On the Subject of Superparsing

Bringing the heat.

• To activate the module, press the letter display at the top of the module. A four letter English word will appear on the display, and the timer bar on the right side of the module will begin to fill.
• Use the displayed word in conjunction with the instructions below to calculate the correct submission for each of the four squares on the module. Successfully submitting any of the four squares will turn its border white and reset the timer bar.
• Complete all four squares in any order to solve the module. Allowing the timer bar to fill fully will cause a strike; the timer takes 10 seconds to fill.

Square I: Quadrants

• Concatenate all of the digits in the serial number. Modulo this by 4 and add 1. Let this number be called N.
• Assign the letters of the word from left to right to the quadrants in reading order.
• Sort the letters in the word in alphabetical order. Press the quadrant assigned to the Nth letter of the sorted word.
• Ties are broken from left to right in the original word.

Square II: Switches

• Two switches need to be set to their correct positions (up or down):
• Use the number of lit indicators minus the number of unlit indicators in the below table to obtain a condition.
• If this difference is not in the table, use the N/A row.

Num	Condition
-2	Comes before the 4th character of the serial number in the alphabet
-1	Is within the range A–M (inclusive)
0	Is a vowel
1	Is within the range N–Z (inclusive)
2	Comes after the 5th character of the serial number in the alphabet
N/A	Is a consonant

• For each letter in the word, apply the determined rule to it to get a sequence of 4 truth values.
• Use number of ports modulo 6 in the below table to obtain an operator. Apply this operator to the first two and last two truth values to obtain two values.
• These two truth values correspond to the correct switch positions where true represents up and false represents down.

		0	1	2	3	4	5
		AND	OR	XOR	NAND	NOR	XNOR
T	T	T	T	F	F	F	T
T	F	F	T	T	T	F	F
F	T	F	T	T	T	F	F
F	F	F	F	F	T	T	T

• To submit the switches, flip the same switch twice consecutively. The switch will move, and then the answer will be submitted.

Square III: Sliders

• The three horizontal sliders on the square can be set to one of three positions.
• To find the correct positions, take the cell which contains the intersection of the number of batteries along the left and ports along the top as the top-left corner of a 3×2 region used for this square’s answer.
• For each row in the region, the displayed word can be placed to the left of the two words, in between the words, or to the right of the words so that the row reads in alphabetical order in one direction.
• Set each slider to this position for each row and press the rectangular button below the sliders to submit the current sliders.

	0	1	2	3	4+
0–1	ELSE	ZITI	AREA	POUR	KILL	TRUE
2–3	BUNK	OWES	DINO	SPAR	DARE	QUIP
4+	YOUR	FLIP	ATOM	LAUD	URGE	JINX
	NODE	CLUE	HULA	WORN	RAIL	COUP
	GROW	XYLO	MILE	BREW	ICON	VIEW

Square IV: Dial

• The dial can be set to any of the four cardinal directions, and the button on the left/right submits the current dial direction.
• In the grid below, the cell that the dial represents is the cell with Roman numerals which contains the different square types as displayed on the module.

E	I II III IV	T	I II IV III	A	I III II IV	I	I III IV II
I IV II III	O	I IV III II	N	II I III IV	S	II I IV III	R
H	II III I IV	D	II III IV I	L	II IV I III	U	II IV III I
III I II IV	C	III I IV II	M	III II I IV	F	III II IV I	Y
W	III IV I II	G	III IV II I	P	IV I II III	B	IV I III II
IV II I III	V	IV II III I	K	IV III I II	X	IV III II I	Q

• If the submit button is to the right of the dial, turn the dial towards an adjacent square that contains a letter in the displayed word. Otherwise, turn the dial towards the opposite direction of a valid adjacent square.