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No, but it would unlock with 3355 or 3455 or 3365 or 4466 or there's 5 buttons, and the code is four of those 5 in an arbitrary order. at least to my memory. it could have been 5 buttons in an arbitrary order. It's been 20 years! 5 pick 4 = 120, so that's an upper bound for my recollection. I remember it being fewer than that, but the original "paper" was a sheet of graph paper that had been scanned, i just transcribed it to my palm pilot. oh. It isn't 120 * 4 keypresses. Because the thing that decided if the code was valid didn't have start/stop/reset states, so 1234523413452 would trigger 1234, 2345, 3452, 4523, 5234, 2341, 3413, 4134, 1345, and 3452. that would take "40 keypresses" in the OP "game", whereas it only takes 13 keypresses on these code pads. so the paper was "an" shortest permutation that covered every possible combination. edit: python gave a 625 keypress answer, i replied to a sibling with the full list of numbers. |