Da Vinci Code Quest # 9: Curator Challenge

Hello everyone... welcome back to Quest # 9 of the Google Da Vinci Code webquests.

Today's challenge is being called "The Curator Challenge"

The instructions are as follows
"Audrey Tautou is Sophie Neveu, a Police Department Cryptographer with a special connection to the murdered curator of the Louvre.

Use your curator's eye to hang the works of art such that the hooks match those on the gallery wall. Not all of the hooks on the gallery wall will necessarily be used. Some art may have already been placed and cannot be moved.

So... let's get started.
Guidelines: As we can see from here, we are given 8 different paintings of different sizes. Also, observe that some of the hooks might be in the middle of the painting as shown in the picture of the left. Also, you cannot go outside the given space and you cannot overlap one picture over or under another picture. Important HINT: If the paintings just drop either to the bottom of the floor, or if you place a painting at the bottom of the floor and it bounces of the floor, it is not hooked up.

How it might differ from yours: It might vary by having some pictures already hooked on the wall. Also, the number of pictures might vary. The second time i solved it, i had one painting already hooked up and just five more paintings to choose from. The third time, i had none hooked on but 7 paintings. Remember, follow the approach and you should be okay

Step # 1: Browse through your picture selection and hook the biggest picture first. In this case, it is the painting shown in the above image. Place it so that it occupies the least amount of hooks. Don't try to place it on the far left where it might get hooked, but, will take up more number or cover up more number of hooks. I place it on the left hand side.

Step # 2: Take the next biggest picture and place it. I place mine on the right side.

Step # 3: It is relatively straight forward from now on. Take care of the paintings that are horizontal and have 2 hinges first.

Step # 4: Clean up the rest of the paintings.

Once we are done, we are asked our daily trivia question of the day. In my case it was
" Where was Victor Hugo born?"

Note, your question might be different. Remember to just google the section contained in bold in your trivia question.

In this case, a simple google search, gives me the right answer.

Overall, this was relatively very easy compared the previous two quests, quest # 8 and quest # 7. Good luck solving !!

Something on the side: With today's quest being so simple, I tried to do some digging on the page we are given everyday. I came to the conclusion that Google did a pretty awesome job with making sure that the paintings shown to us are random. I had a theory that if in the URL of the page, I change the number or the random number in the end to the number I had, when I solved the quests, I thought it would replicate with the exact same settings. However, I was wrong. Google has some other way of randomizing it. I will keep digging and see what comes up. If any of you guys have any interesting theories, let me know... we can test them out.

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