A tourist stuns museum staff by correctly guessing the combination for a safe that baffled experts.
"I said to [Mr Kibblewhite]: 'that's a crazy time capsule. You don't even know what's in it,'" said Mr Mills, who works as a welder."Typical combination lock, three times clockwise - 20 - two times counterclockwise - 40 - once clockwise - 60, tried the handle and it went," he said.
"I could tell it wasn't opened for a long time because some dust fell out from the locking mechanism."So what was in the safe? Sadly no treasure. It contained an old pay sheet and part of a restaurant order pad, dating from the late 1970s."They have no value really, but they are of great interest to us. It gives us a little bit of idea of what the places were like in 1977, '78," said Mr Kibblewhite.The odds of Mr Mills correctly guessing the combination are pretty long, says the University of Toronto's Jeffrey Rosenthal, author of Knock on Wood: Luck, Chance, and the Meaning of Everything.
The fact that the combination was in a specific pattern and did not appear to be a random combination of numbers could also factor into a calculation of the odds, he added.
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