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On the last day of the weekend, we have two different contests for you all, giving you a final chance to win big before we resume our regular and humdrum week tomorrow.

For the brainy among you, we have a cryptogram. Decipher the hidden meaning behind the text below, send the full plain text (and an explanation how you deciphered it!) to us with the subject line, "GOG.com 2011 Cryptogram Contest". From all of the correct entries, we'll pull one lucky winner who gets 10 free $5.99 or $9.99 GOG.com games.

AF IG BY YX RC PM QB FC QC PF ZM CB PQ PT QE UP TP QP
UC NM US GT TI TS RC PM QB FC QC FC TV RC ID TS PG YZ TP QP
ST UY JG BL XU HU EK OY ZU EO LO RC TQ PG DL CE ZU BQ IO XY
ZS CE FO HP JT TV IX QB QC UZ NT MQ GP XE ZM XA OP TV

IB DB IL YS FO EY OP NM UA TV DI GR AM VM
FP CD QI CB RH MH ZL FC OU TS TX GI OX PS HT
TR HT ZP ED QC GI CB RC PM QP RH QE CB EY QB PF RD XQ
PQ TQ XQ QP OF ZS HC RI ZH FO DE BZ IB RG BE GT

If you're feeling artsy instead, we have an alternative for you. It's coming up on the holiday season, and we'd like you to put on your advertiser hats. Make us an outdoor ad that you think would be an awesome GOG.com holiday advertisement. Whether you want to make a billboard by the side of the road, a clever bench, a bus stop ad, or even silkscreen an entire bus with an awesome GOG.com advertisement, let's see what you think this year's GOG.com holidays should be about. Email your best GOG.com advertisement to [url=mailto:contest@gog.com?subject=GOG.com 2011 Advertisement]contest@gog.com[/url] with the subject line "GOG.com 2011 Advertisement" to enter. We will select some of our favorites from the entries and each winner will get 5 free $5.99 or $9.99 games from our catalog.

Since both of these contests represent something a little harder than the previous ones, we'll give you until 6.59 EST on Tuesday (15.11.11) to come up with your entry. We'll announce all of our contest winners on Wednesday, so keep tuned.

Put on those thinking caps, and let's see what you've got!
I should have guessed it when I noticed that J and W would interchange... oh well.

Congrats to those who did figure it out, especially those who did it without hints!
Ach, so close! I misinterpreted the clues to mean that ROT13 was applied before Playfair in encrypting the message. I tried working on that, and realized that Z could be on no lower than the 3rd row (since it would have to be on a row with T, which had to be immediately above B and then I). That meant that there would have to be a Z in the keyword, which didn't seem likely given the hint of GOG's product. So I figured I was probably dealing with a random keysquare, and despaired of finding it in time.
Oh well, there was no way I was going to get this what with a double encryption. :(
Feel like I wasted a fair bit of time now.
Congrats to those who managed to figure this out!

I didn't imagine GOG could be that evil to use double encryption... :)
And none of the clues suggested that. Let alone the useless clue regarding knowledge of GOG product. That was pure evilness.

To my consolation, before this contest I didn't know anything about classic ciphers but now I'm much more aware of what can be done with them.
I got the ROT13, but I figured the key had to be GOODOLDGAMES or some variant thereof. Congrats to those who worked it out!
Post edited November 15, 2011 by nuuikle
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nuuikle: I got the ROT13, but I figured the key had to be GOODOLDGAMES or some variant thereof. Congrats to those who worked it out!
Actually I got lucky, "RARECLASSICS" decrypted parts of the Text correctly. And I had bits and pieces of the Matrix reconstructed from the poem clue. So I got there evetnually.

Thanks for this nice Puzzle GOG!