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The Password Game

neal.fun

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Re: The Password Game

#421
Got to the final answer but then I had to re-enter my password before a bomb blew up and it wouldn't let me copy my password. Anyone manage to do that last part? Is it even possible e.g. if you copy your password before that's disabled?

Re: The Password Game

#422

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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

"00:00 / : " youtube Google that, including the quotes, replace the minutes and seconds with your given time, then look through the results and find a URL which fits the password criteria. Every result should be a video with that duration. If it isn't, check your useragent. I noticed some weirdness with that.

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Re: The Password Game

#423
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…

"Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !"

nice job! autograms are strangely pleasing.

Re: The Password Game

#425

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.

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Re: The Password Game

#426
Very nice game! Little trick for the moon-phase, just past all emojis.

Unfortunately got a dead-end yesterday when reaching the rule (18?) about the sum of the periodic elements equating to 200, with the chess move being Nh8 (containing Nh, no 113) and the wordle solution being (tract, containing Ra, no 81), making it impossible to go below 201.

I would have liked in that case a way to request another chess puzzle, just like it is possible to do for the captcha.

Re: The Password Game

#427

Very nice game! Little trick for the moon-phase, just past all emojis. Unfortunately got a dead-end yesterday when reaching the rule (18?) about the sum of the periodic elements equating to 200, with the chess move being Nh8 (containing Nh, no 113) and the wordle solution being (tract, containing Ra, no 81), making it impossible to go below 201. I would have liked in that case a way to request another chess puzzle, j…

you can write tract in lower case

Re: The Password Game

#429
post #59

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

for me, he starved while I was looking for a youtube video and I am not strong enough to play through this again, even if I loved the game

Exactly same here. I gave him too much food while I searched and returned to a dead paul :(

Re: The Password Game

#430
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

for me, he starved while I was looking for a youtube video and I am not strong enough to play through this again, even if I loved the game

Yep. Went to find a YT video and came back to find Paul was dead. Couldn't bring myself to start again.
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