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Re: Save the Date by Google

#32

Post by caffeineninja »

caffeineninja wrote: post #10

This JS instantiates a marker at these coordinates: 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%...

MagicI.See_abeach,-yes._Iexploredaylight

we need to convert these to numbers to get the lat/lon of this location.

Re: Save the Date by Google

#33

Post by XaspR8d »

samirparikh wrote: post #25
ChrisBland wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Magic I. See _ a beach, -yes. _ I explore daylight working on it now

its lat,lng with the . representing the decimal point

Ahh thanks. Any idea on the next one? :P

EDIT: Nevermind 3 should be easy for most HNers. Wrote that before I even saw it.

Re: Save the Date by Google

#35

Post by amacalac »

ChrisBland wrote: post #14
VuWall-Matt wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Enter the lat/long as your first answer on savethedate.foo, it links to an unlisted youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N9K898TtWQ&feature=youtu.be... Turn on closed captions and help me figure out the next step.

Magic I. See _ a beach, -yes. _ I explore daylight working on it now

I believe:

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

Re: Save the Date by Google

#36

Post by siddarthd2919 »

caffeineninja wrote: post #10

This JS instantiates a marker at these coordinates: 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%...

Is there a specific way you inputed the latitude and longitude?

Re: Save the Date by Google

#37

Post by cableshaft »

wmblaettler wrote: post #29
VuWall-Matt wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Enter the lat/long as your first answer on savethedate.foo, it links to an unlisted youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N9K898TtWQ&feature=youtu.be... Turn on closed captions and help me figure out the next step.

The crop circle after the first clue also shows us a number: '5'

That might not be a clue. It's 5 puzzles, so maybe it's just counting down 5,4,3,2,1.

EDIT: Haha, oops, nevermind.

Re: Save the Date by Google

#39

Post by amacalac »

caffeineninja wrote: post #32
caffeineninja wrote: post #10

This JS instantiates a marker at these coordinates: 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%...

MagicI.See_abeach,-yes._Iexploredaylight we need to convert these to numbers to get the lat/lon of this location.

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

Re: Save the Date by Google

#40

Post by Ajedi32 »

ucaetano wrote: post #18
VuWall-Matt wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Enter the lat/long as your first answer on savethedate.foo, it links to an unlisted youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N9K898TtWQ&feature=youtu.be... Turn on closed captions and help me figure out the next step.

Google Developers watermark pops up at 0:20 in the video.

That's not part of the video itself though, it's just the usual branding watermark shown by YouTube. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6147757?hl=en

It probably appears in all videos on the Google Developer channel.

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