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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
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Dzsono: 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!
MDyzzle is actually the person to thank (or blame) for yesterday's Word Search puzzle. Come Saturday, I will unleash my own Crossword Puzzle upon thee ;-)

As for the question of "fairness" of today's task, we already got a few good answers, which proves that it's not impossible to solve the riddles. You didn't need to play all the games to solve them. Take my word for that--we tested the riddles on our team members. It's enough if you follow our releases and spend time in the community to pick up on most of them. That makes this contest perfect for our long-time hardcore users. In most cases, it's the exact opposite--our contest tend to be crafted in a way that lets everybody win. We've been told numerous times, to do something with the core fans in mind. Well, this is something in that line.

Something different tomorrow. Promise.
I've managed to get five...

I hope we don't have to wait too long for the answers!
Hehe. I'm sure about #3 and #10, reasonably sure about #1, #6 and #7, and doubtful (or just clueless) about the others. :D

Hard one (for me), but thanks a lot, boys and girls in blue. ;)
Post edited September 26, 2013 by Thespian*
Alright, let's get to it :D
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Thespian*: Hehe. I'm sure about #3 and #10, reasonably sure about #1, #5 and #6, and doubtful (or just clueless) about the others. :D
I'll trade you #1, #3 and #5 for #2, #4 and #7. Send a PM if you want more ;)
Huh. Well, I got two of them, and hadn't heard of most of the games on here before I found GOG last year, so...

I'm surprised there aren't more people who've got #1, but I guess I've been thinking about stuff to do with the last two lines recently.
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Thespian*: Hehe. I'm sure about #3 and #10, reasonably sure about #1, #5 and #6, and doubtful (or just clueless) about the others. :D
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JMich: I'll trade you #1, #3 and #5 for #2, #4 and #7. Send a PM if you want more ;)
I made a mistake in the post (it's corrected now), it's actually #6 and #7 instead of #5 and #6. ;)
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JMich: I'll trade you #1, #3 and #5 for #2, #4 and #7. Send a PM if you want more ;)
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Thespian*: I made a mistake in the post (it's corrected now), it's actually #6 and #7 instead of #5 and #6. ;)
Offer still stands for #1 and #3.
Wow, this is hard...

I have 9 so far - if my answers are right.

One of those, I freely admit, I wouldn't have been able to answer, without a spoiler in the comments.
Of another one, I'm not quite sure, if it's right... (there would be two possible answers - I think).
Not too bad actually. Some I'm a bit less certain of than others, but only #5 really gave me a lot of trouble.
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Belgand: Not too bad actually. Some I'm a bit less certain of than others, but only #5 really gave me a lot of trouble.
Same here, #5 is the one, I have no clue about.
I got 10# and 2#,everything else,Foggy as hell
hmmm... riddle five. does it contain spoiler? cause if it is the game im thinking about, game which i played for only five hours
the riddle seems spoilerish.
I can recognize riddles - 1,4,,7,10. I'm not sure about riddle number 2,6.
#6 - T, why are you spoiling the ending to S... treet Fighter? :))
Post edited September 26, 2013 by Novotnus