JDelekto: I'll tell you this, they promised to give me a game or a gift code for $3.00, it's usually much less than what people spend on coffee these days. I ended up with the Blackwell Bundle, a very decent package which I already owned.

If you were to buy it outright it would be $9.99, so I believe there was truth in their advertising. So, if someone is willing to forego their coffee one morning for a bundle of adventure games (if you like games like Sierra's King's Quest), then you still got something!

I will be gifting this code as I already own it. However, I wanted to point out that giving out games within that price point is an interesting idea; however, I would like to know a) exactly what list of games they are choosing from their pool; and b) what they are using as their random number generator. :)

RWarehall: To answer the first part of your question (what games)
Although some games seem to be "limited" and sell out but sometimes get restocked at some point.
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/indie_pinata_tracking_thread/page1

JDelekto: Thanks for that, but all those I see listed are already on my shelf, so it seems that anything I probably take a chance at on the sale is probably a good game I can gift to others'.

sherringon456: To the OP,I don't even know how they work, as I was so underwhelmed by the games initially on offer. Indies, Which usually are adventure games or platformers(2 of the 4 genres I have no interest in.) and mystery games (Another genre which I have no interest in.). If one pinata only gives one game then it is poorly implemented if it gives you a game which would cost less if you just bought it from the store. Even when better games come on sale (The the time gap between deals is also too wide imo.), I still probably won't get a pinata because of the randomness.

hedwards: Of course it's exploitive, to some extent all sales are. The ones they've been running though are far worse than anything I've seen elsewhere. Expecting people to take off from work and not sleep for the Insomnia and time machine sales was ridiculous.

Navagon: I wish there was a way to stop GOG from forcing us to buy these things.

hedwards: I stand corrected, didn't the OP say that the game he got was only $2 at the present? It seemed odd to me, but having the minimum value the same as the pinata price seems a lot more reasonable.

bler144: Personally I thought Insomnia was fantastic. It was also very effective at draining my wallet, but fortunately coincided with my birthday.

Considering they run "normal" sales nearly every weekend and often during the week, it seems a bit ...myopic, perhaps...to call them out for doing something different with 3-5% of the days in the year, even if some of those experiments don't work, or at least don't work for a particular individual.

I don't have the inclination for gambling to participate in the Pinata as designed, but I don't think they suck for attempting it, since they'll almost certainly be back to 'normal' sales soon after this one ends. And as some of the jokes above note, we're not coerced or forced into participating, are we?