Google has been teasing its annual I/O Developer’s conference with a load of clues and puzzles. Google has been known to tease a few upcoming features ahead of the event. If we take a look back to last year, it was a feature called copyless paste, but this year for I/O 2018, the clues seem much more elaborate. By placing all the clues together, it derived the date and venue details of the I/O 2018 conference which will be held from May 8 to May 10, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California.
Google Developers’ Twitter account recenetly posted a coded tweet, providing the first clue. It is a picture of a bunch of binary codes and if you are clued up with the tech world, it will not take time to convert it into text. On using a binary-to-text converter, the code directs to a Google I/O URL.
When you open the website, your journey of solving the mystery begins as Google presents you with a Google Street View of possibly the reception area of its Developers building. You will now have to manoeuvre around the area to look for clues. Very similar to the escape room or treasure hunt puzzles you might have played in the real world.
Inside the building, several clues are thrown in, such as a book called Sister Carrie written by Theodore Dreiser, a plate of Sushi, a calendar with the date August 5, and more. You need to use these clues to further enter the building and it goes on.
After hours of trying to place the clues together, 9to5Google writer Justin Duino was rewarded with the final piece of the puzzle – the dates and the location.
