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Posted November 10, 2011
On day two of our contest blitz, we double your puzzling and double your fun with a [url=http://j.mp/sUzFEE]GOG Double Puzzle. Win a free $5.99 or $9.99 game from our catalog today by completing this test of your l33t word jumbling skills and let's see if you know jack about GOG.com. We will be running four more contests over this weekend and the next one starts right now!

The double puzzling part of this is that once you've unjumbled the words, you still have to put together a sentence at the bottom of the page. When you have that sentence, send us an email to [url=mailto:contest@gog.com?subject=GOG.com 2011 Double Puzzle]contest@gog.com[/url] with the subject line "GOG.com 2011 Double Puzzle" and the in the text of the email, add the sentence from the bottom of the puzzle, and we'll randomly select 10 winners to receive a free $5.99 or $9.99 game of their choice. The window of eligibility goes from now until 6.59AM EST tomorrow (12.11.11). We'll announce all of our contest winners on Wednesday, so keep tuned.

Best of luck to you all, and check back in tomorrow for our next contest.

Edited for clarity; apologies for the confusion!
Posted November 11, 2011
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clawhook: Can someone (ideally from GOG) confirm whether the answer should be in the subject of the email or the body? The instructions are really confusing.
It's been a holiday today, so I've been out of pocket.

I'll go through the answers on Monday and pick the winners regardless of whether you put the "answer" or the suggested subject "GOG 2011 Double Puzzle" as the subject line of your email.

Apologies about any confusion!
Also, it's possible the GOG mailer bot has died a grisly death from overwork. I'm going to look at the mailerbot now and see what's up.
Post edited November 11, 2011 by TheEnigmaticT
Posted November 11, 2011
The GOG mailerbot has apparently spazzed out from overwork; I *am* still getting all of your submissions, however, so don't worry.

Please don't resend over and over, as that's probably only exacerbating the issue. What we'll do us cull through the list of replies, take everyone's last one, and then throw away all of your previous submissions. Then we'll draw our random winner, so that multiple submissions won't count.
Posted November 11, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: The GOG mailerbot has apparently spazzed out from overwork; I *am* still getting all of your submissions, however, so don't worry.
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Lexor: Is it possible to get some reply now to be sure that mail has been indeed received?
Today my internet has some troubles so I do not know if no reply was bot's or internet's fault.
The only alternative would be for me to email each of you guys back by hand. Since there's several hundred entries, that would take more than a few hours.

I love you guys, but not enough to do that on a holiday for me. :P
Posted November 11, 2011
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TheEnigmaticT: The only alternative would be for me to email each of you guys back by hand. Since there's several hundred entries, that would take more than a few hours.
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Lexor: Is bot working ok now? If yes, maybe I'll send my answer again to make sure?
The mailerbot can reply to about one email every twenty seconds--it's just an autoresponder set on the inbox--so when we're getting eight or so answers a minute, he kind of skips a few and then refuses to answer anything for a minute or so. He's still sporadically sending out answers, but not very many in a given minute.

There's no problem with the inbox, though, so you don't have to worry about whether we've received your entry or not. I'd recommend not re-sending unless you get a server bounceback message in your email.
Posted November 11, 2011
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Lexor: Or maybe you should increase its number of responses per minute... :P
Believe me, I'll ask IT to take care of that on Monday, but there's not a whole lot I can do now. ;)
Posted November 11, 2011
In the wake of a massive flood of emails, the mailbot auto-replies can have a little delay ;) We're sorry but we can guarantee that your emails won't get lost anywhere.

Check out GOG.com tomorrow for the next round of puzzle solving madness!

BTW.
This one is really challenging ;)
Good luck and have fun!
Posted November 11, 2011
Mailerbot is acting erratically due to overwork; while we are receiving all of your entries, you may not get a reply from him. Don't worry, we've gotten everyone's answers.
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