Submachine 5: the root

man, forgot how much trouble i always had with this one specifically lol

I really enjoyed the useless help button the tells you to play the game by playing the game (:

@Gerelys there's six CYPHERS, but only two SLOTS for them. the combinations are, 00, 01, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, etc.

Actually if you had all six cypher plates you would only have a total of 43 locations that you could visit using the machine.
The math is n choose k. or n!/(n-k)!. n is the total number of choices (7 in this case or 6 plates plus no plate) and k is how many you choose ( how many slots in the machine__2__). If you do the math you will get 42, and have to add one because (0,0) is the 43rd location.

for 6 ciphers and 2 slots that would be 43:
you can have 0,0 0,1 0,2 ... 0,6 ; 1,0 1,1 1,2 ... 1,6 ; 2,0 2,1 2,2 ... 2,6 all the way to 6,6. that would make 49 options. BUT since you would only have 1 of each you would have to take away all the doubles, that would be 1,1 2,2 3,3 4,4 5,5 and 6,6. that leaves 43 options
However there might have been multiples of each such as, say, 2 of each. That would result in 4 options per slot. 4^2=16. or there could have been 2 pairs and 2 lone keys making 5 options per slot slots. 5^2=25 minus the two doubles that you cannot have: 23.
Since anything beyond doubles would be useless, the possibilities are as follows:
16, 23, 32, 43