Save the Date by Google
savethedate.foo
savethedate.foo
You can put the names of the countries into the spaces on the board and add/subtract from letter values appropriately.
This gives you:
L IN E
THEATRE
SHO RE
AM P H I
(Shoreline Amphitheatre)
5/17, 5/18, 5/19 are the dates of Google I/O, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA.
EDIT: Haha, I guess we're faster than they expected or this leaked early, since completing it links you to https://events.google.com/io/ which just says "check back soon".
It's Photoshop.
That's really too bad. I've been going to Google IO for five years and that venue they moved to last year, Shoreline Amphitheatre, was a disaster.
They had insufficient room for all the talks. So I waited an hour for the first talk I wanted to attend, just to get kicked out of line due to the room reaching capacity. Then I gave up my next time slot to wait in line 1 time slot ahead of time for the third time slot, but once I got in they kicked me out saying I couldn't come in one time slot before, everyone is kicked out at the end of each.
Throw in a really bad set of key notes - the Android one did have some useful content for developers, but everything else, Allo, Duo, Google Assistant was just Google's marketing arm exploiting a captive audience to try to get future users and wasn't anything useful for me as a developer.
Add in a ton of VR talks all citing their special remote control, but they didn't give us one of them, so we all kept developing on our Gear VRs anyway. This was the first Google IO I'd been to with no development hardware.
At the end I asked for a refund since I had really gained nothing as a developer and just spent a long time waiting in lines and not getting any content and Google refused.
As far as I can tell, it is their intention to make it a music festival from now on and not developer focused. Going to something like AndDevCon would be much more valuable. It's too bad, really, because professional conferences like GDC make sure to poll users to find session interest ahead of time and make sure they plan capacity correctly. Google IO was just useless amateur hour co-opted by Google marketing to exploit some captive press and potential users of their new chat apps no one likes.
Pic is called base64
(upvote this so we can start a new subthread)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Scholars...
3.
7.
Maybe we add or subtract from 0 to get the numbers after the decimal?
-28.092472, -52.419667; 5; brazil
51.3015, -3.0178; 17; england
52.1821, 20.9965; 18; poland
14.2981, 101.2189; 19; thailand
not all the way there but it uses decimals in move representation.
White Black
+10 -12
+ 8 - 7
- 6 +15
-11 - 2
+ 4 +19
+ 1
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bottom half
+3 - 7
+3 + 1
+4 -19
+5
+7
+7
+5The number of spaces in each row matches the lengths of something you've seen.
Answer is posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13476200
+10 ___ +08 -12 ___ -07 ___ ___ +15 -06 -02 -11 +19 +04 +01 ___
+03 -07 +03 ___ +04 +01 ___ ___ -19 +05 ___ +07 ___ +07 ___ +05
edit: copy and paste it into a fixed width text editor - the formatting is getting messed up here.
More knowledge to you.
+10 ___ +08 -12 ___ -07 ___ ___ +15 -06 -02 -11 +19 +04 +01 ___
+03 -07 +03 ___ +04 +01 ___ ___ -19 +05 ___ +07 ___ +07 ___ +05"Answer to last puzzle:
You can put the names of the countries into the spaces on the board and add/subtract from letter values appropriately.
This gives you:
L IN E
THEATRE
SHO RE
AM P H I
(Shoreline Amphitheatre)
5/17, 5/18, 5/19 are the dates of Google I/O, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA. :|"
Two pieces = '.' one piece is ','.
Each row contains a value to fill these blanks: _._ , _._
this.markers = [{ lat: -28.092472, lng: -52.419667 }];
which points to a field in southern Brazil. Anyone wanna go see what's there? :)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/28%C2%B005'32.9%22S+52%C2%...
Turn on closed captions and help me figure out the next step.
working on it now
>You can always count on a good time at the beach...
If you take out the other text, we're left with "._,-.-". Removing the comma leaves us with 5 characters "._-.-" Morse code?
And here's the transcript, with some numbers:
0:00Magic
0:03I.
0:06See
0:10_
0:12a
0:16beach,
0:19-yes.
0:21_
0:25I
0:28explore
0:30daylightBut the timecodes are probably a more likely thing...
EDIT: Nevermind 3 should be easy for most HNers. Wrote that before I even saw it.
Looks like caves.jpg has something wrong with it, but I'm not sure what to do with it.
Pei Xiu (224–271)... was a minister, geographer, and cartographer of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history
5 -
17 -
18 - Poland
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31120222/iptc-metadata-au...
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Numbers are amazing. Follow the count.
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|4. 2 9 4 2 7 9 8 5 6 5 2 7|
|4 10 9 7 4 2 5 9 6 8 10 7 9|
|8 5 3 5 3 5 4 7 2 9 6 1 8|
|2 7 1 3 4 1 5 8 4 9 8 8 3|
|6 1 9 4 5 5 7 3 1 2 6 10 4|
|10 8 7 1 2 4 5 8 2 5 7 9 1|
|2 3 5 7 1 4 6 9 5 3 4 5 6|
|9 1 4 4 8 3 7 6 2 5 1 6 7|
|2 1 9 3 7 4 5 7 3 6 8 7 8|
|8 3 8 5 8 4 6 1 5 9 1, 10 6|
|6 3 5 7 7 1 10 4 8 6 3 5 9 >
------------------------------------v Numbers are amazing. Follow the count.
V -----------------------------------
> 1 7 8 5 4 10 1 2 6 3 6 1. 9|
|4. 2 9 4 2 7 9 8 5 6 5 2 7|
|4 10 9 7 4 2 5 9 6 8 10 7 9|
|8 5 3 5 3 5 4 7 2 9 6 1 8|
|2 7 1 3 4 1 5 8 4 9 8 8 3|
|6 1 9 4 5 5 7 3 1 2 6 10 4|
|10 8 7 1 2 4 5 8 2 5 7 9 1|
|2 3 5 7 1 4 6 9 5 3 4 5 6|
|9 1 4 4 8 3 7 6 2 5 1 6 7|
|2 1 9 3 7 4 5 7 3 6 8 7 8|
|8 3 8 5 8 4 6 1 5 9 1, 10 6|
|6 3 5 7 7 1 10 4 8 6 3 5 9 >
------------------------------------vStart from top-left, move the number of spaces given by the number of your current square:
down right left down right right up down down right down
It's a maze; worked backwards from the numbers that have commas and points next to them.
Number: 19; Title: Thailand https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-...
base64 decode "Where have you been?"
So, maybe where the chess pieces have been moved from?
I feel the pawns on the left are somehow significant 4-3-2-1...
Start at the end. That's a 9. The only way that we could have landed on that 9 is either moving down or right. So, look at each number on that path and see which one would have got us there. There is an 8 that is 8 squares above 9, so that's the second last number. Now, how did we land on the 8? There is a 1 that is one square to the left, so the next number is 1. And so on.
Is the converted meta data for facebook
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Convert it to a string and you get:
??Numbers are amazing. Follow the count.
V -----------------------------------
|4. 2 9 4 2 7 9 8 5 6 5 2 7|
|4 10 9 7 4 2 5 9 6 8 10 7 9|
|8 5 3 5 3 5 4 7 2 9 6 1 8|
|2 7 1 3 4 1 5 8 4 9 8 8 3|
|6 1 9 4 5 5 7 3 1 2 6 10 4|
|10 8 7 1 2 4 5 8 2 5 7 9 1|
|2 3 5 7 1 4 6 9 5 3 4 5 6|
|9 1 4 4 8 3 7 6 2 5 1 6 7|
|2 1 9 3 7 4 5 7 3 6 8 7 8|
|8 3 8 5 8 4 6 1 5 9 1, 10 6|
|6 3 5 7 7 1 10 4 8 6 3 5 9 >
------------------------------------vPei Xiu outlined six principles that should be observed when creating a map. He then defended his position and each of the six principles with a short explanation as to how they provide better accuracy in map-making and cartography. The first three principles outlined the use of scale (fan lu), direction (zhunwang), and road distance (daoli), while the last three principles are used to properly calculate distances on uneven terrain as represented on a flat, two dimensional map
[1] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11uA9a5wgoY9w9vOyx3C7...
It is a bunch of numbers being recited (though I don't know the significance of the static image):
"053 050 046 049 056 050 049 044 032 050 048 046 057 057 054 053" It then pauses and repeats for exactly 5 minutes.
Translated (by others in this thread), it turns into 52.1821, 20.9965, which brings you to the number 18, in Poland. It also links to this Google Drive folder titled "Latest Discoveries":
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2BGioksxQiRc2hpTDJ1...
This has a few photos of statues of the Buddha and a couple of temples. I find the photo that looks corrupted the most interesting, as I think there is data hidden in there (similar to 4chan.js if you've ever heard of that).
The file names of the photos are shrine.jpg, statue.jpg, spire.jpg, pillar.jpg, and cave.jpg.
053 050 046 049056050049044032050048046057057054053
These represent the ascii codepoints of the next lat/long.
Edit: Had an extra number in it. Oops.
points to poland (18 on the map)
hint url here is https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2BGioksxQiRc2hpTDJ1...
latitude: MagicI.See_abeach, longitude: -yes._Iexploredaylight
Not sure what the encoding is. I've tried the "letter to number" encryption which gives:
13 1 7 9 3 9.19 5 5 1 2 5 1 3 8, 25 5 19.9 5 24 16 12 15 18 5 4 1 25 12 9 7 8 20
Simply adding the numbers, grouped before + after decimal point leads to:
42.2920, -49.120
but this isn't the correct answer
It probably appears in all videos on the Google Developer channel.
magic I. See_abeach,-yes.-I explore daylight
EDIT: Haha, oops, nevermind.
we need to convert these to numbers to get the lat/lon of this location.
EDIT: thanks, the adblocker was the issue.
14.2981, 101.2189
Start from top-left, move the number of spaces given by the number of your current square:
down right left down right right up down down right down
It's a maze; worked backwards from the numbers that have commas and points next to them.
Number: 19; Title: Thailand https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-...
1-down
4-right
2-left
9-down
8-right
etc
Rinse and repeat.
The first thing that popped in my mind was the contest from the book Ready Player One
this.secret = `http://${num}.foo/`;
Wish I had time to play.
> 5 clues. Take notes. Each puzzle is gone after it's solved.
> 5 places. Think numbers.
> Enter all answers at savethedate.foo.
> You must know where you've been to get where you're going.
Oooo, this sounds like fun.