Briefly: Game Of Thrones Quiz, Chess Ultra, Aussie Sea Monsters

Brief news items of note for Lifehacker readers, including: Australian scientists prove acupuncture relieves pain, the strange underwater creatures found 4km down in the abyss off Australia, can you survive the Game Of Thrones TV quiz?

  • A team of 40 international scientists have just returned from an expedition on the research vessel Investigator looking at the dark, crushing environment 4000m below the surface of Australia. Here are some of the creatures they found. [Business Insider]
  • HBO Nordic has created a sadistic Game Of Thrones knowledge test that has no checkpoints or backtracking. You fail once, you die – just like in the show. See how far you can make it. [HBO Nordic]
  • It turns out that acupuncture is really effective at treating pain. [Gizmodo]
  • There are chess video games. And then there’s CHESS ULTRA!!!!! [Kotaku]
  • The Witcher 3 is rightly regarded as one of the best RPG video games of all time. Here are 100 things it did right. [Kotaku]

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