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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
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Weclock: I got ... poop.
Don't we all? =P Well, that one's pretty easy to see, especially being so central. ;)
I only have 33 (thought I had 34 but apparently FEZ doesn't count to the 40), but there's no way I'm going to go through that again to look for those extra 7 :)

still, good luck to everybody!
I found Cashop ;D

GOG go's free to play confirmed! :D

Just kidding :P
I got 41 not including FEZ, but that total does include one word-in-word and one abbreviation. (I keep going back to look for that last one, which may or may not be there, but I just can't find it!)

This was fun, and way more challenging than I thought it would be. Thanks GOG, you rock!
Do any words overlap along the same line?
Well played, GOG, well played. Took me a couple of hours to find everything!
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wvpr: Do any words overlap along the same line?
nope
I can get to 38, now I'm crosseyed. =(
I submitted an entry with 40 games including FEZ, then came here to read the forums to find a blue indicating that FEZ was not included in the 40 games which is disappointing because the contest rules did not clearly state either way whether FEZ was one of the 40 games so a lot of people are probably going to stop when they get to 40 and include FEZ as one of the titles. After learning of this I went back and looked through GOG's full list of games in "Browse Games" for titles that might be harder to notice such as oddly named titles, acronyms and other things that might not jump right out while looking through the puzzle. I found another game title and resubmitted an entry with FEZ swapped out for the other game I found. I hope GOG permits entrants to resubmit after the contest rules were clarified.
I'm gonna send my results in. 36. That's all I can do. :(
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the_bard: Any idea if tomorrow's release is hidden in there?
I'm convinced there's a hidden code containing the whole catalog.
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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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.
Hmm... I'll take another look then.
Oh yes, and such an obvious one it was too, the one I was missing. Had to do other stuff and take a shower and then try again to spot it though, so certainly too late now... Uh well.
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the_bard: Any idea if tomorrow's release is hidden in there?
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park_84: I'm convinced there's a hidden code containing the whole catalog.
They must be hiding those numbers really well then. =P