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Posted September 25, 2013
Birthday fun and gifts (for you!)
GOG.com 5th birthday celebration continues, and we came up with some fun activities essential to every nerd party in the universe. Namely, we want to play some trivia with you! There will be prizes, of course, because there have to be gifts in a birthday celebration. Since it is our party, you get to keep the gifts! We wouldn't have it any other way. But, just to make it more fun, you'll have to put some effort into getting them. For the next couple of days (let's say: until Sunday), we'll post a daily activity for you. A quiz, a puzzle, some trivia--you know: fun stuff. Each day you'll get a chance to prove your gaming knowledge and familiarity with GOG.com for a chance to get some free games. Our activity of choice today: word search!

UPDATE:
We got word from our support, that some users aren't sure where they should send the answers. Let's pretend that finding the e-mail address on the picture below is a little warm-up exercise before the actual word search. If you can't handle that task, there's probably not much point in wasting your time looking for the 40 titles. And one more thing: we didn't notice it ourselves, but there's actually 41 hidden titles in the picture (apart from the highlighted "FEZ"). That's because one of the longer ones contains another one, shorter. Still--we don't expect more than 40, and that gives you a bit of an advantage.

GOG.com Birthday Word Search

You've got time until Thursday, September 26, at 14:59PM GMT. That's 24 hours. Have fun! :-)

SOLUTION:

Here's an image provided by our user. Thanks Dan!
GOG.com Birthday Word Search Solution

The hidden titles are as follows:

1. Alan Wake
2. Alpha Centauri
3. Arcanum
4. Baldur's Gate
5. Bioforge
6. Blood
7. Caesar
8. Carmageddon
9. Descent
10. Dungeon Keeper
11. Fallout
12. Freespace
13. FTL
14. Gabriel Knight
15. Hotline Miami
16. Master of Magic
17. Master of Orion
18. Might and Magic
19. Myst
20. Nox
21. Outcast
22. Painkiller
23. Pharaoah
24. Pid
25. Populous
26. Postal
27. Psychonauts
28. Quest For Glory
29. Resonance
30. Sacrifice
31. Sim City
32. Star Control
33. Syndicate
34. The Witcher
35. Theme Hospital
36. Thief
37. To The Moon
38. Ultima
39. Wing Commander
40. Zeus
+ BONUS
41. ArmA (hiding within Carmageddon)

The 40 quickest winners should have the prizes in their email inboxes now. The draw of the other 20 will be done later today.

Congratulations to all winners!
Post edited September 26, 2013 by G-Doc
Posted September 26, 2013
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korell: Woo! They used my solution image! :D

Got my code too. Thanks GOG! :)
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DreadMoth: Hmm, I sent my final list / solution off sometime around when you posted that you'd sent yours (according to Gmail, I sent it at 3:54 AM GMT+10, the forum says you made that post 23 hours ago...).

Guess I must have made myself ineligible (sent more than one email due to FEZ and ArmA confusion) or stuffed up the email somehow (or, maybe you were one of the last 40 and my email sent after yours?).
After a while the forum times are rounded. I sent my email to GOG at 19:36:25 UK time (GMT+1 at the moment).

I sent all my answers in using block capitals (and the image), but I did add punctuation (e.g. BALDUR'S GATE).
Post edited September 26, 2013 by korell
Posted September 26, 2013
This was so much fun. Nice GOG. I love this kind of challenge. I can't do lyrics or videos.
More like this in the future, please GOG.

It was easy after I found the right way to do it. Before that I was doing this just by looking at it on my small phone display. My eyes hurt and tired. I spent too many hours wasted and I didn't get enough sleeptime.

I mailed my answer in the last hour before deadline. I hope it's sent successfully, no mistake. Agree, confirmation message would be nice, GOG.

I didn't finish it fast enough but I'm glad I could find all the titles. I made it. I thought it was hard. Don't mind if I only win the $6, but I must win for the hard work, GOG. :P

I submitted 40 titles plus the example FEZ. I've found FTL but didn't put it in my submitted list because I was in doubt if it was correct. Because of abbreviation thing mentioned here previously. Hope it's OK. I can prove though if I did found FTL. I also was in doubt if it's THE WITCHER or WITCHER. I hope too spacing doesn't matter.

Thanks, GOG.
Posted September 26, 2013
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korell: After a while the forum times are rounded. I sent my email to GOG at 19:36:25 UK time (GMT+1 at the moment).

I sent all my answers in using block capitals (and the image), but I did add punctuation (e.g. BALDUR'S GATE).
Then I guess GOG didn't consider mine (wrong subject)..
I sent at 15:21 (GMT-3)

or that, or gmail screwed me. ;p
Post edited September 26, 2013 by Stooner
Posted September 26, 2013
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korell: After a while the forum times are rounded. I sent my email to GOG at 19:36:25 UK time (GMT+1 at the moment).

I sent all my answers in using block capitals (and the image), but I did add punctuation (e.g. BALDUR'S GATE).
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Stooner: Then I guess GOG didn't consider mine (wrong subject)..
I sent at 15:21 (GMT-3)

or that, or gmail screwed me. ;p
Wrong subject may well have been the cause. They did say to use email subject: SEARCH
Guessing some automation or filter was in place.
Posted September 26, 2013
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Stooner: Then I guess GOG didn't consider mine (wrong subject)..
I sent at 15:21 (GMT-3)

or that, or gmail screwed me. ;p
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korell: Wrong subject may well have been the cause. They did say to use email subject: SEARCH
Guessing some automation or filter was in place.
Yeah... I felt really, really stupid after I found my mistake.
All the time that I lost...

well, guess it happens. ;p
Posted September 26, 2013
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korell: After a while the forum times are rounded. I sent my email to GOG at 19:36:25 UK time (GMT+1 at the moment).

I sent all my answers in using block capitals (and the image), but I did add punctuation (e.g. BALDUR'S GATE).
This further complicates things, as I sent mine a full 10 minutes before then (my time zone is US Eastern).
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Post edited September 26, 2013 by Dr_Worm
Posted September 26, 2013
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DreadMoth: (according to Gmail, I sent it at 3:54 AM GMT+10, the forum says you made that post 23 hours ago...).
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korell: After a while the forum times are rounded. I sent my email to GOG at 19:36:25 UK time (GMT+1 at the moment).
03:54 GMT+10 = 17:54 GMT
19:36 GMT+1 = 18:36 GMT

If that's correct, I must have invalidated my entry by sending multiple emails and/or having typos in the game titles (assuming GOG actually got the email in the first place).

EDIT: Also possible that Gmail formatting did something weird like making the subject into something like "Re: SEARCH" on the email with the correct solution (which I sent in both text and image formats), or adding quotes from the earlier ones. Guess I should use a different email client next time...
Post edited September 26, 2013 by DreadMoth
Posted September 26, 2013
The only game I missed was PID. I did struggle with finding Might & Magic and Theme Hospital. I was positive I looked all over the wordsearch for them but didnt find them until right near the end when I tried a different tactic.
Posted September 26, 2013
DLC - this game can be found as well, but it is not listed
Posted September 26, 2013
Woop, got the mail, thank you GOG :D

Now picking will be difficult... But that's a nice problem to have.
Posted September 26, 2013
So what's with the draw?
Posted September 26, 2013
Damn.

I sent it in twice because I hadn't read the comments about Fez not counting.

I guess that invalidated my response.

I know I got all of them right.
Posted September 26, 2013
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GOG.com: 40. Zeus
THAT's the one I was missing! I even found it, but dismissed it, because I read it as Suez. I even looked in the catalogue to see if an obscure indie game about building shipping channels should have found its way onto GOG without my noticing it. It never occurred to me that it was also a name when read in the other direction.
Posted September 26, 2013
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GOG.com: 40. Zeus
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Wishbone: THAT's the one I was missing! I even found it, but dismissed it, because I read it as Suez. I even looked in the catalogue to see if an obscure indie game about building shipping channels should have found its way onto GOG without my noticing it. It never occurred to me that it was also a name when read in the other direction.
Zen was one I thought could have been an indie title, but turned out naught. There were couple of other words as well.
Posted September 26, 2013
Hmph.
Same as someone else I found all of them but send email with wrong subject. Kua
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