> There's hope for me yet! Just maybe : )

No. No there's not. :)

> Just to be perfectly clear: I'm not aware anyone's said this before. But
> if you have, please tell me right away and provide a link to your
> post on this board so credit can be given where credit is due! My theory:
> The "answer" to the central symbol of G7 is "W," the
> chemical symbol for tungsten, which is the 74th element on the periodic
> table, that
> oh-so-helpful chemistry guide.

> (And of course, I could be wrong : P. Even if so, I hope something I write
> here is useful.)

> I was thinking some more about the glyphs tonight, and the two solutions
> to the central symbols of G2 and G6 thus far. This could get slightly
> long, since I'm trying to build up some proof, so bear with me now:

> --G2 was determined, I assume, from the "32" + the 7/10 full
> bar. The ingenious people who correctly determined the 7/10 to be a
> separate fraction then
> found that there was an exact matching frequency, 32.7Hz, which translates
> in more recognizable musical terms to the note "C." Seems
> Chelsea agrees
> that that's the correct answer. G2 solved!

> --G6 was determined by the connections between the c, 8, e, and 14 on the
> grid. mnemesis dug out his extensive knowledge of the New York subways
> and found out that another line, aside from A, intersected with C and E
> between 8th and 14th (apologies if this isn't completely accurate). That
> was the
> "L" line -- which fit with "L." Chelsea has also
> seemingly told us in her cryptically intriguing way that "L" is
> the correct answer. G7 also solved!

> The point I'm making here is that by deciphering the mini-puzzles within
> puzzles, we take multiple steps even within the center symbol before we
> finally
> figure out what the central symbol finally translates to when all's said
> and done. Figuring out the symbols is the crucial first step, but after
> that, we have
> to make relations to a theme/region/etc. of some kind to 2) find (so far)
> what the central symbol would then be, expressed as an actual letter of
> the
> alphabet.

> For example, G2: 32 and 7/10 pixels...32 7/10...32.7...32.7Hz...which is
> the frequency for the note "C".

> G6: 8, c, 14, e...C & E...8 &
> 14...intersections....with..."L!"

> I certainly can't take credit for people finding out that the symbol is G7
> is Mayan for 74. That was great stuff which of course I had no part of :
> P! But at
> the same time, Claude's words got me thinking again, in which he stopped
> short of saying that G7 was indeed solved.

> That made me wonder. The crack team of Fanfest Forum Researchers found 74,
> but 74 is but the first step to decoding the puzzle, I think, since we
> only really went from looking at a Mayan 74 to looking at an Arabic 74.
> Now that we know that the number's 74, there needs to be at least one more
> step taken to find what letter it stands for.

> I pondered and pondered, thinking how
> hasn't-struck-anything-even-halfway-resembling-gold-Mav could possibly
> make the genius leap from 74 to a letter, when I remembered something
> where 74 might actually make some sense.

> The periodic table.

> Lo and behold, the 74th element of the periodic table was basically
> surrounded, no, engulfed by other two-letter elements in the immediate
> vicinity, struck me in its oddity. Its simplicity. It had but one letter
> for a name.

That's actually pretty interesting.

> The letter "W." (W is the chemical symbol of tungsten, and the
> 74 denotes its atomic number. As per my Google researching for periodic
> tables and atomic numbers [which made for a simultaneous partial chemistry
> refresher course : )], W's atomic number of 74 refers to both the number
> of protons the atom contains (74), as well as the number of electrons it
> would have if uncharged (74).)

> I therefore believe that G7 = "W."

> Thoughts?

It's possible... but for some reason it doesn't sound right to me. Mayan numerals have nothing to do with the periodic table... it seems like a little unreasonable to me to try to associate them.

On the other hand, the chinese character for 8 and the cuneiform character for 14 had very little to do with the NYC subway system :) So you very well may be right. But it just doesn't sound right to me for some reason.

On the other OTHER hand (we're on the third hand now) I haven't seen a better answer. So you might have it.