Puzzle No. 5: "From
Beatles to Beetles"
Wanna play? Click for the
rules.
In this week's puzzle, we
challenge you to get from this page devoted to The
Beatles to this page mentioning the eating habits of beetles.
We did it in 15 links. If
you can tie or beat that, e-mail your solution (with instructions and URLs) to
[email protected] by noon ET Tuesday, March 24. (All
submissions will become the property of
Slate
and will be
published at
Slate
's discretion.
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may publish
your name on its site in connection with your submission.)
Results will be announced
Thursday, March 26, at about 5 p.m. PT, along with a new puzzle. Readers are
also invited to submit their own puzzles (along with a solution path).
Happy surfing!
Solution
to Puzzle No. 4: "From Friedrich von Hayek to Salma Hayek"
Perhaps
thrown by the mind-blowing juxtaposition of economic theorist and Hollywood
actress, not a single linker was able to meet
Slate
reader Greg
Ransom's Hayek-to-Hayek challenge. Better luck next time. Here's how Ransom did
it:
Starting at the Friedrich
Hayek Scholar's Page, click Research resources--archives, societies,
funding, web resources, etc. , which will lead you ...
here.
Click Nobel Prize Internet Archive Hayek Page , and you'll find yourself
...
at this
site. Click Friedrich Hayek ring to go ...
here. In the
bottom-right corner, click Bomis , which will take you ...
to this page. Click Babe/ , and
from
there, click
Actress . You should find yourself ...
at this list of
actresses. Click Hayek, Salma , and ...
thence, click
Salma Hayek Shrine ...
and the journey is
complete!
Ransom has
recently posted a Friedrich Hayek vs. Salma Hayek scorecard.
--Seth
Stevenson
