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:
You’re trapped in a room with two doors: one guarded by a male platypus, the other by a male giant anteater. Which door do you try to escape through?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):
Search [strong wind between latitudes of 40 and 49 degrees]. Find that these strong westerly winds are nicknamed “the Roaring Forties.” Search [sailing route Roaring Forties] and discover that the Clipper Route was taken by ships from Europe to Australia.