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Posted September 28, 2013
A Designers Smug Wows!

With a bit of a slip, but 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: anagrams, brought to you by MDyzzle, our very own number whisperer!

EDIT: now complete with solutions!

Peasant tier:
1. All Tofu (Fallout)
2. Cafe Spree (Freespace)
3. Candy Site (Syndicate)
4. Cat To Us (Outcast)
5. Car Non-Hoax (Anachronox)

Knave tier:
6. Gone Under Keep (Dungeon Keeper)
7. Healthiest Mop (Theme Hospital)
8. Go Mind Crewman (Wing Commander)
9. A Trance Topples Men (Planescape: Torment)
10. An Cordon Fend (Cannon Fodder)

Knight tier:
11. I'll Sure Try 2 Use Air (Leisure Suit Larry 2)
12. Micromanaged Shoe Fight (Heroes of Might and Magic)
13. Raccoon Trolley Store (Roller Coaster Tycoon)
14. Red Laboratory Tank (Betrayal at Krondor)
15. As Minorities Colonized (Sid Meier's Colonization)

Champion tier:
16. We never loaded a sad spider toad (Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive)
17. Craftswoman Makes Our Mosaic Bug Rack (Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura)
18. King's Chief Showers Assistant (The Witcher: Assassins Of Kings)
19. Blood Legion of Many Cake (Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain*)
20. Stern Banana Terms Help Sketching Hostile DNA (Knights and Merchants: The Peasants Rebellion)

*Sadly, there's supposed to be a "2" there, which was omitted by mistake. Or maybe it was omitted because MDyzzle does not believe such thing as "2 Many Cake" exists.

What GOG.com game titles were hidden here? Send your answers to contest@gog.com with the subject A RAG MAN. The first 20 people to guess all the titles correctly will be awarded with a $9.99 game. All other correct answers will enter a draw of 20 games $5.99 each. Please, do not send incomplete answers. Also, please refrain from spoiling everyone else's fun by discussing answers in the forum thread below.

You've got time until Sunday, September 29, at 2:59PM GMT. That's 21 hours.
Have fun! :-)

The GOG.com 5th Birthday Trivia so far:
Word Search - now with a solution!
Riddles - now with a solution!
History Quiz - now with a solution!
Post edited September 30, 2013 by G-Doc
Posted September 28, 2013
Agh, goddamn #20, I tried all the really long titles in the catalogue and none of them fit. Is it a title within a pack not listed on the main page of games or something? If so, that's... aagghhhhh!
Posted September 28, 2013
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cannard: Agh, goddamn #20, I tried all the really long titles in the catalogue and none of them fit. Is it a title within a pack not listed on the main page of games or something? If so, that's... aagghhhhh!
It's not in a pack - only a very looong title.
Posted September 28, 2013
Hyphens in the anagrams, are they used in the solution or are they extraneous? For instance, I have a solution for #5 but it definitely does not have a hyphen.
Posted September 28, 2013
Oh well, just finished and sent in my answers -- doubt I'm in the first 20 though :-(
Posted September 28, 2013
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Melhelix: Hyphens in the anagrams, are they used in the solution or are they extraneous? For instance, I have a solution for #5 but it definitely does not have a hyphen.
It's just to distract you - it's not part of the solution.
Posted September 28, 2013
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cannard: Agh, goddamn #20, I tried all the really long titles in the catalogue and none of them fit. Is it a title within a pack not listed on the main page of games or something? If so, that's... aagghhhhh!
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BreOl72: It's not in a pack - only a very looong title.
That's the thing, I used a character counter for it, not counting spaces, apostrophes, what have you - 39 characters, and none of the long titles I went through match! I'm banging my head on this one...

And yes the "Champion Tier" ones are pretty nasty in general. #17 for instance, omits an entire three-letter word from the game's title, otherwise it's a perfect fit.

EDIT: Nevermind, I think I got it, a space must have gotten in there when I did a "character count check" on it, I'm good, now to see for the other ones...
Post edited September 28, 2013 by cannard
Posted September 28, 2013
I'm almost sure number 11 isn't on Gog's catalogue!
Posted September 28, 2013
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henriquejr: I'm almost sure number 11 isn't on Gog's catalogue!
It's in a pack actually.

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BreOl72: But in all honesty - I don't believe that any of the participants (myself included) solved all the anagrams in the oldfashioned (aka: by using his own brain) way...there are possibilities nowadays, that help enormous.
I did it without cheating... Anyway it's GOG's game and they decide the rules and prizes.
Post edited September 28, 2013 by innerring
Posted September 28, 2013
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cannard: That's the thing, I used a character counter for it, not counting spaces, apostrophes, what have you - 39 characters, and none of the long titles I went through match! I'm banging my head on this one...

And yes the "Champion Tier" ones are pretty nasty in general. #17 for instance, omits an entire three-letter word from the game's title, otherwise it's a perfect fit.
Yeah,...#17 was nasty - that missing letters made me hesitant, whether my solution was correct.

Edit: nice to see, you have it!
Post edited September 28, 2013 by BreOl72
Posted September 28, 2013
Nuts! I hope a second email doesn't disqualify me -- I accidentally pasted the anagram for number 9 into my first email, instead of the correct answer!

My second email had the correct answer though!
Posted September 28, 2013
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BreOl72: The number is not explicitly mentioned on that game, but is involved in a "pack".
So I'd say, forget the number - solve the anagram on its own, and after that add the 2 to your solution.
D'oh! No wonder I couldn't get that one, I was looking for "2" in the catalogue. (Sleep deprivation and trying to do two other things at the same time were likely factors as well.) Thanks a lot for this post, it took about 30 seconds once I started looking at the actual letters.

More embarrassing is the fact that the last one I got - #9 - is not only in the Knave tier; it's also the game from the list that I've probably spent the most time playing. (To be fair, I intentionally haven't touched it for years in hopes of eventually replaying it with as close to a blank slate as possible... but still.)

Regarding the Champion tier, as others have mentioned two of them leave out numbers and one leaves out a word. Aside from those complications, I was doing them with the GOG catalogue and CTRL+F as my only aids and found that this was actually the easiest tier after Peasant due to the length of the titles, which rules out 90+ percent of the games in the catalogue. If it helps, I was operating under the assumption - which turned out to be correct - that the answers would use the original title for a game and not necessarily the title as listed in the catalogue (e.g., "Neverwinter Nights" rather than "Neverwinter Nights: Diamond Edition"), which cuts down drastically on the number of longer titles.
Posted September 28, 2013
To those complaining about it being in english.

anagram-solver.net

Yours truly.
Posted September 28, 2013
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Jonathanimal: was that a clever thing you did with "exptre" or happy accident?
Accident. If I wanted to be clever i would have made an actual word out of "expert". The challenge in anagrams is not just swapping letters, it's about swapping letters in a way that creates new words and sentences. Now that I think about it, I don't think you can make a meaningful word out of "expert" :/
Posted September 28, 2013
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Jonathanimal: was that a clever thing you did with "exptre" or happy accident?
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HiPhish: Accident. If I wanted to be clever i would have made an actual word out of "expert". The challenge in anagrams is not just swapping letters, it's about swapping letters in a way that creates new words and sentences. Now that I think about it, I don't think you can make a meaningful word out of "expert" :/
And I quote:

"Pretex
v. t. 1. To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co."
Posted September 28, 2013
Finally! Lost count of how many times I went through the whole catalog after being left with 4 of them. The sad part? While the other 2 were games I never played, and one of them a game I never even heard of except while scrolling through the GOG catalog here, the other 2 were 9 and 14! 9 was the last... And it was last because I had tried it in the beginning but somehow missed count on the characters so was skipping it since. *bonks self*
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