On the Subject of Password Buttons

You might think that a password that doesn’t seem to meet government security requirements is pretty straightforward.
That’s the kind of thinking that gets people exploded.

  • The buttons below each letter, when unlocked, cycle through the possibilities for the letters on the display.
  • The possible colours of the buttons are: Red, Yellow, Blue, White, and Black.
  • Follow the rules corresponding to the button’s colour in the order they are listed.
  • Hold the button when the digit according to the first rule that applies is the last seconds digit of the bomb timer:

Red

  1. If any letter on the display is present in the serial number: 5
  2. If the first letter on the display comes before the others alphabetically: 9
  3. If the button is the leftmost or rightmost button on the module: 2
  4. If none of the above apply: 3

Yellow

  1. If there are any duplicate letters on the display: 7
  2. If the third letter on the display comes between the second and fourth alphabetically: 1
  3. If the button is not adjacent to any red, yellow, or white buttons: 6
  4. If none of the above apply: 5

Blue

  1. If the display does not contain a vowel: 4
  2. If the last letter on the display comes after the others alphabetically: 3
  3. If any non-adjacent button is white: 8
  4. If none of the above apply: 0

White

  1. If any pair of letters on the display are alphabetically adjacent: 2
  2. If exactly one of the first and last letters on the display is in the range A–M: 0
  3. If there are no yellow buttons on the module: 7
  4. If none of the above apply: 9

Black

  1. If the letter X is present on the display: 8
  2. If the third letter on the display is present in the serial number or alphabetically adjacent to a letter in the serial number: 6
  3. If there are an odd number of distinctly coloured buttons on the module: 1
  4. If none of the above apply: 4

Releasing a Held Button

If a button is held at the correct time, the display will light up.
Based on its colour and the letters displayed, release the button at a specific point in time:

  • If any of the letters on the display match its colour, release the button when the timer has a 1 in any position.
  • Otherwise if the colour of the display matches the colour of the held button, release the button when the timer has a 2 in any position.
  • Otherwise if the colour of the display matches the colour of a button adjacent to the held button, release the button when the timer has a 3 in any position.
  • Otherwise if any letter on the display matches the colour of any button present on the module, release the button when the timer has a 4 in any position.
  • Otherwise if the held button is black, release the button when the timer has a 5 in any position.
  • Otherwise release the button when the timer has a 0 in any position.

Releasing a button at the correct time will change the display:

  • One button cycles one letter on the display.
  • All other buttons cycle two letters on the display.

A correctly held and released button will remain unlocked for 10 seconds, during which time the button can be freely pressed, cycling the letters through the four options that were not shown on the display before the button was unlocked.

Only one combination of the available letters match a password below.

The button that changes only one letter of the display is the submit button.
Press and immediately release it at the correct time:

  • The correct password must be displayed.
  • The button must be locked, an unlocked button will cycle the display.
  • The ones digit of the timer must match the digit in the table given by the password and the colour of the submit button.
RYBWK
ABYSS18654
AFTERX8701
ALBUM072X1
AVOID48350
AZTEC79238
BANJO32450
BLOOM14039
BRICK2093X
BYTES41203
CHEWY4278X
CLOTH97X38
CRAWL57824
CRISP97346
CURSE580X6
DELTA86470
DJINN87526
DOZEN45710
DWARF07893
EARLY81692
EIGHT24X37
EJECT05348
EQUAL47951
EXIST85163
FEWER71342
FIRST01926
FORUM95178
FUNGI07384
GHOST274X6
GLYPH76210
GUMBO81764
GYROS179X3
HAVOC932X5
HERTZ25X71
HONEY71294
HYDRA58973
IAMBS9087X
IDIOMX6321
IOTAS35940
RYBWK
ITCHY0X954
IVORY09136
JAZZY84013
JIVED81056
JOCKS29673
JUICE39524
KANJI036X7
KARMA0625X
KINGS51098
KLUTZ62135
KUGEL51643
LATEX30182
LENTO15407
LIMIT26439
LUNAR14768
MAJOR63024
MERCY5304X
MONAD7340X
MUNTZ14693
NEWLY21087
NIXIE80X69
NORTH52436
NUDGE96580
OCTAL59168
OLIVE89306
ORBIT9X537
OXBOW28194
OZONE3462X
PANDA04912
PIANO53276
PRISM1X263
PUNCH09X81
QOPHS65801
QUACK24380
QUBIT10247
QUOTA27061
RADIX85917
RIVET86X51
RYBWK
ROUND523X9
RUGBY06578
SHOGI40129
SKULLX5637
SQUID63950
SPICY86137
STYLE91684
SWIFT2X358
SYRUP91847
TAROK20751
THORN72X06
TEMPO348X7
TOQUE54172
TWIXT83571
ULTRAX7569
UMAMI04591
URBAN52X87
UVULA61279
VENOM78069
VIBEX05419
VINYL85094
VOWEL42876
WALTZ01285
WHISK9805X
WITCH3X829
WORLD15X80
WRONG63507
WUSHU2X734
XENIA26785
XYLEM84359
YACHT43680
YEILD39205
YOLKS693X4
YUCCA27910
ZEBRA46920
ZILCH69780
ZLOTY62X53
ZOWIE45823

X = Last digit of serial number