On the Subject of the Sudoku Cipher
The gift that keeps on giving.
On the module, you will see three screens, a keyboard, two arrows, and a submit button that displays the current page you’re on.
Pressing the right arrow takes you to the next page. Pressing the left arrow takes you to the previous page. The number of pages may vary.
If there is no supported Sudoku module on the bomb, refer to the page for Regular Sudoku Cipher and disregard the remainder of this manual.
When a supported Sudoku module is present on the bomb, the module will initially appear with no cipher loaded. With each supported Sudoku solved, a new cipher will be queued onto the module.
Ciphers will always be queued in the same order that the sudokus are solved. When no sudoku cipher is loaded, the module’s background will change colour. When a new cipher is generated, the module's colour will match the colour of the corresponding sudoku.
All ciphers require a word to be input using the keyboard. Some ciphers will have an alternative mode that can be entered using the S key. To submit your word from this state, first press the submit button.
Creating Alphabet Keys
Unless otherwise specified, when asked to create an alphabet key, take the given keyword, remove any duplicate letters, and append the entire alphabet A-Z with any letters from the keyword removed.
When asked to form a letter grid, three keywords will be provided as well as a three-letter string where each letter corresponds to one of the keywords. Form three alphabet keys using the keywords. Then, for each key, take the corresponding letter three-letter string, replace that letter in the alphabet key with # and move the letter to the end of the alphabet key. Finally, concatenate the three keys and split into rows of 9 to form a 9x9 grid of letters.