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The Password Game

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Re: The Password Game

#141

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.

Didn't know you could move, but then, why would I when I was shown a beach in Israel.

Re: The Password Game

#142
post #59

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.

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

I, too, overfed Paul :(

Re: The Password Game

#143
post #111

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 found exactly the video I needed by searching "38 minute video" and one of the "timers" was the required 37m58s, but Paul died just as I found it.

Re: The Password Game

#144

I got a "Paul has been slain" message, when I deleted half my password to debug something. Weird. Got to the vowel capitalization.

It's not capitalization, it's about selecting the characters and pressing the "bold" button.

Re: The Password Game

#145
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!

leap year? what? I guess I had passed that by accident, 4 and 8 were leap years I guess?

Re: The Password Game

#146
post #39

Your password must be at least 5 characters. Your password must include a number. Your password must include an uppercase letter. Your password must include a special character. The digits in your password must add up to 25. Your password must include a month of the year. Your password must include a roman numeral. Your password must include one of our sponsors: The roman numerals in your password should multiply to…

I would find it hilarious if someone would come up with a password generator that generates passwords that would pass this game.

Re: The Password Game

#148
Chess move came out at Rg1+.. romand numerals multiplied are 35 - so VII * V

Atomic number of all of these combined: 113 + 23+53+53 + 23=275..

Looks like Im not going to complete it

Re: The Password Game

#149
post #137

So Neal solves Wordle every midnight to keep this game running?

Not sure if this is currently the case, but Wordle used to have the entire list of words for each day served in client-side code (I believe it was a static list with modular arithmetic, or something along those lines). So doing "view source" would not only tell you the current day's word, but also allow you to view the answers for any future day.

When the NYT bought the site, they shuffled the word list but (at least at first) kept this system. They may have obfuscated it by now though.

Either way, since Wordle is a free game, it's not difficult to automate a script that will attempt to solve it and grab the correct answer.

Re: The Password Game

#150

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.

Hah! I was wondering about that. Mine dropped me into what looks like a 3D modeled version of a real place, but sandboxed - there's no way to move around.

(that iframe embed is: https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m... )

It led me down the path of reverse engineering these URLs though, so that's fun.

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