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Google Treasure Hunt puzzle 3

Two days back google posted that they will be posting 3 puzzle for google treasure hunt soon.

This week’s puzzle is set to be released on Tuesday, May 27 at 10 a.m. PDT.

PDT is 7 hours behind UTC, so its around 10 PM, 27th May in India.
So the 3rd puzzle is live now. I have given it a try and submitted my answer, I think (!) it should be correct.
This time question is related to networking. You have to find the path followed by a packet given its destination and routing table for the network.

The nodes are hosts on the network, and the lines between them are links. A packet is sent out from host O with a destination of 46.44.187.63. Which nodes does the packet pass through on its way to the destination?

To refresh your concepts read (Routing tables, On wikipedia). If you got the idea, then it shouldn’t be difficult. Intuitively also you should be able to find your way through routing table. Give It a try..and but you will only get to know your answer status after 23hrs from now.
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May 27, 2008 | Filed Under computers 
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6 Responses to “Google Treasure Hunt puzzle 3”

  1. Vaibhav on May 27th, 2008 7:03 pm

    You are right, you don’t need to know too much about routing tables and networking to solve this one. Here’s what I did: http://blog.gadodia.net/google-treasure-hunt-use-logic-to-solve-3rd-question/

  2. T-Ray on May 30th, 2008 1:27 am

    I wish they had given a clue like they did for puzzle two. I just kept randomly checking back and missed puzzle 3 by two days. :/

  3. burad on May 30th, 2008 3:29 pm

    ohh..actually they mentioned on googleblog some time back..i think next puzzle will also be announced by tue only

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  6. V on June 16th, 2008 11:04 pm

    I can’t go ahead now. Its brain-pain. The puzzles are really hard.

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