On the Subject of Not Kanji
やなかんじ
You are presented with a four-button module and a display screen. Each button has a unique symbol written in kanji, and the screen shows 6 letters of hiragana. If the hiragana in the display has less than 6 letters, you are looking at the wrong module.
To disarm this module, you must decipher the hiragana shown in the screen, then press the 4 buttons in the correct order according to the deciphered message.
Step 1: Hiragana Cipher
Each hiragana in the encrypted message corresponds to a letter or #. Use the following table to translate from the hiragana to letters. Grayed-out hiragana will not show up in this module.
| w わ | r ら | y や | m ま | p は | な | t た | さ | g か | a あ |
| l り | み | b ひ | に | ち | c し | q き | i い | ||
| を | る | ゆ | む | f ふ | n ぬ | つ | s す | v く | u う |
| れ | め | h へ | ね | d て | j せ | k け | e え | ||
| # ん | ろ | よ | も | ほ | の | と | z そ | x こ | o お |
Step 2: Cube Cipher
Step 2.1: Creating Cubes
You need to create 2 3×3×3 matrices of letters and #, named Cube A and Cube B.
- For Cube A, if the sum of digits in the serial number is odd, use the kanji on the top left button. Otherwise, use the kanji on the top right button.
- For Cube B, if the sum of A1Z26 values of all letters in the serial number is even, use the kanji on the bottom left button. Otherwise, use the kanji on the bottom right button.
- Find out the English translation of the kanji using the table on the next page. This will be the keyword.
- Remove all spaces and duplicates from the keyword.
- Take the entire alphabet appended by # and remove any letters included in the keyword.