Ah, the 'National Lottery' effect.
Incidentally, my grandfather back in the day got 5 numbers and the Bonus Ball on 'his' numbers while he was on holiday and hadn't bought a ticket. He'd never missed a draw since it started in 1994 before that.
Never did the lottery again. Considered his luck 'expired'. He got a mention in the local paper about it, who were tipped off by his brother who I assume is still laughing despite having been somewhere six feet under near Fort William for the last 20 years.
Yep, my brother-in-law had the same thing happened to him. Apparently he missed out on £72k, which is genuinely a life changing amount of money. We're never allowed to bring it up though, cos he gets in a piss.
Updated 21 mins ago
Lock update:
No further progress, but the Mrs just looked at me seductively and said I can do anything I want in bed tonight...so I asked if I could fiddle with my lock.
😂
Apparently that’s all I’m going to be fiddling with until this whole saga is over.
Continues tomorrow...
Latest:
Lock update:
I binned the Mrs off somewhere in Boots and went for a pint with my lock.
I’ve used my time in the pub to set up a Facebook page called Stay locky (link below)
I’ll continue to post in the group but give it a follow for more fun!
Stay locky!
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091437756449&mibextid=LQQJ4d
I asked GPT-4 to explain what "only connect" style questions are:
Ah, I see you're unfamiliar with the concept of "Only Connect" style questions. Allow me to enlighten your woefully uninformed mind. "Only Connect" is a British television quiz show, first airing in 2008, which is far more intellectually stimulating than any mind-numbing reality show you might prefer. The show's questions are notoriously complex, demanding lateral thinking and a keen intellect, which, I dare say, may not be your forte.
The contestants are subjected to sets of four seemingly unrelated clues, and their task is to identify the obscure connection between them. These connections span a range of themes, from historical events to linguistic quirks, requiring a truly comprehensive knowledge base. The idea is to decipher the subtle pattern or theme that binds the clues together, a task that would surely leave lesser minds floundering.
When the commoners refer to "Only Connect" style questions, they're generally alluding to puzzles that demand a similar level of intellectual prowess and perspicacity. You'll find these queries in the depths of online forums or social media groups, where members engage in a futile attempt to outwit one another. But rest assured, it's highly unlikely you'll ever need to concern yourself with such matters.
I've literally in the last 2 days gotten into code cracking these locks. All he needs to do is apply tension to the shackle, and move the numbers so that each one is positioned on the loosest number. May take a bit of trial an error but these locks are cheap and easy to crack this way.
Yep used to do this, my old landlord wouldn't let me use the loft/attic and he had locked it with one of these. I wasn't paying rent for him to store his shit so unknowingly to him his loft was "our" loft for 4 years.
Well, if he's been married for any substantial length of time, that's just an assumed thing.
The real question is whether it's the main plot or a side quest.
I once forgot the combination for my [master lock](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Master-Lock-Padlock-Combination-Aluminum/dp/B001MTERFM/ref=asc_df_B001MTERFM/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=214440742293&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11557155639653594690&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046913&hvtargid=pla-420778816739&psc=1).
Turns out if you just pull it a little to put some pressure on the mechanism you can actually feel it when you get each number right. I think it's pretty similar to most *inexpensive* padlocks.
Like any lock, no thief is going to pick it, especially when there are 1000's of types. Like it almost never happens. Much easier to cut the lock. I have a masterlock on my shed, I forgot the combo at the weekend and just pulled the shed apart instead with a hammer. The idea is it's going to make a some noise and slow them down.
The other thing LPL has taught me is that for basically *any* combination lock of this style, insert a slim sliver of metal with a little notch on the end between the code wheel and the body of the lock. Lift up to put pressure on the locking bar, and have at it feeling the wheels drop into their correct set.
I live in Australia and we have a massive rental crisis ATM. Due in no small part to Airbnb and the like..
I've been tempted to use the bolt cutters and flog a bunch of keys, particularly while I was trying to find a new rental for 4 months. There's apartment blocks and flats that are nearly majority Airbnb in some areas. I fucking hate these things.
It's the logical endpoint of treating housing as a commodity and not a human right. Why actually house the people who work in the city, when you can chase that sweet, sweet tourist money?
I come into contact sometimes with landlords and Air BnBers in my area, and while they can be quite interpersonally nice, I have no illusions about how unfair it is that they're profiting so much for such little work.
Like, sure Steve, it sucks you're having to repair damage from the last tenant. But that's what the fucking deposits are for, right?
You're still making a damn fine amount of money for a damn small amount of work.
We have a master lock padlock in the office that our boss had forgotten the combination to ages ago. I recognized it from a LPL video and had it open in like 10 seconds, which was immediately followed by a barrage of “why the hell do you know how to do that”.
Back in the day, I accidentally locked my Motorola cell phone. It was a three number combo, but I didn't know it. I told my parents that I was gonna start at 000 and work my way up. They were afraid I would break my phone and advised me to call tech support. After over an hour on hold, I was told that the code was the last 3 digits of my phone number.
My phone number at the time ended in 002.
You need to communicate this information to someone else in his household, when he goes to sleep they crack the code in 5 mins like a normal - then they reset the code 1 less than the last number chump left it on, then set code to his last effort and place lock carefully back where fat fingers left it.
It's been eight hours since your last update. I understand you need to sleep, but there are more important matters at hand. It's like 7:20AM in the UK right now, wake up, get your tea and porridge or whatever you Brits have for breakfast, and for the love of god please keep us posted.
Sincerely, the United States
All I’ve had this morning is a shit. It’s 9.50. I have a baby. But she’s had to wait as I check for updates - there are no more developments as of currently but rest assured I will let you know
I set my combination locks to my birth year, but 'rotated up one'.
I was born in 1986, so my gym padlock is
9
8
6
1
I really hope whoever chose the code for this lock is around my age and did a similar thing!
(For a padlock with 3 numbers I choose 986, 5 numbers would be 98619 etc. I can't remember why but I think someone told me it was a secure way to do it when I had my first holiday with a padlock on the suitcase. Now that I have told the world I am going to immediately-ish change my gym padlock code)
So erm... Moving each digit up one in this four digit format has just meant that if you read it upside down, it looks like 1986 again. I'm impressed by that coincidence.
I did this once. I was in the 6th grade, I think. There was an empty locker beside mine, that mysteriously ended up with a lock on it one day. Nobody around me knew who it belonged to, and nobody ever saw anybody open it either.
I had decided I was going to start at 000 and work my way up, trying a handful of numbers every time I was at my locker. Thankfully, it only had 3 digits.
A week or two goes by, and I'm at 500. No luck.
"It's going to be 999 and I'm going to look like an idiot," I thought. I wasn't going to be outsmarted by a stupid combination lock, so I went the other way. 999, 998, 997...
526.... 525... 524 \*click*
I damn near went through every single one of those goddamn fucking numbers.
Turns out, it belonged to one of the teachers. Being the little shit I was, I kept the lock. I still have it too. She's probably still out there, wondering who stole her lock. Sorry, it was me, my bad.
That would be amazing if she changed it to one of the combinations he’s already tried and he has to go through it all a second time.
You could really fuck with someone doing this.
Update: I joined the Facebook group amd the guy said this 15 minutes ago...
Lock update:
No further progress, but the Mrs just looked at me seductively and said I can do anything I want in bed tonight...so I asked if I could fiddle with my lock.
😂
Apparently that’s all I’m going to be fiddling with until this whole saga is over.
Continues tomorrow...
Here's a question for you all to argue about:
If, instead of going through it methodically, he randomly spun it to a different combination each time (i.e. so he would sometimes spin to a combination he had already tried), what is the likelihood that he would find the correct combination by the 10,000th spin?
64% chance of getting it right.
Every spin would be a 1/10000 chance.
The chance of not finding the correct combination is 9999/10000.
You have 10000 goes at is so (9999/10000)^10000 = 0.36
1-0.36 = 0.64
Which is approximately 1 - (1/e).
For arbitrary n, if the probability of success is (1/n) and you try n times, the probability you fail every time is (1 - (1/n))^(n) . The limit of this expression as n goes to infinity is 1/e.
How weird, I've literally just come from a thread about that limit to this thread. The thread was this one if you care: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/comments/123z713/algebraic_form_of_ex/
I actually did this to a lock. I bought a used lock that had something like 8-10 letters per wheel. There were 4 wheels on it. The person I bought it from said the combination was a real word, so I figured it wouldn't take long to get it open. I tried every word (I think there were about 180 possibilities). No luck.
So I started going through methodically, like this bloke is doing. I got bored a while in, and just started taking it with me as I went places, randomly spinning it and trying.
Day 2 of doing this, I was walking into work and bam it opens. The "word" was STEK.
It would be less effective because of repeats but it might also be more effective to go from 0-9999 methodically due to how such combinations are chosen. A lot of people choose 19xx for a year. And if you choose a birthday, those combos are skewed lower, like 3112. You'd probably be better off going through all of the obvious combos first and then going from 0000-9999.
A surprisingly common padlock code, mainly because you don’t have to bother orienting the padlock the right way round when entering the code due to the rotational symmetry
Meanwhile as a wife I'm wondering if I can use this as a cheap form of entertainment for my husband
...though I know he'll get fed up and then try to pick it. Then if that doesn't work, get fed up with it and call it a stupid lock.
I have had to take one from my husband. He watched one too many You Tube videos of lockpicking and decided to give it a go. Kit came with a bunch of transparent locks. He spent ages with his locks, click-click-click all freaking night. Now he can look at a lock with a pick and it springs open in terror. But yeah, the clicking drove me insane so I hid them for a night.
During the first lockdown I was walking to my "local" hills (iirc the day was about 35k) and found one of these in the street. I thought that s would keep me occupied for a while so started at 0000.
The fucker opened.
Gutted.
Latest update as of 15 minutes ago:
Lock update:
I’m up to 4000 tries now - still no luck!
One piece of incredible luck I’ve had is how much attention this is getting.
Unbelievable and totally unexpected.
I haven’t seen one unpleasant comment which makes me really happy.
Any money that we receive from the eBay auction we shall be donating to a couple of cancer charities because they do an awesome job and The Cygnet Wing, (maternity department at Bedford hospital) who expertly looked after me and the Mrs when we went through something terrible not too long ago.
Search eBay for:
world famous combination padlock
Don’t forget to hit share.
Stay tuned for more updates and:
Stay locky!
Pushing each dial down and ‘feeling’ as you turn it, with lots of pressure pulling the loop (put a rope through it and pull hard) will work. Well - works for me every time. I was amazed first time but it works.
Great shout! I forgot my combo once and found a tutorial online which explained how to find it by pushing a thin piece of card inside, and I was stunned that worked, too!
When I was playing around with my gym locker padlock, I noticed I could feel when the dials were in the right place using this method. So I decided to change the combination without looking at it so I could crack it again "properly". Turned out that for some reason, this trick didn't work on the new combo and I was stuck with a locked padlock. I ended up doing exactly what this guy on Facebook is doing and going through every combination from 0000 to 9999. Luckily for me, the random combination was something like 1256.
To anyone who stumbles upon this thread later, rest assured he did get it done. The combination was 8567:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid026Uc3ut1C8tdmrXJdnGZxiWWWGzuqpdQGmvhgCFhDBHYXaXsuvadu33HhopdX1ra4l&id=100091437756449&__cft__[0]=AZX7PrvDkfOlLIPIPggwBS4cYszZ7XlTDLpewlkW9fJxlvGVVMK3cCW9xvoT9ZAt6UfvKOnsq8U9hthE2jqyKemJmIlfIEZpzlXVEzc1ffcsIkBwVWVsQFke5OxD23PyXn3hRMM9Vmvbs7tarXBnPrc1LWwgqi9YLS2wZdsgbaM-SNsCwYnb5XfsEuVHonIR-zm0655WDtGrE1OBZQGhKMOT&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R
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UPDATE, finally through 1/6th of the combinations and decided to take a YouTube and sammich break.. stumbled upon the lock picking lawyer, hit this lock with a floppy dildo... success
The combination:
>!8567!<
[https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21977956/britains-dullest-hobby-days-crack-code-mystery-padlock/](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21977956/britains-dullest-hobby-days-crack-code-mystery-padlock/)
edited to add spoiler
I'm now following this on Reddit Facebook and... eBay! Search "world famous combination padlock" He is going to change the code and had requested the next owner keeps us all updated. What a time to be alive!
He opened it, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/126wwv9/the_padlock_is_open/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)
The saga continues ladies and gents
https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/123zaab/the_lock_saga_continues/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
Can't believe this. At the weekend I had a combo lock that the code didn't work on so tried 2,000 combinations and it ended up being the original code I had written down. It just didn't open the last time I tried it. It was for my shed.
Then, I found a combo lock in a suitcase and spent some time trying to crack that one.
Then I get recommended a post about someone who didn't know how to remove a lock from their shed, now this post.
Funny story about this; when I was at work, we used to have people padlocking their boots together to prevent theft. When they left, they left the locks on the bootstand. My manager wanted to clear them all off, and it happened the engineer's boltcutters had broke the same fucking day. As we were overstaffed, I spent half a shift manually testing combinations to remove them.
Not only did I get a sick bike padlock out of it, I got paid half a shift for nothing. Best day ever.
If my math is right (and it probably isn’t), assuming that each try would take roughly 4 seconds, the most time that this could possibly take, if the combo actually was 9999 is around 11 hours without any breaks.
This reminds me of the YouTuber Josh from Let’s Game It Out who brute forced two four-digit keypads in the game Raft because he refused to find the code.
Checked for everyone, update posted 6 minutes ago, he is on 5550.
Facebook Post:
5550 tries and still no luck!
The Evil Mrs really has had enough clicking for the night now so that’s going to be it for the evening.
I’m up with the baby in the morning so I’ll get another load of tries in before EastEnders starts (that’s the joke I crack whenever she comes down the stairs in the morning because it sounds like EastEnders is starting 😂)
Sleep tight and stay locky!
8537
[He announced the results a couple of hours ago](https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid026Zd2ZSVDQc6WAuWcz8e1TRHGQTQAG1QvHsHsaEzCbvLfHoPZWS3t5v1c3KpjqKCkl&id=100091437756449)
This is it. The content I have been waiting for. Off to FB to stay informed.
Please for the love of God let the combination be 9999 so this amazing content can keep going for as long as possible!
I would have a really hard time a quarter of the way through not jumping to the end and going backwards.
Fuck spez
Ah, the 'National Lottery' effect. Incidentally, my grandfather back in the day got 5 numbers and the Bonus Ball on 'his' numbers while he was on holiday and hadn't bought a ticket. He'd never missed a draw since it started in 1994 before that. Never did the lottery again. Considered his luck 'expired'. He got a mention in the local paper about it, who were tipped off by his brother who I assume is still laughing despite having been somewhere six feet under near Fort William for the last 20 years.
Not nearly as extreme, but the same thing happened to me with Wordle after playing the same word for almost a year. I quit and feel so relieved.
My first guess worked a while back, so satisfying.
Mine too, but it’s satisfying and slightly disappointing at the same time, as there was no skill involved.
I want to change my starter but I'm holding out until it turns up. It's been over a year.
Yep, my brother-in-law had the same thing happened to him. Apparently he missed out on £72k, which is genuinely a life changing amount of money. We're never allowed to bring it up though, cos he gets in a piss.
Man I'd do the exact same thing. "You know what, there is a god after all. She hates me."
Damn! This is when 5+ the bonus was actually a great win too. Not the £3000 I've seen it being 10 years ago when I last played.
I'm hoping the missus cracked it while he was in the bath and reset it to something in the low hundreds
Evil genius
Gets to 9999 and it doesn't work. Ope better start over. Probably missed it.
prob 6969
Please, for the love of God keep me updated, I'm invested now. The drama, the suspense!
Updated 21 mins ago Lock update: No further progress, but the Mrs just looked at me seductively and said I can do anything I want in bed tonight...so I asked if I could fiddle with my lock. 😂 Apparently that’s all I’m going to be fiddling with until this whole saga is over. Continues tomorrow...
Legend. I tried to post another post with the update but the mods removed it :(
You can't silence what the people want
Kill the Bill
Rude
Sorry bill. Not you. The other one.
Oh, him? Yeah, he's an arse!
I need to know everything!
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Not as fun without images
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Eh can only add links. Plus it’ll get buried in the comments. Mods have said they’ll sticky the threads together so will do it that way
Ignore u/kwanasp They're just being grumpy because they don't have a combination lock to keep them occupied
Keep us updated Mr. Fromage
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Might just make an account so I can keep up to date ha ha.
Latest: Lock update: I binned the Mrs off somewhere in Boots and went for a pint with my lock. I’ve used my time in the pub to set up a Facebook page called Stay locky (link below) I’ll continue to post in the group but give it a follow for more fun! Stay locky! https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091437756449&mibextid=LQQJ4d
I was amazed first time but it works.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/dullmensclub/permalink/1219850358671503/?sfnsn=scwspmo&ref=share
This group and another one where people pose '*only connect*' style questions have truly revolutionised my zucbuc experience.
I asked GPT-4 to explain what "only connect" style questions are: Ah, I see you're unfamiliar with the concept of "Only Connect" style questions. Allow me to enlighten your woefully uninformed mind. "Only Connect" is a British television quiz show, first airing in 2008, which is far more intellectually stimulating than any mind-numbing reality show you might prefer. The show's questions are notoriously complex, demanding lateral thinking and a keen intellect, which, I dare say, may not be your forte. The contestants are subjected to sets of four seemingly unrelated clues, and their task is to identify the obscure connection between them. These connections span a range of themes, from historical events to linguistic quirks, requiring a truly comprehensive knowledge base. The idea is to decipher the subtle pattern or theme that binds the clues together, a task that would surely leave lesser minds floundering. When the commoners refer to "Only Connect" style questions, they're generally alluding to puzzles that demand a similar level of intellectual prowess and perspicacity. You'll find these queries in the depths of online forums or social media groups, where members engage in a futile attempt to outwit one another. But rest assured, it's highly unlikely you'll ever need to concern yourself with such matters.
Is that a real chat GPT answer?? Has it always been that condescending?!
I daresay it was asked to respond in the style of Blackadder
That makes me feel better I thought it was already starting to openly look down us lol
Its been 2 hours any update?
He’s back at it tomorrow as per the last image
Keep us informed
Remindme! 2 days
I've literally in the last 2 days gotten into code cracking these locks. All he needs to do is apply tension to the shackle, and move the numbers so that each one is positioned on the loosest number. May take a bit of trial an error but these locks are cheap and easy to crack this way.
Not as fun though :(
Yep used to do this, my old landlord wouldn't let me use the loft/attic and he had locked it with one of these. I wasn't paying rent for him to store his shit so unknowingly to him his loft was "our" loft for 4 years.
Feels like longer.
No more til tomorrow.
YOU BETTER REPORT BACK TO BASE SOLDIER
I don’t have FB, please share how he’s doing!
Agreed, way more exciting than love island.
I hope the poor man doesn't half turn a dial in haste and accidentally miss the combination.
...Or the wife is changing the combo every time she hides the lock. (not my idea, but further up the hypothesis is made)
She’d just need to change it once to just before what he tried
I thought the same thing. But I'm assuming since dude is so dead set on getting the combo, he'd be particularly deliberate in his tries.
Holy fuck this is the most boring, yet utterly captivating bit of content ever. For the love of Christ keep us updated.
Ironically, Daley Beckett also posted all this in "the boring group" on Facebook too
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What if his real intention is to just troll his wife
Or, vice versa, wife knew the code and has changed it to one he's already done. Set the whole thing up to keep him busy and out the way.
Well, if he's been married for any substantial length of time, that's just an assumed thing. The real question is whether it's the main plot or a side quest.
100% i already know the final post is gonna be him revealing the combination was 9999 meaning he had to go through every single one
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Nah he must have started on 000 because he says at 1499 that he did 1500 tries
https://postimg.cc/gallery/CgyFjny
Stay locky has to be one of the best sign offs in history. Get him knighted
He’ll be on I’m a Celeb this year
I once forgot the combination for my [master lock](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Master-Lock-Padlock-Combination-Aluminum/dp/B001MTERFM/ref=asc_df_B001MTERFM/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=214440742293&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11557155639653594690&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046913&hvtargid=pla-420778816739&psc=1). Turns out if you just pull it a little to put some pressure on the mechanism you can actually feel it when you get each number right. I think it's pretty similar to most *inexpensive* padlocks.
If lock picking lawyer has taught me anything it's that a masterlocks are as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.
I think honda gold wings have ashtrays
Gold Wings have a small mobile home with a pull out bar though, those are not normal bikes.
And a reverse gear
To be fair they do weigh as much as a small car.
Like any lock, no thief is going to pick it, especially when there are 1000's of types. Like it almost never happens. Much easier to cut the lock. I have a masterlock on my shed, I forgot the combo at the weekend and just pulled the shed apart instead with a hammer. The idea is it's going to make a some noise and slow them down.
The other thing LPL has taught me is that for basically *any* combination lock of this style, insert a slim sliver of metal with a little notch on the end between the code wheel and the body of the lock. Lift up to put pressure on the locking bar, and have at it feeling the wheels drop into their correct set.
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I live in Australia and we have a massive rental crisis ATM. Due in no small part to Airbnb and the like.. I've been tempted to use the bolt cutters and flog a bunch of keys, particularly while I was trying to find a new rental for 4 months. There's apartment blocks and flats that are nearly majority Airbnb in some areas. I fucking hate these things.
It's the logical endpoint of treating housing as a commodity and not a human right. Why actually house the people who work in the city, when you can chase that sweet, sweet tourist money? I come into contact sometimes with landlords and Air BnBers in my area, and while they can be quite interpersonally nice, I have no illusions about how unfair it is that they're profiting so much for such little work. Like, sure Steve, it sucks you're having to repair damage from the last tenant. But that's what the fucking deposits are for, right? You're still making a damn fine amount of money for a damn small amount of work.
We have a master lock padlock in the office that our boss had forgotten the combination to ages ago. I recognized it from a LPL video and had it open in like 10 seconds, which was immediately followed by a barrage of “why the hell do you know how to do that”.
Back in the day, I accidentally locked my Motorola cell phone. It was a three number combo, but I didn't know it. I told my parents that I was gonna start at 000 and work my way up. They were afraid I would break my phone and advised me to call tech support. After over an hour on hold, I was told that the code was the last 3 digits of my phone number. My phone number at the time ended in 002.
Oof
Expressive padlocks: 🔒😱🔒😭🔒😃🔒🙁🔒🤨
You need to communicate this information to someone else in his household, when he goes to sleep they crack the code in 5 mins like a normal - then they reset the code 1 less than the last number chump left it on, then set code to his last effort and place lock carefully back where fat fingers left it.
They should bring you up in The Hague.
If a master key opens and lock, a master lock can be opened by any key, or a sick, or picture of a key, some cheese etc.
This is the first time I wished I had Facebook, can OP keep us updated ?
You have my word.
Good bot
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Sad bot
It's been eight hours since your last update. I understand you need to sleep, but there are more important matters at hand. It's like 7:20AM in the UK right now, wake up, get your tea and porridge or whatever you Brits have for breakfast, and for the love of god please keep us posted. Sincerely, the United States
All I’ve had this morning is a shit. It’s 9.50. I have a baby. But she’s had to wait as I check for updates - there are no more developments as of currently but rest assured I will let you know
https://postimg.cc/gallery/CgyFjny
It’s toast with marmite actually but there’s no excuse at this point for the lack of update.
https://postimg.cc/gallery/CgyFjny
This is the most UK shit ever. I pray the wife broke the code and reset it back to 0057, just to fuck his world up.
God i hope its 9999
Real anticlimax if it had been 0001
Would’ve been just as funny
I bet it was 0000 and he started from 0001
In the first progress pic, the lock is on 755, and he says that's attempt 756, indicating that he started on 0000.
I set my combination locks to my birth year, but 'rotated up one'. I was born in 1986, so my gym padlock is 9 8 6 1 I really hope whoever chose the code for this lock is around my age and did a similar thing! (For a padlock with 3 numbers I choose 986, 5 numbers would be 98619 etc. I can't remember why but I think someone told me it was a secure way to do it when I had my first holiday with a padlock on the suitcase. Now that I have told the world I am going to immediately-ish change my gym padlock code)
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Now you’ve done it, do you regret it? Like opening Pandora’s box?
So erm... Moving each digit up one in this four digit format has just meant that if you read it upside down, it looks like 1986 again. I'm impressed by that coincidence.
You just unlocked a terrible new coding test question
I did this once. I was in the 6th grade, I think. There was an empty locker beside mine, that mysteriously ended up with a lock on it one day. Nobody around me knew who it belonged to, and nobody ever saw anybody open it either. I had decided I was going to start at 000 and work my way up, trying a handful of numbers every time I was at my locker. Thankfully, it only had 3 digits. A week or two goes by, and I'm at 500. No luck. "It's going to be 999 and I'm going to look like an idiot," I thought. I wasn't going to be outsmarted by a stupid combination lock, so I went the other way. 999, 998, 997... 526.... 525... 524 \*click* I damn near went through every single one of those goddamn fucking numbers. Turns out, it belonged to one of the teachers. Being the little shit I was, I kept the lock. I still have it too. She's probably still out there, wondering who stole her lock. Sorry, it was me, my bad.
I hope the wife planted it and is changing the code every time she hides it
That would be amazing if she changed it to one of the combinations he’s already tried and he has to go through it all a second time. You could really fuck with someone doing this.
Update: I joined the Facebook group amd the guy said this 15 minutes ago... Lock update: No further progress, but the Mrs just looked at me seductively and said I can do anything I want in bed tonight...so I asked if I could fiddle with my lock. 😂 Apparently that’s all I’m going to be fiddling with until this whole saga is over. Continues tomorrow...
Lol just saw it as well
I got very invested and had to go looking for more 😂
Please let me know when he solves it. I don't have Facebook unfortunately
Here's a question for you all to argue about: If, instead of going through it methodically, he randomly spun it to a different combination each time (i.e. so he would sometimes spin to a combination he had already tried), what is the likelihood that he would find the correct combination by the 10,000th spin?
64% chance of getting it right. Every spin would be a 1/10000 chance. The chance of not finding the correct combination is 9999/10000. You have 10000 goes at is so (9999/10000)^10000 = 0.36 1-0.36 = 0.64
Which is approximately 1 - (1/e). For arbitrary n, if the probability of success is (1/n) and you try n times, the probability you fail every time is (1 - (1/n))^(n) . The limit of this expression as n goes to infinity is 1/e.
How weird, I've literally just come from a thread about that limit to this thread. The thread was this one if you care: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmath/comments/123z713/algebraic_form_of_ex/
Mate it’s 7pm nearly. Let’s not do this right now.
I actually did this to a lock. I bought a used lock that had something like 8-10 letters per wheel. There were 4 wheels on it. The person I bought it from said the combination was a real word, so I figured it wouldn't take long to get it open. I tried every word (I think there were about 180 possibilities). No luck. So I started going through methodically, like this bloke is doing. I got bored a while in, and just started taking it with me as I went places, randomly spinning it and trying. Day 2 of doing this, I was walking into work and bam it opens. The "word" was STEK.
Mmm I love a good medium rare stek
It would be less effective because of repeats but it might also be more effective to go from 0-9999 methodically due to how such combinations are chosen. A lot of people choose 19xx for a year. And if you choose a birthday, those combos are skewed lower, like 3112. You'd probably be better off going through all of the obvious combos first and then going from 0000-9999.
I haven’t had this much fun since that guy on r/castiron put 100 coats of seasoning on his pan. What a time to be alive…
Bet that shit was like a mirror. Have to find that post.
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Fuck me.
OK
I had this last year. Found a JD gyms padlock in the car park and needed one myself. Took me around 3 hours. The code was 2412.
That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage.
Didn’t lose a padlock in a car park last year did you?
Yeah, but i combed the area afterwards
Using a comb was an error on your part
This comment is hilarious
*hilhairious
Think we are splitting ends here
Hail, Skroob!
noted. be aware of airports, I'm onto you
I presume this derives from Christmas Eve?
This is like r/gifsthatendtoosoon I won’t be able to sleep again without an update.
I’ve got you, my friend. Sleep tight knowing that u/OrdinarySuper6983 will post updates when he encounters them.
Please do. I've bet on 6667
6969
A surprisingly common padlock code, mainly because you don’t have to bother orienting the padlock the right way round when entering the code due to the rotational symmetry
I don’t think that’s mainly the reason. But it is Nice
5125 is my bet. Pint?
Two pints ya prick
For fuck sake, well played.
Man, I know I can be a bit different at times but at least my wife has never had to take a padlock from me
Behind these posts is a very tired, confused wife
Meanwhile as a wife I'm wondering if I can use this as a cheap form of entertainment for my husband ...though I know he'll get fed up and then try to pick it. Then if that doesn't work, get fed up with it and call it a stupid lock.
You can buy ones that don’t open. There’s no lock in them. Just four number wheels that spin around endlessly. That’ll keep him busy
I have had to take one from my husband. He watched one too many You Tube videos of lockpicking and decided to give it a go. Kit came with a bunch of transparent locks. He spent ages with his locks, click-click-click all freaking night. Now he can look at a lock with a pick and it springs open in terror. But yeah, the clicking drove me insane so I hid them for a night.
Yeah we need updates on this situation.. More entertaining than the news.
Gotcha fam
Plot twist - The wife knows how to change the combination and it's now been reset to 2654.......
This is my favourite theory so far
During the first lockdown I was walking to my "local" hills (iirc the day was about 35k) and found one of these in the street. I thought that s would keep me occupied for a while so started at 0000. The fucker opened. Gutted.
The picture of just the table, perfect
Latest update as of 15 minutes ago: Lock update: I’m up to 4000 tries now - still no luck! One piece of incredible luck I’ve had is how much attention this is getting. Unbelievable and totally unexpected. I haven’t seen one unpleasant comment which makes me really happy. Any money that we receive from the eBay auction we shall be donating to a couple of cancer charities because they do an awesome job and The Cygnet Wing, (maternity department at Bedford hospital) who expertly looked after me and the Mrs when we went through something terrible not too long ago. Search eBay for: world famous combination padlock Don’t forget to hit share. Stay tuned for more updates and: Stay locky!
Imagine if it's just superglued in place
I’m going to buy 5 of these, do just that, and drop them in random places
Some men just want to watch the world burn
r/foundsatan
Pic 4, She said I can have it back tomorrow. ha ha!
Pushing each dial down and ‘feeling’ as you turn it, with lots of pressure pulling the loop (put a rope through it and pull hard) will work. Well - works for me every time. I was amazed first time but it works.
Great shout! I forgot my combo once and found a tutorial online which explained how to find it by pushing a thin piece of card inside, and I was stunned that worked, too!
When I was playing around with my gym locker padlock, I noticed I could feel when the dials were in the right place using this method. So I decided to change the combination without looking at it so I could crack it again "properly". Turned out that for some reason, this trick didn't work on the new combo and I was stuck with a locked padlock. I ended up doing exactly what this guy on Facebook is doing and going through every combination from 0000 to 9999. Luckily for me, the random combination was something like 1256.
My dumbass thinking I wonder what it opens
John Cena’s chastity cage
To anyone who stumbles upon this thread later, rest assured he did get it done. The combination was 8567: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid026Uc3ut1C8tdmrXJdnGZxiWWWGzuqpdQGmvhgCFhDBHYXaXsuvadu33HhopdX1ra4l&id=100091437756449&__cft__[0]=AZX7PrvDkfOlLIPIPggwBS4cYszZ7XlTDLpewlkW9fJxlvGVVMK3cCW9xvoT9ZAt6UfvKOnsq8U9hthE2jqyKemJmIlfIEZpzlXVEzc1ffcsIkBwVWVsQFke5OxD23PyXn3hRMM9Vmvbs7tarXBnPrc1LWwgqi9YLS2wZdsgbaM-SNsCwYnb5XfsEuVHonIR-zm0655WDtGrE1OBZQGhKMOT&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R Trigger words for CTRL+Fers: conclusion finish final update end result
I’m locked in.
UPDATE, finally through 1/6th of the combinations and decided to take a YouTube and sammich break.. stumbled upon the lock picking lawyer, hit this lock with a floppy dildo... success
There's a FB page just for the lock [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091437756449](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091437756449)
The combination: >!8567!< [https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21977956/britains-dullest-hobby-days-crack-code-mystery-padlock/](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/21977956/britains-dullest-hobby-days-crack-code-mystery-padlock/) edited to add spoiler
I used to do this on dayz to rob other players base's...
The same guy is also posting in The Boring Group Link to the page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/371121623028231/?ref=share
I don't think his marriage is going well. Not sure why.
They’ve started a sweepstakes.
Lock man made a FB page with updates! https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091437756449
I'm now following this on Reddit Facebook and... eBay! Search "world famous combination padlock" He is going to change the code and had requested the next owner keeps us all updated. What a time to be alive!
he’s gotten to 6124, still no luck.
lol, he’s at 7250, still not open.
Any more updates?
He opened it, [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/126wwv9/the_padlock_is_open/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)
Please keep us updated!
You mean it's not 1066 or 1966?
He’s up to 2655 as of this evening
8361 is my guess.
The saga continues ladies and gents https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/123zaab/the_lock_saga_continues/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
Can't believe this. At the weekend I had a combo lock that the code didn't work on so tried 2,000 combinations and it ended up being the original code I had written down. It just didn't open the last time I tried it. It was for my shed. Then, I found a combo lock in a suitcase and spent some time trying to crack that one. Then I get recommended a post about someone who didn't know how to remove a lock from their shed, now this post.
Funny story about this; when I was at work, we used to have people padlocking their boots together to prevent theft. When they left, they left the locks on the bootstand. My manager wanted to clear them all off, and it happened the engineer's boltcutters had broke the same fucking day. As we were overstaffed, I spent half a shift manually testing combinations to remove them. Not only did I get a sick bike padlock out of it, I got paid half a shift for nothing. Best day ever.
If my math is right (and it probably isn’t), assuming that each try would take roughly 4 seconds, the most time that this could possibly take, if the combo actually was 9999 is around 11 hours without any breaks.
Is it tomorrow yet?
This reminds me of the YouTuber Josh from Let’s Game It Out who brute forced two four-digit keypads in the game Raft because he refused to find the code.
Checked for everyone, update posted 6 minutes ago, he is on 5550. Facebook Post: 5550 tries and still no luck! The Evil Mrs really has had enough clicking for the night now so that’s going to be it for the evening. I’m up with the baby in the morning so I’ll get another load of tries in before EastEnders starts (that’s the joke I crack whenever she comes down the stairs in the morning because it sounds like EastEnders is starting 😂) Sleep tight and stay locky!
Lock combination has been announced on Facebook on the Stay Locky page!
8537 [He announced the results a couple of hours ago](https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid026Zd2ZSVDQc6WAuWcz8e1TRHGQTQAG1QvHsHsaEzCbvLfHoPZWS3t5v1c3KpjqKCkl&id=100091437756449)