Greetings! You like crossword puzzles? Then you came to the right thread! You don’t? I don’t care! Grit your teeth and endure it if you want my giveaways!

A personal little rant first; feel free to skip it if you don’t care and just want to get to the games.
This whole thing was supposed to be ready weeks ago, but with the usual stress, work, chores, et cetera, I didn’t have as much time as I wanted. Then, when I could finally look forward to a a few days off, everything blew up in my face like a ghostly, purple balloon (if you catch my drift) when I tried booting up my PC and it… didn’t. Or rather, it did, but I couldn’t get an image. I tried everything, swapping out monitors, cables, but ultimately, it seemed that my graphics card was fried.

Luckily. the writing had been on the wall for some time now (the PC was rather old already, and replacing anything wasn't worth it), so I had already been in talks with a friend about buying his old PC off of him (which is still much newer than anything I ever had), and he delivered it a few days after. Still, this meant I had to devote some time getting the new system ready, which isn’t a trivial task for someone who doesn't know that much about PCs. Silly me also decided to try out this "Linux" stuff, which took even more time to properly set up... It mostly works now, although my friend advised me to swap out the power supply sometime soon.
Oh, and I originally planned to keep my old Windows 10 available on my old hard drive, just in case... which fell flat, because I somehow managed to brick it, and now it won't boot up anymore. (I backed up all the important data first, but it still sucks.)
I suppose this ends up being a blessing in disguise, as it forces me to actually get comfortable with Ubuntu, instead of putting it off indefenitely and just going back to Windows.

An added hurdle for me was that I am more or less exclusively used to working with Paint.NET when it comes to image editing, which I tried getting to run on the new system, but failed. I toyed around with Pinta and GIMP, and neither really appealed to me, although I'll try figuring it out... eventually. Hey, what's this Egg doing here? Anyways, that made creating this crossword puzzle much more of a hassle, and I ended up doing it in Calc, which, at least right now, feels like "we have Excel at home" to me.


Enough of this! You're not here to read my life story, but to win some games!

In the image linked below (or just click here) you will find a crossword puzzle. In the table to the right of it are the clues needed to figure out which words you're looking for; the numbers in the squares relate to the clue needed. Most of the words are video game related, but there's also some trivia stuff, a few memes, and more!
Some of the squares have letters in the upper left corner, and you'll find the same letters in the squares below, next to the titles of the games I'm giving away. When you fill in one of those squares in the puzzle, you can also fill in the square in the solution that bears the same letter. Note that if the letter in the corner in the solution is a capital letter, then you need to enter a capital letter there, as well... and if it's a lower-case letter, you need to enter a lower-case letter. Makes sense?
See this example if you need some clarification.

I am giving away the following games:
Astroneer
Everspace 2
Game Dev Tycoon
Noita
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition Deluxe
Solasta: Crown of the Magister
SteamWorld Dig 2
All giveaways are going for about four weeks, ending at April 18th. Level 1 or higher is required to enter them.

That should be all! This was more effort than I originally thought, so I hope you enjoy it. I'm off to bed now, I have to get up early tomorrow... Here's hoping that in my sleep deprivation I didn't mess anything up and forget to add, like, half the required letters. If you run into trouble, just try to solve it as far as you can, and let me know in this thread!

Enjoy!

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1 month ago*

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That was a lot more involved than expected. Cool puzzle.

1 month ago
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Still totally lost about the missing letters. Any hint?

1 month ago
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Same here. Instructions say nothing about the missing letters and I'm not seeing the solution. Then again, I have never liked crossword puzzles and don't understand them that well so maybe it's something you just need to know to get the solution.

1 month ago
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And soon as I wrote that I actually read something based on what one can solve with the provided data...

1 month ago
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I still have nothing but kudos for figuring it out.

1 month ago
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Bump for solved ^^

1 month ago
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Thanks for the puzzle :)

1 month ago
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Ok, I'm stuck at both the crosswords and the puzzle. It was a good run but not meant to be. Hoping the next will be a nonogram again hahaha :)

1 month ago
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Bump for solved!

1 month ago
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I feel your pain. Sorry. I hope you get used to linux soon. I tried Mint, but i still haven't figured it out. Have you tried repairing your Win 10 install? It might be something as "simple" as the bootloader (the bit of the storage that tells your BIOS which OS to boot) not recognizing windows exists unless you tell it to look.

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It is most likely the bootloader, so it might just be as simple as reinstalling Windows. However, I'll put my focus on getting Ubuntu running the way I want it to before I do that... I might end up just formatting the old hard drive completely and installing Win10 fresh, as the old hard drive was a mess of several years of data and two or three operating systems stacked on top of each other (if I remember correctly, it started out with Windows XP, before I upgraded it to 7 and later 10).

1 month ago
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Thanks for Skyrim Oblivion :)

1 month ago
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I like crosswords. Let's bump them!

1 month ago
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Bump for solved! :)

1 month ago
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bump

1 month ago
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Bump for solved! Tried Ubuntu years and years ago, and I know that's not made for me

1 month ago
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Bump for solved!

1 month ago
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Bump!

1 month ago
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That was harder than it looked! 🤣

1 month ago
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bump for solved

1 month ago
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Bump!

1 month ago
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bump for solved all. I was overthinking it at begining.

1 month ago
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bump!, just trust the process and patience.

1 month ago
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Bump for finally solved! Great puzzle! Got stuck for embarissingly long before I realised that the "o" letter was not missing...

1 month ago
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Great puzzles. Thank you for putting these together and great selection of games. Congratulations on getting newer PC. My gpu is from 2012 (gtx 670), so I can relate.

1 month ago
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Bump for a very clever puzzle and some awesome games!

You may not be able to boot your old drive but you could connect it to the new computer and still read any files you have on it as Linux has support for NTFS. You could also backup your drive and then try system recovery and/or boot recovery methods.

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Bump for solved!

1 month ago
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Bumpin :)

1 month ago
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I am completely lost on the missing letters. I have to be missing something.

1 month ago
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FOUND IT LMAOOOOOO

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