December 12th 2007

Wrapping Up the Gifts

Now that all the ROBLOX holiday gifts have gone out, it’s time to clue you in on what the gifts are and how they work.

Over the past two weeks, people have randomly been finding gifts in their Stuff collection. You got a gift if you met a certain condition at the time when the gift was being given out. The condition was different for every gift.

Each gift will be on sale in the Catalog for a couple more days. Then they will be removed from the Catalog. Each gift will open sometime after that and reveal what is inside. Due to popular demand, you will be able to keep the boxes (some might even argue that the boxes are the real collector’s item). 

Here’s a list of all the gifts. “Number awarded” is the total number of people who got the gift for free. For the most part, “dead” accounts were not issued gifts.

Shiny Blue Gift of Niceness

Number awarded: 48454

Who got it: All accounts that never had a 3 day ban or worse placed on their account.

 

Black Iron Gift of Pwnage 

Number awarded: 2766

Who got it: All accounts with the Bloxxer Badge (KOs > 250 and KOs > WOs). 

 

Speckled Gift of Pinksplosion

Number awared: 1521

Who got it: All accounts that owned a pink hat. These were all hats that were pink or hot pink or purplish-pink, but not the Music Theory book, which is purple and not pink. You didn’t need to be wearing it.

Elite Gift of Hax0r

Number awared: 174

Who got it: All accounts that messaged JohnCarmack prior to the cutoff time. The content of the message did not matter, you just had to send one. How were you supposed to figure that out? You weren’t. Not really. It’s surprising so many people did. They saw the ASSERT(hax0r); shirt and picked up on the clue there: 0×5f3759df - Carmack’s Number. To those familiar with the C++ ternary operator, the text on the shirt promises a gift to anyone who can find the hacker JohnCarmack. Obscure? Absolutely. But 174 people figured it out.

Wanwood Gift of Treehugger

Number awared: 367

Who got it: All accounts that owned a place, model, or shirt with the word “tree” in either the description or the title. This was the first gift that people had trouble figuring out the condition for.

Glittering Gold Gift of Fame

Number awarded: 601

Who got it: All accounts with an elite number of profile views - that is to say 1337 or more profile views. Har har.

 

Inscrutable White Gift of the Primes

Number awared: 5051

Who got it: All accounts whose user number was prime. Interestingly, due to the distribution of prime numbers, the earlier you joined ROBLOX, the higher your odds of receiving this gift were. Using the Prime Counting Function, you can see that if you joined around last January you had a 1 in 6 chance of getting this gift. If you joined recently, your odds were more like 1 in 13.

The Agonizingly Ugly Gift of Full Inbox

Number awared: 710

Who got it: All accounts with more than 100 messages sitting in their inbox. It didn’t matter if they were read or unread. Messages to yourself were not counted, nor were friend requests.

Azure Gift of Builder

Number awarded: 3348

Who got it: All accounts with the Homestead Badge (100 or more visits to your place total).

 

Bombastic Gift of Awesome

Number awarded: 1774

Who got it: All accounts that had ever used the word “awesome” on the site. This included account names/descriptions, shirt names/descriptions, place names/descriptions, comments, and forum posts. Correct spelling was a must. So basically anyone who said they wanted the awesome gift got one :-)

The idea behind the gifts was not that people would collect them all - I don’t think anyone got them all for free. Some of them were meant to be easy to get, others hard. Some were meant to be obvious, others cryptic. I tried to make most gifts the sort that new players had just as good of a chance of getting as veterans. At the end of the day, who can argue with getting free stuff?

- Telamon

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106 Comments

  1. I would never known how to get half of these. D:

    Comment by Usetheforce — December 12, 2007 @ 8:50 pm

  2. 2nd jacke

    Comment by daxman — December 12, 2007 @ 8:54 pm

  3. *jaked

    and so thats how you gat the gifts

    Comment by daxman — December 12, 2007 @ 8:56 pm

  4. Got all! But I bought 3… though I think I made a tree shirt when I saw roblox wearing one… 6-8 hours before they gave the hat out.. but then I bought it.

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 12, 2007 @ 8:59 pm

  5. Yah… I did deserve tree hugger.. but my shirt was named tree.bmp but it still had tree in it. But I bought it.. I wish I could get a hat for accomplising that… aww.. D’=

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 12, 2007 @ 9:01 pm

  6. 100 messages i have 100 messages >:O oh well i got 5 out of 10 :P

    Comment by danielmcb — December 12, 2007 @ 9:07 pm

  7. oh wait most of them were friend requests -_-

    Comment by danielmcb — December 12, 2007 @ 9:10 pm

  8. Awesome

    Comment by Bob Whirlygig Fijiwinkle (William) — December 12, 2007 @ 9:13 pm

  9. oh ya its cool we get to keep the presents ^_^

    Comment by danielmcb — December 12, 2007 @ 9:16 pm

  10. 10th comment woot!

    Comment by Mario68 — December 12, 2007 @ 9:23 pm

  11. Heh heh, Man I was 100% right about the awesome one. Yay me!

    Comment by Diji — December 12, 2007 @ 9:28 pm

  12. lol. I got all thepresant for free, but on difrent accs

    Comment by Are92 ( from the time after 100 000 users) — December 12, 2007 @ 9:31 pm

  13. i said awsome in my shirt,lol!

    Comment by BuddyLm — December 12, 2007 @ 9:35 pm

  14. Awww, The only gift I didn’t get free was the prime.

    Comment by Rombom — December 12, 2007 @ 9:37 pm

  15. Heh some of them I never would have guessed.

    Comment by JoshJosh117 — December 12, 2007 @ 9:38 pm

  16. I got every single one of the gifts for free.

    Comment by WonkaKid — December 12, 2007 @ 9:38 pm

  17. ^_^ yaaaaaaay

    Comment by NintendoBoy — December 12, 2007 @ 9:45 pm

  18. One of my Dead accs got prime. and Yay I didn’t see we were keeping boxes. I was going to argue with you telclause. I asked Reese to since you don’t read PMs. xDDD

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 12, 2007 @ 9:53 pm

  19. THANK YOU TELECLAUSE!!! *sees if I can use codes* Thanks! =\

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 12, 2007 @ 9:55 pm

  20. YAY you CAN use Bold Italics too Don’t forget underline Or all three =D

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 12, 2007 @ 9:56 pm

  21. =\ Oh well at least I can make the stuf UNDER my post bold too. xD

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 12, 2007 @ 9:57 pm

  22. Wolf, don’t spam.

    Comment by WonkaKid — December 12, 2007 @ 10:11 pm

  23. Sorry for double-comment, but why are the comments bold now?

    Comment by WonkaKid — December 12, 2007 @ 10:11 pm

  24. Yay, I was one of the 174 Robloxians that got the Elite Gift of Hax0r for free :D

    Comment by Luckyest4 — December 12, 2007 @ 10:17 pm

  25. Mah 2. I got 7 of teh 10.

    Comment by jtm110972 — December 12, 2007 @ 10:41 pm

  26. Yah sorry wonka.. and I did but it didn’t listen to and now they are bold. =\

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 12, 2007 @ 11:05 pm

  27. Actually everything else on the page is Bold now… oops.

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 12, 2007 @ 11:06 pm

  28. Will this undo it? [/b] Some processors use square brackets… anyway i have over 280 messages and i didnt get it! D=

    Comment by Bob Whirlygig Fijiwinkle (William) — December 12, 2007 @ 11:38 pm

  29. Will this do italics?

    Comment by Bob Whirlygig Fijiwinkle (William) — December 12, 2007 @ 11:38 pm

  30. I think I cleared all the fonts.

    Comment by Bob Whirlygig Fijiwinkle (William) — December 12, 2007 @ 11:38 pm

  31. This calls for ppl to buy my shirt! its 22 RBX! only buy it in ROBUX! I SOOO Want those Gifts! The Pink, Ugly, and Gold gifts are the ones i didnt get!

    Comment by RMXEXE — December 13, 2007 @ 2:20 am

  32. I used > and

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 13, 2007 @ 2:49 pm

  33. Did I kill the bold?

    Anyways, I thought that the Prime gift had something to do with UserIDs…

    Comment by Jediknightkrazy — December 13, 2007 @ 3:30 pm

  34. i got the most rare one! the elite gift of haxor!

    Comment by Rocks25 — December 13, 2007 @ 4:57 pm

  35. Why can’t I post…

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 13, 2007 @ 5:04 pm

  36. oh now I did.. Ah well if you want the same article with thoughts of whats in the presents PM me

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 13, 2007 @ 5:06 pm

  37. …o…k..?… That post appeared after it said error…

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 13, 2007 @ 5:44 pm

  38. Um what about the secret person who sneaks into places and leaves stuff!

    ?
    O O
    >
    _

    Comment by Rusty2 — December 13, 2007 @ 9:58 pm

  39. i got three gifts, awsome, black iron, and nice. woo hoo!

    Comment by BuddyLm — December 14, 2007 @ 12:51 am

  40. I got ten gifts, Nice Black, Haxor, Pink, Tree, Fame, Prime, Ugly, Azure, And Bombastic! Woo Hoo!!!

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 14, 2007 @ 2:33 am

  41. i want the hax0r gift, the treehugger gift, and the ugly gift so i need so many robux -_-”

    Comment by videobob — December 14, 2007 @ 11:41 pm

  42. i got 7 out of ten

    Comment by videobob — December 14, 2007 @ 11:42 pm

  43. O_O lol i got like 7 presnts without buying werid

    Comment by linshin7 — December 15, 2007 @ 12:48 am

  44. ooo i gots hax0r gift.h4v3 4ny 0n3 s33n 7h47 I g0ts 7his?

    Comment by CoolJB — December 15, 2007 @ 6:37 am

  45. Articerlie(sp?) said teleclause said there was 11 gift.. and showed a pic. =3 =\ ?=\

    Comment by WolfVenomSilverSurfe — December 15, 2007 @ 7:58 pm

  46. Do we get to open the gifts on Christmas Day or do we keep the presents?

    Comment by Pf2 — December 16, 2007 @ 3:41 am

  47. They mispelt “awared” its spelt “awarded”
    XDDD

    Comment by toxsikkilla — December 17, 2007 @ 1:43 am

  48. w00t I got all of them

    Comment by kman786 — December 19, 2007 @ 1:54 am

  49. will i still get the awesome gift if i used “awesome” recently?

    Comment by peter777 — December 22, 2007 @ 12:26 am

  50. I am not wanted because. I tried EVERYTHING to get these! Because a person thatwas a day old got all of them. because I’ a noob thats annoying. I’m left out and builderman, if you read this, I hope you feel bad for me. I wont EVER get a presen tand i just want to destroy the universe! I wont EVER get a present. I’m just ARGHHHH!
    you know what. Im angrier than the guy who hates life!

    Comment by ArisShah — December 24, 2007 @ 1:47 am

  51. i got 8. (no night vision goggles and the antlers)

    Comment by videobob — December 24, 2007 @ 3:58 am

  52. I got all and it was realy funny , but I cant stop thinking on the ppl that dident get the presants, maybe you can give out more gifts next year and every player that still play can not get under 5 presants.

    Comment by Are92 — December 26, 2007 @ 11:13 pm

  53. i wanted the hax0r gift T_T
    cause i want the night vision goggles,
    THEY ARE SO AWESOME!!!

    Comment by lemurboy07 — December 27, 2007 @ 3:04 am

  54. [...] Greetings! We’re running a little survey regarding the holiday gifts that we gave out to many of our users. So if you got something awesome, or you hated your gift, this is your chance to tell us all about it. [...]

    Pingback by Roblox Developers’ Journal » ROBLOX Holiday Gift Survey — December 27, 2007 @ 4:23 pm

  55. [b] LOL is this bold?

    Comment by jtm110972 — December 27, 2007 @ 8:57 pm

  56. b Aww….

    Comment by jtm110972 — December 27, 2007 @ 8:58 pm

  57. >b ? Hm… How to get bold…

    Comment by jtm110972 — December 27, 2007 @ 8:58 pm

  58. i only got 4….WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

    Comment by SpiderNaruto — December 27, 2007 @ 11:53 pm

  59. I got 1 :(

    Comment by crazykory — December 28, 2007 @ 3:24 am

  60. [...] Survey! Greetings! We’re running a little survey regarding the holiday gifts that we gave out to many of our users. So if you got something awesome, or you hated your gift, this is your chance to tell us all about it.Click Here to take the survey! [...]

    Pingback by Survey! « Compaq’s News Letter — December 28, 2007 @ 7:14 pm

  61. How do we get all these?????

    Comment by DigimonWorldDawn — December 28, 2007 @ 9:33 pm

  62. I only got one of the gifts.

    :\

    Comment by Robloxorz — December 29, 2007 @ 5:06 am

  63. how do you get them?

    Comment by marioanddonkeykong — December 30, 2007 @ 12:16 am

  64. man…..i knew him when he whas a noob -_- i dont think ill ever have my dream of being a forum mod T_T

    Comment by Anonymous — December 30, 2007 @ 1:25 am

  65. man…..i knew him when he whas a noob -_- i dont think ill ever have my dream of being a forum mod T_T

    Comment by Masterdumbguy — December 30, 2007 @ 1:26 am

  66. I have a model with tree,but I didn’t get present.

    Comment by RSBCJeffrey — December 30, 2007 @ 4:20 am

  67. lol! these gifts are awesome!!

    Comment by BLOOXERindisguise — December 31, 2007 @ 5:03 am

  68. WAIT… i got NO Gift Hats man can someone plz give me 1 i will be so happy like a Blisey.

    Comment by Ben — January 1, 2008 @ 3:42 am

  69. har har i got 2/3 of it!! ugh but my other accounts got none and some ppl didnt either……i feal sorry for them but its their loss for not joining sooner

    Comment by Tucker1235 — January 1, 2008 @ 4:45 pm

  70. omg

    Comment by brianalion — January 1, 2008 @ 11:45 pm

  71. i feal ripped off personaly -_-

    Comment by artha14 — January 3, 2008 @ 4:52 pm

  72. i oly got 2 out of 10. i had no idea (and still dont -_-) how to get the elite gift of HaXOr. i didnt know half of these of how to get them.

    Comment by nintendofan61 — January 4, 2008 @ 5:39 pm

  73. i should have gotten the shiny blue gift of niceness bc i didnt ever have a 3 day ban or worse.

    Comment by nintendofan61 — January 4, 2008 @ 5:40 pm

  74. I HATE U TELACLAUS!!!!!!!!! U THINK ITS OKAY TO GIVE ME ONE SINGLE GIFT!?!?!?!?!?!?!? NEXT YEAR I’M DOING THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT GIVER NOT U!!!!!!!!!! BECAUSE U WERE NAUGHTY TO ME!!!! AND IF U TRY TO DELIVER EVEN 1 SINGLE PRESENT TO NOT ME>…………………..I’LL KKKKKKKKKKIIIIILILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by dan64 — January 5, 2008 @ 7:06 pm

  75. yeah, on sale in a couple more months, yeah right! Its been a whole freakin month! AND THEY BETTER BE ON SALE FOR TIX!!! NOT JUST ROBUX!!!!

    Comment by LordBurger — January 8, 2008 @ 11:05 pm

  76. *on sale on a couple more DAYS* lol typo

    Comment by LordBurger — January 8, 2008 @ 11:06 pm

  77. I want the gift of awesome

    Comment by garrar10 — January 9, 2008 @ 12:27 am

  78. i wish everything was buyable in ROBLOX…

    Comment by Anonymous — January 18, 2008 @ 6:04 pm

  79. this was fun but i only got i gift i had around 114 vists at my place i still did not get a 2nd hat!

    Comment by tecoo — January 21, 2008 @ 7:23 pm

  80. I should of gotten a couple of these like the black gift of pwnge and the Glitering gold gift of fame!!!!

    Comment by Csx — February 8, 2008 @ 2:04 am

  81. I really want a gift hat…I got no gifts yet…=(

    Comment by Rafael29 — April 11, 2008 @ 4:32 pm

  82. I wonder if they will do it again this year!

    Comment by TheJoker21 — May 5, 2008 @ 11:16 pm

  83. I hope they have new gifts!

    Comment by linkkid647 — May 30, 2008 @ 10:34 pm

  84. Man im gonna get 2 presents
    Azure Gift of Builder and
    The Agonizingly Ugly Gift of Full Inbox

    Comment by Jaasce — July 10, 2008 @ 3:28 am

  85. Will You Give It Out This ChristMass?

    Comment by GOLDMANX — July 27, 2008 @ 2:35 am

  86. I Have Acomplished 2 Things I Hope They Give It Out This Year Because The More They Do That The More People Will Keep Playing And More People Will Tell Other People To Play.

    Comment by GOLDMANX — July 27, 2008 @ 2:43 am

  87. I Love ROBLOX!!!!!!!!

    Comment by GOLDMANX — August 4, 2008 @ 1:18 am

  88. Woah I hope they give out new hats this year in gifts like that that would be sweet.

    Comment by Insidebox — August 14, 2008 @ 11:10 pm

  89. plz tell do they give these out everey year??

    Comment by starwars611 — August 18, 2008 @ 10:21 am

  90. Are they gonna return this year, with new ones? I want to know.

    Comment by clubspongey — August 18, 2008 @ 11:13 am

  91. Wow. If they give them out this year then I’ll be able to get most of them

    Comment by Plad — September 25, 2008 @ 1:09 pm

  92. ya i know me too

    Comment by dengar147 — October 1, 2008 @ 8:58 am

  93. i hope they give em out this chritsmas

    Comment by Anonymous — October 18, 2008 @ 4:06 pm

  94. awesome

    Comment by Pichu1023 — October 19, 2008 @ 11:10 am

  95. lol late comment :/

    Comment by boomer554 — October 19, 2008 @ 2:45 pm

  96. I like the prime gift its the best 707Z

    Comment by Blooper239 — October 20, 2008 @ 7:31 am

  97. The comments are still open? Strange! Well, I guess they’ll never release those presents again, because they told you how to get them. :P

    Comment by Maelstronomer — October 26, 2008 @ 7:40 am

  98. They will have same objectives different presents. BE READY! :D

    Comment by AlphaicX — October 27, 2008 @ 6:25 am

  99. Wow LOL I love thw Sparing fedora

    Comment by zebrazebra1 — October 28, 2008 @ 2:01 pm

  100. 100th COMMENT WOOT

    Comment by redred360 — October 31, 2008 @ 12:06 am

  101. ohh i realy want the primes thing and plz tell me its agian in 2008

    Comment by ownage466 — November 11, 2008 @ 10:20 am

  102. wow zebrazebra is the 99 coment and he my friend =)

    Comment by ownage466 — November 11, 2008 @ 10:21 am

  103. i hope they give them out this year it is almost christmass

    Comment by GOLDMANX — November 15, 2008 @ 12:23 pm

  104. sweet they never closed comments

    Comment by ripKillian01 — November 16, 2008 @ 1:58 pm

  105. LOL

    Comment by zebrazebra1 — November 20, 2008 @ 11:28 am

  106. OH! They weren’t for sale they were given out
    Man maybe they might sell it this year!

    Comment by Tanman1 — November 20, 2008 @ 4:52 pm

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