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ஜPink Sarcasmஜ asked in Education & ReferenceTrivia · 1 decade ago

Mensa quiz..Please help..For fun. Can you do it?

I've just finished all of my gift shopping for the coming holidays and, in order to hide the presents away from prying eyes, I also bought a self-coding padlock to put on one of my cabinets. Instead of a numbered dial however, mine has the 26 letters of the alphabet arranged in a clockwise sequence.

The combination I programmed into the lock is:

"First letter - 11 - 4 - 2 - 2 - 10 - 1 - 9 - 4 - 17 - 2 - 12". So as not to forget it, I used a very familiar phrase.

Update:

Answer..Peath On Earth..

The numbers represent how many "spaces" you have to move to get to each succeeding letter in the phrase. The trick is you don't know if it's counting clockwise or counterclockwise, and you can go either way between letters. It doesn't necessarily go L-R-L like you would with a normal combination lock, and it doesn't all go in the same direction either.

As I mentioned above, if you assume the first letter is A, you then count eleven "spaces" either direction on the dial. If you count clockwise, you'll get to L, if you go counterclockwise, you'll get to P. That's why you can't just brute-force this, the possible combinations get crazy.

Best hint I can give - pick out a few two-letter combinations that are kind of common in the english language, and figure out what the number would be to represent going between those letters in either direction. Then see if you can match those up to numbers in the combination.

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  • Metal Nettle
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    After two hours of this, I'm answering because I want to be able to find this again to see the solution - if anyone comes up with one.

    I can't even think of an eleven or twelve word phrase.

  • Freddy
    1 decade ago

    Is it a trick question? If it had letters instead of numbers then you wouldn't programme it using numbers.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    how bout another hint, is it just 1 word? you said phrase

  • Pappy
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    I'm really anxious to see the answer to this one!.

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  • Cap'n
    1 decade ago

    I want to know too, if, and when someone answers.

  • Smiles
    1 decade ago

    No what is it. I won't tell.

    I will peek at the gifts though! :)

  • missy210
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

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