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I gave up after having to include a leap year (Rule 15), I don't know if this is a spoiler but I ended up with January99Pepsi?XXXVggd7maboutZrJapan (there was
by lycos 3y ago
I gave up after having to include a leap year (Rule 15), I don't know if this is a spoiler but I ended up with January99Pepsi?XXXVggd7maboutZrJapan (there was an emoji in there for the current moon phase but HN stripped it out)
Looking at the code it should be possible to get a lot further, in theory. Wonder how Paul is doing!
- sltkr 3y agoThe country is randomized; mine was Albania (that was NOT easy to figure out!)
- lycos 3y agoI saw a hot spring and got a very lucky guess, I can imagine there are a lot of hard ones in there yeah!
- hgsgm 3y agoGoogle a street name.
- icoder 3y agoIf it lands on a street it lets you roam around, but others only let you look and zoom around, they are harder if not impossible for mere mortals.
- danuker 3y agoMy country was El Salvador. I would not have guessed it (I kept trying equatorial countries). I had to reverse engineer the URL encoding of the embedded map. Spoiler: There is !1d and !2d, followed by coordinates.
- Goz3rr 3y agoMine gave me a place a Qatar, which doesn't even seem to have real photos but 3D renders instead: https://goo.gl/maps/YynAc2JSfKJzeAwWA https://goo.gl/maps/YynAc2JSfKJzeAwWA
- iso1631 3y agoI had albania which was easy -- there was a nearby poster with some writing on, and a short ddg led to albanian sites.
- jameshart 3y ago2000 was a leap year and it doesn’t screw with your numeric total too badly :)
- Symbiote 3y ago8 AD was a leap year.
- icoder 3y agoso where 0 and 4 ;)
- wizofaus 3y agoDebatable - the concept of leap years was invented before 0 AD/CE but I'm not aware of any reason to believe that particular year (which certainly wasn't called 0 AD at the time, it was possibly the Roman year 753) was considered to be one.
- Symbiote 3y ago0 isn't a year anyway, 1AD is preceded by 1BC. Wikipedia has some information on leap years around this time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar#Leap_year_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar#Leap_year_erro...
- wizofaus 3y agoInteresting that there seem to be a large number of scholars who would accept either 4 AD or 8 AD was the first AD leap year. But less clear what such a year would have been called by Romans at the time. I'm assuming it wasn't common to include full dates (including the year #) on written documents at the time, otherwise surely we'd know pretty much exactly. I gather AD-based year numbering wasn't actually introduced until ~525 AD (but before that a number of systems had been in use).
- rcoveson 3y ago0 is a year if we say it is, which astronomers have for hundreds of years (because its extremely mathematically convenient), and which ISO-8601 does. Year 0 is what historians like to call 1 BC, but historians are also just making that up. Nobody numbered years from Anno Domini anywhere near year 0. I'm sure it's clear to everybody here why year 0, -1, and -2 are significantly better arbitrary, ahistorical names for the three years preceding year 1.
- TomK32 3y agoleap year? what? I guess I had passed that by accident, 4 and 8 were leap years I guess?
- caddy 3y agoSpoiler: You can save a couple characters by using PepSi (Pepsi + Silicon) which answers 2 requests.