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The Password Game

neal.fun

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Re: The Password Game

#181
I'm stuck on the chess thing as well, and this time I do think it's a bug. The board in FEN notation is 8/7p/5pk1/3n2pq/3N1nR1/1P3P2/P6P/4QK2 w - - 0 1 The best move is 'Qe8+' and that is exactly what I have put in. Including the '+' sign.

Re: The Password Game

#184
Reminds me of Password Purgatory. A site made by Troy Hunt (the haveibeenpwned guy) which looks like a signup page (actually seems to have an api) but the password requirements get more ridiculous each time. The link is then sent to spammers who bug him about his blog. https://passwordpurgatory.com/get-hell?kvKey=510aa555-e482-4...

Re: The Password Game

#186
The chess one is much easier with my favorite Chrome extension, chessvision.ai https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chessvisionai-ches...

Just make sure to add captures/check/etc (Examples from wavemode on this thread: Nxe6 for N captures on e6, not just Ne6. Ne6+ if it's a check. Ne6# if it's mate.)

Re: The Password Game

#187

List of countries in geoguessr: AlbaniaAndorraArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBangladeshBelgiumBhutanBoliviaBotswanaBrazilBulgariaCambodiaCanadaChileColombiaCroatiaCzechiaDenmarkDominicanRepublicEcuadorEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGhanaGreeceGuatemalaHungaryIcelandIndonesiaIrelandIsraelItalyJapanJordanKenyaKyrgyzstanLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourgMalaysiaMexicoMongoliaMontenegroNetherlandsNewZealandNigeriaNorthMacedoniaNorwayPeruPh…

I inspected page source and found the coordinates in the embed, then looked it up via that. Mine was the middle of a field in Brazil.

Re: The Password Game

#188
post #158

Amazing ! Died after the URL, it was too much to recalculate the atomic numbers and keep track of Paul. Maybe this chicken was the most unfair part of this game, the random captcha and country make it impossible to retry easily (maybe the time frame for feeding could be slowed down); but loved everything else, really ingenious. cshell-may-p4pde-about-bulgaria-00-991-Qg2+-XXXV-bFmN- -iamloved- https://www.youtube.com/…

Same here, I retried at least ten times if, sometimes stumbling over a copy paste error that got Paul killed, but keeping the chicken alive was the choke point for me. Perhaps it would be allowed to encode part of the url?

Also wouldn't url's with roman numbers in it fail the entire thing as 35 only can be obtained by multiplying 5 and 7? Ah right, or 35, true that but still same issue.

Re: The Password Game

#189

Fun! But I wasn’t able to finish: I got a captcha with digits 5, 3, 7, and 8. When the chessboard appeared, the best move was Qe6. These conflicted with the rule to have all digits sum to 25 (5+3+7+8+6=29).

You can re-roll the captcha.

Re: The Password Game

#190
post #49
post #25

I keep getting illegal move on the chess problem.. although my move is not illegal. [Variant "From Position"] [FEN "3k4/1p3Bp1/p5r1/8/P3P1N1/5Pp1/1P1r4/2R4K b - - 0 1"] 1... Rgd6 When I put Rgd6 I get "d6 (Illegal move)"

Try Rd6 or Rd6+ for check.

Or Rd6++ for check mate
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