On Cruelly the Look Up of Ed Balls

“Do you even have the balls of courage to tackle dem?”

  • If the frame is not red, you’re looking at a different module.
  • The letters are E, D, B, A, L, and S, but they are encoded by performing each of the following transformations exactly once (but not necessarily in this order)
    • Each letter is Caesar shifted by a fixed amount (possibly 0).
    • Each letter is converted to flag semaphore, rotated by a multiple of 45° (possibly 0°), and converted back to a letter. A letter will always be rotated into another letter, never the numeral (#) or cancel (-) symbols.
  • To disarm this module, undo the transformations to return the letters to their original form and enter the message “ED BALLS.”
  • Pressing an incorrect button will result in a strike and reset your input, but will not cause the buttons to change.

Alphabet Table

A BC D EFGHIJK LMNOPQR STUVWXYZ

Rearranged Semaphore Table

A
H
O
T
#
W
Z
G
B
I
P
U
J
X
F
N
C
K
Q
Y
V
E
M
S
D
L
R
-
D
L
R
-

NOTE: Repetitions of the last row are provided since the semaphore letters can be rotated 180°.