Thank you for playing!! You are the second person to say they brute-forced with two digits. The fourth is only available once you have the other three, but I’m curious if it’s always the same one tripping people up. You said you beat the minotaur, so I wonder if you missed his little questline where you can talk to him after a point, and missed the one from the hotel concierge? I can easily envision people mashing the attack button and not noticing the text change because the combat was too simplistic.
I have heard the slow movement thing a lot, will definitely speed that up next time!