Google loves it a good
puzzle. Each year the company tucks the first details about its annual Google
I/O conference behind a puzzle or three, and this year is no different.
Whereas last year’s
riddle was a math-heavy logic puzzle, this year’s setup is more of an escape
room. It has the user click their way through a series of rooms found on
Google’s Mountain View campus, answering a series of riddles that builds up to
the “big reveal”: the date and time of Google I/O 2018.
Google started the
hunt with a tweet:
Which, when treated as
binary (01100111 and so on..) and converted to text, leads to the beginning of
their StreetView-powered hunt. Massive Discord groups sprung up almost
immediately formed to collaboratively crack the clues, with Tom Warren of The
Verge orchestrating much of it.
I’ll leave out the
answers to the puzzles for the sake of those who want to go and crack’em
themselves, but it all leads this:
So there we have it:
Google I/O 2018 will happen from May 8th to the 10th at the Shoreline
Amphitheater — the same venue (which just happens to be a few blocks from
Google’s campus) where it was hosted in 2016 and 2017.
Google’s escape room
game is a little short, but there’s an Easter egg or two dropped along the way.
Take, for example, this pineapple cake found in one of the game’s rooms.
Each build of Android gets a
codename, with each new name being a sweet treat that starts with the
successive letter of the alphabet. Android Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat, Oreo.
The next codename will start with P…
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