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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
Ok, just found this latest round a couple of hours ago - and sent with THE CORRECT RE: ;-p
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Momo1991: Ok, just found this latest round a couple of hours ago - and sent with THE CORRECT RE: ;-p
Question is, did you also send with correct answers? :p
Damn, anagrams. I'm a bit pissed I didn't spot this sooner, I love these things...
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Mavado: Damn, anagrams. I'm a bit pissed I didn't spot this sooner, I love these things...
You still have the possibility of solving it. I just did, and even though I definitely didn't make it in the 20, I had fun doing it. :)
Post edited September 29, 2013 by 67
As this is headed towards its end (as, ahem, round THREE should be, HELLOOOO) I just want to ruminate on the actual anagrams themselves, and try to picture how these would actually play out. "Blood Legion of Many Cake," besides the Engrish-y nature of the statement, I can just see some kind of horrible, underground cult of blood vows and human sacrifice, and worship all revolving around delicious cakes. Not even necessarily cakes of blood either, just regular, old-fashioned cake cakes that everyone enjoys (and one area where quoting Portal would also be a death sentence, just for completely different reasons).

"I'll Sure Try 2 Use Air." A man with severely crippling mental faculties forgets that the essential part of living is to breathe air, in and out. When this causes problems he is given advice by a friendly but confused and slightly worried doctor as how to do this with enough regularity to, well, keep living. Whether the brain-damaged man will be able to remember to take this advice is another matter, but the man is pleasant, and responds to the friendly doctor's concerns as to what he should be doing to take care of himself well enough: http://oi42.tinypic.com/11ki5u9.jpg
Post edited September 29, 2013 by cannard
Sent mine in.Took a while to get 9 and 20.
Missing nr 18 so giving up now. A morning well spent...

Edit: Finally got it. (Though prehaps not entirely without help. :p)
Post edited September 29, 2013 by jamsatle
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jamsatle: Missing nr 18 so giving up now. A morning well spent...
Don't give up it's not that hard! There's an interesting word.
Post edited September 29, 2013 by le_chevalier
Aaaaaand done. Damn you, No. 20 for being so similar to another game :D
Post edited September 29, 2013 by Kyo555
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cannard: 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!
Well I've got to call shenanigans on that one a bit if you're correct.. #11 had a number in it, so I assumed that if #18 WERE to have a number it would be in there as well.. hence stripping out all of the titles with numbers when I did my regular expressions search! I don't expect consistency, I demand it! :P
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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!
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Dzsono: Same here! Ridiculous, isn't it? :D
Glad to see I'm not the only one who had inexplicable trouble with that one. Maybe it's just a tricky combination of letters - I know that E, A, O, T, S, R, and N are all among the eight most frequently-used letters in the English language (along with I), which account for something like 60 percent of the letters we use. Take those out, and all you have left is CLMPP, none of which are particularly uncommon either.

On a related note, whoever made these anagrams did a good job of choosing titles without the rarer letters that are usually a dead giveaway (no Qs or Js, only one instance each of X and Z). Probably just a coincidence since those letters are rare to begin with, but it's possible that someone on the GOG staff has enough of an interest in anagrams to be aware some of the tricks people use.
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Huehuecoyotl: On a related note, whoever made these anagrams did a good job of choosing titles without the rarer letters that are usually a dead giveaway (no Qs or Js, only one instance each of X and Z). Probably just a coincidence since those letters are rare to begin with, but it's possible that someone on the GOG staff has enough of an interest in anagrams to be aware some of the tricks people use.
Well, there were other things to make it easier, such as the quintuple D in 16 :)
I just wanted to see what the answers were so I used the anagram solver. Not submitting, of course.

edit:Ha, it's stumped by #18
Post edited September 29, 2013 by Shaolin_sKunk
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Momo1991: Ok, just found this latest round a couple of hours ago - and sent with THE CORRECT RE: ;-p
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triock: Question is, did you also send with correct answers? :p
Sometimes I think you might be too smart for your own good - that or just a smart aleck! ;-p and ;-P
Just checked my email only to find that it got bounced...whaaaaaa?

Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address.

<contest@gog.com>:
Remote host said: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [98.139.213.148] blocked using bl.spamcop.net; Blocked - see http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?98.139.213.148 [RCPT_TO]