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The Password Game

neal.fun

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Re: The Password Game

#203

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 :/

I came up with "invalid notation" a bit, but on my first go I had something like "Bh5" and I needed "Bh5+"

If you put the opposing king in check you need to put the +

Re: The Password Game

#205
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…

Italy? Interesting that it is giving different locations. I got Qatar.

It's random

Re: The Password Game

#208
post #18
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!

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

I had albania which was easy -- there was a nearby poster with some writing on, and a short ddg led to albanian sites.

Re: The Password Game

#210
post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 found exactly the video I needed by searching "38 minute video" and one of the "timers" was the required 37m58s, but Paul died just as I found it.

It would have likely screwed up your previous answers -- roman numerals etc.
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