On the Subject of The Cube

The mothership has been contacted. They’ve sent an executive toy…

• The module consists of a rotating cube, a rotating stage spinner, four coloured wires, eight square variable buttons, two cipher displays and a circular submit button.
• To disarm the module, you must press the correct combination of buttons at each stage. Entering an incorrect combination will cause a strike.
• You need to obtain a final cipher, comprised of three initial ciphers in order to calculate the correct buttons for each stage.

Cipher #1

• The first cipher is obtained using the formulae in the below table. A '%' sign refers to the modulo operation.

  Digit #	Formula
  1	(RC1 + F6 + WC3) % 10
  2	(RC2 + F5 + WC4) % 10
  3	(RC3 + F4 + WC1) % 10
  4	(RC4 + F3 + WC2) % 10
  5	(RC5 + F2) % 8
  6	(RC6 + F1) % 9

Rotation Codes (RC)

• The cube will move six times before pausing briefly and repeating. Observe the cube’s movements to attain the rotation codes.
• Movement references are given from an aerial perspective.
• Wire references are counted at the wire starting block from top to bottom.
• Button colours are EXCLUSIVE of the circular submit button.
• White wires and grey buttons are treated as the same colour.

  Movement	Rotation Code
  Rotate clockwise	4
  Rotate counterclockwise	7
  Tip forwards	First digit of serial number
  Tip backwards	Last digit of serial number
  Tip left	# of buttons the same colour as the third wire
  Tip right	# of buttons the same colour as first wire

Cube Faces (F)

• Each face of the cube contains a digit.
• The green LED represents the top face (LED is in the top left corner).
• The red LED represents the bottom face (LED is in the bottom left corner).
• The digits on the other faces will be oriented correctly when the top and bottom faces are oriented correctly.
• Use the below cube net to determine each cube face:

	4
5	●1	3
	2
	●6

Wire Codes (WC)

• The wire positions are defined by the wire starting block, reading from top to bottom.
• Use the below table to calculate each wire code. In each instance, use only the last digit of the answer:

  Colour	Wire Code
  Blue	Wire position + 5
  Green	# of blue buttons + 7
  Orange	# of green buttons + 3
  Purple	Sum of the digits on the cube
  Red	# of modules on the bomb + 7
  White/Grey	6

Cipher #2 & Cipher #3

• Each of the cipher displays shows a repeating transmission of the second and third ciphers.
• Each symbol represents a letter of the alphabet. Translate the symbol using the translator page of the manual.
• Once English equivalent letters have been obtained, convert each letter to its equivalent number (with A being 1).
• Modulo 10 each digit to obtain your eight digit cipher.

Final Cipher

• The final cipher is calculated by adding each of the individual digits of the three ciphers together.
• Begin by multiplying the first cipher by 100 and then add each respective column of digits.
• Modulo 10 each of the eight answers to get the eight digits of the final cipher.

Solving

• Once you have obtained your final cipher, you can begin to solve the module.
• Each digit of the final cipher refers to a stage. For each digit of the cipher, press all square variable buttons that have one of the labels as determined by the below table, followed by the circular submit button:

  Cipher Digit	Letters
  0	A, F, I, L
  1	B, E, K, O
  2	D, N, Q
  3	C, G, P
  4	H, J, M
  5	E, J, Q
  6	F, L, P
  7	A, K, M
  8	C, G, H, O
  9	B, D, I, N

• Additionally, at the following stages:

  Stage	Buttons To Press
  2	Press every button that contains the execute button label
  4	Press every button that contains the execute button colour
  6	Press every button that is the colour of the first wire
  7	Press every button that is the colour of the third wire

• For stage eight, press every button that does NOT have a label for the given cipher digit.

Translator

• Use the below table to translate between the symbol language and English:

  Letter	Symbol	Letter	Symbol
  A	A	J	J
  B	B	K	K
  C	C	L	L
  D	D	M	M
  E	E	N	N
  F	F	O	O
  G	G	P	P
  H	H	Q	Q
  I	I	X	X