The Omnifarium - Sudoku/17.html

Notice

I am no longer posting new puzzles to this blog. For all of my Sudoku puzzles, old and new, please visit Sudoku in another section of this website. I will still create and offer new puzzles, in batches of a couple of hundred, once a week or so.

Sudoku #17

Category: Sudoku
Sat, 09 Jul 2005, 10:14

Seventeen is very clearly a magical number. I'm sure most people instantly recognize it as the first sum of distinct fourth powers. But further proof of the magic of this number can easily be discerned with a little study.

Many people are familiar with Dan Brown's popular book The Da Vinci Code, and know that it's a source of great wisdom. Let's dive into it further. Let's apply the power of 17, and let's look at the 17th words on each of the first 17 pages: "for a into fumbled had intriguing man profoundly brownstone legendary he south I tuiles. five referred Bezu".

Scary, huh? But there's more. Let's go on for another 17 pages: "his 70,000-square-foot opportunity his found exhaled like Lexington 1934 been do. Grand his yet Saunière pagan official".

Clearly, we're on to something here. Should we push our luck and go straight to the 17th such grouping? Starting on page 285: "have we while them rang. foreign goddess said the felt aptly despondent. some box he in write".

Although cleverly hidden and somewhat jumbled, the message is clear. But what exactly does it mean? Why is the foreign goddess despondent? Is this some fabulous esoteric message from Dan Brown? Or perhaps from the mysterious Priory of Sion? Perhaps some hint can be gleaned from the 17th sentence of Chapter 17: "Fache shook his head."

But why bother yourself which such deep thinking. Why not just relax with todays Sudoku puzzle.

Hans

path: /Sudoku | permanent link to this entry