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Can you tell me how to figure out the blue section?
1 of 5: To make the following description easier to follow, refer to the following diagram.
2 of 5: This section of the hints will work with the front (blue) tumblers, labeled "A", "B", "C", "J", and "K". The master tumbler for this group is "C"; the others are regular tumblers.
3 of 5: After jamming tumbler "A", in the exercise above, use either pick to once again depress tumbler "J"... and watch tumbler "A" react by "unjamming"! Only if a pick continues to depress "A" when tumbler "J" is depressed will "A" remain jammed open.
4 of 5: You may wish to go through the above exercises several times, to fully understand the inter-relationship of the regular tumblers. When you are confident that you understand the design thus far, you can move on to working with the master tumblers, and jamming an entire section open.
5 of 5: Using the information presented in this exercise, you should now understand the objective of the entire puzzle. You must work your way through the locking mechanism -- tumbler by tumbler -- until ALL 15 tumblers are jammed in the open position.
