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It seemed like Master Lock may have been trying to make it impossible to spell curse words. Odd Letter Distribution HypothesisĪfter publishing the last analysis some members of the room escape community proposed a hypothesis about the odd letter distribution on those Master Locks: It’s on the Master Lock post if you’re interested. Analysis Methodology & Column ExplanationĪbsolutely everything about this analysis and its outputs conforms to the same information presented in the last letter lock analysis, so I won’t rehash it. The further right you move, the less useful the words generally are (and the farthest right is mostly nonsense). These are the best words that the analysis found. The left-most column contains 1,652 core English words. What Words Can This Distribution Generate? While the remaining three lines are gibberish, it’s still a nifty and thoughtful feature as the lock looks cool with all of those words on its face.

ANOTE … while it does have a definition, this more looks like a word than is a word.

BRIAN … if you consider a name to be a word.

Second, the lock has asymmetrical disks that, when all aligned, defaults 7 of the 10 lines of the lock into words: There are two particularly interesting things about this letter distribution.įirst, the blank spot on the fifth disk (represented above with an underscore) cleverly allows the WordLock to represent 4 or 5 letter words. The fixed-disk WordLock uses the following letter configuration: There are 3 older models with somewhat different letter distributions and WordLock has other 4 disk products. This analysis is focused on the most current 5 disk WordLock model, the PL-004. This lock seems to have fewer clichéd words, but there are a few that pop up a little too often including: In light of the popularity of that post I once again worked with Rich Bragg of ClueKeeper to run the same analysis on the popular WordLock PL-004 5-Dial.

They have an unusual letter distribution and I was curious how many English words could be generated with those locks. It turned out that those Master Locks could create a lot more words than I had anticipated. I recently published an analysis on the Master Lock 4 letter combination locks.