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The Password Game

neal.fun

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Re: The Password Game

#262

can someone help with rule 18 (the elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200)? I'm stuck on what it's asking 3:

Look up a periodic table and correlate the highlighted letters with numbers on said table.

Change, remove, modify letters until you reach 200 based on the sum of their atomic numbers.

For easy cheese, add H to increment by 1. Repeat capital H until you have reached the sum if you are under. Easy to later add and remove H until you satisfy the condition.

Re: The Password Game

#263
post #86

Got to the youtube video length url, but then I overfed Paul. Hilarious and frustrating at the same time :D.

I thought I was being so clever by filling up the password field with food, so I could buy lots of time to search YouTube. I didn't realise Paul could be overfed :'(

Re: The Password Game

#265
I started this just before midnight, and once I got to the wordle question it didn't work. Possibly because the wordle had changed since starting the password game

Re: The Password Game

#266

can someone help me on rule 18 (the elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200)? I'm not sure what it's asking 3:

It means that whatever strings in your password that are elements in the periodic table, should have atomic numbers (in the periodic table) that add up to 200.

So go find a table on wikipedia, add up the elements it already recognized and choose strategically a couple of new ones to add !

Re: The Password Game

#267
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 got the chess one pretty easily but I'm stuck on "The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200". I haven't found a way to satisfy both this and "The roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35" simultaneously. Iodine (I) and Uranium (U) have high atomic numbers which blow out way higher than 200 and I haven't found a way to avoid them.

Edit: OK, just realised that it's case sensitive. So I can use a lower case "u" to avoid it being interpreted as an element.

Re: The Password Game

#268
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Your password must be at least 5 characters. Your password must include a number. Your password must include an uppercase letter. Your password must include a special character. The digits in your password must add up to 25. Your password must include a month of the year. Your password must include a roman numeral. Your password must include one of our sponsors: The roman numerals in your password should multiply to…

I threw this into ChatGPT and got a lot of the way there in one shot. Then had to go back and add in some stuff like the wordle answer and captchas…

Re: The Password Game

#269
Awesome game. Didn't think it was possible to LOSE at picking a password but there you have it. LOST at finding a 16m48s youtube video and a lovely passw0R.513mayIshellXXXV8pfxxtractAusingaporeRh8+ iamenough

When entering the chess game moves make sure to add `x` when taking a piece, `+` when checking, and `#` for checkmate.

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