The creators of "Job Compass" developed a new iPhone safe cracking game designed to help the unemployed rigorously prepare for a new trade. "The Safe" is a puzzle app with nothing more than a tumbler and the handle to a safe. A safe you have to crack! No clues. No directions. No kidding. That’s supposed to be part of the game!
You'll have around six minutes to crack the code before you end up cuffed and strip searched. The authentic sound of police sirens blasting by while the clock's ticking gave me flashbacks I wasn't quite ready for. I ended up in the back of a squad car even after several dozen tries. It's all about the clicks.
The Safe is a full blown 'triple dog dare' that I could not put down. Even after failing badly for over an hour. This $.99 cent app is equal parts challenge and nut-buster neatly rolled up into one bit of wicked fun. The Safe is truly a unique game that will have water cooler talk buzzing until the secret cracking scheme is finally exposed.
Developer Titus Blair promised me; "It's hard to crack so keep that in mind, but when you do it's cool!" Blair said in an email.
The problem is that 'cool' can be totally subjective. Just ask any Microtard to describe his 'cool' Zune. Somebody needs to seal up a frozen 30GB Zune wonder-turd in a time capsule so nerds of the future will have a proper "FAIL" warning.
I failed miserably at The Safe... for now. But I'll be back to crack tomorrow.
If I solve it sucessfully, do I get my money back?
I never could open a combination lock even when I KNEW the combination.
Are we to assume a 3 number combination, and passing zero each change in direction? Because some of those tumbler locks assume going back twice and business like that.
Maybe the number counter shows when you are actually choosing a number again, that is, it will not count the number you stop at until stopping means something.
Then, start at 00-00-00 and go forward. Heh, what if it is unsolvable?
Posted by: bud | January 09, 2009 at 12:10 PM