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on April 05, 2007

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Welcome... and good bye! I've moved my blog to my own server. Click below to go to the new blog.

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How The Da Vinci Code Doesn't Work - from Howstuffworks.com

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Solving the DaVinci Code puzzles without having read the book

As you probably know, on April 17, Google launched an online contest for solving a series of 24 puzzles revolving around the book "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown. My quest is to see how many puzzles I can solve without having read the book. I will only use the Internet to search for information and I do not have an electronic copy of the book. So far, I have solved the first 3 puzzles, which I found of decreasingly (intrinsic) difficulty. Why don't I plan to read this best-seller? Some time ago on a long road trip, I listened to some parts of it in an audiobook version. In the chapters of the book that I listened to, Dan Brown mentioned the striking properties of the Golden Ratio . After reading Nature's Numbers by mathematician Ian Stewart , you'll learn not to marvel at some hidden divine meaning behind everything, but rather spend your time trying to understand why things are the way they are. It looks to me that Dan Brown is hung up on mysteries, secrets,...

The End is Near!

Today is the last day of the DaVinci Code Quest on Google. As I said in a previous post, I embarked on a quest to see how many puzzles I can solve without having read the book. OK, so I solved all the puzzles without reading the book or the sites/blogs with answers, except for the question on Day 14: you had to translate krhglo from [... some (psuedo-) language ...] to English. At the time I did the Google query, "khrglo" showed up a few words before its translation, so I involuntarily cheated... :-) In the process, I encountered some references to highly controversial stuff that Dan Brown clung to, notably the Priory of Sion . To quote from the Wikipedia: If this is not a mere marketing trick, it would seem that Dan Brown takes the fantastic claims of the Secret Dossiers more or less at face value[...] Anyway, I've heard from people who read the book that reading the book was of almost no help in solving the puzzles, so before I declare that I wasted my time on solvin...

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