Luggage Lock

Luggage Lock

Difficulty: 🎄
Help Garland Candlesticks on the Island of Misfit Toys get back into his luggage by finding the correct position for all four dials.

Hints

Lock Talk

From: Garland Candlesticks
Check out Chris Elgee’s talk regarding his and his wife’s luggage. Sounds weird but interesting!

The “right” solution

Given the great talk it is easy to replicate the steps by applying pressure to the TSA keyhole (highlighted in yellow in the image below), then rotate the wheels and mind the resistances until the proper code is found.

Once opened, the inside reveals a pretty nifty holiday luggage:

The “wrong” solution

While impractical and hardly applicable in a real-life scenario, in this instance we can use a quick javascript one-liner directly in the developer tools’ console to test all the combinations and unlock the luggage in a matter of moments:

for(a=0;a<10;a++)for(b=0;b<10;b++)for(c=0;c<10;c++)for(d=0;d<10;d++)socket.emit('message',{
"Type":"Open","Combo":""+a+b+c+d });

Kudos

Seriously, it was so nice to see challenges about lockpicking - especially having to replicate them “digitally”. Kudos!