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Posted September 25, 2013
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
Posted September 26, 2013
Thanks to GOG for the giveaway contest, great idea.

I got 29 but gave up due to dwindling time to sleep before work.
Posted September 26, 2013
I was stuck at 39 then went to bed...after 6 hours of sleep I think I finally managed to find the last one, or to be exact, I had already found it before I went to bed, but I wasn't sure if it would count. I just hope I'm not too late!
Posted September 26, 2013
With FEZ, hit 40. Hopefully its counted.
Posted September 26, 2013
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Braussie: I also wondered if TET made the wordsearch, as I found "TET" in the cross section of "FEZ"... lol...

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Psyringe: I'd expect GOG to accept both though.
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Braussie: That's what I think as well. We shall see :) I looked for 20+ minutes til I saw the one I just mentioned.
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TheTrveFenris: Found the 40 games, plus Fez and the extra one (the one-inside-another game). Total: 42 games.
Oh, and also poop.
Keep searchin'!
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Braussie: I laughed when I saw poop.
Poop messed me up so much. Eventually I couldn't find anything because poop kept jumping out at me!
Posted September 26, 2013
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AzagTh0th: I found 43 game words (included FEZ)
I really hope I can win.
I found 42 (including FEZ).
Damn, I'm tired -.-
Post edited September 26, 2013 by almabrds
Posted September 26, 2013
Well I found 40, no overlaps. Submitted and we shall see if it was right. :)
Posted September 26, 2013
Wow, It was a bit tiring indeed. I'd have gone for a more classic Crosswords approach. I bet that a decent programmer could come up with a quick algorithm to OCR to table and identify matches with the titles in the catalog.
Posted September 26, 2013
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Wainamoin3n: Wow, It was a bit tiring indeed. I'd have gone for a more classic Crosswords approach. I bet that a decent programmer could come up with a quick algorithm to OCR to table and identify matches with the titles in the catalog.
See:

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nitrom: First step: Getting a list of games on GOG: easy.
Next step: Generate data structures for each reading direction of the search box.
Next step: Program a brute force search.
Next step: ???
Last step: profit!

Pretty simple to do that, if I did not miss anything. The worst part is probably step 2, but even typing it all would not take that long. Doable, tho I dont know whether it the invested time is really worth a 9.99$ game. And I doubt that anyone could have done the whole thing faster than the quickest manual searchers...
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drfears: Actually, the hard part for me was the first step. Specifically, getting a USABLE list of games on GOG. Lots of games have subtitles or supertitles (e.g. this isn't in the wordsearch, but "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time" could appear as "SANDSOFTIME"). I found 38 titles once I had worked the kinks out of my quick python script. The other 4 I had to do some manual searching for.

It wasn't faster than the quickest manual searchers, or even some of the slower ones, but it was a much more enjoyable method for me! And I wrote it while I was waiting for a work-related program to run on my other machine.

Now to send it in...

Fears

P.S. If anyone wants the program or any of the supporting files (game list, word search table), PM me and I'll send them after the deadline.
Posted September 26, 2013
Christ...decided to give it another shot and now I'm stuck at 39 (and one of them is even the word within word one, so I guess I'm at 38....) No idea where the last one could be :P

edit: Found it....And to think it even was the closest one to the example word :P I wonder if I have patience to find the 41st game, you know, the one that's not Arma
Post edited September 26, 2013 by DProject
Posted September 26, 2013
Only 37 including FEZ :(

Even that their is more 5.99$ games I would like to own my pride as Dr. Brain player will forever be hurt :D
Posted September 26, 2013
A nice contest, I like puzzles and riddles :-)

But I fear it's way too late now for the race part. Anyway, I only found 40 including FEZ and one in another... don't know, if that counts. So, I'm in for the draw.

Besides, I found CIA: oooh, ohhhh...
Posted September 26, 2013
Uffff, found the last one. Did I win something? ;)
Posted September 26, 2013
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Wainamoin3n: Wow, It was a bit tiring indeed. I'd have gone for a more classic Crosswords approach. I bet that a decent programmer could come up with a quick algorithm to OCR to table and identify matches with the titles in the catalog.
Ha, I hold my hands up and admit I did exactly this soon after the announcement. OCR'ed the puzzle, copied it into a 2D array and ran a search algorithm for each orientation in the puzzle.

Rest assured, I haven't entered, don't intend to and won't be passing on the results to anyone. I was simply stuck on 30-something, wanted to see where the others were and enjoy any excuse to get a programming exercise under my belt.

Good luck everyone!
Posted September 26, 2013
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CrowTRobo: I love word search puzzles! I really wish I had a printer right now.
...or a girlfriend with a printer.

Anyway, I sent 12 hours ago 40 games, including the abreviation.

I dind't find any "game" within a "game", though.
Post edited September 26, 2013 by GabiMoro
Posted September 26, 2013
I found poop, both forwards AND backwards.
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