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Re: The Password Game

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Post by Didira123 » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 6:00 PM UTC

nabakin wrote: post #241

qt31415926 wrote: post #233

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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

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Post by rockrroku » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 1:16 PM UTC

Here is a simplified daily edition: https://passwordgame.org

Re: The Password Game

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Post by ms_e » Mon, Jul 03, 2023, 11:04 PM UTC

splittydev wrote: post #500

I made it up to Foo997!JanuaryVIIVStarbucksxbcbxTRAcTcambodia and it was a lot of fun, but I don't have the patience of somehow working a leap year into it

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Re: The Password Game

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Post by demux » Tue, Jul 04, 2023, 5:12 AM UTC

0xml wrote: post #395

A funny game! For anyone else struggling with the wordle, the answer is here[1]. For anyone else struggling with the country, you can fill in the names of all the countries, then run a bisection. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/svc/wordle/v2/2023-06-28.json

or you can look at the URL of the google maps embed in devtools then ask chatGPT either to give the location or just the latlong that you can subsequently google :) Chatgpt got the location wrong just 1/4 times

Re: The Password Game

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Post by ertrteert » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 7:24 PM UTC

hyub

Re: The Password Game

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Post by idkidkidk » Thu, Jul 06, 2023, 7:50 PM UTC

iso1631 wrote: post #200

Managed to find a youtube video of the exact length (rule 25 - in my case it was 18m05, which I found with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLVClhMyJgY after a search for "17 minutes 50 seconds"), but that then screwed up my Roman numerals. However it did seem to get past that rule to rule 26 (while still complaining about the roman numerals): "A sacrifice must be made. Pick 2 letters that you will no longer be able t…

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Re: The Password Game

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Post by ofgrrgopkm » Sun, Jul 09, 2023, 10:56 AM UTC

willblaire wrote: post #261

can someone help me on rule 18 (the elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200)? I'm not sure what it's asking 3:

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Re: The Password Game

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Post by ofgrrgopkm » Sun, Jul 09, 2023, 10:56 AM UTC

ofgrrgopkm wrote: post #537

willblaire wrote: post #261

can someone help me on rule 18 (the elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200)? I'm not sure what it's asking 3:

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Re: The Password Game

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Post by ofgrrgopkm » Sun, Jul 09, 2023, 10:58 AM UTC

ofgrrgopkm wrote: post #538

ofgrrgopkm wrote: post #537

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Re: The Password Game

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Post by mans66 » Wed, Jul 12, 2023, 12:54 PM UTC

sobriquet9 wrote: post #456

dreday wrote: post #294

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You wanna start the chess move with Q...

Qxg7+. Chess subreddit has a counter of days without a puzzle that starts with a queen sacrifice.

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