>There's only one choice here. No other better options, definitely. Begin trying every single possible combination, one at a time.
It seems as though they weren't expecting you to brute-force through this puzzle. Intelligence be damned, this Thing can press buttons.
In any other situation, it would gain EXPERIENCE POINTS, but this whole situation is so summarily stupid I don't think it accounts the puzzle as an EXPERIENCE.
A door opened. It is PITCH BLACK ahead, and The Creature is unarmed. What will you do?