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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
Sent in.
I sent it hours ago, i hope i win this time :(
I don't have time to play games, where are the free games!:D.....where's Zombi 1986 and Neuromancer 1989....cmon....bring it!!!!
Considering how easy it is to cheat, I hope that the winners will have played fair.
Finally found the solution. It was harder than I thought it would be, but it helped me to stay awake during my nightshift.
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Everandever: Pretty sure they fucked up on 17 though.
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triock: Nah, the "missing" word can be replaced by a symbol, which they just left out.
It's not listed on this site with a symbol though which is where some confusion could come in. Also the number 2 in 11 is completely unnecessary and misleading.

I erased my "fixed" anagrams anyway since one of the ones I thought needed serious fixing was 18 as I thought it had contained one extra letter too many. Turns out I'm just a terrible speller. >_>
Post edited September 28, 2013 by cannard
It took me a few hours but I finally got there in the end. I can't believe #9 held me up for so long. It's one of my favourite games!
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triock: Nah, the "missing" word can be replaced by a symbol, which they just left out.
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cannard: It's not listed on this site with a symbol though which is where some confusion could come in. Also the number 2 in 11 is completely unnecessary and misleading.

I erased my "fixed" anagrams anyway since one of the ones I thought needed serious fixing was 18 as I thought it had contained one extra letter too many. Turns out I'm just a terrible speller. >_>
I'm fairly sure they have a problem with 18.. I had all of the rest in the list and that one was super bothering me...

I've gone so far as to dump the entire games list (showing 622 entries), then use regex in notepad++ to remove all numbers, special characters, spaces, etc. Then reordered everything by number of digits.. pulled out the ones with 26 characters (matching the number of characters for #18) and there is literally only one game that comes close... but it's off by one letter (L!).

I'm going to send in with my guess and NOTE the missing letter and maybe they'll reply and tell me I'm wrong and point me at the right thing, but.. hum.. my methods are pretty solid here. I don't think I've got a spelling error since I'm just parsing data at this point.. :P
sent it!... but maybe its too late :(
I like this puzzle, thank you!
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lightswitch: It took me a few hours but I finally got there in the end. I can't believe #9 held me up for so long. It's one of my favourite games!
Same here! Ridiculous, isn't it? :D
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cannard: It's not listed on this site with a symbol though which is where some confusion could come in. Also the number 2 in 11 is completely unnecessary and misleading.

I erased my "fixed" anagrams anyway since one of the ones I thought needed serious fixing was 18 as I thought it had contained one extra letter too many. Turns out I'm just a terrible speller. >_>
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DamienWind: I'm fairly sure they have a problem with 18.. I had all of the rest in the list and that one was super bothering me...

I've gone so far as to dump the entire games list (showing 622 entries), then use regex in notepad++ to remove all numbers, special characters, spaces, etc. Then reordered everything by number of digits.. pulled out the ones with 26 characters (matching the number of characters for #18) and there is literally only one game that comes close... but it's off by one letter (L!).

I'm going to send in with my guess and NOTE the missing letter and maybe they'll reply and tell me I'm wrong and point me at the right thing, but.. hum.. my methods are pretty solid here. I don't think I've got a spelling error since I'm just parsing data at this point.. :P
The letter I thought was a problem was the "h" but it turns out I just forgot to account for it when spelling it out.

I will tell you right now that it's not a game with an "L" in it (it DOES have an number though) and you really should look it over again!
Yay! Anagrams are a puzzle type I'm really good at! Unfortunately, there are a couple of these that are misleading. Bad GOG, you know what you did.
I reckon this challenge was over in minutes as far as the $9.99 prizes go since it's so easy to cheat here, but I sent my answers anyway for the draw.
Personally I'm still puzzled by why they put this up without providing the answers and winners of the last round yet. MOOOOOODS