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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
Do I submit the list or a screencap?
And does FEZ count?
Post edited September 25, 2013 by BananaJane
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tomimt: 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?
Take another look.
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BananaJane: Do I submit the list or a screencap?
I think they just want the list, but I sent them both the list and the image on which I'd highlighted all the titles.
Post edited September 25, 2013 by korell
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nitrom: And I doubt that anyone could have done the whole thing faster than the quickest manual searchers...
That's what I realized when I was just trying to figure out if it could be done when people wrote they had done 20 of 40..
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BananaJane: Do I submit the list or a screencap?
And does FEZ count?
fez does not count.
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BananaJane: Do I submit the list or a screencap?
And does FEZ count?
List is sufficient, screencap not necessary.
Fez does not count, we are supposed to find 40 other titles.
Took a while but I got all 40
I got twenty... plus poop.
That's all that I care to do.
That was fun, but now I have a headache....

Happy birthday :)
That feel when you only have 3 left.... So close yet so far. :(
All 40 found. Took about 3 hours. I am unable to see anything but lines.

Hardest one to find was hardest because I thought it was just a jumble of letters.
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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.
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Nirth: 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.
There already exists such a tool. Just search google for word search solver.
Got all 40, I think. Missed an obvious one for ages at the end.
Just found 20. Goddamn that strained the eyes due to the layout. I'll go ahead and give up and just enter the draw :)
Any idea if tomorrow's release is hidden in there?
I've found 31 (not counting the example) so far. Just need 9 more. :-)