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[MelonCandy]

From what I've gleaned and from my own experience (I accidentally googled in the same tab... Damn), there were many different ISBN but all the books were concerning the Renissance in Italy, LeoDaVinci's time. So, while this was so eloquent put by Synchronicity a copy/paste question, there was a (sort-of) movie tie in.

[KitttKateee]

the da vinci code is my favorite book. I just wonder if i have any real competition. =]

[Hyperion]

It seems the puzzles are starting to become a bit more diverse. When I started the first Chess puzzle this weekend, I was distracted by my new kitten and completely forgot about it. When I went to do it today, it was a completely different piece configuration. It also seems that some of us are getting different questions, but all along the same theme.

As for competition .. I don't know. I thought Angels and Demons was a better book and Dan Brown is kind of a hack writer (IMHO) but puzzles are fun.

[omega71]

wow these are definatley random as all hell... mine was who recieved the letters in ISBN 0231037775?

[aliendial]

I like this - a great solution to the collective solve tools available (like us). We are not getting identical puzzles, so each of us has to do a little work on our own. The sudoku and chess, for example, has multiple start configurations. We all got different books we had to look for. So even if we can explain the methodology we still have to solve our own puzzles. Cool.

[ALISDAIRPARK]

BTW my weights/ measures question was impossible, well OK not impossible, but I couldn't solve it. I was asked to convert a number of tablespoons into imperial gallons, however it seems there are a number of different sizes of tablespoons, and even on trying them all I couldn't get the right answer.

So I logged out, went back in and got a different question, which was easy.

N>B the Suduko stylee puzzle also changed.

[Hyperion]

Mine was tough, too. It just took me a few.

[aliendial]

re tablespoons/gallons -

I bet if you had just cut and pasted the question into google you would have gotten an acceptable answer - the point was that Google was demonstrating the expansive calculating tools built into their search engine. It will calculate/convert anything into anything, including (obviously) units of measurement most of us have never heard of. I had carats/diamonds which I thought was unanswerable, but google fed me the answer and it worked.

[Hyperion]

Mine was something crazy, like drams into ounces. I actually had to bust out a calculator for that one.

[Jiroe]

Hey guys, forgive me if this has been posted elsewhere, but I couldn't find much of anything. This is the first time I've been back since I played in the Our Colony game last year. I'm participating in the Google Da Vinci Code quest and I stumbled upon something you guys might appreciate.

While searching for one of the answers to one of the questions, I stumbled upon a website, www.seekthecodes.com. At first glance, it appears to just be a blog which follows the Google quests. It's run by Lisa S., a "symbology enthusiast". At first I thought nothing of it...that is, until I found the wrong trailer on Google Video, for the Robert Langdon quest. I watched the wrong trailer, and at the end where it shows the credits, some words stood out. "Seek" is highlighted when the trailer shows the phrase "Seek the truth" and the letters T H S E C D E O are highlighted in the next frame. This is clearly an anagram for "The Codes." Now the website seems a little more interesting. I visited again, and in one of her posts, she says that some people have gotten emails from her with a hidden message, "Seek The Dials". In another post, she said that she saw a hidden symbol in the Robert Langdon video on Google, and if you saw it, to email her (LisaSSPLATSeekthecodes.com). I, too, saw it. If you watch it again, at :14 seconds, there's a quick flash of a triangle on the screen. I emailed her back and asked her if I was right, but I got the auto-response with the hidden message, as follows:

[Scott]

hm, i think you've struck something. good jorb

[Jiroe]

The email to SilasSPLATSeekthecodes.com was returned undeliverable by PostmasterSPLATSonypictures.com.

[Scott]

Oh, and today's gallery thing is almost exarctly like last week's. My question (which i see no need to spoilerize): Where was Galileo Galilei born? Pisa, Italy

[Jiroe]

Mine was "What year did Isaac Newton die?" 1726.

Also, I poked around the site some more. I changed the date on my computer, and the numbers change drastically on the dials, but there wasn't an obvious pattern to it.

EDIT: Duh, should have expected that... Setting your computer clock to May 19th will set all the dials to zero. Looks like it's just a countdown to the movie opening. I'm beginning to think this all just a dead end.

EDIT 2: I found the appropriate thread for this stuff.

[Paradoxic]

May 18th is the 0 day and the midnight between the 17th and 18th would be the 0 hour. if we assume the dials number as such:

1 2 3
4 5

Right now (2:35pm EST, 4/25/06), the dials read off as 03020. We are also 23 days from the 18th... If I set my clock back to 1:35pm EST, I get 03121... forward to 3:35, I get 03920... I think there's a bit of a problem with 2pm, as it should read 03021 indicating 10 hours until midnight. At 11:35 pm on May 17th, I get 01000.

Dial 1 - unknown, not years
Dial 2 - ones place for days
Dial 3 - ones place for hours
Dial 4 - tens place for days
Dial 5 - tens place for hours

We should read the clock as 42 days and 53 hours. Dial 1 may be entirely pointless and there just because a cryptex has 5 dials and they wanted to make it look similar.