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Re: The Password Game

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Post by Symbiote » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 4:22 PM UTC

aidenn0 wrote: post #452

wavemode wrote: post #163

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…

I lost Paul to a fire (3 different water emojis didn't put it out :(). Then I didn't feel like typing in every single possible chess move until it was happy, so I gave up redoing it.

You can just delete the fire.

Re: The Password Game

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Post by Symbiote » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 4:25 PM UTC

shanks512 wrote: post #435

In one of my tries, I got a 3D model for the Geo guesser puzzle. Anyone know what/where this is: https://imgur.com/gallery/7r13Et9 ? Edit: I had saved the url, but I don't know how to use it - https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m...

Doha: https://www.google.com/maps/@25.0897073,51.1817779,0a,82.2y,...

Re: The Password Game

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Post by rcoveson » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 4:26 PM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #226

wizofaus wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Debatable - the concept of leap years was invented before 0 AD/CE but I'm not aware of any reason to believe that particular year (which certainly wasn't called 0 AD at the time, it was possibly the Roman year 753) was considered to be one.

0 isn't a year anyway, 1AD is preceded by 1BC. Wikipedia has some information on leap years around this time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar#Leap_year_erro...

0 is a year if we say it is, which astronomers have for hundreds of years (because its extremely mathematically convenient), and which ISO-8601 does.

Year 0 is what historians like to call 1 BC, but historians are also just making that up. Nobody numbered years from Anno Domini anywhere near year 0.

I'm sure it's clear to everybody here why year 0, -1, and -2 are significantly better arbitrary, ahistorical names for the three years preceding year 1.

Re: The Password Game

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Post by bowmessage » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 5:09 PM UTC

spinsser wrote: post #431

Finally finished it. It has been so stressful. "Congratulations! You have sucessfully chosen a password in 211 characters." I got lucky when I found a bug with Paul (otherwise I would have given up)

Can you explain the bug?

Re: The Password Game

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Post by cuddlyogre » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 5:32 PM UTC

The iPhone keyboard wiped out my progress when the Roman numerals part started.

Man I miss my Android.

Fun game though.

Re: The Password Game

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Post by Kiro » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 5:48 PM UTC

Taniwha wrote: post #418

quantumsequoia wrote: post #348

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no bug, it only cares the correct answer is present. It's okay if other substrings are also valid chess notation, that won't prevent you from passing the rule if you include the correct one

the wordle question is bugged because it doesn't handle time zones the same way that wordle does - so only works in some places

How does Wordle handle time zones?

Re: The Password Game

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Post by Kiro » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 5:53 PM UTC

starrz_r_cool wrote: post #454

im stuck on question 16 and what annoys me is that everyone gets a different puzzle

Why is that annoying? I think it's great that you actually need to craft your unique password and can't just copypaste a solution.

Re: The Password Game

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Post by zakanfein » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 5:55 PM UTC

I found the video .... but the elements now ....

Re: The Password Game

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Post by anoncow » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:03 PM UTC

stsourlidakis wrote: post #173

anoncow wrote: post #103

I loved the Google maps street view bit. I couldn’t exit street view and the road signs were in Cyrillic. Had to walk a long way before I could search for some landmarks and guess Belarus.

I walked around a lot but couldn't figure out the country. I refreshed and the next one was on some cliff that I couldn't move so I pasted a list of all countries and then started deleting in a binary search fashion until I was left with the correct one.

That’s excellent

Re: The Password Game

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Post by TheDreamPolice » Wed, Jun 28, 2023, 6:10 PM UTC

Rosalyn wrote: post #151

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.

How'd you solve it (rule 16)? I'm completely stuck on it... I've tried every single combination that came to mind :/

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