Starting the Google Treasure Hunt: How to do the first three questions

Google has been running a “treasurehunt” with unspecified prizes up for grabs for the fastest times to complete the tasks. What it amounts to is four questions spaced over a month, that you can log onto in your own time and attempt to nut out. The questions are randomly generated, but are of a different type each week. The first week was a number/maths problem, the second was a computer/file problem, the third a logic (and slightly computer network) problem. I haven’t seen the final fourth question yet.

I thought I’d jot down how I answered the questions - not my particular answers - as they will be different for other people, but the methods for answering the questions which are the same for each of the four question types.

Please note that I cannot finish the treasure hunt. I got stuck at question four. I wrote up how I did questions one to three before I’d done four and it just seemed like a waste not to post them.

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Another fantastic webcomic - Starslip Crisis

I’ve linked to comics I’ve liked in the past, and have been meaning to do the same with this one for a while. Starslip Crisis is the cleverest web comic I read. Set in the year 3441, the crew of the Starship Fuseli take art and culture to the furthest reaches of the Galaxy.

Starslip Crisis Image via Wikipedia

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The greatest sketch from the greatest show of all time.

I love The Muppet Show (if the title “greatest show of all time” didn’t tell you that). It had an innocence and irreverence that is almost completely missing from our TVs today. Jim Henson’s creativity is still missed since his death almost 20 years ago. Three of Henson’s wonderful creations were creatures who could barely talk, yet made us laugh with a cacophony of squeaks, grunts and pseudo-language that left us baffled while we let out tears of laughter. They were the Swedish Chef, Animal, and Beaker.

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Three iMixes. Music I recommend you buy. Right now.

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