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The Password Game

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Re: The Password Game

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Post by kretaceous »

Neal has outdone himself yet again. I had it until the roman numerals and adding upto 25 ones but lost my cool when it said it must include today's wordle answer.

Screaming and crying.

Re: The Password Game

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Post by cm-t »

> Rule 5: The digits in your password must add up to 25.

Im already stuck here with `Password!25XXV` or `Password!1234567890123456789012345` or `Password!34` (9+25)

I'm not native english, so if there is a pun in the rules description, I might not get it :'(

Re: The Password Game

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Post by lycos »

I gave up after having to include a leap year (Rule 15), I don't know if this is a spoiler but I ended up with January99Pepsi?XXXVggd7maboutZrJapan (there was an emoji in there for the current moon phase but HN stripped it out)

Looking at the code it should be possible to get a lot further, in theory. Wonder how Paul is doing!

Re: The Password Game

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Post by echeese »

cm-t wrote: post #3

> Rule 5: The digits in your password must add up to 25. Im already stuck here with `Password!25XXV` or `Password!1234567890123456789012345` or `Password!34` (9+25) I'm not native english, so if there is a pun in the rules description, I might not get it :'(

It means sum, so 55555 would work

Re: The Password Game

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Post by thorin »

cm-t wrote: post #3

> Rule 5: The digits in your password must add up to 25. Im already stuck here with `Password!25XXV` or `Password!1234567890123456789012345` or `Password!34` (9+25) I'm not native english, so if there is a pun in the rules description, I might not get it :'(

It means individual digits e.g. 997 === 9 + 9 + 7

Re: The Password Game

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Post by arijun »

cm-t wrote: post #3

> Rule 5: The digits in your password must add up to 25. Im already stuck here with `Password!25XXV` or `Password!1234567890123456789012345` or `Password!34` (9+25) I'm not native english, so if there is a pun in the rules description, I might not get it :'(

It’s the sum of the individual digits, so 25 sums to 7, and your second one sums to way more than 25

Re: The Password Game

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Post by cm-t »

echeese wrote: post #6
cm-t wrote: post #3

> Rule 5: The digits in your password must add up to 25. Im already stuck here with `Password!25XXV` or `Password!1234567890123456789012345` or `Password!34` (9+25) I'm not native english, so if there is a pun in the rules description, I might not get it :'(

It means sum, so 55555 would work

got it, thank you!

Re: The Password Game

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Post by cm-t »

arijun wrote: post #8
cm-t wrote: post #3

> Rule 5: The digits in your password must add up to 25. Im already stuck here with `Password!25XXV` or `Password!1234567890123456789012345` or `Password!34` (9+25) I'm not native english, so if there is a pun in the rules description, I might not get it :'(

It’s the sum of the individual digits, so 25 sums to 7, and your second one sums to way more than 25

funny that i had to remove weight of my initial digit since the CAPTCHA (rule10) :>
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