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The Password Game

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Re: The Password Game

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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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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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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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