Lol cookies obviously XD
Well done yogsloth.

The mystery box is solved and the prize is gone, but I thought of a fairly impressive "clairvoyant" experience and I'll share it anyway.

I had a little retro project and for it needed to write a small program that would save a portion of interesting memory to a file on Commodore 128 running CP/M. An extremely simple thing, if it wasn't for me not knowing CP/M and not being able to find on the net where in memory the file buffer is. Frustrated, I gave up.

The following day at work I suddenly felt very, very lucky. On a whim I headed to the basement where there is some really old stuff stashed away. I picked up the first file that I saw - turned out to be a manual for the Osborne 1 computer - opened it from a random page, and poked my finger to a random paragraph. I had my answer; 128 bytes at $0080.

From what I see, yogsloth lives across the pond which could present a problem, unless you go to Getcomposted's house first and hop into one of the UFO's that seem to frequent the place. It's in the UK as well so can't be too far.

At first, I thought I can't put a cookie box in there because that's way too easy but then I thought everyone would think that I knew that it's an obvious guess and would therefor guess that I had picked something different. It sounds complicated but it's so simple: All you had to do is divine from what you know of me: Am I the sort of man who would put cookies into my box?
Instructional video for these situations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_eZmEiyTo0

Thanks for contributing a psychic story post-prize-ishly, much appreciated! Your story poses an interesting question: Was that a freak coincidence or is Plato right with his anamnesis theory that we all know everything before birth and then forget everything and have to re-learn it all, and perhaps in some exceptions some of that knowledge comes back seemingly miraculously? Maybe you subconsciously knew the solution already but your brain didn't want to shock your conscious mind by unlocking the knowledge out of "nowhere" so it guided you to the page of that book in the basement to make things a bit less miraculous, it's still quite astonishing though.

Anyway guys, thanks again...

...excuse me... there are some gentlemen in black suits at the door. Hmm, I'd better go answer it. Be right back.

You're welcome!
The gov isn't that fast, those guys must be Jehovah's Witnesses. Lock yourself in, finish Syberia and then onto Cognition :)

While normally true, I am hosting a pirate themed giveaway, so I happen to have a galley primed and ready to go and its only a few months sale to get to the New World. By this time yogsloth probing and experimenting should be well underway and the game will be mine for the plundering, Argh!.

That being said, I sure could use one of those UFO's, would shave a few months of my trip and there's no risk of scurvy, or my crew committing mutiny :).
Perhaps they too have come for the game, or perhaps they have heard of yogsloth's incredible psychic powers and wish to use it for themselves. It sure would save them time if they already knew which people would answer before they knock at the door.

I truly wanted to believe in UFOs but then guys like Neil deGrasse Tyson destroyed my dreams:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSJElZwEI8o
(includes practical tips on what to do when you do get abducted by a UFO)

Maybe humanity is doomed to keep plundering and conquering each other on this little blue ball called Earth, never to meet an alien civilization.
In that regard, I'm sending everyone over here:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/ye_ole_giveaway_pirate_or_colonist_which_one_be_ye/page1

Don't let him ruin your dreams! That jerk still wants me to refuse Pluto's planethood! Never I say! ;)

Keep your chin up about the UFO's. The problem was they kept landing in America, and all those hillbillies gave them the wrong impression. I'm sure once they hear about your legendary GOG box of mystery they will be right on over (just be sure to check before you open the door, it might be those Jehovah's Witnesses again). Lets just hope they're the nice aliens, not the ones who do the anal probes!

Thank you for the link to the giveaway. I think the majority are going with colonisation so far, so perhaps we are not so doomed after all. On the other hand, the more of those land lovers there are, the more there is to plunder for me and me ship mates :).

I grew up learning the planets via a nursery rhyme that included Pluto so I'm Team Pluto and on your side.
Nevertheless, Neil deGrasse Tyson is more entertaining than most stand-up comedians though so that's a big plus, Pluto or no Pluto.

Haha! Indeed, all the stories about alien abductions and anal probing etc always seem to come from the US, that's odd. I don't take risks though, when I play classic XCOM I always build my first base in Switzerland and call it "Swisscom", same as our main phone company. Doesn't help against Jehovah's Witnesses, they already showed up twice at my house. They rotate turfs among their teams and don't seem to trade notes so no matter how clearly you communicate to one team that they aren't welcome, the next team will be blissfully ignorant of that fact. Have considered landmines, but Geneva convention won't allow it.

It's kinda ironic that a UK resident would host a giveaway for a game where your task is to betray the Motherland, no wonder you're putting a strong effort into convincing everyone that you are a pirate and not a colonist!

Maybe a trapping pit would work. With all the sink holes appearing around the world you could just say it was another bizarre natural occurrence. As for how the spikes got there, well, just tell them they are stalagmites :).

My psychic story:

I'm a volunteer firefighter. Its a small, rural department, so we aren't too busy - about 75 calls a year. It should work out to 1-2 calls per week, but it never does, they always come in bunches. We'll get four calls in a week, and then have four weeks with nothing.

We had this young guy (18ish) join the department last year. He has an uncanny ability to predict when we'll get calls. Shortly after he joined up, he sent out a text one day "stay sharp, we're going to have a call today.". I thought it was pretty ballsy of a rookie. He was right, we had a call that day. In the first three months he went five for five.

Back in June, on the Friday before I was going on a weeks vacation, we had a small fire in the morning. It was a minor call, and we were back in the hall doing cleanup in a couple hours. I had a couple of things I was trying to get done at work before vacation, so I cut out early on the cleanup. When I was leaving I said "See you guys in awhile". He says "See you this afternoon, we're going to have another call today". Prior to this, in six years on the department, I'd had two two-call days. They happen, but they're rare. Sure enough, two hours later, we were out on a medical call.

He's not always right. Since we've started keeping track, he's just over 75%, which is pretty impressive.

That's old school, I like it :D But my landlady won't appreciate it if I mess up the place, even if I'm otherwise helpful with carrying out the trash and occasionally cleaning the staircase for her when she is sick.

Thanks for sharing this story hummer010, fire premonition sounds like a very useful gift. I haven't heard of anyone who has a 100% prediciton rate for anything, even with paranormal skills that seems an impossible thing. It would be nice though if someone could finally wipe that smug smile off James Randi's face once and for all, that would make my day.