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How do I open the safe in the Caretaker's office?
1 of 21: You are already holding a clue to the combination.
2 of 21: The problem is that even if you know the correct combination, it isn't that simple to enter it into the safe. Every time you turn one dial, another turns as well -- twice. Note: If you want to reset the dials to their starting position, click on the blue oval to the left.
3 of 21: If you turn the first dial (on the far left) once, the fourth dial moves twice. If you turn the second dial (from the left) once, the center dial moves twice. If you turn the center dial once, the fifth (on the far right) dial moves twice. Once on the fourth dial moves the second dial twice, and once on the fifth dial moves the first dial twice.
4 of 21: It can be helpful to make some written notes about each of the numbers on the dial -- but keep in mind that there is also a fair amount of trial and error involved in solving this puzzle.
5 of 21: It is important to notice that if a dial goes past 5, the numbers start again at 1.
6 of 21: Also note that there are two ways to reach the correct number for each dial. If, for example, you want to move the first dial from 1 to 2, you can either click on the first dial once -- or you can click on the fifth dial three times. Notice that if you click on the fifth dial three times, the first dial will move as follows: from 1 to 3, from 3 to 5, and finally from 5 to 2.
7 of 21: It can be helpful to write this puzzle out on paper, noting the two possible solutions for each number, as illustrated in the previous hint. Once you have two sets of possible solutions, some logical moves can be worked through on paper to see if a particular combination of moves would make the puzzle solvable.
8 of 21: The first dial only needs to be moved once. Since this is the simplest move, this is a good place to start studying the puzzle. There are only two ways to set this dial correctly -- either move the first dial once (and never touch the fifth dial, since that would move the first dial); or set it with the fifth dial.
9 of 21: It should be relatively easy to see if the puzzle would be solved easily if the first dial is only clicked once. If the first dial is only clicked once to set it, then the fifth dial would not need to be clicked at all. Work through the rest of the moves, one by one, each time setting each dial directly by searching for dials that only need to be moved once.
10 of 21: The above example -- setting the correct number into each dial directly -- won't easily work out. You will end up with a combination of numbers that seems impossible to set correctly.
11 of 21: The next simplest solution would be to try setting the dials indirectly, rather than directly.
12 of 21: In other words, if you need to move the first dial once, don't click the first dial, instead click the fifth dial to set it in steps of two moves.
13 of 21: So, using that logic, see what would happen if the first dial were set by moving the fifth dial three times.
14 of 21: Once you've turned the fifth dial three times, you would have to make an assumption that you cannot move either dials one or five again without "unsetting" the first dial (assuming, of course that the first move is correct).
15 of 21: So, in order to correctly set dial five, you would need to turn dial three.
16 of 21: Since dial five only needs to be moved once, but the middle dial moves it twice each time -- you would need to click on the middle dial three times in order to set the fifth dial correctly.
17 of 21: Assuming, of course, that the first moves are correct, that would mean you could no longer turn dial 1, 3, or 5. Yet dial 3 is not yet correctly set.
18 of 21: To correctly set dial three, you would have to turn dial two.
19 of 21: Click dial two twice to correctly set dial three.
20 of 21: Now there is only one dial left that can be moved.
21 of 21: Click dial four three times to correctly set dials four and two. This trial does, in fact, result in the correct answer -- when all dials are set to 1, the solution is to move dial 5 three times, dial 3 three times, dial 2 twice, and dial 4 three times.
