Good morning.
We’ll have a day of showers and thunderstorms in Whitewater, with a high of eighty-seven.
The city’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6 PM.
It’s the 1947 anniversary of the Roswell Incident, and Google’s commemorating the event with a doodle that’s an interactive game (screenshot below, game at Google.com):
Was it an aircraft, weather balloon, or flying saucer piloted by aliens that was spotted crashed near Roswell, N.M., exactly 66 years ago?
It appears Google may be placing its bets on the flying saucer. In a tongue-in-cheek Doodle commemorating the anniversary of Roswell’s UFO incident, the Web giant has created a game that involves an alien spaceship wreck.
In 1947, a local claimed to have found the remains of a crashed UFO in field near Roswell. Subsequently, a handful of people also said they witnessed a flying disc hurtling through the night sky in the same area. The event made headlines around the world, but the U.S. military clamped down and denied it was anything other than a downed weather balloon.
The Google Doodle game loosely follows this same storyline. The game starts with an alien crash-landing its spacecraft in a Roswell-like landscape. The goal is for the alien to find the correct puzzle pieces to be able to get back on its saucer and fly home. To play the game, users click their mouse to walk around and solve certain riddles.
Puzzability has a new series this week, called Fruit Salad:
Fruit Salad
For a refreshing summer dessert this week, just mix and serve. For each day, we’ve taken the name of a kind of fruit, added a letter, and scrambled all the letters to get a new word. The answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the new word followed by the fruit name.
Example:
Citrus fruit turned to a lava-like liquid
Answer:
Molten lemon
Here’s the puzzle for Monday:
Citrus fruit for Panamanian dictator Manuel