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Solution to the Safe Puzzle
Note that the puzzle must be in a "reset" state for the following to work. If you have already moved some of the pieces, back out of the puzzle to reset it, and start it again.
To understand the following notation, assume that the four rows of red dots are numbered from 1-4, starting from the top; and the four columns of red dots are numbered from 1-4, starting from the left. Thus, the top left red dot would be row 1, column 1; the dot immediately below it would be row 2, column 2; and the dot at the bottom right would be row 4, column 4.
Now, for each move, let's represent the dot to click on by its row:column position. That is, a pair of numbers, separated by a colon, with the row number first, and column number second. Thus, "2:4" would mean to click on the dot in the second row, fourth column. Using this notation, the full solution consists of clicking on the red dots in the following order.
