When Fox’s sci-fi drama heads to commercial break, a spooky blue symbol–which include an apple, a waft of smoke, a human hand–sits on screen for a few seconds. We’ve always known that they’re supposed to mean something, but we may have been looking too hard.
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It turns out the solution is simpler than we thought. Tech Web site Ars Technica editor Julian Sanchez took a stab at the puzzle (which was being worked on by friends) and discovered that each symbol corresponds to a single letter of the alphabet–like a Sunday newspaper cryptogram. When the symbols shown during each episode are put together, they spell out a word that corresponds to the episode’s theme.
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The solutions for the episodes to date are:
1: OBSERVER
2: CHILD
3: AEGER [? -- AETHER would make more sense for the episode]
4: ROGUE
5: SURGG [should be SURGE?]
6: CELLS
7: CODES
8: TAKEN
9: VOICE
10: TRADE
11: SAVED
12: BISHOP
13: AVIAN
14: OLIVIA
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Dennis at FringeTelevision has gone ahead and gotten his Photoshop on, producing a lovely, suitable-for-framing key to the glyph cipher.
Glyph Code Key
Source
Source: TV.com
April 14th, at 7:01 am
I was thinking about it and did a little reading
3: AEGER [? -- AETHER would make more sense for the episode]
Aeger is latin which means sick. Not making alot of sense of it but at least it makes sense that the word isn’t in English.
5: SURGG [should be SURGE?]
I found a broken link. Apparently http://www.surgg.com was a website showing gruesome and disturbing surgeries. pseudo science type weird.
April 14th, at 10:48 am
I think the use of latin is possible. They used it before with the next episode clue in 102…”Voces Video”.
http://observersarehere.com/prelude-for-103-hidden-in-102/2022/10/