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The Password Game

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Re: The Password Game

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jcranmer wrote: post #278
JoshTriplett wrote: post #275

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> 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.

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Post by dreday »

porphyra wrote: post #289
Reason077 wrote: post #267

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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 se…

I had a chess move that's Rg8+ but Rg has an atomic number of 111...

You wanna start the chess move with Q...

Re: The Password Game

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Post by VoodooJuJu »

cheeze wrote: post #287
VoodooJuJu wrote: post #281

Was fun until I got "what's today's wordle"? Wasn't googleable enough for me and I don't play wordle.

literally the first result of "todays wordle"?

The first result of "todays wordle" is AI-generated blogspam that might have the answer buried in there somewhere. The first result of "today's wordle" is the wordle game itself.

Re: The Password Game

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Post by MissingHandle »

blharr wrote: post #59
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.

Later on there is a rule where you have to feed Paul bugs, and I lost by feeding him too much

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