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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.
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.
Later on there is a rule where you have to feed Paul bugs, and I lost by feeding him too much
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by searching for the length in your favourite search engine :)
There doesn't seem to be a way to search YT videos (except videos you yourself post) by exact length. I got 21 min 45 seconds. Looking up "3000 second timer" on YT got me close (only 4 seconds out), but not exact. Do you have a way to find exact-length videos that I'm missing?
I got a "Paul has been slain" message, when I deleted half my password to debug something. Weird. Got to the vowel capitalization.
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!
Your password must be at least 5 characters. Your password must include a number. Your password must include an uppercase letter. Your password must include a special character. The digits in your password must add up to 25. Your password must include a month of the year. Your password must include a roman numeral. Your password must include one of our sponsors: The roman numerals in your password should multiply to…
it does help you find a really strong password, sponsored by Pepsi!
Atomic number of all of these combined: 113 + 23+53+53 + 23=275..
Looks like Im not going to complete it
So Neal solves Wordle every midnight to keep this game running?
When the NYT bought the site, they shuffled the word list but (at least at first) kept this system. They may have obfuscated it by now though.
Either way, since Wordle is a free game, it's not difficult to automate a script that will attempt to solve it and grab the correct answer.
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.
(that iframe embed is: https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m... )
It led me down the path of reverse engineering these URLs though, so that's fun.