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The Password Game

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Re: The Password Game

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Post by tw04 »

Georgelemental wrote: post #61
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.

Also, Paul must not be overfed

^^I tried leaving him a bunch of worms so I could search for a youtube video and I was betrayed, greedy Paul.

Re: The Password Game

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Post by jameshart »

lcabral wrote: post #54

This turns into a mildly frustrating riddle as some of the challenges are random (captcha, Street View, chess challenge) and end up making it impossible to continue. Got my number added up from the captcha and the best chess move came to be Qh6 (I would need a chess master to disagree with me) so I'm already busted on the add to 25 and then it tells me the "Qh6" notation is illegal (Ok, I was never good with chess no…

You can regenerate the captcha at any time.

Re: The Password Game

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Post by roflyear »

YellOh wrote: post #111
Pannoniae wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

by searching for the length in your favourite search engine :)

There doesn't seem to be a way to search YT videos (except videos you yourself post) by exact length. I got 21 min 45 seconds. Looking up "3000 second timer" on YT got me close (only 4 seconds out), but not exact. Do you have a way to find exact-length videos that I'm missing?

I think you just have to search for it and hope for the best, my query got me this video which is hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRoUEr1l0n8

Re: The Password Game

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Post by jamilton »

lcabral wrote: post #54

This turns into a mildly frustrating riddle as some of the challenges are random (captcha, Street View, chess challenge) and end up making it impossible to continue. Got my number added up from the captcha and the best chess move came to be Qh6 (I would need a chess master to disagree with me) so I'm already busted on the add to 25 and then it tells me the "Qh6" notation is illegal (Ok, I was never good with chess no…

Yeah, I'm stuck on the chess part too. Figured out how to put black in check, figured out the notation, including the +, but it doesn't agree that's the best move. Put the positions into a chess engine... it agrees with me with what the best move is.

Fun game though, I laughed out loud at the Wordle requirement.

Re: The Password Game

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Post by jameshart »

lycos wrote: post #4

I gave up after having to include a leap year (Rule 15), I don't know if this is a spoiler but I ended up with January99Pepsi?XXXVggd7maboutZrJapan (there was an emoji in there for the current moon phase but HN stripped it out) Looking at the code it should be possible to get a lot further, in theory. Wonder how Paul is doing!

2000 was a leap year and it doesn’t screw with your numeric total too badly :)
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