ANSWERS TO SYMBOL QUEST CHALLENGE!!!

PHONE NUMBER CODE AT BOTTOM !

Here are the solutions. You'll have to Google the symbols themselves if you don't know what I'm referring to with my answers. The numbers are the order I got the questions in, but they are random for each new challenger:

1. Sounds like a resident in the Garden of Eden: "Atom" (Adam)

2. Without End: "Infinity"

3. Hood ornament for Emil Jellinek's daughter: "Mercedes"

4. An age in the hair of broadway: "Aquarius"

5. Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter: "Ichthys" (Christian Fish symbol)

6. The fork of Zeus's Younger Brother: "Trident of Neptune"

7. Opposing yet unified. "Yin and Yang"

8. Proofreader's mark from Latin "delere": "Delete proofreading symbol" (squiggle with loop at top right)

9. Kafka, Poe, or Khepri Embodied: "Scarab" (Egyptian Dung beetle)

10. Robert Langdon's favorite symbol: "Ankh"

11. Who uses this symbol? "World Health Organization (WHO"

12. Greek Goddess of Triumph: "Nike"

13. Alpha's antithesis: "Omega"

14. Octothorpe: "Hash" or "number" symbol (#)

15. Zeus's games: "Olympics" (the rings)

16. Latin 'recipe' offered by doctors: "Rx symbol"

17. Quicksilver: "Mercury"

18. Anagram of 'Madras Pen': "Ampersand"

19. Venus's Hand Mirror: "Female/Venus symbol"

20. The Golden Ratio: "Phi" (circle with a line through it)

21. Centaur archer: "Sagittarius" (diagonal arrow with a line through it)

22. Meditative chant: "Aum"

23. French monarch's lily: "Fleur de lys"

24. Silence for Berlioz, Bizet and Bartok: "Crotchet rest" (musical symbol)

25. "Fourth rock" from the Sun: "Mars/male symbol"

26. Leo's chaste neighbour: "Virgo symbol"

27. Circle's circumference divided by its diameter: "pi"

28. Scribe of Sidereus Nuncius was first to see rings around it: "Saturn"

29. One-eyed man + two ravens: "Odin's shield" (circle with a cross)

30. Hieroglyph of seven body parts in one: "Eye of Horus"

31. Casanova, Mozart, Houdini had this in common: "Freemasonry" (Compass and square plus G)

32. The "S" in Mozart's "D.S": "Del Segno"

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Two more of the clues that I've been told are in the Symbol Quest (thanks 'Sari Valon') are:

33. Demisemiquaver: "Musical note"

34. Bogart's falcon: "Maltese cross"

Once finished, Dan Brown announces that 33 signed copies of The Lost Symbol will be won by the first 33 people to solve the book cover cipher (which is apparently a phone number that you have to ring).

However the code of numbers is barely visible on the front cover but here it is.

Outside: 22-65-22-97-27
Inside: 22-23-44-1-133-97-65-44

LIke in Brown's Digital Fortress you will need the book itself to decipher the code....

For much more visit Greg Taylor's site.

http://www.thecryptex.com/node

The following hints are designed to get you started with the first Angels and Demons Path of Illumination Challenge: EARTH. This puzzle is a clever marketing tool designed by Sony Films to be enjoyed by all and the hints fall under the fair use copyright laws.

Where is the EARTH SYMBOL???

The object of the first challenge is to move the glowing orb through the various chambers with the least amount of clicks or the lowest numerical score.

Let’s look at your keyboard.  The Z key rotates the whole board to the left and the X key rotates it to the right.  Use the rotate feature to save keystrokes and cause the ball to drop.

Here’s a start but you may try other solutions!

Hit the X key to rotate the board to the right. The orb will fall to the bottom, now hit your right arrow key 3 times and the orb  move to each lower block and will fall through the opening.

Hit Z key to rotate the board to the left. The orb will now be on the bottom… hit the left arrow one time to move orb toward the blocks to your left, then hit the up arrow to jump while quickly hitting the left arrow to jog left(do this twice) until you are even with the KEY ICON to open the door. Once you have captured the KEY, the doorway will become unblocked.

Now retrace your steps!  Hit the right arrow key until the orb rests on top of the second KEY ICON, then click the down arrow key to capture it. CAUTION!! Your orb should be at the bottom now next to a block with and X mark!...If that is exactly where it is hit the X key to rotate to the right and the orb should fall through the now open door.

IF THE ORB IS ON TOP OF THE BLOCK MARKED X!!!!

CAUTION!! BOOBY-TRAP.  Look for the block marked with an X.  If your orb is in line with this block marked X or resting on top of it! it will EAT you when you rotate to the next chamber by falling on top of your orb.

If that is the case use the right arrow keys to move to the next chamber and then make sure that your orb is clear of the X block, which will fall toward you when you rotate!

After you have hit the X key to rotate right, your orb should be on the bottom LEFT corner near the doorway to the next spiked-ceiling chamber with the booby-trap X block below to the right.

Use the right arrow key to move toward the mouth of the exit door and your orb will fall through to the bottom of the last chamber.

Now hit the left arrow key to move to the corner, then once there hit the up arrow key to jump while again quickly hitting the left arrow key to jog to the left.

Now you are just 2 clicks away from the prize!

Hit the up arrow key 1 time while again quickly hitting the right arrow key to capture the final icon!!

Congratulations. My lowest score was 25! what did you get??

Further updates will be posted here as each new puzzle evolves.

R. Douglas Weber