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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 25, 2013
As much as I want a free game, I suck at word searches. Well played, GOG, well played.
Posted September 25, 2013
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Senteria: I have 35 now. I have done it in paint, but for some reason I don't find them that fast. You think being a native english speaker would help when it comes to finding?
Can't say I've done any testing with wordsearches in different languages, but of course there is the potential correlation between being a native english speaker and finding the words faster as this is an english wordsearch. Only way to find out would be to try wordsearches in different languages.
Posted September 25, 2013
I had the game within a game in my list, as well as the abbreviation. I can't see why those shouldn't count since those ARE titles on the site and the abbreviated title is the primary title of the game.
Posted September 25, 2013
Sent 40, including the "word within word" title, not including fez. Now dont do that "word within words dont count" stuff. This is not a word search, its a game title search. I dont read the international rul set of word searches just to compete in a competition like that. :D
Posted September 25, 2013
33.

This is maddening.
Posted September 25, 2013
Bleh, stopped at 32. There's a limit to how much I'll put my eyes through. Probably did a lot more damage then a 5.99 (or even a 9.99) game can remedy!
Posted September 25, 2013
I only managed 20 + Fez and gave up on that. I looked backwards, forwards, up, down, diagonal forward and then decided that there was likely already the limit of people who found 40.
Posted September 25, 2013
Still stuck at 35. :/

Edit: 36.
Post edited September 25, 2013 by Senteria
Posted September 25, 2013
Guh, stuck on 38, I've got a bad sinus headache, and I'm busy as hell at work. I refuse to skip out on the last two, though...
Posted September 25, 2013
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Nirth: Any programmers here that could speculate the amount of time it would take for a decent algorithm to find them? :)
Well You could try to create a GUI interface using Visual Basic, to see if You could track an IP address.
Posted September 25, 2013
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Nirth: Any programmers here that could speculate the amount of time it would take for a decent algorithm to find them? :)
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MoP: Well You could try to create a GUI interface using Visual Basic, to see if You could track an IP address.
I don't think that would find abbreviations and certain games. Could work if you had every GOG game in a list and then let it try to find them.
Posted September 25, 2013
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lugum: I don't think that would find abbreviations and certain games. Could work if you had every GOG game in a list and then let it try to find them.
That's what I was thinking. Using the characters in a coordinator application or Excel then use an algorithm to search the right combinations based upon a list of the games.
Posted September 25, 2013
6 left. Gah, I'm so close and I'm so tired.
Posted September 25, 2013
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...
Posted September 25, 2013
GOG is clearly trying to tell me something... I found an order, "pian kill". Pian is finnish for soon... whom do you want me to assassinate?
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