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#Cmd hacking fallout 4 password#
After all, if every word had a likeness of 0 compared to every other word, all you could do to try and guess the password is blindly guess. After all, the word lists in Fallout 4 are probably deliberately chosen so that there's a relatively high degree of likeness between words in the list. So is this the one strategy to rule them all?īefore we declare a winner, it's probably worth looking at some other sets of words. And the only strategy to guarantee a win 100% of the time is most expected elimination. Guessing randomly does surprisingly well in terms of win percentage, though the average number of guesses you'll need is higher than with the closest word or most expected elimination strategies. Strategyīased on this data, it's clear that selecting the farthest word is your worst option. The other strategies are completely deterministic, so you only need to play the game once for each password to know how many guesses you'd need to make. For the random guessing strategy, we simulated 100,000 playthroughs of the game for each possible password, or 1.2 million playthroughs in all. Here's some data on how each strategy performs with respect to each of these lists. List 3: 'varying', 'cistern', 'expects', 'attends', 'bottles', 'torches', 'limited', 'corners', 'fortify', 'despite', 'session', 'durable' List 2: 'energy', 'mutter', 'warned', 'atrium', 'second', 'carved', 'forced', 'hungry', 'depend', 'heated', 'mirror', 'stream' Let's start by using the three lists from the mini-game featured in the previous post (these word lists all come from Fallout 4). In order to test these strategies, we also need a list of words to apply the strategy to. Alternatively, you could ask what the expected number of guesses is for each strategy. One way would be to calculate what percentage of the time each strategy is able to identify the password in four guesses or fewer (remember, in Fallout 4, you only have four guesses before the terminal locks up). There are a couple of different metrics we could use to determine the "best" strategy. Let's answer this question experimentally. So, if these strategies really are so different, which one should we choose? We also looked at an example for which these different strategies yielded different guesses.
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If you haven't ready the first part, I'd highly encourage you to do so. This post is the second part in a series.