I solved the lost symbol- symbol quest. Select the text below to reveal solution.
!!!Spoiler Alert!!!
Without end
The “S” in Mozart’s D.S
Leo’s chaste neighbour
IESOUS CHRISTOS THEOU YIOS SOTER
Quicksilver
Scribe of Sidereus Nuncius was the first to see rings around it
Silence for Berlioz, Bizet and Bartok
Circle’s circumference divided by its diameter
Octothorpe
Sounds like a resident in the Garden of Eden
Hood ornament for Emil Jellinek’s daughter
French Monarch’s lily
Robert Langdon’s favourite symbol
Meditative chant
Opposing, yet unified
Greek Goddess of Triumph
Venus’ Hand Mirror
The Golden Ratio
Proofreader’s mark from the Latin “Delere”
Anagram of “Madras Pen”
The cross of Bogart’s Falcon
Who uses this symbol
An age in the hair of Broadway
Casanova, Mozart and Houdini had this in common
Zeus’ Games
The fork of Zeus’ younger brother
Centaur archer
One eyed man + two ravens
Alpha’s antithesis
Demisemiquaver
“Fourth rock” from the sun
Hieroglyph of seven body parts in one
Latin “recipe” offered by doctors
Kafka, Poe or Khepri Embodied
বুকমার্ক
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#১ -> Spack - সেপ্টেম্বর ৯, ২০০৯, ২৫ ভাদ্র ১৪১৬, ১৪:০৮
If Brown is going to give away 33 signed copies of The Lost Symbol, why he wants us to call the number on the book jacket? Because there’s nothing on the front cover, but if it is on the back cover, then we sooner or later have to wait the book to be released.
#২ -> সাজিদ মুহাইমিন চৌধুরী - সেপ্টেম্বর ৯, ২০০৯, ২৫ ভাদ্র ১৪১৬, ১৯:২৯
C’mon. We all know that the quiz is a publicity stunt. The game was fun. I’m sure it is much more fun to play the game through rather look for spoilers here.
#৩ -> Kate - সেপ্টেম্বর ১৭, ২০০৯, ২ আশ্বিন ১৪১৬, ১০:১২
The “solution” you gave us only works once. Everytime you play the game it comes up in a different order. So, unless you leave the question and the symbol, it’s not much help. Not that the game was that hard….Gosh, what’s the symbol for infinity? Or a Octothorpe?LOL Easy stuff…but I’m really horrible at cryptology, so I’m not even trying for the free book.
#৪ -> সাজিদ মুহাইমিন চৌধুরী - সেপ্টেম্বর ১৭, ২০০৯, ২ আশ্বিন ১৪১৬, ১২:৫৬
@Kate: “unless you leave the question and the symbol” I can’t understand actually. I solved the game 4 times, and all 33 question are the same. Why would you need to leave the question? You open a new browser window or tab to browse to this page!
“Everytime you play the game it comes up in a different order” of course it does. What you need to do is to search for the correct answer. (Ctrl + F in firefox)
Some of the questions were difficult for me, as I am neither American, nor a Christian, (so had no idea about the fish), and had to use some other techniques like POE (Process of Elimination).
#৫ -> Kate - সেপ্টেম্বর ১৮, ২০০৯, ৩ আশ্বিন ১৪১৬, ০৮:৫৫
Sajid,
I missed a couple at first (so embarrassing, I’m a musician and had to “think” about demisemiquaver!LOL) so I had to start over. That’s when I noticed that they weren’t in the same order each time. I wasn’t sure what Langdon’s favorite symbol was, either. All thirty three symbols were the same, as were the questions, but they were in a different order…I’m just sayin…
The fish I knew, because of early training in ancient greek. (I STILL hate parsing Greek! The HARDEST language (for me) to parse!) The Om, musical rest note, etc., were pretty easy.
I even know the masonic alphabet (I’m a member of a male/female Masonic Temple), but I can’t make the masonic alphabet make any sense in English. Which, I suppose, means you’re supposed to be REALLY smart and not publicly educated at U.S. schools!LOL
Personally, I’m blaming fasting for my poor gaming ability at the moment. Ramadan’s ALMOST over! Where did the time go?
Good job on solving, though! It must be hard if it’s not you’re first language. I’m American…I only know ONE language!LOL (Not completely true, but true enough)
K
#৬ -> Alex - ডিসেম্বর ৩১, ২০০৯, ১৭ পৌষ ১৪১৬, ১৮:৩৫
OMG this is so damn easy!! The code!!! Dan Brown’s secret message is encoded using the mason’s tehnique described in the book! (without the magic squares). Dan you are a genius! (or the cover maker
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#৭ -> Alex - ডিসেম্বর ৩১, ২০০৯, ১৭ পৌষ ১৪১৬, ১৮:৫৪
Ok so after 5 minutes I solved ALL of the codes. In the US book version, if you look really hard on the back of the cover, in that kinda arcade it says: ‘AS ABOVE’ and then in the other arcade in the lower corner it says ‘SO BELOW’ in English! If you don’t have the book you can see the inscription with the zoom tool on this site: http://www.darkprotocols.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/lostsymbolbookback.jpg . Now, for the Mason code, on the sides of the book’s back cover there’s a code, and decoded it says: ‘ALL GREAT TRUTHS’ and then in the other corner we read: ‘BEGIN AS BLASPHEMIES’. The 5th code is the hardest. A near-invisible square with some letters near the mason code in the left, it says:
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Y U O E
M S T D
I I N H
R E K Y
Decoded with Albert Duhrer’s 4 square it says: ‘YOUR MIND IS THE KEY’. So, there you have it, all 5 codes of the lost symbol’s cover… Now if I could think of what they mean…
#৮ -> Alex - ডিসেম্বর ৩১, ২০০৯, ১৭ পৌষ ১৪১৬, ১৮:৫৫
P.S. English is my 3rd language
And I’m 13 =))
#৯ -> সাজিদ মুহাইমিন চৌধুরী - ডিসেম্বর ৩১, ২০০৯, ১৭ পৌষ ১৪১৬, ১৮:৫৯
Well done Alex, I still can’t see that. But just well done. Did you try to punch the decrypted cypher in your phone and see if it leads to any number?
#১০ -> Alex - ডিসেম্বর ৩১, ২০০৯, ১৭ পৌষ ১৪১৬, ২০:১৩
in fact the phone number is (212) 7829515, but I can’t call them for 2 reasons: Apparently I am not the only one who thought about this and if you search on google you’ll find lots of sites where they explain the solution. Actually the phone number is made of letters and numbers. For example, you can clearly see a ‘B1′ near the authors name, more exactly near the R letter. There are actually 10 letters and numbers around the book and if you order them alphabetically the result is that phone number. Reason 2: I would have to do a international call and I doubt they would send my book all the way to Europe. If anyone lives in the US go ahead and try it, and tell us if it worked
#১১ -> Trang - মার্চ ৩, ২০১০, ১৯ ফাল্গুন ১৪১৬, ১৬:০৫
took me 3 times for completing the quest, with Google help. Not to mention Dan but you guys here are also genius