Shear Line: Lockpicking Game

Plan the heist. Crack the code. Pick the lock. Shear Line is a game of locks, safes and break-ins. Slip past the guards on a blueprint, work out a safe's code from the notes left on it, sort a lock's pins until every chamber breaks on the line, and then pick it by touch and by ear. THREE GAMES IN ONE VAULT • Inside Job: a heist you play one move at a time. Guards see the node they face, patrols walk their beat, cameras turn every two turns and lasers blink. Reach the vault, and take the diamond for the third star. • Safe Code: every safe comes with notes. A green lamp is a right digit in its place, an amber lamp a right digit in the wrong place. Three digits at first, then four and five, safes that take a digit twice, and safes where one note lies. • Pin Stacks: lift a pin, drop it in another chamber, and get the brass below the line and the steel above it. Later a gummed pin moves once…