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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
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blakstar: "Pretex"
You truly are a master of words.
Posted September 28, 2013
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blakstar: "Pretex"
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HiPhish: You truly are a master of words.
Thank you! :-)
Posted September 28, 2013
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innerring: I did it without cheating... Anyway it's GOG's game and they decide the rules and prizes.
If you actually achieved this only with eyes and brain: congrats! (I mean it!)

Edit: sorry, mixed you up with someone else.

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Edit 2: The first contest (Word search) was the best so far imho (and - no, it's not because I won a game).
There was no possibility to "cheat" (at least, if you're not a programmer) - just "hard work to be done".

The second was still good, but "unfair" insofar as you had way better chances, if you'd played all the games before.

The third contest could be solved by google, and the fourth could be solved by external programs.

Which can be done very quickly and is -naturally- very disappointing, when only the first 20 correct participants definitely win and you come late to the party - as some users already mentioned.

When I discovered the fourth contest, it was already running for over half an hour.
Of course I started with the good old brainwork, but after the first five, I realised that without some help, I wouldn't stand a chance against my competitors (and believe me - not all of them share your willingness to grind for success).

So, GOG, maybe more of the first sort (or as an alternative - no first come, first serve rule...only a draw, instead...that would equal the chances for all willing to participate, regardless of time).
Post edited September 28, 2013 by BreOl72
Posted September 28, 2013
BTW, just noticed that the first line of GOG.com's post, "A Designers Smug Wows!" is an anagram of "Guess words, win games!" I kept getting stuck on trying to fit "GOG" or "message[s]" in there.
Post edited September 28, 2013 by Huehuecoyotl
Posted September 28, 2013
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lynx655: To those complaining about it being in english.

URL

Yours truly.
ugh....this is like posting links to aimbots in fps-games forums.




anyways, GOG you rock! didnt have that much fun solving riddles in a while! thanks for all the great work yet again!
Post edited September 28, 2013 by KillerBee69
Posted September 28, 2013
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Huehuecoyotl: BTW, just noticed that the first line of GOG.com's post, "A Designers Smug Wows!" is an anagram of "Guess words, win games!" I kept getting stuck on trying to fit "GOG" or "message[s]" in there.
Cool,...the AS that I used, couldn't solve that one...no machine can beat the human brain in the end, I guess. ;o)
Post edited September 28, 2013 by BreOl72
Posted September 28, 2013
I'm going to "fix" a few of anagrams so they make more sense to the confused users here. If these are considered too "spoily" in any way feel free to delete the post, mods, if you must:

EDIT: Nevermind, screwed up 18 more than before because for some reason my mind keeps erasing one of the letters...
Post edited September 28, 2013 by cannard
Posted September 28, 2013
I think I'm going to sit this one out. Judging by past experience, even if I did do it I wouldn't win anything because only 20 are allowed plus the ones that they draw, so I'm just going to skip this one. But I do want to know if my answers were right on the last one. Usually they put the answers from the last one at the end of the new one but for some reason there not there. Anybody have a clue where to look?
Posted September 28, 2013
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saberwolfxm: I think I'm going to sit this one out. Judging by past experience, even if I did do it I wouldn't win anything because only 20 are allowed plus the ones that they draw, so I'm just going to skip this one.
Why not take the chance in the draw?
I see it this way: if I never participate in contests, I can never win, whereas if I participate, I have at least the chance to win.

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saberwolfxm: But I do want to know if my answers were right on the last one. Usually they put the answers from the last one at the end of the new one but for some reason there not there. Anybody have a clue where to look?
My personal guess would be, they rushed in the weekend and forgot to edit the correct answers in the last contest's description.
Sometime tomorrow, the Enigmatic T will suddenly remember, and change it.

Until then, we have to wait...and, yes - I too want to know, if my answers were correct.
Posted September 28, 2013
It's pretty obvious that they left out the numbers for the Champion tier on purpose as to make it less obvious what the correct answer is. Pretty sure they fucked up on 17 though.
Posted September 28, 2013
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Everandever: Pretty sure they fucked up on 17 though.
Nah, the "missing" word can be replaced by a symbol, which they just left out.
Posted September 28, 2013
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BreOl72: Edit 2: The first contest (Word search) was the best so far imho (and - no, it's not because I won a game).
There was no possibility to "cheat" (at least, if you're not a programmer) - just "hard work to be done".

The second was still good, but "unfair" insofar as you had way better chances, if you'd played all the games before.

The third contest could be solved by google, and the fourth could be solved by external programs.

Which can be done very quickly and is -naturally- very disappointing, when only the first 20 correct participants definitely win and you come late to the party - as some users already mentioned.

When I discovered the fourth contest, it was already running for over half an hour.
Of course I started with the good old brainwork, but after the first five, I realised that without some help, I wouldn't stand a chance against my competitors (and believe me - not all of them share your willingness to grind for success).

So, GOG, maybe more of the first sort (or as an alternative - no first come, first serve rule...only a draw, instead...that would equal the chances for all willing to participate, regardless of time).
Well thought out, and perfectly put. It's why I didn't even bother looking at today's contest, after the last couple (although, again, it's good of them to even have the giveaways).
Post edited September 28, 2013 by SpiderFighter
Posted September 28, 2013
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saberwolfxm: I think I'm going to sit this one out. Judging by past experience, even if I did do it I wouldn't win anything because only 20 are allowed plus the ones that they draw, so I'm just going to skip this one.
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BreOl72: Why not take the chance in the draw?
I see it this way: if I never participate in contests, I can never win, whereas if I participate, I have at least the chance to win.

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saberwolfxm: But I do want to know if my answers were right on the last one. Usually they put the answers from the last one at the end of the new one but for some reason there not there. Anybody have a clue where to look?
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BreOl72: My personal guess would be, they rushed in the weekend and forgot to edit the correct answers in the last contest's description.
Sometime tomorrow, the Enigmatic T will suddenly remember, and change it.

Until then, we have to wait...and, yes - I too want to know, if my answers were correct.
That's what I was thinking. The "T" has a few things going on at the moment like that secret project or something I read in one of his other posts(not sure what that's about) so he probably just forgot. As for the your advice about doing the quiz, yeah your probably right. I think I will give it a try. Thanks for the assist :-)
Posted September 28, 2013
Skipped this one (had other things to do) but this is a really interesting one, I'm gonna give it a go just for fun .
Posted September 28, 2013
Damn, I might be too late, but I just sent mine in, anyway. Even though I generally suck at anagrams, I actually managed to get all of these! It almost seemed easy. Which is why I'm probably too late :/ Oh, well...
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