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Birthday fun and gifts (for you!)
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: word search!

UPDATE:
We got word from our support, that some users aren't sure where they should send the answers. Let's pretend that finding the e-mail address on the picture below is a little warm-up exercise before the actual word search. If you can't handle that task, there's probably not much point in wasting your time looking for the 40 titles. And one more thing: we didn't notice it ourselves, but there's actually 41 hidden titles in the picture (apart from the highlighted "FEZ"). That's because one of the longer ones contains another one, shorter. Still--we don't expect more than 40, and that gives you a bit of an advantage.

GOG.com Birthday Word Search

You've got time until Thursday, September 26, at 14:59PM GMT. That's 24 hours. Have fun! :-)

SOLUTION:

Here's an image provided by our user. Thanks Dan!
GOG.com Birthday Word Search Solution

The hidden titles are as follows:

1. Alan Wake
2. Alpha Centauri
3. Arcanum
4. Baldur's Gate
5. Bioforge
6. Blood
7. Caesar
8. Carmageddon
9. Descent
10. Dungeon Keeper
11. Fallout
12. Freespace
13. FTL
14. Gabriel Knight
15. Hotline Miami
16. Master of Magic
17. Master of Orion
18. Might and Magic
19. Myst
20. Nox
21. Outcast
22. Painkiller
23. Pharaoah
24. Pid
25. Populous
26. Postal
27. Psychonauts
28. Quest For Glory
29. Resonance
30. Sacrifice
31. Sim City
32. Star Control
33. Syndicate
34. The Witcher
35. Theme Hospital
36. Thief
37. To The Moon
38. Ultima
39. Wing Commander
40. Zeus
+ BONUS
41. ArmA (hiding within Carmageddon)

The 40 quickest winners should have the prizes in their email inboxes now. The draw of the other 20 will be done later today.

Congratulations to all winners!
Post edited September 26, 2013 by G-Doc
I either found 39 or 42! O_o
I'm hoping for the 42. ^_^
E-mail sent via support/contact page (Was there another method?)
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WhySoDevious: There's a bit of a pattern in the way the words are hidden... the diagonals, the verticals, and the horizontals.

If you can see the pattern, finding those few missing games won't take too long.

That's how I found the last two.
Indeed, thats the key!!!
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SpellSword: I either found 39 or 42! O_o
I'm hoping for the 42. ^_^
E-mail sent via support/contact page (Was there another method?)
Send e-mail to contest@gog.com with subject "SEARCH" from you private mailbox.
I found 40 not including Fez. There are no word-in-word or abbreviated names.
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mrcrispy83: 37.

Almost there.

though theres probably more than 40 people who found 40 already though lol
Given how tedious this is and how amazing GOG is maybe they will let a few more through! [/sucking up]
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WhySoDevious: There's a bit of a pattern in the way the words are hidden... the diagonals, the verticals, and the horizontals.

If you can see the pattern, finding those few missing games won't take too long.

That's how I found the last two.
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ElPrimordial: Indeed, thats the key!!!
Doesn't help me one bit. I'm guessing the two I'm missing are not the same two you were missing.
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Stooner: contest@gog.com (it's on the puzzle! ;p)
Thanks! I was so focused on searching the titles that I didn't notice. lol
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WhySoDevious: There's a bit of a pattern in the way the words are hidden... the diagonals, the verticals, and the horizontals.

If you can see the pattern, finding those few missing games won't take too long.

That's how I found the last two.
Great tip, found two of the last three in a minute but again stuck on the last one :(
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ShrikeMalakim: I found 40 not including Fez. There are no word-in-word or abbreviated names.
Not even FTL?
Thanks, GOG, for a contest that doesn't require multimedia design skills. :)

Does anyone know if we've hit the first 40 winners (of 40 words) yet? I've got 23, but I'll save my eyes if we're done.
At 35 so far. I hope by the time I find the last five 40 people haven't beaten me already (though due to the fast-spreading nature of the Internet I'm afraid that's gonna be the case. :/)
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ShrikeMalakim: I found 40 not including Fez. There are no word-in-word or abbreviated names.
Then you either listed a game that isn't in the GOG catalog, or listed one that isn't in the riddle, or miscounted, or you found something that everybody else overlooked. :)

I'm curious, could you send me the list of your solutions in PM? (I've send my solutions to GOG a while ago, so I don't worry, I won't "steal" anything).
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Wishbone: Doesn't help me one bit. I'm guessing the two I'm missing are not the same two you were missing.
Probably the two exceptions to the rule?:)
Woot!

40 (plus Fez for 41)

That was a blast
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ElPrimordial: Indeed, thats the key!!!
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Wishbone: Doesn't help me one bit. I'm guessing the two I'm missing are not the same two you were missing.
11, 11, 9, 9, that helps???