# What's my locker combination? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534 "2007-08-30T19:58:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/1 "2007-08-30T19:58:30Z")
No, really…what is it? I certainly don’t remember anymore. I used it several times a week about 2 years ago when I was at a gym. I recently stumbled across it in a drawer and now I can’t remember the code. I think there was an 18 and possible a 20. I remember none of the 3 numbers were in sequential order, and the last two were somewhat close to each other in the dial. I’ve tried some random guesses, nothing took. I bought at a CVS, so it’s a standard, ordinary lock. CCW-CW-CCW rotation. I promise to try every combo suggested here…and I’ll send a prize to the winner! ---
**Author:** ![Queuing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Queuing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queuing)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/2 "2007-08-30T20:01:07Z")
36-24-36 ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/3 "2007-08-30T20:13:17Z")
I’m to lazy to open (yet) another browser window or I’d link it for you, but there is a video up on youtube and/or metacafe showing how to open those combo locks. Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/4 "2007-08-30T20:14:33Z")
7-30-14 I have dreams where I go back to high school and I can’t remember my locker combination. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/5 "2007-08-30T21:00:41Z")
[QUOTE=cher3] I have dreams where I go back to high school and I can’t remember my locker combination. [/QUOTE] Same here, and also ones where I can’t figure out how to get into my mailbox at college, and there’s important stuff in there. 24-36-12. Worth a try. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/6 "2007-08-30T21:02:45Z")
11-18-20 ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/7 "2007-08-30T21:10:10Z")
43-48-02? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/8 "2007-08-30T21:13:31Z")
There’s a lock somewhere around my house with the combination 37-17-39. I have no idea why I can remember that but forget to send my very own brother a birthday card when he turned 51… ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/9 "2007-08-30T21:15:43Z")
I know a method for opening cheap combination locks, but I think the mods may not like a detailed description of such things. I’m sure there are websites out there. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/10 "2007-08-30T21:29:35Z")
31-25-18 ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/11 "2007-08-30T21:36:34Z")
[QUOTE=Queuing] 36-24-36 [/QUOTE] Nope. Haha [QUOTE=cher3] 7-30-14 [/QUOTE] Nope. Was that your combo in high school? [QUOTE=gigi] 24-36-12. [/QUOTE] No [QUOTE=tdn] 11-18-20 [/QUOTE] No, no sequential numbers. [QUOTE=Borborygmi] 43-48-02? [/QUOTE] No [QUOTE=FairyChatMom] There’s a lock somewhere around my house with the combination 37-17-39. [/QUOTE] Nope. Maybe cause I don’t have your lock. [QUOTE=PunditLisa] 31-25-18 [/QUOTE] Not that one either. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/12 "2007-08-30T21:38:00Z")
0-0-0…0-0-1…0-0-2…0-0-3…0-0-4…0-0-5…0-0-6…0-0-7…0-0-8…0-0-9…0-1-0…etc. Eventually, you’ll get it open Just keep track of where you are when you want to open it the next time. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/13 "2007-08-30T22:31:46Z")
[QUOTE=LunaV] No, really…what is it? I certainly don’t remember anymore. I promise to try every combo suggested here…and I’ll send a prize to the winner! [/QUOTE] Your birthday forwards, backwards, swap days and months, go through family members in that routine, start again with date in yy-mm-dd format, then mix it up (mom’s year, your month etc). Significant dates - left school, lost virginity, friend birthdays? No? Look for Post-It notes with enigmatic writing on. Do you have a false bottom on one of your shoes? A gap in your roof where - on a significant solstice - the sun strikes a loose tile? No? Have you left a tap dripping in cunning fashion in order to make a message like this? > [@](#): > > .— ..- … - / … . .- .-. -.-. … / — -. / -.-- — ..- - ..- -… . / ..-. — .-. / .–. .- -.. .-.. — -.-. -.- / -.–.- — .-. / .-.. — -.-. -.- -.–.- / … … .. – ---
**Author:** ![Micro\_Dot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Micro\_Dot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Micro_Dot)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/14 "2007-08-30T22:34:01Z")
Locker have the old fashioned dial that jump when you pass the critical number, especially if you pull back on the lock. When they have trouble, head janitors just drill through the mechanism and it falls apart. If you do that, make sure your hand is not where the drill will go when things slip or break apart. New lock mechanisms cost about the same as padlocks. ---
**Author:** ![Micro\_Dot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Micro\_Dot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Micro_Dot)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/15 "2007-08-30T22:37:28Z")
Ignore that. I just re-read the OP and you aren’t talking about a locker combination but a lock combination. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/16 "2007-08-30T22:56:43Z")
4-20-69… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/17 "2007-08-30T23:04:18Z")
[QUOTE=sturmhauke] I know a method for opening cheap combination locks, but I think the mods may not like a detailed description of such things. [/QUOTE] I don’t see why. We already had a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=400193) about it, assuming we’re talking about the same technique. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/18 "2007-08-30T23:18:30Z")
32-10-16 That was mine … at least, I think it was. The last number might have been 26. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/19 "2007-08-30T23:38:39Z")
5-20-18 ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534/20 "2007-08-31T00:10:20Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] I don’t see why. We already had a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=400193) about it, assuming we’re talking about the same technique. [/QUOTE] I didn’t know the legalities of discussing how to open a lock without knowing the combination. Anyway, my technique is to pull slightly on the shackle and listen as you turn the dial. When you hit the correct number you can hear it click. It doesn’t work so well on Master locks, because they have a mechanism that stops the dial from turning if you pull on the shackle. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-my-locker-combination/417534.md?page=2)