chance of winning a giveaway by GA type is as follows: Whitelist, private group, public group, public GA.

~36 hours.