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The Password Game

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Re: The Password Game

#221
post #137

So Neal solves Wordle every midnight to keep this game running?

Not sure exactly where the data comes from, but the game uses an API at https://neal.fun/api/password-game/wordle?date=2023-06-15

Seems like it has answers up to July 30, so he's either a time traveller or it's possible to get future answers by looking at the Wordle source.

Re: The Password Game

#222

List of countries in geoguessr: AlbaniaAndorraArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBangladeshBelgiumBhutanBoliviaBotswanaBrazilBulgariaCambodiaCanadaChileColombiaCroatiaCzechiaDenmarkDominicanRepublicEcuadorEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGhanaGreeceGuatemalaHungaryIcelandIndonesiaIrelandIsraelItalyJapanJordanKenyaKyrgyzstanLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourgMalaysiaMexicoMongoliaMontenegroNetherlandsNewZealandNigeriaNorthMacedoniaNorwayPeruPh…

The country in my attempt was Venezuela. I was placed in a chapel (?) and was able to find a plaque which helped me to identify the country.

Re: The Password Game

#223
Funny game, but it seemed to break for me when trying to find a YouTube video of length 4:55. I entered multiple videos of lengths 4:54, 4:55, and 4:56, all while keeping Paul fed, but none of them satisfied the requirement somehow.

Re: The Password Game

#225
Managed to make it almost all the way to the end! Note that "is this your final password?" is not the last challenge, despite it being the last thing on the lists other people have posted. Afterward you're asked to retype your password which is almost impossible to do, given that it's in various sizes (with any zeroes at font size zero) and partially in windings.

I recommend copy/pasting before you get there. It doesn't let you copy once that final resubmit form appears.

This is the last saved copy of mine (from ~5 steps before the end; also, yc doesn't capture the various fonts, text sizes, and emojis):

xngxcaboutjuneshell0000XXXV*I54malaysia0Nd3+Gd d4dbc1170

Re: The Password Game

#226
post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so where 0 and 4 ;)

Debatable - the concept of leap years was invented before 0 AD/CE but I'm not aware of any reason to believe that particular year (which certainly wasn't called 0 AD at the time, it was possibly the Roman year 753) was considered to be one.

0 isn't a year anyway, 1AD is preceded by 1BC.

Wikipedia has some information on leap years around this time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar#Leap_year_erro...

Re: The Password Game

#229
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…

I had to use stockfish

Re: The Password Game

#230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would find it hilarious if someone would come up with a password generator that generates passwords that would pass this game.

Should be pretty easy, since you can check the generated password against all the criteria. Making it fast might be difficult though

I don't think it's easy. Verification is much easier than generating correct solutions for this.

Looking at the JS, these rules use RNG such that you can have an inconsistent or impossible password. E.g. if the only youtube video URLs that work with your duration have roman numerals that multiply above 35 in it you are hard stuck. Your youtube URL can also hard stuck your atomic number summation to 200 if it happens to contain enough elements that adds above 200. Your color hex can hard stuck your 25 sum, etc. The code does not try to generate working passwords given all the rules, it simply adds checks and randomly generates the requirement per rule.

You'd have to have the RNG rules to align well in order to win i.e. youtube video with no roman numerals or numbers or elements, captcha with no numbers or roman numerals or elements, to minimize conflict.

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