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The Password Game

neal.fun

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Re: The Password Game

#81

A warning to future players: I got to rule 16 and was given an egg named paul that I had to keep safe. Then on rule 18 a fire (of emojis) broke out in my password, killing paul and ending the game. Dont be like me, keep Paul safe.

You can keep Paul safe by adding something like a lot of = before the egg and continuously delete the appearing fires and at some point the fire will be gone

Re: The Password Game

#82
post #68

I got a (seemingly?) impossible problem: - roman numerals must multiply to 35 - my chess move is: Rf7+ - Atomic numbers of elements must add up to 200 So I need V, VII and Rf7+ in there but then the atomic numbers are way past 200 already.

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Re: The Password Game

#83
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post #54

This turns into a mildly frustrating riddle as some of the challenges are random (captcha, Street View, chess challenge) and end up making it impossible to continue. Got my number added up from the captcha and the best chess move came to be Qh6 (I would need a chess master to disagree with me) so I'm already busted on the add to 25 and then it tells me the "Qh6" notation is illegal (Ok, I was never good with chess no…

I also had to figure out how to enter chess notation. As it turns out you have to add "x" after the piece if you want to capture or "+" suffix for check.

Ah. That might be it... Anyhow after staring at that chess challenge I was sure to get a mate in two moves with the Qh6 but the captcha filled with numbers plus the add to 25 left me with only 3 to spare... So no way am I winning this game.

Re: The Password Game

#84
post #54

This turns into a mildly frustrating riddle as some of the challenges are random (captcha, Street View, chess challenge) and end up making it impossible to continue. Got my number added up from the captcha and the best chess move came to be Qh6 (I would need a chess master to disagree with me) so I'm already busted on the add to 25 and then it tells me the "Qh6" notation is illegal (Ok, I was never good with chess no…

I ended up refreshing the captcha until I got one with only one number, in order to get around that kind of issue.

Re: The Password Game

#85
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could potentially paste the chess notation into chatgpt and ask for the next move! It's not perfect but it'd be better than me at it at least

ChatGPT is really and at chess. I'd just paste it in one of the online chess engines.

There are apps that detect the positions from an image, and run a local version of stockfish to get the best move

Re: The Password Game

#87
post #54

This turns into a mildly frustrating riddle as some of the challenges are random (captcha, Street View, chess challenge) and end up making it impossible to continue. Got my number added up from the captcha and the best chess move came to be Qh6 (I would need a chess master to disagree with me) so I'm already busted on the add to 25 and then it tells me the "Qh6" notation is illegal (Ok, I was never good with chess no…

The "two digit periodic table symbol" is also arbitrary - it has to be initial caps! Then if you refresh the page, the random stuff resets, so I gave up at that point with !marchpepsidn26n2555VIIVabout where "dn26n" is random captcha.

Re: The Password Game

#88
post #31

This would be great to use on my sites so users choose stronger passwords. Is there an api planned, or is it open source?

An api that's $1/request unless you have a prime number of requests, then it's free.

Re: The Password Game

#89
Well. I got stuck.

Rule 9: The Roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35 Rule 14: Name this country (Malasysia for me)

Given that M=1000 in roman numerals, I need to find x such that x*1000=35

How do I write 0.035 in Roman Numerals?!

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