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The Riddles of Master T!

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: riddles, brought to you by the twisted mind of The Enigmatic T!

EDIT: The submissions are now closed, and the answers are revealed:

Riddle #1 (Startopia)

Busy little citizen
Floats around in space
Busy little aliens
Why hurry? There's no race
Silly little managers
Build new plots for a fee
And conserve linear momentum
In place of gravity

Riddle #2 (Zork)

In a quiet little house
It is dark and black as night
You are likely to be eaten
If you do not find a light
It's as clear as black and white
It's a monster, not a hex
Though you're alone and it is dark
All you see is text

Riddle #3 (Independence War 2: The Edge of Chaos)

Like Robin Hood you've robbed the rich
Though you don't really help poor
You've fought for Independence
But it's not all you'd hoped for.
Now you're all alone in space
There's not a lot to do
You've been cut off from the human race
You can only count on you

Riddle #4 (Prince of Persia)

A little man who runs and jumps:
A hero, some would say
I think the real heroic one
Is the girl all dressed in grey
For when you trip and when you fall
She'll catch you with her arm
And every time her prince will call
She'll keep him safe from harm

Riddle #5 (Anachronox)

Safe inside a giant sphere
Rests poison from the past
A private eye investigates
And trusts too much too fast

Riddle #6 (Sanitarium)
Explore the inner mind
If that's your kind of game
At the end you'll find
You're--nearly--not insane

Riddle #7 (Jagged Alliance 2)

On a tropic island
Come rough men with guns
They aim for liberation
But justice slowly comes
Washed in blood and washed in death
They fight and kill and die
But when the queen draws her last breath
They'll take their cash and fly

Riddle #8 (The Last Express)

You may have heard it flies one way
The arrow that's called time
But if you want to solve the day
You'll need another line
There's not much time--if lived at once
Time is fast--it moves express
But if you're smart and not a dunce
You'll defuse with cleverness

Riddle #9 (Nexus: The Jupiter Incident)

Heir of the Lord Protector!
A sailor through and through
Exploring the farthest boundaries
of space you'll shortly rue
Humanity's home has fallen
To the strong has gone the day
But hope is a thing with wings
And comes from Acrididae
Fight bravely, son of Richard
Defeat the endless horde
And shelter every species
With your Stiletto--not your sword.

Riddle #10 (FTL: Faster Than Light)

Dear diary: this is my last note
The air is getting thin
We fought, we lost--that's all she wrote
I guess the Rebels win
Dear diary: yet another line:
We've sailed--we've yet to win
Our captain killed the crew this time
And again we will begin
Dear diary: aliens ate the doc
Our drones don't seem to work
My leg's been bitten--I'm in shock
Our captain is a jerk
Dear diary: We have finally won
It took a hundred twenty tries
With a new ship now we have begun
How long 'till everybody dies?

The answer to each of the above riddles is a title of GOG.com catalog game. Can you guess them all? Send your 10 answers to contest@gog.com with the subject RIDDLE. The first 20 people to guess correctly will be awarded with a $9.99 game. All other correct answers will enter a draw of 20 games $5.99 each.
You've got time until Friday, September 27, at 2:59PM GMT. That's 24 hours.
Have fun! :-)

The GOG.com 5th Birthday Trivia so far:
Word Search - now with a solution!
Post edited September 27, 2013 by G-Doc
If I knew all these games, I wouldn't be needing the prizes, now, would I?!?! ;)

P.S. Still haven't managed to finish your last task ET, damn you!
If you haven't played all games I guess the way to go would be to say "I know #8 & #10, trading for some others" and trust people won't take advantage of you :)
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As I'll never solve all these, I might as well help someone who is trying to.


EDIT by G-Doc:
Don't. Just don't.
Post edited September 26, 2013 by G-Doc
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Arthandas: This is not a fair contest, you either played all those games (and for at least one riddle you also need to know the ending of the game in question) and have a slight chance or you didn't and you have zero chances of guessing them. No skill required.
While I agree that it's not really a level playing field (10 games out of over 600, and you have to be familiar with all ten), they didn't have to do it at all, so I'm fine with whatever games they want to play. It is their birthday, after all! :)

That said, I was really looking forward to another sale or release today. Oh well. Back to playing Fantasy Wars!
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Arthandas: This is not a fair contest, you either played all those games (and for at least one riddle you also need to know the ending of the game in question) and have a slight chance or you didn't and you have zero chances of guessing them. No skill required.
This is not true. I'm pretty sure about the last one, even though I haven't played it yet. I also have a promising guess at 2 others that I haven't played.
I think I know 3. I'm only certain about #10 though, that one should be easy, even for people who haven't played it.

But yeah, I don't stand a chance. I know too few of them, I think.
C'mon Everandever, don't ruin it for others.

I know 5 for sure, but I have no clue on the rest. Very nice riddles!
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Arthandas: This is not a fair contest, you either played all those games (and for at least one riddle you also need to know the ending of the game in question) and have a slight chance or you didn't and you have zero chances of guessing them. No skill required.
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SpiderFighter: While I agree that it's not really a level playing field (10 games out of over 600, and you have to be familiar with all ten), they didn't have to do it at all, so I'm fine with whatever games they want to play. It is their birthday, after all! :)
Agree but that doesn't change the fact that my post is true :)
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modded again!

Stop posting speculations and spoiling other peoples fun, please.

G-Doc.
Post edited September 26, 2013 by G-Doc
Arrrgh stuck on #5!
So much space
I accidently sent two mail, please GOG consider only the second one with 10 titles, because I was writing the first (in fact the list isn't in order) and I pushed the sent button :S
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SpiderFighter: While I agree that it's not really a level playing field (10 games out of over 600, and you have to be familiar with all ten), they didn't have to do it at all, so I'm fine with whatever games they want to play. It is their birthday, after all! :)
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Arthandas: Agree but that doesn't change the fact that my post is true :)
I disagree. With the exception of #9 and #10 you only have to be familiar with the games, not necessarily have played them. #1, #4, #6, and #7 are especially easy and I haven't even played those games, I just know about them.
I'm never gonna win, but I'm pretty sure number two
Post edited September 26, 2013 by jazmyselfandi
I was trying to speculate with other people, you know, because it's fun to solve riddles together. I don't even know if a single one of my suggestions was correct. Jeez, it's not like I just blatantly posted the 10 answers in here.

Also, if you delete my comment, you might also want to delete people quoting my comment.

EDIT:

I did, actually, but the answers were edited in back again, later.
I'm sorry for being restrictive, but that's how the majority of participants wants to enjoy this contest.
Post edited September 26, 2013 by G-Doc