If you get Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 for the PC, you may find that your CD activation key doesn't work. If so, count the key length: A "small number" of customers received codes that are one character short of the 20 required to activate the game. Now you could just call EA support, but they'd much rather you turn this into a meta-game (no doubt to shrink their support costs): Guess the missing character. There are only 36 possibilities, so you can just append and try until you get it right. EA has since updated their support page to omit this option, but if you're curious here is the text they had earlier this week:
"There is currently a work around that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try "guessing" the last character. To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game."
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