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.
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SPOILER WARNING:
As a test, we’re going to 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:
The “Queen of Nuts” is tough to crack. How much pressure per square inch does it take to break her shell?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):
Search [Earth 2011 aphelion] to learn it means the day that Earth was farthest from the sun. In 2011 this was July 4. Search for [calendar 2011] to find a current calendar, which will tell you instantly that July 4, 2011 was a Monday.
