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Re: Save the Date by Google

#161

Thailand, https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-... Pic is called base64 (upvote this so we can start a new subthread)

Shoreline Amphitheatre

"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. :|"

Re: Save the Date by Google

#162

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. EDIT: Haha, I guess we're faster than they expected or this leaked early, since completing it links you to h…

that was... anticlimactic, to say the least.

Re: Save the Date by Google

#164

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. EDIT: Haha, I guess we're faster than they expected or this leaked early, since completing it links you to h…

B E S U R E T O D R I N K Y O U R O V A L T I N E

Re: Save the Date by Google

#165

Thailand, https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-... Pic is called base64 (upvote this so we can start a new subthread)

Note the remaining pieces on the board.

Two pieces = '.' one piece is ','.

Each row contains a value to fill these blanks: _._ , _._

Re: Save the Date by Google

#167
post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Numbers on top half of board White Black +10 -12 + 8 - 7 - 6 +15 -11 - 2 + 4 +19 + 1 -------------- bottom half +3 - 7 +3 + 1 +4 -19 +5 +7 +7 +5

You're overthinking it. The 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

ok, so what's the final set of coordinates then? searching that on google maps and putting the center point into savethedate.foo did not work.

Re: Save the Date by Google

#168
post #166

Thailand, https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-... Pic is called base64 (upvote this so we can start a new subthread)

Where have you been? Black's in check so we must have just moved -- where from?

I'm not sure it's possible to get to this position in chess from the starting point.

Re: Save the Date by Google

#169
post #162

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. EDIT: Haha, I guess we're faster than they expected or this leaked early, since completing it links you to h…

that was... anticlimactic, to say the least.

What did you expect from a very simple ARG called 'save the date'?

Re: Save the Date by Google

#170

Thailand, https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMNGiEkdfeZKK5uus5iOmt-... Pic is called base64 (upvote this so we can start a new subthread)

Shoreline Amphitheatre "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. :|"

Google IO on 5/18-20th, announced 1/12, launchDate in site JS is 2017-01-13T07:00:00-08
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