Day 11 of 24 Da Vinci Quest: please stop giving people the answers in the comments |
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Since we began this Da Vinci Quest 11 days ago, I’ve intentionally been masking the visual answers via Photoshop so that the coverage here at Hmm would be spoiler-free. A few times already people have shown up looking for answers and others have commented afterwards helping out. I like to see people helping each other, but am not interested in being a place for people to get the answers. Help is fine, cheating is not. If you give somebody the answer, there was no effort or skill on their part. Instead, please consider helping them find or discover the answer on their own.
Yesterday, literally dozens of people stopped by and some were giving the answers to the questions. Giving people help by guiding them to where to find the answers is cool and appreciated but please do not give other players the answers because that spoils the fun. I realize it can be frustrating not figuring out the answers but it is far more satisfying to get the answers on your own vs. reading them in the comments section.
People at Google worked hard to create these puzzles and I’m sure they don’t appreciate websites just offering up the answers. Fortunately, some of the puzzles are different and the answers can’t be given so easily. Not the case today for the chess challenge, though.
NOTE: we will no longer approve and will remove any comments heretofore that give away the Da Vinci Quest puzzle answers/solutions — nor link to places that do. I figure these things out on my own and so should others. I’ve already admitted to helping my wife but she’s my wife. You can help your family privately if you want but giving the answers using this website doesn’t seem right to me.
If you disagree, feel free to vent about this in the comments area, but if you include the answers to any of the puzzles from here on out, your comment will be edited or nuked at our discretion. Again, you are welcome to — and encouraged to — help people by guiding them to the answers, giving tips in the comments area. Yesterday there was also some really creative help offered in the comments — thank you for sharing — but this is not going to be one of the places out there to cheat. If you want to cheat, I’m sure other sites will help you, but not this one. Sorry.
Chess match, anyone?
With that comment unpleasantness out of the way, today is day 11 and as pictured above and as of this writing it’s been less than 30 minutes to clear this away. I don’t believe anybody reading this won’t be able to figure this one out fairly quickly. And that includes those who don’t even know how to play chess.
Tomorrow we’ll be at the halfway completion point. Have fun.
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I agree completely. I find some of the puzzles difficult and frankly find the searching for the text answers difficult. If your going to play a game - quit looking for cheats. Whats the point of playing if you are going to cheat? Unless of course you are out to just win the prize - and thats just wrong. I applaud makeyougohmm for not allowing the answers to be posted!
P.S. I really dislike the chess puzzles hehe
Comment by ^Lestat — April 27, 2006 @ 1:08 pm PST
I found this puzzle easier than the previous one of the same type. What confuses me is the chess figures. I have never seen such figures before, so I had to figure out what’s what even before trying to solve the puzzle.
Comment by a — April 27, 2006 @ 1:55 pm PST
Thanks for not wanting to post the answers. I think that will actually make your posts on the Quest more interesting. But I digress, this puzzle was much easier than last weeks challenge of the same type. I also agree on what the heck the piece are supposed to be. However, it you hover of each answer and watch were the piece moves to, it should be pretty easy to figure out what piece it is.
Comment by Andrew Ferguson — April 27, 2006 @ 3:00 pm PST
Guilty. Sorry. Just being a friendly net citizen. But I get it. People need to search for then answers themselves. In fact it is fun trying to figure out that the @@@@@@ of the object in the ###@@ about @@@@@ is @@@@@@.
Comment by Steven Frein — April 28, 2006 @ 2:34 am PST
I have a question, what happened to the geography question which should have been number 17? But instead it’s leaped forward to Observation???
Has this happened to anyone else???
Susie
Comment by Susie — May 4, 2006 @ 5:32 am PST
Yes, mine have skipped around a bit too.
Comment by ^Lestat — May 4, 2006 @ 10:57 am PST
Dear webmaster,
Do you really have an entire page devoted to whining that people are “cheating” on the Da Vinci Quest game? I mean seriously, get a life. You must a super-nerd to even notice. Why do you have to criticize people that are simply wasting away a few moments at work? This is not the end-all game of the century. Get over yourself.
Comment by person with other things to do — May 4, 2006 @ 2:55 pm PST
Dear person with other things to do,
Do you really like to leave comments flaming others without leaving your name? I mean seriously, get a life. You must be (missing word on your part) a super-nerd to even bother. Why do you have to criticize people that are simply wasting away time flaming bloggers at work. This is not the end-all game of the century. Get over yourself.
Comment by TDavid — May 4, 2006 @ 3:13 pm PST
Ok, I am obviously doing something very wrong on todays puzzle (#18) I hate geography (and am horrible at it), so I always search the web for the answers. I can’t find anything on where the reverse handwriting is displayed. Can anyone help?? Not sure what to search for. thanks
Comment by jessica — May 4, 2006 @ 7:45 pm PST
Hi Jessica…
why don’t u checkout the following links for clues:
http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/manoscritti.html
http://www.vam.ac.uk/your_visit/travel/index.html
good luck!
Comment by El Goodoo — May 5, 2006 @ 5:11 am PST
I’m having major trouble with the second to last question, the one about the “classical sequence 0, 1, 4, 9…” Can anybody help me?! I’ve entered all kinds of answers and none seem to work. Maybe point me in the right direction would be helpful! Thank you!
Comment by Tiffani — May 10, 2006 @ 4:31 am PST