Prior to the release of the book , I paid a visit to the book's official website :- http://www.thelostsymbol.com/ . On entering the website , I found the link of : " Play
Symbol Quest Game ". Wow!! Another puzzle game ... I just can't resist the temptation to play it . And, thus , jumped to it !!
The puzzle was to relate the "Symbols" with the "one-liner" information given below.
You have 3 lives i.e. you can at max make three mistakes.It had 33 rounds attached to it .Each round for matching 1 symbol.
Finally, I successfully matched all the 33 symbols to their respective boxes in my 9th attempt ,a very few answers I was knowing , some calculated guesses and mostly , with the help of Google and wikipedia. Special Thanks to www.symbols.com .
Once,I completed the level 33, a message displayed on my screen - "If you finish all the levels without any mistake , a secret message is waiting for you."
I tried the puzzle thrice more , and in my 11th attempt I was able to score a "Perfect 33". Then , I heard the secret message in the voice off "Dan Brown".
The quiz is quite interesting, and more interesting , is the story I found my way to the answers.
1) Latin "recipe" offered by doctors : very easy , can be easily deciphered
2) Hood ornament for Emil Jellinek's daughter : I googled to find out who was the daughter of Emil Jellinek's daughter.Rest you can follow , with the slightest knowledge of brand logos.
3) Who uses this symbol : Too good . Thanks to Parag, I had seen this type of problem beforehand, my experience came to my rescue. :)
4) The cross of Bogart's Falcon : Frankly speaking I did not get much clue about it from the google that falcon is a bird . Bogart falcon also gave some results and pics , but , were of no use at least to me . Some times , your simple thinking helps you crack . The only figure in the list resembling cross was ... Luckily , my calculated guess took me through.
5) Proofreader's mark from the Latin "Delere" : Made a google image search for delere in latin .Delere means delete and this symbol is used by many printers and proof readers.
6) Opposing, yet unified : I guess its easy one -- a few mistakes allowed. Think of something which are opposite , but are together .
7) One eyed man + two ravens : Googling it gives a link to wiki answers .It talks about The wheel cross, sun cross, Odin's cross or Woden's cross.
Nordic Odin and Teutonic Wuotan or Woden was the supreme god of the Nordic religion before Christianity. Odin was the god of art, culture, warfare, and the dead; He is depicted as an old, one-eyed man with two ravens as his intelligence agents and messengers .
8) Meditative chant : All of us do it !!
9) Kafka, Poe, or Khepri embodied : It refers to some Egyptian symbol.(Dung Beetle).
10) Leo's chaste neighbor: Leo is lion and chaste means " one who is pure (virgin)".
Find out leo's neighbor who is virgin. Use www.symbols.com to get exact symbol.
11) Greek Goddess of Triumph : too easy.
12) Zeus's Games : too easy.
13) Alpha's antithesis : Antithesis means Opposite . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet
14) The fork of Zeus's younger brother : fork symbol ...
15) Casanova, Mozart and Houdini had this in common : read about Casanova in Wikipedia and then , you will get a reference to him linking with Mozart , who were part of same society called " Freemasonry". Freemasonry's symbol is Mason Compass and Square.
16) Silence for Berlioz, Bizet and Bartok :
17) An age in the hair of Broadway : Not much sure . After , 2 futile attempts, tried a symbol looking like 'Hair'.
18) French Monarch's lily : Related to Priory of Sion -- see wiki
19) Robert Langdon's favourite symbol : Locate the symbol on this page http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/davinci/robertlangdon/
20) Octothorpe: You find it on your phone. Phew !! I was not knowing about it before ...
21) Sounds like a resident in the Garden of Eden : Pretty tough to find .. couldn't get any clue . Went for reverse engineering ...
22) Anagram of "Madras Pen" : easy one .. simple , but a master piece
23) Without end : Maths enthusiasts must be knowing this
24) The Golden Ratio : I love it !! My favorite "Maths constant " -- Simply , its God's Beauty. Those who don't known , please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
25) Venus's Hand Mirror : Venus : the goddess of beauty. easy one.
26) The "S" in Mozart's D.S : There is a symbol like 'S'. Tried that and it worked.
27) Hieroglyph of seven body parts in one : Read about Eye of Horus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Horus
28) Centaur archer : Search for centaur on www.symbols.com
In Greek mythology , centaurs are the race of creatures made up of half-human and half-horse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur
29) Quicksilver : Mercury ... searched for symbols associated to Mercury on www.symbols.com . There are a lot many symbols attached with mercury and unfortunately , 3-4 were in the list . I tried trial and error method for this . finally , after 4-5 tries ( in 2-3 games) I could locate the correct one .
30) Circle's circumference divided by its diameter : Every body knows it PIE
31) IESOUS CHRISTOS THEOU YIOS SOTER : A simple google and wiki search will lead to Christian Symbols. But , read the interesting article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthys.
32) Demisemiquaver : Simple wiki search
33) Scribe of Sidereus Nuncius was the first to see rings around it : first , look for what is Sidereus Nincius . It was a short paper published by Galileo . Scribe refers to the telescope used by him. Then , try to find the symbol associated with this planet at www.symbols.com.
Thanks and I wish all of you the best of luck in finding "The Lost Symbol".
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