
A table of Terminal difficulties, their skill requirements, and XP rewards can be seen on the right. and, selecting them will remove duds, or incorrect passwords, and replenish the number of attempts the player has before being locked out. There are also things you can do with the characters that are not part of words. In Fallout 4, you will only temporarily be locked out, for ten seconds. You have four attempts to select the correct password: if you fail, in Fallout 3/New Vegas you will be permanently locked out however, if you have the Computer Whiz perk, you will get another try.

The words have other letters in common, like 'R', but it is in the first spot in one word, and the last in the other.
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For example, if the password is "RELEASED" and you choose "DETECTOR" then you will be told that there are 2/8 correct because there are 'E's in the 2nd and 4th place for both.

A letter is correct only if it is in the right spot. If you didn't guess correctly, the terminal will display "x/y correct" where x is the number of correct letters, and y is the word length. One of the words is the correct password, and your goal is to guess it. The number of words you get is determined by how high your Science skill is (for Fallout 3 or New Vegas) or how high your Intelligence is (for Fallout 4). The length of the words is determined by the difficulty of the lock.

You will be presented with a list of words, all of the same character lengths, interposed with random characters.
