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Re: The Password Game

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Post by bowmessage » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 6:32 PM UTC

geluso wrote: post #12

I'm stuck at "iatetomatoesyesterday0265Z#521juneVpepsiVIIxngxcaboutAg[moon emojis]italy2020Bf7+" trying to solve the chess notation puzzle. I especially laughed at the rule "must include today's Worldle" and I'm happy with my solution including every emoji for "must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji." (HackerNews doesn't seem to display emoji. My solution is to paste every moon phase emoji.) Excited t…

Also got stuck on the chess game - had to peruse the webpacked source code for the array of solutions...

Re: The Password Game

#132

Post by TomK32 » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 6:32 PM UTC

j-h-k wrote: post #86

Got to the youtube video length url, but then I overfed Paul. Hilarious and frustrating at the same time :D.

I found the video, it's by the United Nations, only for Paul to starve. What did the UN ever do for us, eh?

Re: The Password Game

#133

Post by TomK32 » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 6:35 PM UTC

YellOh wrote: post #102

Pannoniae wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't pass 36. Just saying.

Honestly not sure how you'd pass the youtube one, unless you were incredibly lucky

I found one by the United Nations. In the meanwhile Paul starved to death.

Re: The Password Game

#134

Post by TT-392 » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 6:35 PM UTC

I gave up when I overfed paul

Re: The Password Game

#135

Post by saikaushik » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 6:36 PM UTC

nabakin wrote: post #116

geluso wrote: post #12

I'm stuck at "iatetomatoesyesterday0265Z#521juneVpepsiVIIxngxcaboutAg[moon emojis]italy2020Bf7+" trying to solve the chess notation puzzle. I especially laughed at the rule "must include today's Worldle" and I'm happy with my solution including every emoji for "must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji." (HackerNews doesn't seem to display emoji. My solution is to paste every moon phase emoji.) Excited t…

I think the chess one is bugged. I've entered every possible move for the board I received and none of them worked. Edit: figured it out

Isn't Q×h6+ the best move for white, since there is a mate in 1 after that move. Am I missing something?

Re: The Password Game

#136

Post by Symbiote » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 6:36 PM UTC

anoncow wrote: post #103

I loved the Google maps street view bit. I couldn’t exit street view and the road signs were in Cyrillic. Had to walk a long way before I could search for some landmarks and guess Belarus.

I was dropped into the ruin of an ancient amphitheatre (the tourist/foot StreetView thing): https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9520096,35.9393566,2a,75y,14...

After a 'walk' I saw flags which confused me, but it turns out this country has a very similar flag to its neighbour.

Re: The Password Game

#137

Post by gpvos » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 6:36 PM UTC

So Neal solves Wordle every midnight to keep this game running?

Re: The Password Game

#138

Post by TomK32 » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 6:36 PM UTC

AdamSpits wrote: post #112

The digits in your password must add up to 25 what do they mean with this?

about9_9_7

Re: The Password Game

#139

Post by Symbiote » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 6:38 PM UTC

lycos wrote: post #4

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!

8 AD was a leap year.

Re: The Password Game

#140

Post by captainpiggies » Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 6:38 PM UTC

This game is great! Even though I will need to catch up with whatever was happening in my class for the last 2 hours, I thoroughly enjoyed my time and the fact that I have no idea what the professor is talking about is a sign of how engaged I was.