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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
I didn't had time to finish last evening then I was wasted and could only find 38 and in the morning I guess I was too late :D
Eh, missed FTL and Thief. And somehow forgot to add Wing Commander to the email list :D Oh well, doesn't matter :)
I was correct but apparently not fast enough :( congrats to the winners.
Aww not quick enough. But I got them all. It was fun. Here's hoping for the drawing!
Yeehaaw...!!

Just checked my email - thank you GOG!
That makes it easier to be stuck on your second Riddle :o)
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67: When did you receive the 40th insta-win e-mail? :)

Also, I haven't received a confirmation e-mail when I sent mine at 00:21 am GMT, so I didn't have any way of knowing if you got it or not. Would it be possible to send an automatic reply to these contest entries?
I sent my mail yesterday at 21:12 GMT and I didn''t win, so the the luckiest 40 must have sent their mails before that.

I also wrote Sim City as Simcity, I don't ``know if that disqualified me.
Confirmation-of-reception emails would have been kind of nice. Hard to know whether your email was received or not. Otherwise: congratulations to the winners.
Woo! They used my solution image! :D

Got my code too. Thanks GOG! :)
Post edited September 26, 2013 by korell
Got all of them right, but sent them in too late apparently...At least I'll still have a chance with the draw. Congrats to the winners!
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67: Also, I haven't received a confirmation e-mail when I sent mine at 00:21 am GMT, so I didn't have any way of knowing if you got it or not. Would it be possible to send an automatic reply to these contest entries?
There was no confirmation email sent - sometimes you just have to trust your email-provider :)

If you had something wrong (e.g. you wrote comtest@gog.com, instead of contest@gog.com) you'd had received an email from your provider, that that adress doesn't exist.

Come on - how many emails get usually lost?

I can only speak for myself, naturally - but the only emails I ever lost, were ones, where I mistyped the adress of the receiver.
And in that case: see above.
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korell: Woo! They used my solution image! :D

Got my code too. Thanks GOG! :)
Hmm, I sent my final list / solution off sometime around when you posted that you'd sent yours (according to Gmail, I sent it at 3:54 AM GMT+10, the forum says you made that post 23 hours ago...).

Guess I must have made myself ineligible (sent more than one email due to FEZ and ArmA confusion) or stuffed up the email somehow (or, maybe you were one of the last 40 and my email sent after yours?).

GOG, can you clarify if sending more than one email made me ineligible? Not bothered about not winning, just want to know what I messed up so I don't do it again :)

EDIT: Hmm, I spelt "Populous" as "Populus", whoops

EDIT2: ...and had "Sim City" without a space or capital 'C' *facepalm*

If the system was automated I guess typos could mess it up, then again:
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GOG.com: 23. Pharaoah
:P

Attached my image solution, I had an identical text list in my email.
Attachments:
Post edited September 26, 2013 by DreadMoth
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korell: Woo! They used my solution image! :D

Got my code too. Thanks GOG! :)
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DreadMoth: Hmm, I sent my list / solution off sometime around when you posted that you'd sent yours (according to Gmail, I sent it at 3:54 AM GMT+10, the forum says you made that post 23 hours ago).

Guess I must have made myself ineligible or stuffed up the email somehow, or you were one of the last 40
Interesting, I sent mine before that post and didn't win either. :-\

I wonder if it got sent to GOG's spam filter or something.
Post edited September 26, 2013 by Dr_Worm
Zeus and FTL were the ones I missed.
Ha, the six I couldn't find were right there in front of me. How the hell did I miss Blood? Gonna blame it eye cramps yeah. Besides, I was late anyways - was just doing it for fun. Thanks GOG!
Wow, missed FTL, Zeus, Pharaoah... And Might and Magic?? LOL!!!

Loving how you have finally counted Arma :P