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The Password Game

neal.fun

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Re: The Password Game

#321

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.

Also, Paul must not be overfed

Found it out the hard way :(

Re: The Password Game

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post #322

Lost at Rule 24. Really shouldn't ignore the 1 minutes feed notice ^^ Fun game btw.

Lost there too doing the opposite... I tried to get ahead of 3 per minute by creating a nice stockpile. Dead from overfeeding.

Re: The Password Game

#325
So does this sometimes reach an unsolvable state? I have a captcha whose digits sum up to 24, a condition that all digits should sum up to 25, and the best chess move is Ne6+ (accepted), but there's no way to get all digits to sum to 25!

mAy@VpepsiVIIm3588tractSibelgiumNe6+

m3588 is the captcha and Ne6+ is the chess move in the above

I've also tried putting something like -5 in the hope that it recognizes negative numbers, but no luck!

Re: The Password Game

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post #325

So does this sometimes reach an unsolvable state? I have a captcha whose digits sum up to 24, a condition that all digits should sum up to 25, and the best chess move is Ne6+ (accepted), but there's no way to get all digits to sum to 25! mAy@VpepsiVIIm3588tractSibelgiumNe6+ m3588 is the captcha and Ne6+ is the chess move in the above I've also tried putting something like -5 in the hope that it recognizes negative nu…

When you break the captcha rule, you can re-select the captcha. You want to keep re-rolling till you find a low number combo. There are a few rules where you can re-roll to get a better random number. In general, it gets harder and harder to stay under the 25 limit as you progress.

Re: The Password Game

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post #325

So does this sometimes reach an unsolvable state? I have a captcha whose digits sum up to 24, a condition that all digits should sum up to 25, and the best chess move is Ne6+ (accepted), but there's no way to get all digits to sum to 25! mAy@VpepsiVIIm3588tractSibelgiumNe6+ m3588 is the captcha and Ne6+ is the chess move in the above I've also tried putting something like -5 in the hope that it recognizes negative nu…

You can refresh the captcha to make it work.

Re: The Password Game

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post #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 does…

I'm impressed you were able to not get tangled up by the youtube/captcha/color hex/roman numeral mess! The youtube one is what screwed me over and over out of all my attempts

The Chrome Inspector Color Picker does not return the right hex code! You have to go into the properties to get the right value.

Re: The Password Game

#329

I'm stuck at the atomic numbers rule... How to solve it?

Look at the periodic table and find elements that add up to what you need. In the game lowercase letters will not count as an elemnet unless paired with an uppercase, so either 1 capital letter or One capital and one lowercase letter as the atomic symbols.

Re: The Password Game

#330

I'm stuck at the atomic numbers rule... Does someone know how to solve it?

Work out what you must have based on the rules, list them out, then subtract from 200.

For me, V and VII from the roman numerals = 152 so I needed 48. Did He and Pd. Then of course a later rule came along.

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