4 Letter Words For Passwords

Main Lock has many different give-and-take combination locks and cablevision bike locks on the market that accept stock-still disks. (You cannot swap the order of the disks.)

In the escape room community, the three all-time known fixed-deejay locks are:

Main Lock Model No. 1535DWD

Master Lock letter lock 1235DWD with the word "BOOK" appearing as the combination.

Master Lock Model No. 643DWD

Master Lock letter lock 643DWD with the word "MOCK" appearing as the combination.

Primary Lock Model No. 175DWD

Master Lock letter lock 175DWD with the word "TEAR" appearing as the combination.

All of these fixed-disk letter locks accept the exact same letter distribution, which made me wonder:

How many four-letter words can these Main Locks create?

I hope to meet more than variation in solutions used on these locks in escape rooms. The same one-half-dozen words show upward a whole lot. (I'k looking at you BURY, STAR, & SAND).

Three Master Lock letter locks with the combinations entered as sand, star, and bury.

Letter Distribution

Each fixed-deejay letter Master Lock uses the following configuration:

Disk 1: 50 North B D M J P R Due south T

Disk ii: O U Y R T L H A E I

Disk 3: C D E O R South T L N A

Deejay 4: K Y R Southward T L N E D H

What Words Can This Distribution Generate?

I asked Rich Bragg of ClueKeeper how he'd determine all the words these locks could generate. A few minutes later he sent me back a spreadsheet filled with words.

Column Explanation

There is no fashion to generate a unmarried answer to the question "how many English language words can this lock create?" English is a constantly evolving language. Words are created, usage shifts, and words fall into disuse.

Cavalcade A is the common English word listing. This is by far the about useful column. Information technology has 695 words.

Cavalcade B is the "ENABLE" word list. These are all the same words, but they are obscure or old English language.

The next three columns are decreasing useful, with the fifth column being words from Wikipedia (which includes acronyms, initialisms and the like).

Each list omits the words found in the previous lists.

I've included all of the columns in the spreadsheet because fifty-fifty the less useful columns have some interesting entries… They are just few and far between.

Analysis Methodology

Bragg used TEA Crossword Helper, which is anagramming software on steroids. This is the kind of software that you use if you lot're really serious about winning a major puzzle hunt.

From the TEA website:

"TEA comes with a database of over 6 million words and phrases including the title alphabetize for the English language version of Wikipedia. These answers are classified by their familiarity, so yous always see the most likely ones first. Yous tin can expect up the meanings in the integrated dictionary/thesaurus or on the Internet. TEA is faster and more convenient than word lists in volume grade such as crossword completers, crossword dictionaries and crossword keys."

Is At that place A Better Distribution?

The messages on each deejay are pretty curious, especially when you notice oddities like the "J" in the first disk or the "Y" in the 2d disk.

From a letter of the alphabet frequency standpoint, these are not groovy letters to drop in those positions.

I reached out to Master Lock to ask how they chose this letter distribution, simply they could not be reached for comment.

I suspect that there are more effective letter distributions possible that would generate even more words, just afterward a quick attempt at doing better, I fell a bit curt. If y'all notice one, I'd be curious to see information technology.

Nevertheless, whether or not there is a better distribution, this is the ane nosotros have on these locks. It's a lot of options. Feel free to use this list as a tool.

Master Lock Letter Lock Word Listing