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.
This module comes preloaded with a single Regular Sudoku Cipher but subsequent stages may be added.
If there is no Coloured Sudoku module on the bomb, refer to the page for Regular Sudoku Cipher and disregard the remainder of this manual.
When a Coloured Sudoku module is present on the bomb, solving the initial cipher will not solve the module. Instead, with each Coloured 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. For the first cipher, the module’s background will change colour. When a new cipher is generated, the module will change colour to match the solved 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.