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The Password Game

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Re: The Password Game

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Post by icoder »

Symbiote wrote: post #139
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.

so where 0 and 4 ;)

Re: The Password Game

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Post by CaptainNegative »

batmansmom1 wrote: post #29

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.

Not even surrounding Paul with water emojis could stop the fire.

Re: The Password Game

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Post by madcaptenor »

jncfhnb wrote: post #179
madcaptenor wrote: post #175

List of countries in geoguessr: AlbaniaAndorraArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBangladeshBelgiumBhutanBoliviaBotswanaBrazilBulgariaCambodiaCanadaChileColombiaCroatiaCzechiaDenmarkDominicanRepublicEcuadorEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGhanaGreeceGuatemalaHungaryIcelandIndonesiaIrelandIsraelItalyJapanJordanKenyaKyrgyzstanLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourgMalaysiaMexicoMongoliaMontenegroNetherlandsNewZealandNigeriaNorthMacedoniaNorwayPeruPh…

I don’t think this is the source. My answer was Liberia. I was able to spot a .LR domain on a street sign ad. Then I accidentally lost all progress by clicking the chess notation link and when I got back to the geo guessing it was a small forested area with nowhere to walk to so I gave up :(

it's from fandom.com, so might be out of date. I think the general strategy would work if you had the right list of countries - although if you're determined to just cheat your way past this step, probably better to just look at the source and get coordinates as someone else has suggested.

Re: The Password Game

#194

Post by icoder »

hgsgm wrote: post #47
sltkr wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The country is randomized; mine was Albania (that was NOT easy to figure out!)

Google a street name.

If it lands on a street it lets you roam around, but others only let you look and zoom around, they are harder if not impossible for mere mortals.

Re: The Password Game

#195

Post by icoder »

TomK32 wrote: post #144
captn3m0 wrote: post #108

I got a "Paul has been slain" message, when I deleted half my password to debug something. Weird. Got to the vowel capitalization.

It's not capitalization, it's about selecting the characters and pressing the "bold" button.

Or just ctrl-a + ctrl-b

Re: The Password Game

#196

Post by [deleted] »

anthony_romeo wrote: post #180

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).

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Re: The Password Game

#197

Post by chaxor »

batmansmom1 wrote: post #29

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.

Paul was slain :(

"SiP@pepsin.VII@Vmay8y63f-2aboutcolombiaKh6"

Decent password 10/10

Re: The Password Game

#198

Post by amon_raw »

themanmaran wrote: post #70
fisian wrote: 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.

Same boat. I tried doing some parenthetical math (X-III)(III+II) but it doesn't work.

Well I is for Iodine,which has 53 as its atomic number, so this definitely wouldn't work anyways. XXXV is the way around this.

Re: The Password Game

#200

Post by iso1631 »

Managed to find a youtube video of the exact length (rule 25 - in my case it was 18m05, which I found with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLVClhMyJgY after a search for "17 minutes 50 seconds"), but that then screwed up my Roman numerals.

However it did seem to get past that rule to rule 26 (while still complaining about the roman numerals):

"A sacrifice must be made. Pick 2 letters that you will no longer be able to use."

I chose poorly, I thought it was for questions going forward, and I knocked out the "S", needed (amongst other things) for all the sponsors.

C'est la vie I guess.

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