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Posted September 28, 2013
A Designers Smug Wows!

With a bit of a slip, but 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: anagrams, brought to you by MDyzzle, our very own number whisperer!

EDIT: now complete with solutions!

Peasant tier:
1. All Tofu (Fallout)
2. Cafe Spree (Freespace)
3. Candy Site (Syndicate)
4. Cat To Us (Outcast)
5. Car Non-Hoax (Anachronox)

Knave tier:
6. Gone Under Keep (Dungeon Keeper)
7. Healthiest Mop (Theme Hospital)
8. Go Mind Crewman (Wing Commander)
9. A Trance Topples Men (Planescape: Torment)
10. An Cordon Fend (Cannon Fodder)

Knight tier:
11. I'll Sure Try 2 Use Air (Leisure Suit Larry 2)
12. Micromanaged Shoe Fight (Heroes of Might and Magic)
13. Raccoon Trolley Store (Roller Coaster Tycoon)
14. Red Laboratory Tank (Betrayal at Krondor)
15. As Minorities Colonized (Sid Meier's Colonization)

Champion tier:
16. We never loaded a sad spider toad (Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive)
17. Craftswoman Makes Our Mosaic Bug Rack (Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura)
18. King's Chief Showers Assistant (The Witcher: Assassins Of Kings)
19. Blood Legion of Many Cake (Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain*)
20. Stern Banana Terms Help Sketching Hostile DNA (Knights and Merchants: The Peasants Rebellion)

*Sadly, there's supposed to be a "2" there, which was omitted by mistake. Or maybe it was omitted because MDyzzle does not believe such thing as "2 Many Cake" exists.

What GOG.com game titles were hidden here? Send your answers to contest@gog.com with the subject A RAG MAN. The first 20 people to guess all the titles correctly will be awarded with a $9.99 game. All other correct answers will enter a draw of 20 games $5.99 each. Please, do not send incomplete answers. Also, please refrain from spoiling everyone else's fun by discussing answers in the forum thread below.

You've got time until Sunday, September 29, at 2:59PM GMT. That's 21 hours.
Have fun! :-)

The GOG.com 5th Birthday Trivia so far:
Word Search - now with a solution!
Riddles - now with a solution!
History Quiz - now with a solution!
Post edited September 30, 2013 by G-Doc
Posted September 28, 2013
Assuming this is late for the $9.99 prize since the contest started over an hour ago but sent - I didn't see it till about 20 minutes ago. A couple seemed to be missing (or having) an extra number or 2 :).

Was fun, thanks!
Post edited September 28, 2013 by teshra
Posted September 28, 2013
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teshra: couple seemed to be missing (or having) an extra number or 2 :).
Blame GOG monks ;)
Posted September 28, 2013
The riddles and contests are fun, but how can a non native English speaker even hope to be one of the first 20? Don't you think this is a little unfair? Give us language independent puzzles or make draws independent of time the answers were sent.
Posted September 28, 2013
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R33D3M33R: The riddles and contests are fun, but how can a non native English speaker even hope to be one of the first 20? Don't you think this is a little unfair? Give us language independent puzzles or make draws independent of time the answers were sent.
You are aware that all these anagrams are made of gametitles from games here on GOG.com?
So it shouldn't be an insurmountable obstacle, even for non-native-english-speakers.
Posted September 28, 2013
Ok I got 15 but now I give up because I have to study and I'm sure there are already 20 winners ;) Good games GOG!
Posted September 28, 2013
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R33D3M33R: The riddles and contests are fun, but how can a non native English speaker even hope to be one of the first 20? Don't you think this is a little unfair? Give us language independent puzzles or make draws independent of time the answers were sent.
Yeah, I think the same, but you know, we're minority. :D
Posted September 28, 2013
This was more fun to solve than the previous one! Hahaha
Posted September 28, 2013
I am no exptre on anagrams, so can someone explain the rules to me? Is it really just that the letter have been shifted in one title or i there a connection between entries? Are there superfluous letters? Also, what about numbers as in "I'll Sure Try 2 Use Air"? Are those to be ignored or are they part of the solution? I'm not asking for hints, I just want to be sure about the rules before i start hunting through the GoG catalogue for titles with the number two (I already have a "solution" for "I'll Sure Try 2 Use Air" if i ignore the number).
Post edited September 28, 2013 by HiPhish
Posted September 28, 2013
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HiPhish: I am no exptre on anagrams, so can someone explain the rules to me?
no superfluous letters. the ones there are all used. i included the numerical 2 in the solution when it was there.

MAN OH MAN. i would've been done a half hour ago but two of these in the champ tier were straight up evil. i was cursing my computer screen as i must've scrolled through the entire gog catalogue three times for one of the answers.

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was that a clever thing you did with "exptre" or happy accident?
Post edited September 28, 2013 by Jonathanimal
Posted September 28, 2013
Well one if them was giving some pretty brutal fits, till I did a brute force search through the whole GOG catalog... Even then, I had to fudge it a wee bit.
Posted September 28, 2013
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HiPhish: I am no exptre on anagrams, so can someone explain the rules to me? Is it really just that the letter have been shifted in one title or i there a connection between entries? Are there superfluous letters? Also, what about numbers as in "I'll Sure Try 2 Use Air"? Are those to be ignored or are they part of the solution? I'm not asking for hints, I just want to be sure about the rules before i start hunting through the GoG catalogue for titles with the number two (I already have a "solution" for "I'll Sure Try 2 Use Air" if i ignore the number).
The number is not explicitly mentioned on that game, but is involved in a "pack".
So I'd say, forget the number - solve the anagram on its own, and after that add the 2 to your solution.

btw: there is another anagram, where a number is missing to get the full gametitle - but you can figure it out, without that number - I'd just suggest to add that number to your solution, too.
Posted September 28, 2013
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R33D3M33R: The riddles and contests are fun, but how can a non native English speaker even hope to be one of the first 20? Don't you think this is a little unfair? Give us language independent puzzles or make draws independent of time the answers were sent.
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BreOl72: You are aware that all these anagrams are made of gametitles from games here on GOG.com?
So it shouldn't be an insurmountable obstacle, even for non-native-english-speakers.
There is no problem solving the anagrams in 20+ hours, there is just no way to do it as fast as a native speaker or someone who is great in English. If I would know all of the 600+ titles, I would stand a chance since I love anagrams, but without this, I just see no way to be in the first 20 even if I would wait for the announcement to be posted and start right away.

I really don't care about the prizes that much, but the feeling that I won't be able to compete with the others, just because of the language barrier, kind of ruins the competition for me.
Posted September 28, 2013
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R33D3M33R: There is no problem solving the anagrams in 20+ hours, there is just no way to do it as fast as a native speaker or someone who is great in English. If I would know all of the 600+ titles, I would stand a chance since I love anagrams, but without this, I just see no way to be in the first 20 even if I would wait for the announcement to be posted and start right away.

I really don't care about the prizes that much, but the feeling that I won't be able to compete with the others, just because of the language barrier, kind of ruins the competition for me.
Yeah, I can understand that.
But in all honesty - I don't believe that any of the participants (myself included) solved all the anagrams in the oldfashioned (aka: by using his own brain) way...there are possibilities nowadays, that help enormous.

(May I introduce you to comment #9? )

Apart from that, I have to agree - saying, the first 20 will win definitely...encourage "cheating"...but then - you still stand the chance to win in the draw - if you prefer to do it "the oldfashioned way".

edit: typo
Post edited September 28, 2013 by BreOl72
Posted September 28, 2013
Hey!

What about the round three's correct answers?

Thanks!
Posted September 28, 2013
You guys are impossible! I lost hope for a new contest hours ago and now I discover that there's one after all. I bet all of your office elves were too busy checking answers from previous contests to start on time. ;) However, I demand some cookies for losing a chance to be one of the first lucky 20. ;>
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