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. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.
SPOILER WARNING:
We 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:
An ancient Greek philosopher thought that not all madness was bad. In a famous play, he named four types that he considered gifts from the gods. What were they?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):
Search [circumference of the Earth] and find that it is 24,901 miles. Use Google’s built-in calculator to divide 1 parsec by the circumference of the Earth. In other words, [1 parsec / 24901 miles] shows that you’d need to circle the earth about 769,990,287 times. Wear comfortable shoes!
