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What do I do with the gears inside the tower?
1 of 8: You need to pull the levers to change the three counters.
2 of 8: If you pull the left lever, the bottom two counters will increment by one each (and they wrap around from 3 to 1).
3 of 8: The right lever bumps up the top two counters.
4 of 8: And the center lever resets everything -- use it when the other two levers have stopped working.
5 of 8: If you think about it long enough, you may realize that the information I've given you here is not enough to enter the access code of "2, 2, 1."
6 of 8: There's something else you can do with the levers.
7 of 8: If you hold a lever (keep the mouse button down to do so), only the middle number will change.
8 of 8: Try pulling the left lever once and pull the right lever twice. But don't let go of the lever the second time you pull it -- keep it held until all three counters have been set properly.
