Battle of the Brains: Movie PR (The Volvo Treasure Hunt) – Answers UPDATED

Volvo is sponsoring the second treasure hunt for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. The prize is $50K and a brand new Volvo SUV (more damage to the environment). These movie promotion hunts started from the Blair Witch Project which was the best promotion for the movie and it didn’t cost them anything. Many movies do them regularly now.

It is a great promotion for the movie which is going to be relased on May 24th. Since Volvo is doing this for the second time, you can guess yourself that it must give Volvo great publicity as well.

I personally would love to try and solve the 22 puzzels, but I have exams till the end of the month. Darn it!

This reminds me of the documentary I was watching yesterday “Battle of the Brains” which was trying to critique the IQ test and figure out what makes a person intelligent. Watch it if you have the time.

You can go to www.volvocars.co.uk/thehunt and start the hunt yourself. So What are the answers to the first few puzzles ….

ANSWERS

The Answer to Puzzle no. 1: Just click the the map and rotate it around (clock wise and anti-clock wise) till you see the coordinates. (22 31 N 81 35 W)

The Second is even more easier, keep clicking on the crabs till you see the next coordinates. (1757N7649W)

The Third is also easy, start scratching the icebergs at the bottom of the map to get the coordinates. (4321S2053W). Oh just in case if you can’t figure what I am talking about click on the stairs first and then you will get to the map to click on the ice bergs.

The Forth one, was a bit tough the coordinates are all over the person’s body (35 38 S 00 57 E),

The Fifth one, from here you have to go to the Volvo showroom and pick up a map and then proceed. Remember to pick a few copies of the map, because by the time you are done with it, your map may be folded so many times that it might become totally useless.

Oh! Did I forget to give the answer to the fifth one, well maybe later… have a crack at it, it’s not that hard. If you think about it in the correct manner 😉

You Should be in South Eastern Atlantic (Puzzel 5) – I can’t explain this one as you have to fold the map to get the coordinates. The hint will be in the email Volvo sends you after you register. (3415S1841E)

Puzzle 6 – Cape of Good Hope – Click on the lights in the back ground to get the coordinates ( 1238N5413E)

Puzzle 7 – Socotra – If you notice every box is connected to the next box with a line and sometimes it is not. Just follow it from the beginning to the end. (Note every number which comes your way and you will get the coordinates) – (914N7948E)

Puzzle 8 – Ceylon – The biggest White stones are the one you have to have on one side of the scale and see how many times the others are used to get the coordinates

Large White (1 scoop, Mushrooms)
Large Red (3 scoops, Can’t Make what it is called)
Large Green (2 scoops, Green Dal)
Medium White (8 scoops, Can’t Make out what it is called)
Medium Green (8 scoops, Green Dal)
Medium Black (6 scoops, Black Dal)
Small Yellow (4 scoops, Yellow Dal)
Small Orange (5 scoops, Orange Dal)

So the coordinates are : 1328N8645E

Puzzle 9 – Bay of Bengal – I hate this folding, Fold along the lines, to which the clues are given on the screen, then flip over to get the coordinates (A Bit hard to explain) (1131N9215E)

Puzzle 10 – Sentinel – The Native in the first part of the video says 1,1,4,10,3,5,2, the second time he says the full counting from 1-10. (114N10352E)

The 11th Puzzle – Singapore – Go to this website to translate the numbers. Now you have to link all the Dominoes to get the coordinates, the key coordinates are on the white spots. Start With the Dragon’s Mouth (Right Side of the Screen) with the Domino marked with five dots (which is the last digit in the coordinates) and linked with Brahmin ‘7.’ get Keep linking them by the same signs or numbers till you reach the end of the dragon. Remember the 0 should come on top of the red ‘0’ and the Thai 3 should come on top of the red Thai 3 which are given has hints in the Dragon. Read the coordinates from Left to Right and you get … (661S 10525E)

The 12th Puzzle – Krakatan – This puzzle is easier if you are a computer professional. The Clues says “On and off… Off and On…” If you convert on and off in computer language, On stands for ‘1’ and Off stands for ‘0’. Hence the clue says 1001 (Repeat the clue) 1001 (Repeat it again) 1001. Now you have ” 1001 1001 1001. If you start entering these coordinates you will notice that you have to discard the last three as they can’t be entered, which is fine. (1001S 10011E. ) There is another way to solve the puzzle, but that is a bit hard to explain you have to light every lantern once starting one 1 to 9 and then see where the 0 appears to give you the coordinates.

Puzzle 13 – South of Java – Take out your map again… You have to draw lines and get the coordinates. It is hard to explain, so please click on the picture to see how you get the coordinates. The coordinates written in the picture are plotted correctly but the full coordinate written below has a minor mistake. Swap the 9 and the 6. (1209S 9652E )

(picture provided by Meg).

Puzzle 14th – Cocos Island – The Black pearls are 3 times of white. So the sequence which they appear is :

3 – 1 – 1 – 0 – 1 – 0 – 1 – 0 :BLACK PEARLS

0 – 1 – 0 – 1 – 1 – 1 – 2 – 2 :WHITE PEARLS

So for the first coordinate: Black pearl x 3 + white = 3 x 3 + 0 = 9 and the second coordinate 3 x 1 + 1 = 4… so on… (943S 14152E)

Puzzle 15th – Torres Strait – Similar to the pervious one, you have to substract this time… The coordinates which are said by mark and the knots going up and down, Hence the coordinates are:

E – 2 7 5 7 3, N – 2 3 1 7, W – 2 4 2 6 1, S – 9 5 6 8

Since putting west coordinates on the paper will inverse them you have do the same with West and North coordinates

Therefore 9568 – 7132 = 2436 S
27573 – 16242 = 11331 E

Puzzle 16th – Australia – There are Eight places you can click on the Dragon and eight coordinates to be found. The coordinates are from Tail to Head, up to down. Count the same type of circles in each area to get the coordinates. For example on the Head there are only two matching circles and the one closest to the tail has only three matching circles. the Rest you can find. (3955 8722)

Puzzle 17th – Indian Ocean – Take out your map again… You have to draw lines like puzzle 13th to get the coordinates. Please look at the picture for the solution. (5313S 7329E)

17_solution.jpg (picture provided by prometheus)

Puzzle 18th – Heard Island – Yahoo! Exams are over – Right Then, Heard Island, this puzzle was one of the easiest. Took me 10 mins. after getting evie’s answer [I didn’t look :)]. The answer is given in the cross signs if you look at it

1606-1661

1604-1628

1603-1637

1609-1654

The Left side has the answer and the right side points to the coordinate no. Look on the right side for the numbers in bold every line has numbers from 1-8 and we need 8 coordinates. Now the other side (Left Side) has the coordinates, so you get 6439S – 9634E

No one has noticed or questioned that how come I know the name of the next destination… Eg. I already new that Puzzle 19th is Antarctica and puzzle 20 is Southern Ocean… Any Comment on this?

Below is the email which is going to be sent to everyone who has registered after your next clue. This was leaked when we were solving the 17th puzzle. This does not tell you the coordinate, but at least the name of the places… This email was removed from the Volvo servers after it got leaked. the-next-places.jpg.

Puzzle 19th – Antarctica’s Ice Desert – I hope you have figured it out by now, if not in the clue he says “sign of eight,” if go back to the tatoo guy for seeing what the sign of eight is another language you will notice that it is like zig zag road. so either you have to go up and then left or down and right. I tried both, the answer is up and left. If you go up after 5 steps you reach a stone…hey … I just found a walkthrough on You tube – Search for “The Hunt – Puzzle 19” (5346S 9945E) I personally am still trying to solve this one…

Puzzle 20th – Southern Ocean – I have gone dum since the last puzzle and haven’t figured out this one either 😦 The answer is given in the comments and I found this website with a visual for the answer. ( 3602S 17501E)

Puzzle 21st – World’s End – It is currently locked, please check back on 30th May for the answer.

I will open comments without moderation on 30th May.

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