Then instruct each player to watch carefully as you slip and slide the halves around the table into new positions. If you play Ultima Online, a series of online role-playing games, then you may know Richard Garriott as Lord British. You may hear a faint "click." This is because you've pushed the cut (between the bottom and the top pin) up to exactly the shear line. Overset/binding. The cut in the pin stack is past the shear line. Now the plug is being prevented from moving by the next most misaligned pin (which, in this case, is the other pin, since there are only two). Eventually, you'll reach a point where the plug will turn ever so slightly and the pin will not go up any farther. And the whole point of that is that there shall be more birds still. The red balls are worth one point each, while the yellow is worth two, the green three, the brown four, the blue five, the pink six, and the black seven. Now release torque and start over, taking care to pick all the pin stacks with spool/mushroom pins while leaving at least one regular pin stack unset (this will require a light touch and good sensitivity).

Your goal is to learn to do this with the absolute minimum amount of torque needed to bind the most misaligned pin enough to distinguish it from the other one. Vary the amount of lifting between strokes but do not force the pins, lest you overset them. This will overset the pin. Much of lock picking skill depends on testing pins stacks for the purpose of finding which to push up next and assuring that no pins are overset. Practice picking the two pin lock until you can do it easily and naturally. Apply some torque to the plug and feel the two pin stacks with your pick. It's binding because it's the one most out of alignment in the direction you're turning, what is billiards and so its top pin is being pinched (gently) between the plug and the shell. If pushed up, it eventually sets and the plug turns slightly (and the pin stack's state changes to set/not-binding). When you reach the shear line, the plug will turn. It moves freely up until it reaches the shear line, where it "hits a wall" and can move no further. They also make it possible to orient a device so that it's facing a specific direction independently of how its surrounding environment moves or changes.

Again, repeat the exercise with the aim of learning to distinguish between these states with as little lifting as possible. It's possible that the plug will turn as soon as you set the first pin; if this happens, it's because you inadvertently lifted the other pin with the shaft of your pick while you were working on the first one. When the plug turned slightly, it trapped the top pin above the shear line, preventing it from re-entering the plug. While this might have gotten the lock open, you just as easily might have pushed the cut past the shear line entirely, preventing the lock from opening altogether. A pin stack in a lock being picked might be in any of four states: Unset/not-binding. You must be careful to avoid touching the front-most pin with the blade of the tool, but this position has the advantage of allowing maximum room to maneuver the pick.

The lock will never pick open in this state; you must release torque and start over. At over 8,000 feet in elevation, Snow Summit is as scenic as it is thrilling. For this exercise, you'll use your torque tool and pick on the two pin lock to put the pins in each of these states to learn what they feel like with your pick. In particular, you should feel when you set a pin as much in the torque tool as you do in the pick. First, apply light torque (as you practiced in the previous exercises) to the two pin cylinder and gently feel each pin. While continuing to apply torque, slowly push the binding pin up. Only one pin stack should be in a binding state at any given time, of course. Once you do this, one of the pins will be in the unset/binding state while the other (the one you set) will be in the set/not-binding state . Learn what a pin in that state feels like.