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.
A “golden” PS4 from Taco Bell
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.
A year worth of groceries. $100/week for a year.
Something I could really use now.
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.
I really feel for you mate. Your greatest joy became a chore.
That’s why I hate when anyone says, “Find a way to get paid for your hobby and you’ll never work a day in your life.” No, all that does is ruin a fella’s passion for something.
we had one block left that we let our “pet” mouse eat and even he bailed on it.
I mean, chocolate is toxic to mice so that would make sense
He gave it a good old go tho, he ate about an inch off the top.
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 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’ve tried to participate in so many giveaways and lotteries and never won anything. I believe that’s my superpower: lose against the odds.
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 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.
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 was once in a raffle where I was the only name that did not get picked. Does that count?
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.
Yes, when I was much younger I won 2nd place in a Diablo II fan site giveaway. You had to answer 5 difficult trivia questions about Diablo II to be entered into a drawing and my name was selected second, so second place.
Unfortunately, I never received my prize. The prize was shipped to the wrong state, they used the wrong two letter abbreviation. If I recall correctly the city & street was a valid address in the other state. I tried to contact the organizers and the post office (obviously they couldn’t help) but it never planned out.
I think my prize would have been a small Diablo figurine.
I wrote to the show Video & Arcade Top 10 and they sent me a copy of Super Mario 64.
