[That's one way to take away the brute force option. Zacharie stares at the static on the TV and wonders how something that simple can scare him. He's got a good demonstration here, the NPC assumes. Whatever It was, it put the fear of God into Tim.]

Then we should take a break and think. Unless it decides to break the rules, I do not see why we shouldn't invent our own.

[Regardless, he's going to just stare at all the writing that they've done. There were letters and numbers. Something was to translate into a six number combination that didn't begin with either 1 or 4. So what were they missing?]