"Careful with that kind of cleverness.  There's another famous dichotomy being smart enough to think of correct answers and smart enough that you can take any answer and come up with a reason why it's correct.  In real life, entering 012345 repeatedly into the lock is stupid even though it's possible to imagine an exotic circumstance where it isn't.  I'm not saying you should never think the way you just did, I'm just saying that you should always clearly label it inside and outside as having come up with a clever weird circumstance under which it would make sense to do something that is in real life stupid."

"Careful with that kind of cleverness.  There's another famous dichotomy being smart enough to think of correct answers and smart enough that you can take any answer and come up with a weird way for it to be correct.  In real life, entering 012345 repeatedly into the lock is stupid even though it's possible to imagine an exotic circumstance where it isn't.  I'm not saying you should never think the way you just did, I'm just saying that you should always clearly label it inside and outside as having come up with a clever weird circumstance under which it would make sense to do something that is in real life stupid."

"Careful with that kind of cleverness.  There's another famous dichotomy between being smart enough to think of correct answers versus smart enough that you can take any answer and come up with a weird way for it to be correct.  In real life, entering 012345 repeatedly into the lock is stupid even though it's possible to imagine an exotic circumstance where it isn't.  I'm not saying you should never think the way you just did, I'm just saying that you should always clearly label it inside and outside as having come up with a clever weird circumstance under which it would make sense to do something that is in real life stupid."

"Careful with that kind of cleverness.  There's another famous dichotomy between being smart enough to think of correct answers versus smart enough that you can take any answer and come up with a weird way for it to be correct.  In real life, entering 012345 repeatedly into the lock is stupid even though it's possible to imagine an exotic circumstance where it isn't.  I'm not saying you should never think the way you just did, I'm saying that you should always clearly label it inside and outside as having come up with a clever weird circumstance under which it would make sense to do something that is in real life stupid."