Last October, I posted about the San Jose Semaphore, a public art project that decorated the top of Adobe headquarters in San Jose that also happened to be a puzzle. Little did I know that, at the time, the puzzle had already been solved.
It’s recently been revealed that the puzzle was solved by Bob Mayo and Mark Snesrud. The answer: The semaphore cycles through the entire text of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49. It takes a few months for the semaphore to cycle through the whole thing. There’s a great description of how the pair solved the puzzle in the San Jose Mercury News.
