What's the combination to this lock?

[purplepoppy]

Back in 1583 the ship Ann Francis was returning to the UK from spain loaded with gold after dropping off some bags of wheat. Unfortunately some bad weather sprung up and it ended up shipwrecked on a Welsh beach with the loss of 14 lives. Naturally the English immediately jumped to the conclusion it was witches.

Many gold coins have been found in the sand but also a combination lock, one that until a few days ago no one had been able to open.

There are four different rings, and because there are six different letters on each of the rings, there are 1,296 different combinations.

It foiled people for over 400 years but can you guess the combination?

RHYW

ANCE

CACH

ABCD

PUTA

SHIP

FRIG

[jennifer_bloom]

I have a very easy way to avoid hackers on my email accounts, which is, I use foreign insults my friends taught me in high school, combined with word and number symbols, and I also use the aboriginal names of old hobby teachers that contain over 18 letters inside it. Or I use people with last names that are so uncommon that there are less than 12 people in the entire country who use that last name. And I combine uncommon last names with symbols in my password. So I am impossible to hack.

[Levin]

There's a lot of Americans on this post confused that there is a history before 1776...

[FrodoVader007]

@Levin it's a known fact that there isn't 🤷‍♂️

[NoDecision]

There wasn't one. That is why it was such a good lock. So it left people wondering. So the maker of the lock must have used "HA HA" as the combo.

[CaptainSmartass]

I'd like it to be SHIP.

Simples...

[Anonymous]

I hope ABCD. Frig for Frigate sounds good though.

[AviatorTom]

I'm guessing PUTA. It's the only one that sounds Spanish

[Nikki1989]

Ship?

[exitseven]

ABCD easy peasey

[FrodoVader007]

I dont want to be foiled

[Paige2006]

SHIP

[Ironco]

OPEN