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= March 18 =

Symbols in a bomb defusing game
I recently watched a playthrough of the videogame Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, and there is a section that involves identifying a set of glyphs or symbols that the "bomb defusing" player needs to set via a number pad in a correct order. However, many of these symbols are very clearly letters from the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, and one symbol is literally just "æ". Of course, I imagine that the average North American teen or perhaps young adult playing this game is not going to know immediately what the Cyrillic alphabet looks like, but I am now curious: does this game have Greek or Russian locales or translations, and if so, are the symbols changed as a result of overwhelming familiarity by people living in those Balkan or Slavic places compared to North American players? Because I can imagine that to a Russian teen playing this game and reaching this particular section, it is the equivalent of seeing the letter И and saying, "Ah, thats an I. Easy enough". --72.234.12.37 (talk) 06:26, 18 March 2022 (UTC)


 * It's actually Latin not Cyrillic - "æ" is a distinct letter in modern Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic, but is a bit old-fashioned in English. Our Æ article explains all. Alansplodge (talk) 20:31, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
 * I know that "æ" is a Latin/Scandinavian letter and not a Cyrillic one; I just pointed that one out in particular because of how easily identifiable it is, well to me at least. I don't know about other people, but when I see a "glyphs and symbols" section of a game, I expect more random little doodled lines and scribbles and less letters that are borrowed from another alphabet. --72.234.12.37 (talk) 03:29, 19 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Do they have locale translations? Yep. Do they change the symbols? Nope - you can download a copy of each manual on their website here. Nanonic (talk) 20:52, 18 March 2022 (UTC)