Day 20 of 24 Da Vinci Quest: last of the tumbleweeds Restoration Challenge |
Time for my least favorite puzzle on day 20 of the Da Vinci Quest: those darn tumbleweeds. Where we have to click around on until you can put them in the right pairs. A comment came in suggesting that they were actually part of some honeycomb grid but that Google might have left the grid off because that would have made it too easy?
Not sure if that’s accurate or not (anybody?), I have yet to figure out why I’ve beat even one of these tumbleweeds challenges, but doesn’t matter now. Goal is to beat them and move onto the next. This is the first time my wife beat a puzzle for me. Good for her.
Tip: I spend an inordinate and silly amount of time trying to use the regular Google search for the answer to the question that follows the tumbleweeds. I even went to Live search and tried and then I returned to the puzzle and saw the suggestion to use Google Book search. If you get stuck on your question, maybe that will help you as well.
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OK, I got one of the hardest questions ever.
Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of The Adoration of the Magi hangs in the Royal Uffizi Gallery in Florence. What is its catalogue number in the 1890 catalogue of the museum?
I have searched googre and google books and they both come up with stuff that looks promising but I can’t actually find the catalogue number!
I’m not looking forward to the next 4 (I’m gald we got rid of the stupid blotch puzzle thing though).
Comment by Fogmeister — May 6, 2006 @ 5:08 pm PST
I’ve been using Google Book search–but I still cannot find the catalogue number for “Adoration of the Magi” in the 1890 museum catalogue! Any suggestions?
Comment by John Johnson — May 6, 2006 @ 5:51 pm PST
Unfortunately enough for me, this one took me longer than the previous one. Symbol 4 was a sinch, only took me 4 minutes. This, on the other hand, took me 15 minutes. After constantly refreshing the puzzle, looking for that “oh-so-easy” pattern, I found it and completed it.
It sucks though, I’ll never be able to win this contest unless I stay home from school on Wednesday. The puzzle comes at 10:00am where I am, and I can access a computer for 12 to 13 minutes at 10:10am, ten minutes after the puzzle launches. I’m considering if I should skip that day or not.. Tuesday will be my final decision day. See you all at the finish line, before or after!
Comment by TornadoTK — May 6, 2006 @ 8:30 pm PST
how the hell am I suppose to find this “Which painting in the Royal Uffizi Gallery in Florence is a diminutive copy of the celebrated one by Leonardo da Vinci?”
I have been searching now for 3 hours and cant find the answer
Comment by Mick — May 6, 2006 @ 10:27 pm PST
I was a tad annoyed with this puzzle. I couls see the honeycombs in the background. The instructions do tell you how to play the game, but I still couldn’t figure out how to make it happen. I just randomly did the puzzle for about 45 minutes and found a solution. I’m glad I don’t have to do this one anymore!
I was also a bit annoyed with the ‘possible answers’ when you do your search. Without spoiling, lets just say that there are multiple choices offered in the search results for the answer. I can’t wait until this is over.
I must say - I haven’t had this much trouble ‘googling’ a search subject/topic before. I do think that it may be because of the specifice being searched for.
Comment by ^Lestat — May 7, 2006 @ 2:47 am PST
you know, because it’s so hard to find the answer using google, this is giving google bad publicity. Google is meant to be good at searching, not hard. I found the scrap piece i needed, but i couldnt zoom in, so i had to guess in the end. Hopefully no more google books.
ps. for most Australians, i woke up at 5:00 am, the puzzle was there, so should be easily able to do before work or school starts
Comment by Renny — May 7, 2006 @ 5:14 am PST
The puzzle took seven times to solve, but finally. Bad luck for every one on the questions. Mine was what was a Florentine used for, from Google books. Bad luck on the possible other topics. I hope this doesn’t mean harder questions for the last two for me.
Comment by McKinsey — May 8, 2006 @ 12:55 pm PST
About the Adoration of the Magi question: the actual catalogue number for this painting is 1594, in the Uffizi. But this doesn’t work for the puzzle!! Can anyone explain this one??
Comment by iedsri — May 8, 2006 @ 6:14 pm PST
>how the hell am I suppose to find this “Which painting in the Royal Uffizi Gallery in Florence is >a diminutive copy of the celebrated one by Leonardo da Vinci?”
>I have been searching now for 3 hours and cant find the answer
>Comment by Mick — May 6, 2006 @ 10:27 pm
Mick, go to http://books.google.com and type (or copy & paste) the entire question (Which painting in the Royal Uffizi Gallery in Florence is a diminutive copy of the celebrated one by Leonardo da Vinci). Only one link will pop-up. The answer is right on that page - “The Holy Virgin and St. Anna”.
Comment by Alpha64 — May 10, 2006 @ 1:19 pm PST