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The Password Game

neal.fun

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Re: The Password Game

#161
post #157

This is now my new favorite way to explain to people that passwords should not exist. Long live FIDO2 and passkeys.

I don't think passwords will be replaced. This is more of a demonstration of over complicated password rules, than against passwords itself.

Hardware and biometric keys can be stolen, cloned and lost. And trusting third-parties with keys to harddrive encryption is also not really trustworthy.

Re: The Password Game

#162
post #30

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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

https://chessvision.ai/

Re: The Password Game

#163
For anyone else who was struggling to make the leap year work with all the other math: 0 is a leap year.

For anyone else struggling with how to make the country name work with roman numerals or element names, you can lowercase the country name then it doesn't count as a roman numeral nor element.

If your chess move is illegal, make sure you're also notating the effect of the move (Nxe6 for N captures on e6, not just Ne6. Ne6+ if it's a check. Ne6# if it's mate.)

Spaces are also allowed so feel free to break up parts of the password to separate things and prevent them from interfering with each other.

Use XXXV as the roman numeral. Easiest to work with since only V (23) is an element.

Reroll your color if its hex has any numbers in it. You'll thank me later.

I made it to the final challenge (password must contain the current time) and it became extremely difficult because the current time, the length of the password itself, and a pesky 9 that was in my youtube URL were just too much to add up to 25 (even though I tried to overlap things, like 3:383 to cover 3:38 current time as well as 383 prime password length). I would've needed to somehow reupload a video that didn't have any digits in it (or at least one that had a lower digit like 1 or 2) or wait until it was 10:00 pm or something.

Re: The Password Game

#164

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.

How'd you solve it (rule 16)? I'm completely stuck on it... I've tried every single combination that came to mind :/

The position seems to be randomized each time you play it, so their solution isn't going to be of much use for you

Also make sure to add the x for captures and the + for check and things like that

Re: The Password Game

#166
Gave up at the YouTube video. My final password:

cmabout[gibbous emoji]swedenQf8+[chicken emoji]Tir8gecmVshellapril9Fe[weightlifter][weightlifter][weightlifter]VIIamloved[caterpillar][caterpillar][caterpillar][caterpillar]

Re: The Password Game

#167

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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?

The game is selected at random each time you play, so depending on which you get the solution will differ.

Re: The Password Game

#168

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.

How'd you solve it (rule 16)? I'm completely stuck on it... I've tried every single combination that came to mind :/

You can cheat by entering the board state into a site like https://nextchessmove.com/

Re: The Password Game

#169
post #59

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

for me, he starved while I was looking for a youtube video and I am not strong enough to play through this again, even if I loved the game

Re: The Password Game

#170

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.

How'd you solve it (rule 16)? I'm completely stuck on it... I've tried every single combination that came to mind :/

try chessvision.ai, it allows you to scan the page and get the next best move.
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