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The Password Game

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Re: The Password Game

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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.

I got Colombia, and C is a roman numeral so I think I'm stuck. edit: nevermind I can just make it lowercase.

Re: The Password Game

#274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Well, you could always upload your own YouTube video...

Make the generator use Pupetter and your YT credentials to upload an empty mp4 video of the given length.

Re: The Password Game

#275

For anyone else who was struggling to make the leap year work with all the other math: 0 is a leap year. For anyone else struggling with how to make the country name work with roman numerals or element names, you can lowercase the country name then it doesn't count as a roman numeral nor element. If your chess move is illegal, make sure you're also notating the effect of the move (Nxe6 for N captures on e6, not just…

> For anyone else struggling with how to make the country name work with roman numerals or element names, you can lowercase the country name then it doesn't count as a roman numeral nor element.

Unfortunately, "country name" and "all the vowels in your password must be bold" are fundamentally incompatible, since it doesn't recognize country names unless they have unbolded vowels.

EDIT: Gah. I tried every Unicode "bold" variant I found, before finding that the password field had in fact become a rich text field and allowed actual "bold".

Re: The Password Game

#276
I am stuck on the chess one because my captcha included text with "xe8" which could be read as a (albeit confusing) algebraic notation.

So I give this game a 6/10 for bugginess. Would not recommend the preorder.

edit - after reading some of the comments, I realized I could change my destiny by resetting the captcha

Re: The Password Game

#277

I am stuck on the chess one because my captcha included text with "xe8" which could be read as a (albeit confusing) algebraic notation. So I give this game a 6/10 for bugginess. Would not recommend the preorder. edit - after reading some of the comments, I realized I could change my destiny by resetting the captcha

You can refresh the captcha

Re: The Password Game

#278

For anyone else who was struggling to make the leap year work with all the other math: 0 is a leap year. For anyone else struggling with how to make the country name work with roman numerals or element names, you can lowercase the country name then it doesn't count as a roman numeral nor element. If your chess move is illegal, make sure you're also notating the effect of the move (Nxe6 for N captures on e6, not just…

> For anyone else struggling with how to make the country name work with roman numerals or element names, you can lowercase the country name then it doesn't count as a roman numeral nor element. Unfortunately, "country name" and "all the vowels in your password must be bold" are fundamentally incompatible, since it doesn't recognize country names unless they have unbolded vowels. EDIT: Gah. I tried every Unicode "bol…

I had no problems getting 'canada' recognized with the a's bolded.

Re: The Password Game

#279
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 think the chess one is bugged. I've entered every possible move for the board I received and none of them worked. Edit: figured it out

How tell me.

Re: The Password Game

#280
post #26

Got stuck at rule 18, not sure what an atomic number is in this context Password26$_june_pepsi_VIIV_33p4e_about__germanyQxh7+

P = phosphorus, atomic number 15 V = vanadium, 23 I = Iodine, 53 So in your password they add up to 167

Oh man I feel silly, I’ve spent the past few days doing Project Euler puzzles and was fixated on it being a number satisfying special properties
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