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The Password Game

neal.fun

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Re: The Password Game

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I am stuck on the chess one because my captcha included text with "xe8" which could be read as a (albeit confusing) algebraic notation. So I give this game a 6/10 for bugginess. Would not recommend the preorder. edit - after reading some of the comments, I realized I could change my destiny by resetting the captcha

Like the others said, that is not a bug, you can add other chess moves. One bug however is that bold characters break other answers.

Re: The Password Game

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post #153

All rules in this game! 1. Your password must be at least 5 characters. 2. Your password must include a number. 3. Your password must include an uppercase letter. 4. Your password must include a special character. 5. The digits in your password must add up to 25. 6. Your password must include a month of the year. 7. Your password must include a roman numeral. 8. Your password must include one of our sponsors. (pepsi/…

And then what happens after 36?

You have to repeat the password before a bomb explodes. I tried to somehow copy it using developer tools, but did not manage to do it in time :(

Re: The Password Game

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post #387

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Can you give an example? "replace the minute and seconds" is vague. Do you mean replace the words "minute" and "second"? Or just the numbers? Do you remove the brackets too?

Seems pretty self-explanatory: > site:youtube.com "00:00 / 16:18" Or you know you could just try to work it out for yourself.

I tried literally this and I just get videos of random length with various matches in the comments and descriptions. It completely ignores the double quotes here. I've even tried setting my user agent to Chrome on Windows without any change.

Re: The Password Game

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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…

The worldle one I found kind of annoying because now I have to go play another game to keep going, one I don't find all that interesting.

It doesn't seem to understand how wordle does timezones

Re: The Password Game

#418

I am stuck on the chess one because my captcha included text with "xe8" which could be read as a (albeit confusing) algebraic notation. So I give this game a 6/10 for bugginess. Would not recommend the preorder. edit - after reading some of the comments, I realized I could change my destiny by resetting the captcha

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

Re: The Password Game

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post #64
post #18

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The country is randomized; mine was Albania (that was NOT easy to figure out!)

My country was El Salvador. I would not have guessed it (I kept trying equatorial countries). I had to reverse engineer the URL encoding of the embedded map. Spoiler: There is !1d and !2d, followed by coordinates.

Mine gave me a place a Qatar, which doesn't even seem to have real photos but 3D renders instead: https://goo.gl/maps/YynAc2JSfKJzeAwWA
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