h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Today's animated doodle celebrates the 66th anniversary of the Roswell incident. Pretty cool!

Yep! I've been pressing buttons


lil x

It seems only to be on google.co.uk. Odd, that. I'll have to try it at home this evening with the sound turned on.

I have it in French Google; but if there's sound available, I'll have to try again at home.

I think it bears replaying. I collected several items that didn't get used so there may be multiple paths to completion.

I managed to send my little home



GB

I have too, twice. And this time I used all the things.

I've got to admit that little flying saucer made me stop and draw back from the computer for a moment, when I saw it.

Awww, it's cute!

>> I managed to send my little home <<

Yay! GB!
If anyone could do it then my money's on Galaxy Babe.


I couldn't figure out what the snake was for and the cow
just kept mooing. Then there was a gas (petrol) can which
when dragged to the dead tree turned it into a beanstalk.

Which only brought me back to the cow.

Too early in the day for me I guess.

~jwf~

That's as far as I can get. Tried left, right, up and down.

Oh well. Never mind.



MMF

It's late enough in the day...


SPOILERS!







If you go to the cow, you can collect the rope holding it. Once you do, it will move to the right and graze, opening a hole. At the bottom of the hole, you'll find some mysterious super grow elixir in a petrol can. Use that on the small tree to grow it and get out of the hole. Go to the right to the barn. Climb the ladder to get the horseshoe which will automatically be tied to the rope creating a makeshift grapple. Also, get the feed bag. You can either retrieve the second saucer section with the grapple, or you can "beanstalk" the horse in the barn (open the window if you don't see the horse). Go further to the right to the farm house. feed the chicken from the bag and you'll get a feather. "beanstalk" the tree. climb the tree and tickle the farmer with the feather to get hir to drop the third saucer section.

I somehow got the third section without growing the tree the first time I did it. I'm not sure how but the farmer dropped it to the ground. Maybe I just took so long, or rang the doorbell enough that the farmer got up to milk the horse or something.

Milk the horse.

I managed to get him home - but not before I went on Youtube and typed in 'walkthrough'. I could find that last piece in the farmer's bedroom.

OK... I just confirmed that you can wake the farmer by ringing the doorbell 6 times.

>>...tickle the farmer with the feather to get hir to drop the third saucer section. <<

Hardly an intuitive action.
Or maybe my imagination is failing me.


Thanks BG! And thanks again to GB.

~jwf~

Heh.... here's a little bonus easter egg. Go to http://www.vogue.co.uk/ and use the "Konami code".

You don't know what the Konami code is? What, you weren't playing video games in the 80's?

















(Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a)

The eighties you say.
I missed them.

~jwf~

French Google has Claude Bernard's 200th birthday today.
He established the use of scientific method in medicine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bernard

And being Bastille day:

https://www.google.fr

MMF

Today's celebrates Rembrandt :
Happy 407th!