CYPHERS IN THE WORK OF DAN BROWN

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CYPHERS IN THE WORKOF DAN BROWN

• How the author Dan Brown uses cyphers in his books

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The Da Vinci Code

• While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist
  Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night
  phone call the elderly curator of the Louvre has
  been murdered inside the museum. Near the body,
  police have found a baffling cipher.
• Langdon joins forces with a gifted French
  cryptologist, Sophie Neveu.

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• Together Robert and Sophie have to solve various
  coded clues in order to open the Codex and find
  out the secret of the Holy Grail.

An adventure that takes them around Paris, London
and eventually to Scotland.
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Angels and Demons

• When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert
  Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility
  to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the
  chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers
  evidence of the unimaginable the resurgence of
  an ancient secret brotherhood known as the
  Illuminati...

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• Robert and scientist Vittoria Vetra join forces
  to decode the clues that lead to the Path of
  Illumination and find the baddie.
• The chase takes them all over Rome and finally
  ends with a dramatic scene at The Vatican.

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The Lost Symbol

• Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned
  unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the
  U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his
  arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn.
  A disturbing object--artfully encoded with five
  symbols--is discovered in the Capitol Building.
  Langdon recognizes the object as an ancient
  invitation... one meant to usher its recipient
  into a long-lost world of mysterious, ancient
  wisdom.

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• Robert, and Katherine Solomon, have to solve
  coded clues in order to find and save her brother
  from a hideous death at the hands of a madman.
• The chase takes them all over the centre of
  Washington D.C.
• Along the way they find hidden clues and messages
  left by the builders of the American capital city.

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The Masonic Cypher

• The Masonic cypher is the main clue in the story
  that sets Robert Langdon off on his hunt to save
  his friend Peter Solomon.

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Youll need some paper and a pencil for the next
bit
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How to crack the cypher Step 1

• First, draw a grid like a tic-tac-toe grid.
• Then add the letters A - I

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How to crack the cypher Step 2

• Then draw another tic-tac-toe grid and add the
  letters J R, adding a to each cell in the
  grid.

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How to crack the cypher Step 3

• Now draw a large X and add the letters S - V

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How to crack the cypher Step 4

• Finally, draw another X and add the letters W Z
  and add a to each letter.

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Reading the code

• We can now see that the code symbol

Represents the letter
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The symbol
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Reading the code
Represents the letter
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The symbol
and so on Until you end up with this
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The code cracked!
Of course, in typical Dan Brown fashion there is
more code breaking to be done to unravel the
meaning of this grid!
Youll have to read the book!!
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The next few slides show the full code
de-crypted.Row 2 coming up!
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Represents the letter
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Row 3 coming up!
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Row 4 coming up!
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