Google Treasure Hunt

Thursday, May 8. 2008

The Google-AU blog reports that Google is going to be holding another one of it’s brain busting adventures soon. The post is ended with the following text/clue:

Arrrrrrrr you ready? Onward to the first puzzle, matey! And good luck!

aHR0cDovL3RyZWFzdXJlaHVudC5hcHBzcG90LmNvbS8=

Soon . 1210550400

Warning: links below contain spoilers.

Shouldn’t take long to figure out. The 10 digits of the final number is a dead giveaway that it’s a unix timestamp, and maps to a particular time. That’s soon.

The seemingly random string is a base64 encoding of a particular website.

Posted by Seb Ruiz in sebr at 07:59 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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I'll be honest, I think of US phone numbers when I see 10 digits, not Unix timestamps.

#1 Brandon (Homepage) on 2008-05-10 18:50 (Reply)

BASE 64

http://treasurehunt.appspot.com/

#1.1 mdanes (Homepage) on 2008-05-13 12:46 (Reply)

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