I won a competition. I wrote a story about a disabled child that, now I think back on it, was alllll kinds of wrong. Anyhoo, I won a trip to the Christmas circus in Rotterdam, a fancy dinner in the Euromast and first class train tickets to get there.

I won a hundred and one dollars from a radio call in contest, but I did have to split it with my brother. I got all my siblings to call in with me, and if we won, we’d split it. When we went in, they had me sign a document that I couldn’t win anything else from them or their parent company for one year.

The Dark Side Of The Moon – Immersion Box Set over a decade ago in an online contest. Wasn’t super familiar with Pink Floyd at the time so I didn’t think much of it.

I have tried to win the lottery. You need to choose three numbers from 0 to 9 to form a three-digit number. If the numbers and their order are exactly the same as the winning numbers, the prize money is $136.

Not an official giveaway but some guy on The Other Website got a boatload of coupon codes for Chromecasts on the Play Store, likely by abusing a glitch from a promotion. I don’t know the deets.

Anyway there was a Discord server set up to distribute them and I hopped on. Guy said to make him laugh (he apparently had a stone face), so I sang a few lines of a famous song from my country.

He said “Stop singing and I’ll send you the damn code!”

So he did, I redeemed it, and got 100% off a Chromecast.

Yes fuck Google but hey, free Chromecast.

A “golden” PS4 from Taco Bell

I was once in a raffle where I was the only name that did not get picked. Does that count?

I once won a 5kg Toblerone bar (picture below for reference). I used to really like Toblerone, one of my top 5 chocolate bars, untill I won that one, I couldn’t give it away to people, we had one block left that we let our “pet” mouse eat and even he bailed on it.

If you really really like something, don’t try and win a large amount of it, you will hate it by the end.

A year worth of groceries. $100/week for a year.

Something I could really use now.

I won an ipad air once and immediately sold it on kijiji cause I don’t use apple’s proprietary ewaste

I used the money to repair my bike :D

I won a radio call in contest which made me “brewmaster for a day” at a large brewery. Not only was it a pretty cool day, it also came with a bunch of swag and $1000 prize.

I’ve tried to participate in so many giveaways and lotteries and never won anything. I believe that’s my superpower: lose against the odds.

My mom won an instant win giveaway game on my Coke rewards over a decade ago, got a ps3 move kit.

Played that thing to death, logged over 1k hours in Skyrim in 2012 on that machine.

I was at a LAN party about twenty years ago put together by a buddy. Roughly a hundred people, and my friend really went all out getting sponsors for it - I think some of them may have been under the impression there’d be about five times the number of people present, because there was a lot of stuff - not counting cheap swag, we had prizes for three or four tourneys plus about a dozen draws. I won a pretty high end CPU/mobo combo.

Most valuable prize was a copy of Maya; think it was worth about $6000 at the time. The company that donated it stipulated it go to someone with an interest in 3D modeling so rather than a random draw, everyone who was interested faced off in a rock, paper, scissors elimination. I made it to the final round and lost - my opponent psyched me out saying “Rock always wins,” I threw scissors, he won with rock.

I once won on the /r/millionairemakers raffle. I didn’t get a million 😅 but so many wonderful people sent donations with awesome heartfelt messages. It was really nice.