You simply drill into it and insert a pin that jams the gears. You x-ray it, which will reveal that the booby trap is a mechanism involving gears. If you assume x-rays can be used, then looking at that video, it’s trivially easy. There are miniature CT scanners that could just about read the message without opening it, but could certainly get you a very high resolution 3D model of the entire mechanism. See how well the trigger mechanism works then. Pot the entire thing in wax or a polymer. Bomb disposal workers got pretty good at bypassing anti-tamper mechanisms.
A two part mix with its own oxidiser would make for a much more difficult problem.Įven then, there are lots of ways of defeating the mechanism. It seems it takes quite some time to degrade cellulose with even concentrated acetic acid.įilling the vial with some form of incendiary chemical would seem a much better plan. The vinegar may be concentrated, it isn’t too difficult, so the vial may be more dangerous, but even then, there is no instantaneous reaction. Papyrus is still just cellulose, ordinary vinegar won’t attack that, certainly not at any speed. Actual unrecoverable destruction of the message seems rather unlikely. An appropriate ink might be rendered invisible by an acid.
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In principle, water in the vinegar may expand enough before it freezes to crack the vial. Here is a video explaining how this kind of combination lock works. Is the cryptex device vulnerable to such an attack? There is such a thing as false gates but these are detectable too. By creating tension between the pin and the gates, then turning the dials, you can feel where the gates are. Multi-dial combination locks of this style are usually vulnerable to attack.What about carefully sawing through the end caps?.Can’t you freeze the contraption, then break it? Frozen vinegar presumably won’t dissolve anything.Break the device, quickly remove the solid debris, then review footage.
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It looks like it’s made of brass with marble insets.Īnd here is a behind the scenes video describing the prop, including the movie clip showing the interior of the device in action at 4:25. There is some sort of hair trigger inside the mechanism that will shatter the glass, releasing the vinegar which supposedly dissolves the message. The message is written on a piece of very thin papyrus paper wrapped around a glass tube containing vinegar. I believe the message is stored in a hollow compartment within the pin. It appears to be a combination lock with five dials (26 letters each), not unlike a bike lock. Symbols and clues about art, history, and architecture that appear in both the book and movie are seen in the game, though no images from the Ron Howard film are used.The movie features a device called a “cryptex” which holds a secret message. But it's not necessary that you know these details in order to play. Newton was an alleged grand master of the Priory of Sion, the secret society that knows the location of the keystone leading to the Holy Grail. "Sir Isaac Newton" is an example of a "mystery phrase" you must piece together in order to win. "Art cards," emblazoned with a chalice symbol, are located in the Louvre Gallery and they offer details about some of the world's most famous paintings. "Code-breaking cards" placed in the board's Louvre Library hold the answers to puzzles about language and the bible. The clues perplex but also aid you in your "quest for the truth."
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"An honorific before the given name or the full name of baronets and knights" is a clue found on one of the playing card. There's also a cardboard mirror which is needed for decoding certain things like Shakespeare written in backwards script. It features cardboard interactive tools like a "sidebar decoder" and "cryptex decoder," used to decipher the clues.
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