Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Eeach morning at 12:01am ET you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here. SPOILER WARNING: As a test, we’re going to leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS! Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere, you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool, which will automatically filter out published answers, to give you a spoiler-free experience. And now, without further ado, we give you… TODAY’S PUZZLE BY MAYER HAWTHORN, MUSICIAN, ENGINEER “HOW DO YOU DO”:
If you were around in the late ’60s and ’70s, you might have listened to tunes played on an eight-track tape. How many reels of tape does an eight-track cartridge have?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (HIGHLIGHT TO SEE):
Search [Seven Wonders of Modern World] to see a list. The oldest is the Panama Canal. Go to Google Maps and search for the canal. Starting from the Atlantic Coast, the road that runs about halfway along the northern edge is the Ave. Omar Torrijos Herrera.
