[thetrainfold]

"he noted that some combination locks allow for wiggle-room and if this one had a three-digit leeway, Mr Rosenthal put the chances at 1 in 8,000, "which is still a small chance"."

If this is the case, and there have been museum visitors having a go at opening the safe each day... this becomes a non story, right?

[bArray]

Humans are terrible at picking random numbers, it's quite likely many people tried the same thing (more or less).

[jopsen]

But if the code was set by humans, it just makes finding it even more likely...

[bArray]

Only if somebody uses a human generated number (as done in this case). If it's genuinely random then it could take humans quite a while.

[Theodores]

That museum is lucky to get visitors on some days.

It is only open from 1pm to 5pm, May to September, week days only.

Compare with Disneyland for footfall.

A volunteer could have had the time whilst waiting for visitors to give it a go though.

[invalidusernam3]

Also I would assume most people would try more than once.