About
Noah’s Rug is a set of short data challenges, first released in 2022 as Hanukkah of Data. The same fictional dataset is used for all puzzles. Explore this dataset with the tools of your choice to figure out the answers, light the Hanukkah candles, and find Noah’s missing rug.
How to Play
When you first come to the puzzle page, there is only one candle: the shamash. Click on its wick to read the introduction and read the question. When you submit the correct answer, the shamash will be lit, and the first candle will appear. Solve this puzzle to light its candle too.
Each day, there will be another candle and therefore another puzzle, for 8 days. Each candle will illuminate a part of the tapestry, until the whole tapestry is lit.
Speedrun
After the last day of Hanukkah, once you’ve solved all the puzzles, you’ll be able to play Noah’s Rug all over again. A fresh instance of the game, with the same exact puzzles, and a more challenging dataset, but also with a twist: it’s a speedrun. You should be able to complete the puzzles handily and in record time–if the solutions you crafted the first time weren’t just lucky guesses!
Tips
- Play the puzzles in order.
- Save off the answer (phone number) to each puzzle–it might come in handy later.
Sponsors
Contributions from users and sponsors help make these data games possible. If your organization is interested in becoming a sponsor for a data game event in the future, please email sponsorship@bluebird.sh.
Hanukkah of Data 2023 was made possible in part due to sponsorship from Boris Jabes and the team at Census.
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