UPDATES AUG 2011 It's been a long time since I added new information to this web site. Some new and very interesting information has come to light since then. 1. A writer at the TISOTGH forum submitted a solution for the word "festoon" using Queen Mary's cipher. What's most curious to me is that the symbols used do not match the ones used in the Capt Nemo solution (which was shown to be questionable on my web page). Here's a link to a Wikipedia article showing a table of symbols from the MQOS cipher. And here's a blowup of the top portion of that table: You can see the following: F = S (third symbol, blue earring found on p. 68); E = (third symbol, the D in PODEVIN's name on the bottom of p. 4); S = + (second symbol, the top of the tarot card found on p. 24 ); T = (second symbol, found in the clock tower on p. 61); OO = b (first symbol, found on picture upper left side p. 17); N =(the waves found on p. 29). Of all the "lettered" symbols found in the book, this leaves the J (found by combining the missing puzzle piece on p. 45 with the pic on p. 36) and the Z (on the top stair on p. 53) which Capt Nemo used, and the red H on the nightstand on p. 13 which appears to be unused and could possibly mean Red Herring. This accounts for every element on the rabbit card except for the IF. 2. I received an email from "Dan". He sent two links to YouTube where he had uploaded "Inside Edition" TV interviews with Nick Boone and Tony Castaneda from 1990. Here are the links: TISOTGH Solution Part 1 TISOTGH Solution Part 2 Very interesting to see them explain their solution. Most interesting, however, is the part where they go to the memorial and show where 11 JUN 1980 is etched into the asphalt! Could it be that the area was repaved some time after 1990?? Also shown in the videos are the two puzzlers counting off steps and then locating where "X marks the spot". They show the hole they had dug and the paper scroll they found. IMHO that scroll seems VERY small. Form your own conclusions. The videos show a copy of "The Codebreakers". The link shows you actual pages from that book. It was written in 1967 and, as far as I know, was the only comprehensive book about cryptography in print at that time. HAVE FUN