@jdutoit, where did you find this?
Twitter, the Firebase team tweeted it out https://twitter.com/Firebase/status/823966937835192320
Save the Date by Google
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Re: Save the Date by Google
#192Answer 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…
Source for those interested - https://twitter.com/Firebase/status/823966937835192320
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I'm more impressed that they actually created those numbers to be seen by satellites
They didn't. Go to the actual coordinates on Maps and they're not there. It's Photoshop.
Actually look at the videos on the ending page. You can see that they actually did create them. There are people in some of the gifs.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
All you need to do is sum up the numbers on each row/column. Horizontal will produce the latitude (except after the 1,), and vertical will produce the longitude.
I think for the chess game we have the play the game backwards.. I am trying to play the game forward, but not clear what is the delineation for the comma or period in the lat lon.. maybe black can put white into check?
Hint: it can't be a valid game since one of the kings has been removed. :-)
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here is better format: 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…
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-...
Damn I was going to bed before I found this. Now I need to solve it. Did anyone solve the chess board?
I feel the pawns on the left are somehow significant 4-3-2-1...
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here is better format: 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…
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-...
How did you figure out the directions? (i.e. down, right, left...)
Re: Save the Date by Google
#197Answer 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…
> Shoreline Amphitheatre
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.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here is better format: 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…
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-...
This has been bugging me for days...trying to figure out how you knew to go down, right, left, etc. I finally figured it out.
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.