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We all knew it had to happen...

EDIT By N8Lewis:
I found a Fallout 3 Youtube video that pertains to this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxoZsXYaDCk

Hacking and You

The next time your skulking around the super duper mart and you need to activate the lost in space robot for a little home land security, pay attention to the tips provided by socrates200X and wespott below:

Step 1: The first thing I do is quickly glance at all of the words and look for the same prefixes and suffixes. For example, if there's a bunch of words ending in -ING, there's a good chance it's going to be one of them.

Step 2: Before I start choosing any words, I eliminate any "duds." Eliminating duds will narrow down the word selection and replace them with "........" What you want to do is look for anything inside ( ), { }, [ ], or < >. For example, if you see {%*-} or <,"^+> click on it as if it were a word and it will remove a dud word. If you move the cursor through a line of characters and it highlights a group of symbols, it's definitely a dud.


Step 3: Finally, I can start guessing the password. Like I said in Step 1, I look at the prefixes and suffixes.

The "1/5" states a couple important things:

* There's one letter in the chosen word that's in the correct postion. Thus, the solution can't have more than one letter in the same position as any of the ones in GLOVE.
* There's only one letter in the correct postion. All other letters are either not in the word, or in the word but in the wrong position.

So, if GLOVE and SHOPS is 1/5, then PRONE can't be the answer because it has an O and E in the same position as GLOVE, which would mean that GLOVE would have had to have been 2/5.

Going through the remainder of the list:

PRONE = Contradicts 1/5
GLOVESTONE = Contradicts 1/5
GLOVESTORY = Contradicts 1/5
SHOPSSTART = Has 0 characters from GLOVE, so eliminated
SHOPS = eliminatedSNAKE = Possible solution
SWORD = Contradicts 1/5 SHOPS
SMOKE = Contradicts 1/5 GLOVE
SHOCK = Contradicts 1/5 SHOPS
SPIKE = Possible solution
GLOBE = Contradicts 1/5 GLOVE
SHAVE = Contradicts 1/5 GLOVE
STORM = Contradicts 1/5 SHOPS
LOOSE = Contradicts 1/5 GLOVE
STATE = Possible solution
GLOVE = eliminated

TIP: If you happen to get down to 1 attempt left, just exit the terminal and restart. Your attempts will go back up to 4. The terminal will reset, but at least you won't get locked out.

Welcome

I started this blog because I was joking with my friend Jim about Fallout 3, and he suggested we start a diary/blog dedicated to documenting our progress playing wandering the wastelands of Fallout 3.

So here it is.