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 to see what's next after figuring out the best move in this Chess puzzle.
This reminds me of trying to manually construct an Autogram like below. This one is a quote someone else made. I tried to do it myself and it is so hard because the counts keep changing as you write out other counts!
Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !
I got the chess one pretty easily but I'm stuck on "The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200". I haven't found a way to satisfy both this and "The roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35" simultaneously. Iodine (I) and Uranium (U) have high atomic numbers which blow out way higher than 200 and I haven't found a way to avoid them.
Edit: OK, just realised that it's case sensitive. So I can use a lower case "u" to avoid it being interpreted as an element.
porphyra 671 days ago [-]
I had a chess move that's Rg8+ but Rg has an atomic number of 111...
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dreday 671 days ago [-]
You wanna start the chess move with Q...
plewd 671 days ago [-]
Many of the puzzles are different for each player, I personally had Rf8+
dunham 670 days ago [-]
Yeah, I got an Rf8+ and between that and the roman numerals, didn't know how to get down to 200. Then I tried to move the egg to a different spot and the chicken died.
porphyra 671 days ago [-]
But the best move in the chess puzzle I got requires moving the rook.
sobriquet9 671 days ago [-]
Qxg7+. Chess subreddit has a counter of days without a puzzle that starts with a queen sacrifice.
mans66 657 days ago [-]
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sicariusnoctis 671 days ago [-]
Technically impossible since queens cannot materialize out of thin air, except in crazyhouse.
Also Rg1+ is a rather pretty attraction/clearance sacrifice/double check/mate-in-2.
porphyra 671 days ago [-]
The chess puzzle is different for everyone...
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halestock 671 days ago [-]
XXXV also works for the roman numerals.
sobriquet9 671 days ago [-]
XXXV * I = 35. Po (from Poland), V, and I add up to 160, so you need to add Zr.
andy_ppp 670 days ago [-]
Seems to accept Qxh6+ as well as the other answer given here, I guess both work!
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teddyh 670 days ago [-]
Python:
>>> sentence = """Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !"""
>>> import collections
>>> sorted(collections.Counter(sentence.lower()).items())
[(' ', 73), ('!', 1), ("'", 23), (',', 27), ('-', 7), ('a', 10), ('b', 3), ('c', 4), ('d', 4), ('e', 46), ('f', 16), ('g', 4), ('h', 13), ('i', 15), ('k', 2), ('l', 9), ('m', 4), ('n', 25), ('o', 24), ('p', 5), ('r', 16), ('s', 41), ('t', 37), ('u', 10), ('v', 8), ('w', 8), ('x', 4), ('y', 11)]
Checks out.
mtlmtlmtlmtl 671 days ago [-]
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.
epicalex 671 days ago [-]
You can just search for the answer to save having to do that
mtlmtlmtlmtl 671 days ago [-]
Now it seems progress has become literally impossible because the chess move + the captcha includes digits that add up to more than 25. I guess having to restart is intended to be part of the game, or is this a bug?
anticrymactic 671 days ago [-]
You can reroll the captcha
lyvxh 671 days ago [-]
You can cycle the captcha.
Taniwha 671 days ago [-]
It doesn't seem to understand how wordle does timezones
dsego 671 days ago [-]
You can fail at wordle and get the correct answer revealed at the end.
mtlmtlmtlmtl 671 days ago [-]
This is indeed what ended up transpiring, but only after trying really hard to figure it out all the while thinking the meanings of gold and green were the opposite of eachother.
I take puzzles way too seriously, and I suck at word puzzles.
nurettin 670 days ago [-]
Made me stop playing, because I block wordle shares on every social media channel.
chrisweekly 671 days ago [-]
"Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !"
nice job! autograms are strangely pleasing.
nabakin 672 days ago [-]
I think the chess one is bugged. I've entered every possible move for the board I received and none of them worked.
Edit: figured it out
jayelbe 671 days ago [-]
I couldn't get it to accept a move which involved the knight jumping over a hostile piece. It was definitely the best move (I fed it into stockfish and got the same response). I refreshed the page to get a new puzzle and got a new street view as well. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Edit: Oooohhh, I think I forgot to add a + for check!
Rosalyn 672 days ago [-]
Can you please tell me?
I've been stuck on it for an hour and a half....
I really need help ;-;
nabakin 671 days ago [-]
tl;dr
K = King
Q = Queen
B = Bishop
R = Rook
N = Knight
Pawns have no letter
.
You append a "+" to the end when it is a check move
You append a "#" to the end when it's a checkmate move
You add an "x" when your move eats another piece
.
Examples
- Moving a rook to g6: Rg6
- Moving a queen to d7 which eats a piece: Qxd7
- Moving a bishop to a3 which checks the opponents king: Ba3+
- Moving a pawn to e5: e5
- Moving a queen to h7 which eats a piece and checks the king: Qxh7+
- Moving a pawn to f4 which checkmates the king: f4#
kuboble 671 days ago [-]
There are few more.
Rae1 - rook a to e1. if two rooks on the first line can move to e1.
R4d4 - if two rooks on the 4th line can go to d4.
Ngxh2# - the knight from g captures on h2 with checkmate.
Nd2e4 - In a rare case that there are 3 knights that can go to a single square
Pawn captures are denoted as exd5 (pawn on the line e captures a pawn on d5) even if there is only one pawn that can make a capture.
rkagerer 671 days ago [-]
I learned more from your concise post than I ever have from articles, Wikipedia, etc.
9dev 671 days ago [-]
For Real. I finally understood chess notation.
TheDreamPolice 671 days ago [-]
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have_faith 671 days ago [-]
Just adding promotion
- d8N#
pawn moves and promotes to a knight resulting in checkmate (it can happen)
Tistron 671 days ago [-]
Thanks for this.
What if two rooks can both get to e5, how do you disambiguate?
bonzini 671 days ago [-]
Using the column they are on, or the row if they are both on the same column. For example Rac8 moves a rook from a8 to c8, R1d2 moves it from d1 to d2.
TheDreamPolice 671 days ago [-]
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ghayes 672 days ago [-]
It worked for me, but I had to include `Rxb6+` for the capture and the check.
saikaushik 672 days ago [-]
Isn't Q×h6+ the best move for white, since there is a mate in 1 after that move. Am I missing something?
messe 672 days ago [-]
The game is selected at random each time you play, so depending on which you get the solution will differ.
YetAnotherNick 671 days ago [-]
Enter without ×.
Potterqueen23 671 days ago [-]
How tell me.
charlie2012 671 days ago [-]
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bowmessage 672 days ago [-]
Also got stuck on the chess game - had to peruse the webpacked source code for the array of solutions...
dr_orpheus 672 days ago [-]
Also got stuck at the chess one with "551A!mayShellVIIVr8gecmaboutAuSingaporeBxe6"
themanmaran 672 days ago [-]
You may need the + at the end of your notation if you're putting the king in check.
sandyarmstrong 672 days ago [-]
Yup, I had to come here to figure out that the + was missing in mine! TIL!
festive-minsky 671 days ago [-]
I had to use stockfish
jug 671 days ago [-]
Haha, yeah I used Chess.com analysis and it gave me a clearly best sequence of moves (three to checkmate) but it didn't take the first move from white that it asked for. :( I saw many other struggle with this one too. Anyway, I gave up here and seeing some of the subsequent steps I doubt I'll reach the end anyway!
tiborsaas 671 days ago [-]
Brutal
zoklet-enjoyer 671 days ago [-]
I got stuck at the chess move too
A591@juneShellVIIVec6pmtractFeNigeria2020
vilkkala 671 days ago [-]
I'm too stuck at the chess move with XXXVJanuarypepsi@3pe4g99tractHechile
irrational 672 days ago [-]
Italy? Interesting that it is giving different locations. I got Qatar.
croddin 671 days ago [-]
I got Colombia, and C is a roman numeral so I think I'm stuck. edit: nevermind I can just make it lowercase.
BIG_H0TD0G 671 days ago [-]
I got colombia to, you just have to make the letter lowercase!
iso1631 672 days ago [-]
It's random
chankstein38 672 days ago [-]
You could potentially paste the chess notation into chatgpt and ask for the next move! It's not perfect but it'd be better than me at it at least
ailef 672 days ago [-]
ChatGPT is really and at chess. I'd just paste it in one of the online chess engines.
wongarsu 672 days ago [-]
There are apps that detect the positions from an image, and run a local version of stockfish to get the best move
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.
blharr 672 days ago [-]
Later on there is a rule where you have to feed Paul bugs, and I lost by feeding him too much
riffraff 672 days ago [-]
for me, he starved while I was looking for a youtube video and I am not strong enough to play through this again, even if I loved the game
porphyra 671 days ago [-]
I was immensely disappointed when I googled "13 minute 39 second video" and then the Youtube video titled "13 minute 39 second countdown" was in fact 13 minutes and 54 seconds long.
robinjfisher 671 days ago [-]
Yep. Went to find a YT video and came back to find Paul was dead. Couldn't bring myself to start again.
kjrose 671 days ago [-]
I Gave up on the youtube video.
Honestly though, this is still better than some of the "secure password" prompts I've encountered in life.
whatatita 671 days ago [-]
Exactly same here. I gave him too much food while I searched and returned to a dead paul :(
hobo_in_library 671 days ago [-]
Paul needs 3 bugs every minute. Overfeeding him looses the game
Don't be like me, don't overfeed Paul
captainpiggies 672 days ago [-]
I, too, overfed Paul :(
MissingHandle 671 days ago [-]
Same
princevegeta89 672 days ago [-]
You can keep Paul safe by adding something like a lot of = before the egg and continuously delete the appearing fires and at some point the fire will be gone
gcoakes 671 days ago [-]
I killed Paul when trying to get the atomic numbers to equal 200. My plan was to add "H" until the rule was satisfied. Then, I thought I accidentally went past it, so I started holding backspace. I went too far.
HuangYuSan 670 days ago [-]
hahaha yes exactly the same happened to me too
CaptainNegative 672 days ago [-]
Not even surrounding Paul with water emojis could stop the fire.
kriro 671 days ago [-]
Nice idea, he died from fire on my first run as well. Maybe I'll try again in the evening.
Georgelemental 672 days ago [-]
Also, Paul must not be overfed
tw04 672 days ago [-]
^^I tried leaving him a bunch of worms so I could search for a youtube video and I was betrayed, greedy Paul.
sebastos 671 days ago [-]
Me too :<
romwell 671 days ago [-]
Found it out the hard way :(
FinnKuhn 672 days ago [-]
same here... Paul burnt to death an I lost :(
YellOh 672 days ago [-]
Thirding it. I'm guessing the move is to back up the password, move Paul to the first/last character, and delete everything to save him.
Update: this strat works. But then don't immediately overfeed him.
Rosalyn 672 days ago [-]
How'd you solve it (rule 16)?
I'm completely stuck on it...
I've tried every single combination that came to mind :/
The position seems to be randomized each time you play it, so their solution isn't going to be of much use for you
Also make sure to add the x for captures and the + for check and things like that
iso1631 672 days ago [-]
I came up with "invalid notation" a bit, but on my first go I had something like "Bh5" and I needed "Bh5+"
If you put the opposing king in check you need to put the +
riffraff 672 days ago [-]
try chessvision.ai, it allows you to scan the page and get the next best move.
TheDreamPolice 671 days ago [-]
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chaxor 672 days ago [-]
Paul was slain :(
"SiP@pepsin.VII@Vmay8y63f-2aboutcolombiaKh6"
Decent password 10/10
19wolf 671 days ago [-]
For me the fire didn't break out until Rule 20
afterburner 671 days ago [-]
"PAUL WAS OVERFED"
OH NO!!
dsego 670 days ago [-]
Me too :(
zem 670 days ago [-]
that's when i gave up - it took the game from solving puzzles to fast-reaction video gaming.
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wavemode 672 days ago [-]
For anyone else who was struggling to make the leap year work with all the other math: 0 is a leap year.
For anyone else struggling with how to make the country name work with roman numerals or element names, you can lowercase the country name then it doesn't count as a roman numeral nor element.
If your chess move is illegal, make sure you're also notating the effect of the move (Nxe6 for N captures on e6, not just Ne6. Ne6+ if it's a check. Ne6# if it's mate.)
Spaces are also allowed so feel free to break up parts of the password to separate things and prevent them from interfering with each other.
Use XXXV as the roman numeral. Easiest to work with since only V (23) is an element.
Reroll your color if its hex has any numbers in it. You'll thank me later.
I made it to the final challenge (password must contain the current time) and it became extremely difficult because the current time, the length of the password itself, and a pesky 9 that was in my youtube URL were just too much to add up to 25 (even though I tried to overlap things, like 3:383 to cover 3:38 current time as well as 383 prime password length). I would've needed to somehow reupload a video that didn't have any digits in it (or at least one that had a lower digit like 1 or 2) or wait until it was 10:00 pm or something.
bowmessage 671 days ago [-]
I cycled through _so_ many hex colors and youtube videos. I found that searching the length in the youtube search bar led to plenty options. I even chose to exclude 'x' which was _so_ dumb as I had to switch my XXXV to a V and VII, making life much harder for myself.
Ultimately I finally got a password with length 211, including the current time, that fit all of the rules!
[spoiler] the final step has you re-type your password to "confirm" it, in an impossible amount of time [/spoiler]. What a frustrating ending!!!
ghayes 671 days ago [-]
Also ended up with exactly 211, maybe the easiest choice. Sad at the ending.
Other hints:
* The eyedropper is a good way to get the hex quickly.
* On Youtube search the time you need and then scroll until you load a metric ton of videos then Cmd+F for the time (e.g. 28:22) since the times are searchable text on screen.
spinsser 671 days ago [-]
Same length as mine
JoshTriplett 671 days ago [-]
> For anyone else struggling with how to make the country name work with roman numerals or element names, you can lowercase the country name then it doesn't count as a roman numeral nor element.
Unfortunately, "country name" and "all the vowels in your password must be bold" are fundamentally incompatible, since it doesn't recognize country names unless they have unbolded vowels.
EDIT: Gah. I tried every Unicode "bold" variant I found, before finding that the password field had in fact become a rich text field and allowed actual "bold".
jcranmer 671 days ago [-]
I had no problems getting 'canada' recognized with the a's bolded.
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cubefox 671 days ago [-]
Rich text passwords, an amazing innovation.
aidenn0 671 days ago [-]
I lost Paul to a fire (3 different water emojis didn't put it out :(). Then I didn't feel like typing in every single possible chess move until it was happy, so I gave up redoing it.
Symbiote 671 days ago [-]
You can just delete the fire.
spinsser 671 days ago [-]
I changed my phone's clock to 1:00 and it worked for me
JoshTriplett 671 days ago [-]
"Congratulations! You have sucessfully chosen a password in 113 characters."
This was a horrific abomination, and delightfully evil.
Copy (before answering the "is this your final password" question) and paste seemed to work fine on everything except the chicken emoji, so I just had to paste and then manually enter and italicize a chicken and two bugs within the time limit.
xavdid 672 days ago [-]
This was fun!
It reminds me of "Password Purgatory" that Troy Hunt (of "Have I Been Pwned" fame) built. It sends real scammers to a real-looking site that basically makes them play this game until they give up and go away.
This isn’t really significantly more irritating than half the password “rules” forced on me by major companies who ought to know better.
“A special character…”
Okay, how about: “
“No, not THAT special!! (Shh, we are worried about a SQL injection attack… in your password… which we dont even know how to escape)”
Let the many implications sink in for a minute.)
arp242 670 days ago [-]
I once had to deal with an site that would be fine with a ' in the password when setting it, but would throw a mysterious error every time you tried to log in.
For about 2 years I reset my password many times, always to the same one and that would also log me in. I just figured the site was broken for me but this worked and contacting support is rarely helpful for stuff like this so whatever, until it suddenly dawned on me the ' might be the "problem".
verbify 672 days ago [-]
It doesn't necessarily mean that they don't know how to escape special characters, it just might mean that they're employing a defence in depth approach.
YellOh 671 days ago [-]
Managed to make it almost all the way to the end! Note that "is this your final password?" is not the last challenge, despite it being the last thing on the lists other people have posted. Afterward you're asked to retype your password which is almost impossible to do, given that it's in various sizes (with any zeroes at font size zero) and partially in windings.
I recommend copy/pasting before you get there. It doesn't let you copy once that final resubmit form appears.
This is the last saved copy of mine (from ~5 steps before the end; also, yc doesn't capture the various fonts, text sizes, and emojis):
yeah, just lost at that point too, didn't have my password copy pasted anywhere :(
I guess I should have been wary of a confirm password phase. i even wrote a tiny auto hotkey script to keep feeding that stupid chicken for 40 minutes while I waited for time to tick from 8:20 (I didn't have the password ready yet) to 9:01...
gault8121 671 days ago [-]
How do you solve the time issue - does it lock in the time at the moment you complete that rule, or do you need to keep updating the password with the new time? Also, is the time UTC or time zoned?
pynappo 671 days ago [-]
You need to keep updating the password. It's time zoned. Basically you have to plan ahead as to what time you want your password to be submitted at and get every other rule satisfied before that time.
In my case it was 8:20 and I had a sum of 15 so I fixed my password in the next 20ish minutes and set the target time to 9:01 at the earliest and spun up an auto hotkey script to paste the food for Paul every 20ish seconds (in reality I think it eats faster than that)
qt31415926 671 days ago [-]
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
nabakin 671 days ago [-]
"00:00 / <minutes>:<seconds>" 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.
porphyra 671 days ago [-]
Hmm, I tried googling "00:00 / 17:02" youtube and none of the results were the right duration on both Chrome and Firefox. Any ideas?
nabakin 670 days ago [-]
Not sure. It's working for me
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Didira123 669 days ago [-]
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Didira123 669 days ago [-]
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gault8121 671 days ago [-]
The Chrome Inspector Color Picker does not return the right hex code! You have to go into the properties to get the right value.
kretaceous 672 days ago [-]
Neal has outdone himself yet again. I had it until the roman numerals and adding upto 25 ones but lost my cool when it said it must include today's wordle answer.
Screaming and crying.
sltkr 672 days ago [-]
I wonder if the password becomes invalid if you leave the tab open for 24 hours...
squeaky-clean 672 days ago [-]
Won't say too many spoilers but after a certain rule part of your password can starve to death if you don't feed it enough. Ask me how I know :(
mcint 671 days ago [-]
Mmm, I overfed a certain part of the password.
lnx01 672 days ago [-]
I gave up when I needed to represent the best chess move in algebraic notation, but I couldn't because the text from the captcha I had to solve earlier contained an illegal move... rage
ufo 672 days ago [-]
It works if you put the chess move before the captcha
You can regen the captcha, I stopped at that too because I couldn't be bothered.
dalai 672 days ago [-]
I gave up on rule 18: The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200.
nottorp 669 days ago [-]
I failed when it wanted me to add emoji. It's against my religion.
madcaptenor 672 days ago [-]
List of countries in geoguessr: AlbaniaAndorraArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBangladeshBelgiumBhutanBoliviaBotswanaBrazilBulgariaCambodiaCanadaChileColombiaCroatiaCzechiaDenmarkDominicanRepublicEcuadorEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGhanaGreeceGuatemalaHungaryIcelandIndonesiaIrelandIsraelItalyJapanJordanKenyaKyrgyzstanLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourgMalaysiaMexicoMongoliaMontenegroNetherlandsNewZealandNigeriaNorthMacedoniaNorwayPeruPhilippinesPolandPortugalRomaniaRussiaSenegalSerbiaSingaporeSlovakiaSouthAfricaSouthKoreaSpainSriLankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanThailandTurkeyUnitedStatesUgandaUkraineUnitedArabEmiratesUnitedKingdomUruguayEgyptPakistanChinaDominicanRepublicIndiaVietnamBermudaPuertoRicoRunionFaroeIslandsGreenland
(unfortunately the only way to use this I can find is to put it in the password and then delete it bit by bit)
jncfhnb 672 days ago [-]
I don’t think this is the source. My answer was Liberia. I was able to spot a .LR domain on a street sign ad.
Then I accidentally lost all progress by clicking the chess notation link and when I got back to the geo guessing it was a small forested area with nowhere to walk to so I gave up :(
madcaptenor 672 days ago [-]
it's from fandom.com, so might be out of date. I think the general strategy would work if you had the right list of countries - although if you're determined to just cheat your way past this step, probably better to just look at the source and get coordinates as someone else has suggested.
S04dKHzrKT 670 days ago [-]
I had to look at the source to find the possible options. In 906d40b.js starting at line 3471 (could change in the future) is an array of possible values. You can search for the embed url of the iframe to get the country name.
I inspected page source and found the coordinates in the embed, then looked it up via that. Mine was the middle of a field in Brazil.
fullstop 671 days ago [-]
The country in my attempt was Venezuela. I was placed in a chapel (?) and was able to find a plaque which helped me to identify the country.
sesm 671 days ago [-]
How do you satisfy the chemical elements constrain if you get country starting with 'Au'? It's 79 plus VII (23+53+53) and V (23) (from roman numerals part), while the sum should be 200
pugworthy 671 days ago [-]
I believe you can lower case the A so it won't register as an element. Also, there's more than one way to get 35 as a multiplication problem...
mogoh 671 days ago [-]
I got El Salvador which is not is the list.
bacchusracine 672 days ago [-]
I'm about to send an email asking the site manager to remove this before any PHB types take it seriously....yes those types exist and yes they would see this as inspirational...God help us all...
nashashmi 672 days ago [-]
At least it has a great UI
rizky05 671 days ago [-]
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rubyron 672 days ago [-]
This would be great to use on my sites so users choose stronger passwords.
Is there an api planned, or is it open source?
_flux 672 days ago [-]
Needs to have the actual password obscured, e.g. with asterisks.
In fact, also the length should be obscured, show nothing, as is the way in Unix password prompts!
javajosh 672 days ago [-]
An api that's $1/request unless you have a prime number of requests, then it's free.
Pannoniae 672 days ago [-]
please try playing the game, it's not about this :)
rubyron 672 days ago [-]
didn’t think I needed the /s
Pannoniae 672 days ago [-]
I apologise for being an idiot. I will buy a new sarcasm detector shortly.
lcabral 672 days ago [-]
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 notation but I'm pretty sure that says Queen to H6...)
fisian 672 days ago [-]
I also had to figure out how to enter chess notation. As it turns out you have to add "x" after the piece if you want to capture or "+" suffix for check.
lcabral 672 days ago [-]
Ah. That might be it... Anyhow after staring at that chess challenge I was sure to get a mate in two moves with the Qh6 but the captcha filled with numbers plus the add to 25 left me with only 3 to spare... So no way am I winning this game.
phaedryx 671 days ago [-]
You can refresh the captcha. I had to a couple of times.
greenpizza13 671 days ago [-]
For the chess solution I ended up putting a breakpoint in the Javascript. To each their own.
jamilton 672 days ago [-]
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.
simantel 672 days ago [-]
Yeah, I got Croatia in the Geoguessr section, which means I can't possibly multiply roman numerals to 35, since C is 100.
Apes 672 days ago [-]
You can use a lowercase c, and it won't count as a roman numeral.
jameshart 672 days ago [-]
You can regenerate the captcha at any time.
sakras 672 days ago [-]
Yeah I think there's a bug with the chess notation, I also had it tell me Rh3 was illegal notation. Interestingly Rf3 is not illegal notation but an illegal move for me.
TFortunato 672 days ago [-]
I thought I had this issue, but it turned out I had to remember the "+" at the end, when I put my opponent in check
danuker 672 days ago [-]
THANK YOU! I was stuck not knowing the "+". In my case it was a check mate.
javajosh 672 days ago [-]
The "two digit periodic table symbol" is also arbitrary - it has to be initial caps! Then if you refresh the page, the random stuff resets, so I gave up at that point with !marchpepsidn26n2555VIIVabout where "dn26n" is random captcha.
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fishtoaster 672 days ago [-]
I ended up refreshing the captcha until I got one with only one number, in order to get around that kind of issue.
anoncow 672 days ago [-]
If it included a check Qh6+ could have been the answer?
The classic stories brought a smile to my face for a long time.
flippy_flops 672 days ago [-]
Amazing. I've always wanted a similar game card readers:
Remove your card before the clerk gets annoyed at you. The screen is flashes various messages like "PLEASE REMOVE YOUR CARD after the TRANSACTION IS COMPLETE". Push the card too hard and the reader falls off the table. Pull at an angle or too slow and it drags the reader.
None4U 671 days ago [-]
Among Us?
KolmogorovComp 671 days ago [-]
Very nice game! Little trick for the moon-phase, just past all emojis.
Unfortunately got a dead-end yesterday when reaching the rule (18?) about the sum of the periodic elements equating to 200, with the chess move being Nh8 (containing Nh, no 113) and the wordle solution being (tract, containing Ra, no 81), making it impossible to go below 201.
I would have liked in that case a way to request another chess puzzle, just like it is possible to do for the captcha.
tholgue 671 days ago [-]
you can write tract in lower case
KolmogorovComp 671 days ago [-]
It’s case-insensitive.
aidenn0 671 days ago [-]
The elements are not case-sensitive "ra" is not detected as an element, but "Ra" is.
jerdthenerd 671 days ago [-]
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
quantumsequoia 671 days ago [-]
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
Taniwha 671 days ago [-]
the wordle question is bugged because it doesn't handle time zones the same way that wordle does - so only works in some places
Kiro 671 days ago [-]
How does Wordle handle time zones?
jer0me 671 days ago [-]
You can refresh the captcha
ranguna 671 days ago [-]
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.
RancidDiarrhea 671 days ago [-]
You can also enter more than one chess move. only one has to be right.
Just make sure to add captures/check/etc (Examples from wavemode on this thread: Nxe6 for N captures on e6, not just Ne6. Ne6+ if it's a check. Ne6# if it's mate.)
h4x0rr 672 days ago [-]
Reminds me of Password Purgatory.
A site made by Troy Hunt (the haveibeenpwned guy) which looks like a signup page (actually seems to have an api) but the password requirements get more ridiculous each time. The link is then sent to spammers who bug him about his blog.
https://passwordpurgatory.com/get-hell?kvKey=510aa555-e482-4...
crumblingaway 671 days ago [-]
That's a shame, I reached an impossible situation. The best chess move is Re5+ which includes the letters Re which is the element Rhenium with atomic number 75. However since the roman numerals need to multiply to 35 then the only valid solution is having VII and V (XXXV for 35 is not recognized for some reason), and V is Vanadium with atomic number 23 and I is Iodine with 53. That already leaves me with 227, above the 200 threshold for one of the rules.
blazifex 671 days ago [-]
You should be able to do XXXV and I to get 35, I think it needs two roman numerals to multiply (that worked for me at least)
j-h-k 672 days ago [-]
Got to the youtube video length url, but then I overfed Paul. Hilarious and frustrating at the same time :D.
jayelbe 671 days ago [-]
I thought I was being so clever by filling up the password field with food, so I could buy lots of time to search YouTube. I didn't realise Paul could be overfed :'(
TomK32 672 days ago [-]
I found the video, it's by the United Nations, only for Paul to starve. What did the UN ever do for us, eh?
TomK32 672 days ago [-]
doh, of course the video length is randomized.
paxys 672 days ago [-]
How did you find my company's login page?
p4nthera_ 672 days ago [-]
I got to rule 35, I think I was one away from victory, best time to play this is probably around 10:00-2:00 so that you can keep low numbers and it doesn't mess up rule 5. I gave up and decided to slay Paul myself. Paul is the bane of my existence.
YellOh 672 days ago [-]
VIIJuneVShell65$bw6n6aboutHecroatia0000 so far. Croatia was extraordinarily hard to guess. Currently stuck on the chess game, if anyone has generic advice on how to not suck at chess.
Fun bonus: it can't seem to figure out what's going on with the knight. Using "K", "N", or "S" for knight all get me "invalid notation" warnings. I'm having a lot of fun.
New update: got the chess answer! It will accept "N" for my Knight iff I make stupid moves with it. Moving my knight to take a bishop is "invalid notation", but apparently putting it in the middle of nowhere to be captured by a rook is the best possible move.
Final update: Paul died in a fire. :I
geluso 672 days ago [-]
oh man I got really lucky and was prompted with a picture of Italy. I got it right on my first try. I didn't realize the country images rotated!
blharr 672 days ago [-]
The notation for capturing should be something like "Nxe6." I'm guessing the mistake you're making is just doing "Ne6"
ufo 672 days ago [-]
Also, add "+" at the end if you're putting the king in check.
iso1631 672 days ago [-]
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 to use."
I chose poorly, I thought it was for questions going forward, and I knocked out the "S", needed (amongst other things) for all the sponsors.
C'est la vie I guess.
idkidkidk 663 days ago [-]
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geluso 672 days ago [-]
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 35.
Your password must include this CAPTCHA:
Your password must include today's Wordle answer.
Your password must include a two letter symbol from the periodic table.
Your password must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji.
Your password must include the name of this country.
Your password must include a leap year.
Your password must include the best move in algebraic chess notation. (picture of chess puzzle)
← This is my chicken Paul. He hasn't hatched yet, please put him in your password and keep him safe.
The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200.
All the vowels in your password must be bolded.
Oh no! Your password is on fire. Quick, put it out!
Your password is not strong enough
Your password must contain one of the following affirmations:
Paul has hatched! Please don't forget to feed him, he eats three every minute.
A sacrifice must be made. Pick 2 letters that you will no longer be able to use.
Your password must contain twice as many italic characters as bold.
At least 30% of your password must be in the Wingdings font.
Your password must include this color in hex.
All roman numerals must be in Times New Roman.
The font size of every digit must be equal to its square.
Every instance of the same letter must have a different font size.
Your password must include the length of your password.
The length of your password must be a prime number.
Uhhh let's skip this one.
Your password must include the current time.
Is this your final password?
captainpiggies 672 days ago [-]
I would find it hilarious if someone would come up with a password generator that generates passwords that would pass this game.
squirtlebonflow 672 days ago [-]
Should be pretty easy, since you can check the generated password against all the criteria. Making it fast might be difficult though
qt31415926 671 days ago [-]
I don't think it's easy. Verification is much easier than generating correct solutions for this.
Looking at the JS, these rules use RNG such that you can have an inconsistent or impossible password. E.g. if the only youtube video URLs that work with your duration have roman numerals that multiply above 35 in it you are hard stuck. Your youtube URL can also hard stuck your atomic number summation to 200 if it happens to contain enough elements that adds above 200. Your color hex can hard stuck your 25 sum, etc. The code does not try to generate working passwords given all the rules, it simply adds checks and randomly generates the requirement per rule.
You'd have to have the RNG rules to align well in order to win i.e. youtube video with no roman numerals or numbers or elements, captcha with no numbers or roman numerals or elements, to minimize conflict.
quantumsequoia 670 days ago [-]
For a given video length, there will be some youtube video urls without roman numerals, and with low digit sum, and atomic number.
I first search this on Google
"0:00 / mm:ss" site:youtube.com
Where mm:ss is the desired length. Then I used some Javascript to scrape the results, finding only youtube urls without roman numbers, and print them out sorted by digit sum and atomic number
I've done it a few times, never had a situation where there was no suitable url
As for the color hex, if it's not suitable, you can regenerate it
gcoakes 671 days ago [-]
I wonder if something like quickcheck could be used to randomly generate characters which pass the criteria. I don't know how it would handle Paul though...
XCSme 671 days ago [-]
Well, you could always upload your own YouTube video...
Make the generator use Pupetter and your YT credentials to upload an empty mp4 video of the given length.
Washuu 671 days ago [-]
I uploaded a video quick just to pass that step since the length was hard to find. The generated video ID was a bunch of Roman numerals so I was totally fucked.
XCSme 671 days ago [-]
Re-upload until you get a good ID
vezuchyy 671 days ago [-]
I almost overturned my table when Paul didn't survive the fire. No way I'll play again!
vezuchyy 671 days ago [-]
I played again and fcking Paul overate
joshgel 671 days ago [-]
I threw this into ChatGPT and got a lot of the way there in one shot. Then had to go back and add in some stuff like the wordle answer and captchas…
quantumsequoia 670 days ago [-]
You forgot rule 24: Your password must include the URL of a x minute and y second long youtube video
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charles_f 671 days ago [-]
Love it :D
Reminds me of something I built a few years ago, to answer spammers who keep contacting me with their offers of "services": https://cingen.net/moostik/signup/
The most insistent one tried 31 times (the rules are conflicting and it's impossible to satisfy the answer). Special attention was given to the security questions, but somehow spammers keep picking the simplest one.
sixstringtheory 672 days ago [-]
neal.fun and ciechanow.ski are vying for the number 1 spot on my list of HN auto-upvote submission hosts
h1fra 672 days ago [-]
Amazing !
Died after the URL, it was too much to recalculate the atomic numbers and keep track of Paul.
Maybe this chicken was the most unfair part of this game, the random captcha and country make it impossible to retry easily (maybe the time frame for feeding could be slowed down); but loved everything else, really ingenious.
Same here, I retried at least ten times if, sometimes stumbling over a copy paste error that got Paul killed, but keeping the chicken alive was the choke point for me. Perhaps it would be allowed to encode part of the url?
Also wouldn't url's with roman numbers in it fail the entire thing as 35 only can be obtained by multiplying 5 and 7? Ah right, or 35, true that but still same issue.
fisian 672 days ago [-]
I got a (seemingly?) impossible problem:
- roman numerals must multiply to 35
- my chess move is: Rf7+
- Atomic numbers of elements must add up to 200
So I need V, VII and Rf7+ in there but then the atomic numbers are way past 200 already.
Georgelemental 672 days ago [-]
Just use XXXV? No need to do 5 * 7
neurosage 672 days ago [-]
it parses the V in XXXV as an element group
zeven7 671 days ago [-]
But that's not a problem because that leaves you with only V and R which add to 98, so you only need to add some others to get it up to 200.
atuladhar 670 days ago [-]
I have a similar problem -- the Google Maps country I got is China, and the C is already 100 -- how do multiply it "down" to 35? Can I do parenthetical math similar to what a sibling comment suggested?
Update: I found the answer in another comment -- I can make the c lowercase! Thank you HN!
themanmaran 672 days ago [-]
Same boat. I tried doing some parenthetical math (X-III)(III+II) but it doesn't work.
amon_raw 672 days ago [-]
Well I is for Iodine,which has 53 as its atomic number, so this definitely wouldn't work anyways. XXXV is the way around this.
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schemescape 672 days ago [-]
Sadly, this is way less annoying than many sites because it doesn’t require submitting the form and losing half the form fields in between attempts.
lycos 672 days ago [-]
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!
sltkr 672 days ago [-]
The country is randomized; mine was Albania (that was NOT easy to figure out!)
lycos 672 days ago [-]
I saw a hot spring and got a very lucky guess, I can imagine there are a lot of hard ones in there yeah!
danuker 672 days ago [-]
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.
I had albania which was easy -- there was a nearby poster with some writing on, and a short ddg led to albanian sites.
hgsgm 672 days ago [-]
Google a street name.
icoder 672 days ago [-]
If it lands on a street it lets you roam around, but others only let you look and zoom around, they are harder if not impossible for mere mortals.
caddy 671 days ago [-]
Spoiler: You can save a couple characters by using PepSi (Pepsi + Silicon) which answers 2 requests.
jameshart 672 days ago [-]
2000 was a leap year and it doesn’t screw with your numeric total too badly :)
TomK32 672 days ago [-]
leap year? what? I guess I had passed that by accident, 4 and 8 were leap years I guess?
Symbiote 672 days ago [-]
8 AD was a leap year.
icoder 672 days ago [-]
so where 0 and 4 ;)
wizofaus 671 days ago [-]
Debatable - the concept of leap years was invented before 0 AD/CE but I'm not aware of any reason to believe that particular year (which certainly wasn't called 0 AD at the time, it was possibly the Roman year 753) was considered to be one.
Interesting that there seem to be a large number of scholars who would accept either 4 AD or 8 AD was the first AD leap year. But less clear what such a year would have been called by Romans at the time. I'm assuming it wasn't common to include full dates (including the year #) on written documents at the time, otherwise surely we'd know pretty much exactly.
I gather AD-based year numbering wasn't actually introduced until ~525 AD (but before that a number of systems had been in use).
rcoveson 671 days ago [-]
0 is a year if we say it is, which astronomers have for hundreds of years (because its extremely mathematically convenient), and which ISO-8601 does.
Year 0 is what historians like to call 1 BC, but historians are also just making that up. Nobody numbered years from Anno Domini anywhere near year 0.
I'm sure it's clear to everybody here why year 0, -1, and -2 are significantly better arbitrary, ahistorical names for the three years preceding year 1.
johtso 672 days ago [-]
I keep getting illegal move on the chess problem.. although my move is not illegal.
I'm not sure if this is your problem, but you have to include captures (x), check (+) and checkmate (#) if applicable
hgsgm 672 days ago [-]
Try Rd6 or Rd6+ for check.
icoder 672 days ago [-]
Or Rd6++ for check mate
mtlmtlmtlmtl 671 days ago [-]
# is check mate, ++ is double check.
lnyan 670 days ago [-]
For the country one, I got "www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1687119352692!6m8!1m7!1sINHBz4HdSwMAAAQrBnftjg!2m2!1d9.080961517214682!2d7.524398838108427!3f84.34!4f-4.950000000000003!5f0.4000000000000002"
I think it should be 9.08N, 7.52E and it works
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shanks512 671 days ago [-]
In one of my tries, I got a 3D model for the Geo guesser puzzle. Anyone know what/where this is: https://imgur.com/gallery/7r13Et9 ?
I can no longer access it now. But I have posted the Google maps embed link if that helps.
junto 669 days ago [-]
Got to level 31 on mobile.
The different font sizes for different characters ended up crashing the browser. I went out just after this:
> XXXV-75-may-Shell-dbfen-straw--china-Qf5+-0000-i am loved- https://youtube.com/watch?v=BprGlhu_Hfs- Po-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@#cd1520-xngxc-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-
Edit- emojis don’t save..
Couple of tips.
- 0000 is a leap year and doesn’t add to your numbers tally
- “not strong enough” - paste the strong man emoji three times.
- hex color - screenshot and upload to a hex color picker (on iOS turn off the screen dimming). Choose a hex color with low numbers. Enter as lowercase to avoid creating more chemical elements such as “F” and “C”
- chess move - install Chessvision.ai and upload screenshot. Taking a piece add an “x” between the piece taking the move and the target square e.g. Qxe5. Taking a piece and putting the king in check Qxe5+. Checkmate Qxe5#
- captcha - avoid numbers. Leave all lowercase. Avoid captchas that could be confused for a chess move (e.g. contains “e5”)
- YouTube URL - google “mm:ss YouTube” replacing the minutes and seconds. Only use one without Roman numerals and very few numbers in the URL. The times are shown in the screenshot on google search
- on fire? Smash the delete button. Add loads of zeros to pad it out to give yourself a chance. You can delete them later.
- copy the password regularly in a notes file. After
Everything goes up on flames you can paste it back in
- country - enter it in lower case. Take a look around if you can and hint for tips. Road signs, tree types (cold or warm climate), road name overlays, advertising, company names, etc. only once I couldn’t figure it out. Middle of a ruined castle??
- you not allowed to overfeed Paul. I kept him up at 5 bugs and it allowed me to jump between apps and jump back. Maybe you can add more but I didn’t risk it.
- ChatGPT can help you with the periodic table and help you with the math.
c120 671 days ago [-]
Almost gave up on the Chess notiation, but now "All the vowels in your password must be bolded." clashes with the requirement to include a captcha and reloading this unleashes all kinds of problem, so game over
oxguy3 671 days ago [-]
I spent forever trying to find a YouTube video that was precisely 16m18s, and when I finally did, the video ID included periodic elements and Roman numerals that broke my earlier rules, and I gave up. Fun game though!
nabakin 671 days ago [-]
I'll copy a comment I made earlier:
"00:00 / <minutes>:<seconds>" 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.
quantumsequoia 671 days ago [-]
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?
Lanrei 671 days ago [-]
Seems pretty self-explanatory:
> site:youtube.com "00:00 / 16:18"
Or you know you could just try to work it out for yourself.
mtlmtlmtlmtl 671 days ago [-]
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.
nabakin 671 days ago [-]
It sounds like the problem I was having on FF. Switch to Chrome and see if this problem persists
Rule 9: The Roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35
Rule 14: Name this country (Malasysia for me)
Given that M=1000 in roman numerals, I need to find x such that x*1000=35
How do I write 0.035 in Roman Numerals?!
pimlottc 672 days ago [-]
Change it to “malaysia”. It accepts lowercase for country name and only recognizes uppercase as Roman numerals.
bandrami 672 days ago [-]
ƧƧ is a decent approximation (that's two backwards capital S glyphs, if it doesn't render)
anthony_romeo 672 days ago [-]
Fun!
But I wasn’t able to finish: I got a captcha with digits 5, 3, 7, and 8. When the chessboard appeared, the best move was Qe6. These conflicted with the rule to have all digits sum to 25 (5+3+7+8+6=29).
pstadler 672 days ago [-]
You can re-roll the captcha.
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tw04 671 days ago [-]
If you use duckduckgo to search for youtube videos that's the easiest way over that hurdle because DDG will show the length of the video as an overlay for the thumbnail. Just search for "17 minute timer" or whatever is the closest but less than the length you need. Make sure to sort by short/medium/long as well to limit it to the proper window.
Made it to "the length of your password must be included in your password" and decided to throw in the towel.
earth_walker 671 days ago [-]
I just typed in "6 minutes and 55 second" in the youtube search and someone had posted a video called "6 minutes and 55 seconds of X"
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.
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
msravi 671 days ago [-]
So does this sometimes reach an unsolvable state? I have a captcha whose digits sum up to 24, a condition that all digits should sum up to 25, and the best chess move is Ne6+ (accepted), but there's no way to get all digits to sum to 25!
mAy@VpepsiVIIm3588tractSibelgiumNe6+
m3588 is the captcha and Ne6+ is the chess move in the above
I've also tried putting something like -5 in the hope that it recognizes negative numbers, but no luck!
gault8121 671 days ago [-]
When you break the captcha rule, you can re-select the captcha. You want to keep re-rolling till you find a low number combo. There are a few rules where you can re-roll to get a better random number. In general, it gets harder and harder to stay under the 25 limit as you progress.
purpleflame1257 671 days ago [-]
You can refresh the captcha to make it work.
BIG_H0TD0G 671 days ago [-]
Hello guys, for level 16 (Chess level) if you cant get pass it use this website https://nextchessmove.com/
How to use?
make the chess board on the website the same as the one on The password game then press Calculate button. Have fun! Edit : press reset to get the full board!
POOWHILERUNNING 671 days ago [-]
This was fun until I reached the time-sensitive rules
badmatr11x 670 days ago [-]
Find a Flaw in the logic!!
I had a captcha value "ex0888" and the answer for the chess puzzle was Rd8+. Now I can not statisfy the Rule "digit sum adds up to number 25" cause total of all the digits in password was exceeding the 25. Can't go ahead of this!
But It was fun playing and keeping up all the rules!
sashank_1509 672 days ago [-]
Lost at Paul was over fed. Took so much effort to make atomic numbers sum upto 200 while ensuring Roman Numerals multiply to 35. Smh
saikaushik 672 days ago [-]
What's the chess puzzle? Q×h6+ is not working for me?
sashank_1509 672 days ago [-]
Everyone gets a different puzzle
meetpateltech 672 days ago [-]
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/starbucks/shell)
9. The roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35.
10. Your password must include this CAPTCHA:
11. Your password must include today's Wordle answer.
12. Your password must include a two letter symbol from the periodic table.
13. Your password must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji.
14. Your password must include the name of this country.
15. Your password must include a leap year.
16. Your password must include the best move in [algebraic chess notation].
17. ← This is my chicken Paul. He hasn't hatched yet, please put him in your password and keep him safe.
18. The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200.
19. All the vowels in your password must be bolded.
20. Oh no! Your password is on fire. Quick, put it out!
21. Your password is not strong enough
22. Your password must contain one of the following affirmations: (i am loved, i am worthy, i am enough)
23. Paul has hatched! Please don't forget to feed him, he eats three every minute.
24. Your password must include the URL of a <random> long YouTube video.
25. A sacrifice must be made. Pick 2 letters that you will no longer be able to use.
26. Your password must contain twice as many italic characters as bold.
27. At least 30% of your password must be in the Wingdings font.
28. Your password must include this color in hex.
29. All roman numerals must be in Times New Roman.
30. The font size of every digit must be equal to its square.
31. Every instance of the same letter must have a different font size.
32. Your password must include the length of your password.
33. The length of your password must be a prime number.
34. Uhhh let's skip this one.
35. Your password must include the current time.
36. Is this your final password?
Pannoniae 672 days ago [-]
You can't pass 36. Just saying.
YellOh 672 days ago [-]
Honestly not sure how you'd pass the youtube one, unless you were incredibly lucky
TomK32 672 days ago [-]
I found one by the United Nations. In the meanwhile Paul starved to death.
TheLordOfPigs 669 days ago [-]
"Youtube Time Filter" Chrome extension
Pannoniae 672 days ago [-]
by searching for the length in your favourite search engine :)
YellOh 672 days ago [-]
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?
Symbiote 672 days ago [-]
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.
iso1631 671 days ago [-]
It would have likely screwed up your previous answers -- roman numerals etc.
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 :(
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surume 671 days ago [-]
Wow that is tough. The country part stumped me and I had to give up cause I also have a day job . Excellent work Neal!
EdZ123 670 days ago [-]
Got to the retype your password one and didn't copy beforehand. Not going through that again...
captn3m0 672 days ago [-]
I got a "Paul has been slain" message, when I deleted half my password to debug something. Weird.
Got to the vowel capitalization.
jameshart 672 days ago [-]
Paul is the chicken
TomK32 672 days ago [-]
It's not capitalization, it's about selecting the characters and pressing the "bold" button.
icoder 672 days ago [-]
Or just ctrl-a + ctrl-b
mhdm 671 days ago [-]
Awesome game. Didn't think it was possible to LOSE at picking a password but there you have it. LOST at finding a 16m48s youtube video and a lovely passw0R.513mayIshellXXXV8pfxxtractAusingaporeRh8+ iamenough
When entering the chess game moves make sure to add `x` when taking a piece, `+` when checking, and `#` for checkmate.
This is now my new favorite way to explain to people that passwords should not exist. Long live FIDO2 and passkeys.
chme 672 days ago [-]
I don't think passwords will be replaced. This is more of a demonstration of over complicated password rules, than against passwords itself.
Hardware and biometric keys can be stolen, cloned and lost. And trusting third-parties with keys to harddrive encryption is also not really trustworthy.
lrvick 671 days ago [-]
1. You can have multiple hardware keys or devices bound to an account as a backup of for ease of use.
2. Passkeys allow you to pick a backup solution of your choosing. Could be your own nextcloud server in the corner. This is no different than giving someone a choice of cloud-synced password manager
Both solutions avoid phishing, password re-use, keylogging, or people picking weak passwords.
There is no excuse for anyone even supporting passwords at this point. Sysadmins have not commonly used passwords for ssh in 20 years, favoring private keys on either hardware or encrypted disks. Keys better than passwords-over-the-wire in every way.
chme 671 days ago [-]
> 1. You can have multiple hardware keys or devices bound to an account as a backup of for ease of use.
How does that help if someone steals your hardware key, login in with it and then puts it back. You don't even know that it was stolen and your account was messed with. With a good password you know if you tell someone. Granted people could film you typing your password, but stealing your hardware key is much easier.
> 2. Passkeys allow you to pick a backup solution of your choosing. Could be your own nextcloud server in the corner. This is no different than giving someone a choice of cloud-synced password manager
This isn't about backup, but trust. Do I trust a third-party to manage the keys to my kingdom? No. And even if, the third-party is a much easier target for 3 letter agencies, governments or other rich/influential bad actors. Also I haven't seen a solution where passkey can be used to decrypt my LUKS partition.
> There is no excuse for anyone even supporting passwords at this point. Sysadmins have not commonly used passwords for ssh in 20 years, favoring private keys on either hardware or encrypted disks. Keys better than passwords-over-the-wire in every way.
The encrypted disks are hopefully protected with a password, and not magically unencrypted, just by booting it with the right TPM configuration. The hardware hopefully requires a pin or password in order to unlock the SSH key, and the SSH key on disk is hopefully encrypted with a password as well.
lrvick 671 days ago [-]
1. If they have the access to steal your hardware key then they also probably have access to replace your usb charging cable with a malicious one, or install a keylogger on your system, or place a microphone or camera near you for acoustic or optical keylogging. All ways your password could be stolen without you knowing. If your yubikey is stolen at least you find out fast and could warn your IT manager to lock you out. Still, 99.999% of all threats are online, and for the rare few that have physical theft of keys in their threat model, then you have the option to set a pin on your yubikey with a 3 try lockout. Or you can use touchid, or another platform authenticator built into your laptop. If they can steal your unlocked laptop, then neither passwords or passkeys are going to help so this is moot.
2. Fido2 lets you decide who to trust. A non technical user can use google or apple or a hosted nextcloud instance as a backup. A technical user is more likely to enroll the TEEs built into their phones and laptops, with a yubikey in a safety deposit box as a backup.
Passkeys and FIDO2 offer a massive reduction in attack surface and are superior to passwords in every way for every threat model I have ever heard of.
You have all the same options for managing a fido2/passkey/webauthn key as you do an ssh key.
Web passwords should go die in the same fire as SMS 2FA.
chme 671 days ago [-]
> 1. If they have the access to steal your hardware key then they also probably have access to replace your usb charging cable with a malicious one, or install a keylogger on your system, or place a microphone or camera near you for acoustic or optical keylogging. All ways your password could be stolen without you knowing. If your yubikey is stolen at least you find out fast and could warn your IT manager to lock you out. Still, 99.999% of all threats are online, and for the rare few that have physical theft of keys in their threat model, then you have the option to set a pin on your yubikey with a 3 try lockout. Or you can use touchid, or another platform authenticator built into your laptop. If they can steal your unlocked laptop, then neither passwords or passkeys are going to help so this is moot.
You are jumping around various attack scenarios to make your point. If your child steals your hardware token to shop on amazon and then put it back afterwards is a different and much more likely scenario then some targeted attack by some hacker that is prepared and breaks into your home...
Most online threads are about social engineering, where the person that is attacked actually cooperates with the attacker, AFAIK there is no safeguard against that, other than not trusting people with their own stuff.
I would worry more about someone stealing a locked laptop. If there is no password (or other kind of knowleged based protection), then they have everything they need to unlock it.
> Web passwords should go die in the same fire as SMS 2FA.
So since you limited your argument now to just Web passwords. Does that mean you agree with me that you don't think there is a good solution to replace passwords for encryption or local authentication that works offline and doesn't move the trust away from the user?
lrvick 671 days ago [-]
Web passwords are the primary issue. Secrets that are local on your system with hardware enforced rate limiting, such as a pin on a yubikey, are reasonable. Pins are short and memorable. Passwords generally must be 256 bits of entropy and thus not easily memorable.
You can do FDE with a smart card+pin or smart card+biometrics depending on your threat model.
I consider a pin provided to local hardware or for local decryption different from the concept of a password as is widely deployed on every web service under the sun.
Services should never see your secrets though, only public keys.
I assumed we were talking about web passwords given that is the only scope FIDO2/passkeys cover.
chme 671 days ago [-]
> Web passwords are the primary issue. Secrets that are local on your system with hardware enforced rate limiting, such as a pin on a yubikey, are reasonable. Pins are short and memorable. Passwords generally must be 256 bits of entropy and thus not easily memorable.
I consider PINs, passwords and passphrases as the same thing, just different rules to create/input them. Numerical PINs might be easier to remember, but as with unlock patterns on a phone, it is also easier to casually observe someone entering and memorizing it.
Biometrics I am not a fan of, because they can be stolen without you noticing. With password you have to enter it in an untrusted environment, which takes more effort to setup. Also biometrics cannot easily be changed if they leak. And they also change with time and events involuntary and some people even have identical biometric data.
> I assumed we were talking about web passwords given that is the only scope FIDO2/passkeys cover.
The discussion started with wanting to replace all passwords.
IMO, 2FA via hardware key etc. next to a password/PIN it great, but IMO some kind of proof of knowledge can not be replaced by just a proof of possession.
caddy 671 days ago [-]
If using it as a security key (with a password) you don't need to give the device anything but a tap usually.
However, if you use a Yubikey or Trezor for example as a Passkey (No Password), you have to enter a pin on either (Yubikey via OS and Trezor on device) before they will fulfil the request and log you in.
chme 671 days ago [-]
> However, if you use a Yubikey or Trezor for example as a Passkey (No Password), you have to enter a pin on either (Yubikey via OS and Trezor on device) before they will fulfil the request and log you in.
Personally I consider a PIN, password or passphrase the same thing, just different rules. It is security based on knowledge. So If I enter a PIN somewhere it is still a password. IMO this is fine.
alexarborist 672 days ago [-]
I'm stuck on the chess thing as well, and this time I do think it's a bug. The board in FEN notation is 8/7p/5pk1/3n2pq/3N1nR1/1P3P2/P6P/4QK2 w - - 0 1
The best move is 'Qe8+' and that is exactly what I have put in. Including the '+' sign.
hershelgibbs 670 days ago [-]
Are some of them unsolvable? Mine says has to include the captcha 52447 & chess move Rxg6+ & leap year and add up to 25.
From the captcha + the chess move alone I am already above 25... I tried subtracting, did not work. Anyone have an idea here?
Quiza12 671 days ago [-]
This is great! I built a very similar thing a while ago - https://www.funnypasswordchecker.com/
Definitely not in the same league but it was a lot of fun!
koalateacontrol 671 days ago [-]
Got to the final answer but then I had to re-enter my password before a bomb blew up and it wouldn't let me copy my password. Anyone manage to do that last part? Is it even possible e.g. if you copy your password before that's disabled?
spinsser 671 days ago [-]
I copied it when it asked me to confirm my password and pasted it.
It worked instantly.
koalateacontrol 671 days ago [-]
Yeah I redid the whole thing and copied before the last step. Successfully created a 211 character password.
captainpiggies 672 days ago [-]
This game is great! Even though I will need to catch up with whatever was happening in my class for the last 2 hours, I thoroughly enjoyed my time and the fact that I have no idea what the professor is talking about is a sign of how engaged I was.
username923409 671 days ago [-]
Funny game, but it seemed to break for me when trying to find a YouTube video of length 4:55. I entered multiple videos of lengths 4:54, 4:55, and 4:56, all while keeping Paul fed, but none of them satisfied the requirement somehow.
cm-t 672 days ago [-]
> Rule 5: The digits in your password must add up to 25.
Im already stuck here with `Password!25XXV` or `Password!1234567890123456789012345` or `Password!34` (9+25)
I'm not native english, so if there is a pun in the rules description, I might not get it :'(
arijun 672 days ago [-]
It’s the sum of the individual digits, so 25 sums to 7, and your second one sums to way more than 25
cm-t 672 days ago [-]
funny that i had to remove weight of my initial digit since the CAPTCHA (rule10) :>
arijun 672 days ago [-]
The captcha could itself add up to more than 25, making an immediate game over
jackson1442 672 days ago [-]
You can request a new captcha without restarting
hgsgm 672 days ago [-]
Same. I had a captcha and chess move that added to 29.
Copy your password and reload to continue with only a few missed rules.
echeese 672 days ago [-]
It means sum, so 55555 would work
cm-t 672 days ago [-]
got it, thank you!
thorin 672 days ago [-]
It means individual digits e.g. 997 === 9 + 9 + 7
cgordon2028 670 days ago [-]
I am stuck with “ Agtractbnc2fshellXXXVjune995$” and can’t figure out the guess the country one. I have the one where you are in a cave with a lot of people with a hit with a no smoking and no shoes sign
aluskuiuc 670 days ago [-]
I may have had that one; there was southeast asian writing on a sign and it was Malaysia.
j0057 672 days ago [-]
This just goes to show how wise it was to write a script for cheating on Wordle.
naitsa 672 days ago [-]
Aww i overfeed paul while trying to find a suitable youtube url.
It ended with:
SmSm#aro#Qg8+1196decemberpepsiXXXVxbcbxI am loved about[moon-emoji]kenya[paul][lifting][lifting][lifting][worm][too many worms]
WatchDog 671 days ago [-]
Here are some leap year digit tallies[0], which might help a few people.
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.
stsourlidakis 672 days ago [-]
I walked around a lot but couldn't figure out the country. I refreshed and the next one was on some cliff that I couldn't move so I pasted a list of all countries and then started deleting in a binary search fashion until I was left with the correct one.
anoncow 671 days ago [-]
That’s excellent
WaxProlix 672 days ago [-]
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.
After a 'walk' I saw flags which confused me, but it turns out this country has a very similar flag to its neighbour.
StingyJelly 671 days ago [-]
I had openstreetmap redirect enabled and it broke it for me. I only got a blank iframe so I had to decode coordinates from its url.
TomK32 672 days ago [-]
Didn't know you could move, but then, why would I when I was shown a beach in Israel.
spinsser 671 days ago [-]
Finally finished it. It has been so stressful.
"Congratulations! You have sucessfully chosen a password in 211 characters."
I got lucky when I found a bug with Paul (otherwise I would have given up)
bowmessage 671 days ago [-]
Can you explain the bug?
splittydev 670 days ago [-]
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
ms_e 665 days ago [-]
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muhammadusman 672 days ago [-]
it does help you find a really strong password, sponsored by Pepsi!
TomK32 672 days ago [-]
Make it PepSi for bonus points on other tasks.
d--b 671 days ago [-]
Well, my chess move is Nd3+, and Nd gives an atomic number of 60. That plus V and VII gives 212. Adding an “n” to VII reduces it to 208, but I am screwed, no password for me…
ufo 671 days ago [-]
XXXV also works
d--b 671 days ago [-]
Jesus, of course thanks
burnished 671 days ago [-]
I only got to the captcha because I was on mobile and couldn't be arsed to make precise edits, but I am very impressed by how slick and funny they made a password modal
danfritz 671 days ago [-]
Cannot get past rule 5, tried a bunch of different solutions from this thread but nothing works. Maybe a browser quirk ( I'm on Brave IOS)
Anybody else have the same problem?
verytrivial 671 days ago [-]
I was confused for a while but it means the individual digits when summed should total 25. That worked for me.
nabakin 671 days ago [-]
Reached 28 and forgot to feed Paul. That Rule is so frustrating
joestrong 671 days ago [-]
I started this just before midnight, and once I got to the wordle question it didn't work. Possibly because the wordle had changed since starting the password game
LandR 670 days ago [-]
I'm stuck on the chess one.
The best move is Queen to e8, which I'm sure is represented in algebraic notation as Qe8. But it says that Qe8 is invalid notation.
wesleychen 670 days ago [-]
Try Qe8+ if it's check or Qxe8 if you're taking a piece.
LandR 670 days ago [-]
Thanks! That worked, it was a check.
sunjester 670 days ago [-]
It was fun until I had to provide an answer to Wordle, a game I have never played, did not know about, and really could care less about. gg though.
Lord_Hagen 670 days ago [-]
Btw about the URL problem. I came up with the solution to use a YT link shortener in order to be able to keep the 25 and 200 atomic number rule.
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asdaa21332 671 days ago [-]
Im stuck at "aaaaA?kmayVPepsiVIIn373n-tract.Fe Romania 20-111
Rf7+"
in rule 18 The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200.
Please help!
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hbn 671 days ago [-]
I know nothing about geography or landmarks so I just grabbed the lat/long from the Google Maps iframe embed and looked it up.
Turned out to be Cambodia for me!
ovulator 672 days ago [-]
This is awesome, I kind of want to use it now instead of a password generator, I got as far as the chess move. 20+599July.XXXVpcedepepsiABOUTBechile
Phemist 672 days ago [-]
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..
Super fun. Sadly I accidentally killed Paul by misclicking while trying to simultaneously include the right elements and Roman numerals.
xx__yy 670 days ago [-]
I gave up at "the current phase of the moon as an emoji."
Looks like so of you guys tried harder than I did
VoodooJuJu 671 days ago [-]
Was fun until I got "what's today's wordle"? Wasn't googleable enough for me and I don't play wordle.
cheeze 671 days ago [-]
literally the first result of "todays wordle"?
VoodooJuJu 671 days ago [-]
The first result of "todays wordle" is AI-generated blogspam that might have the answer buried in there somewhere. The first result of "today's wordle" is the wordle game itself.
abbabon 670 days ago [-]
This has slowed down productivity in my and my friend's companies to a grinding halt. Thank you so much.
ifxdgjgjix 670 days ago [-]
HELP ME ON RULE 18 MY PASSWORD IS Asslover2!6556 JanuaryXXXV sponsored by Pepsi nydfe diner germany ra1+
assudcvcu 670 days ago [-]
HELP ME ON RULE 18 MY PASSWORD IS Asslover2!6556 JanuaryXXXV sponsored by Pepsi nydfe diner germany ra1+
Oh god, I got to the part where the password starts catching on fire, eventually poor Paul was consumed by the fire.
hgsgm 672 days ago [-]
I deleted Paul :-(
MissingHandle 671 days ago [-]
Once I overfed [name], I reached my limit
bakedfanta 671 days ago [-]
i cannot get past the rule 5 where it says your password must have digits that add up to 25, my password is this currently TheU youtuebrmilliondollarsjulyXXXVpepsixgcxytractsweden0Rh8+
ive gotten up to rule 16 in total but every time i go to progress it says that i have to complete rule 5 again
dhakdusb 671 days ago [-]
Got to rule 35 where I had to include the current time and it was impossible to do… how many rules are there
cloddity 669 days ago [-]
finally did it after 10 attempts and several hours..
my password was "[paul]#################7Ge101#2ad2be1:00dpbydstrawmaypepsi[worm][moon][weight][weight][weight]iamlovednorwayQxh7+youtu.be/__uIuGojJU4XXXV"
gault8121 671 days ago [-]
Got to rule 33 after like two hours! The cap on adding up to 25 becomes really tough with the later rules.
aodonnell2536 672 days ago [-]
Got stuck at rule 18, not sure what an atomic number is in this context
Actually Pa from "Password" will br Protactinium at 91. I also started off by typing password and had to change the Pa to a smaller element.
aodonnell2536 671 days ago [-]
Oh man I feel silly, I’ve spent the past few days doing Project Euler puzzles and was fixated on it being a number satisfying special properties
drsopp 672 days ago [-]
I suspect a bug: I got the chess solution Rh2+ that also matches an element with too high atomic number..
icoder 672 days ago [-]
Yep, same here with Re and then something
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Dwedit 671 days ago [-]
Had to stop at the "Name of this country" question because the iframe was blocked by uMatrix.
impalallama 672 days ago [-]
> The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200.
And I'm out lol. Fun game though.
tervuren 670 days ago [-]
hey it lets you use multiple elements for this one. I used Hf, Ir, and Ni to get to the next rule.
yellowman1 670 days ago [-]
I tried it and it didnt work
SCAQTony 670 days ago [-]
I got to rule 16 — I don't know chess #2x8+183SeptemberVIIxVShellgnc3nTRAcTKenya
hotboy69 671 days ago [-]
on rule 18: "The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200." My element is "Na" and it says my roman numerals are a problem. They are "VI" and "IV". Not too sure where to go from here.
tervuren 670 days ago [-]
the roman numerals are all good man its the elements. the "N" in "Na" is adding 90 onto the numeral rule, for rule 18 you can use multiple two letter elements just try and find ones that don't contain roman numerals and you'll be fine
earth_walker 671 days ago [-]
Hint: V = Vanadium and I = Iodine.
dudinax 671 days ago [-]
Password wouldn't recognize chess moves on row 7 or 8, and the best move was on row 7!
ews 671 days ago [-]
I got Netherlands as country and I can't make L and D roman numerals to multiply to 35
fifticon 671 days ago [-]
you get V times VII ?
vonwoodson 672 days ago [-]
I love it. I especially love that it doesn't tell you what's wrong until too late!
frogpelt 670 days ago [-]
Paul (the chicken) starved while I was trying to find the YouTube video. I’m sad.
cuddlyogre 671 days ago [-]
The iPhone keyboard wiped out my progress when the Roman numerals part started.
Man I miss my Android.
Fun game though.
hkab 671 days ago [-]
Lost at Rule 24. Really shouldn't ignore the 1 minutes feed notice ^^
Fun game btw.
adotbacon 671 days ago [-]
Lost there too doing the opposite... I tried to get ahead of 3 per minute by creating a nice stockpile. Dead from overfeeding.
GingerSpice 671 days ago [-]
How do I get past Rule 21 "Your password isn't strong enough "
None4U 671 days ago [-]
Copy the strong emoji in the rule three times
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tiago123 671 days ago [-]
I'm stuck at the atomic numbers rule... Does someone know how to solve it?
blharr 671 days ago [-]
Because of the personalized nature, you can end up with elements that make it impossible.
For example, "VII" and "V" is forced by Roman Numerals needing to multiply to 35. Then, my chess puzzle was "Rf7+"
The atomic numbers -
V: 23, I: 53, Rf: 104
2×23+2×53+104 adds to a number over 200, which is frustrating because it seems like there should be a trick, or it should at least be solvable
pynappo 671 days ago [-]
you can just use switch to XXXV. No I needed.
hnick 671 days ago [-]
Work out what you must have based on the rules, list them out, then subtract from 200.
For me, V and VII from the roman numerals = 152 so I needed 48. Did He and Pd. Then of course a later rule came along.
tatarenstas 671 days ago [-]
The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200.
mcdonje 672 days ago [-]
This made me angry. Good job.
ezekg 672 days ago [-]
I got to the chess move and didn't feel like putting in the effort there.
anoncow 672 days ago [-]
My password caught fire at Stage 18 and Paul sadly became an burnt omelette!
AdamSpits 672 days ago [-]
The digits in your password must add up to 25 what do they mean with this?
jalapen000 670 days ago [-]
you can go with any combination usually
55555 = 25
or
64555 = 25
you get the gist just add the digits til you get 25
Stuck on Rule 21 "Your password is not strong enough "
Ximba 671 days ago [-]
my password got on fire, i lost it, how? no idea, i'm pissed off
Night_Thastus 672 days ago [-]
This is so much goofy fun. Thank you so much for making this. :)
gpvos 672 days ago [-]
So Neal solves Wordle every midnight to keep this game running?
chimeracoder 672 days ago [-]
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.
Seems like it has answers up to July 30, so he's either a time traveller or it's possible to get future answers by looking at the Wordle source.
gpvos 671 days ago [-]
I thought the NY Times had reworked it so you couldn't see the answer in advance anymore, but maybe not. The current code is too obfuscated for me to figure it out easily.
tiago123 671 days ago [-]
I'm stuck at the atomic numbers rule... How to solve it?
sprokolopolis 671 days ago [-]
Look at the periodic table and find elements that add up to what you need. In the game lowercase letters will not count as an elemnet unless paired with an uppercase, so either 1 capital letter or One capital and one lowercase letter as the atomic symbols.
JoelSanchez 672 days ago [-]
my country was Georgia, i got the coordinates using devtools...
i gave up when it got to chess, guess "55A%SeptemberXXXVStarbucksgny6baboutgeorgia2016" will have to be enough
hgsgm 672 days ago [-]
It's easy to spam guesses of moves until you get approved.
filmgirlcw 671 days ago [-]
This is the most fun I've had wasting time in months.
It should highlight the likely multiple atomic numbers that are already in your password.
LelouBil 671 days ago [-]
It means that whatever strings in your password that are elements in the periodic table, should have atomic numbers (in the periodic table) that add up to 200.
So go find a table on wikipedia, add up the elements it already recognized and choose strategically a couple of new ones to add !
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willblaire 671 days ago [-]
can someone help with rule 18 (the elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200)? I'm stuck on what it's asking 3:
Jeslijar 671 days ago [-]
Look up a periodic table and correlate the highlighted letters with numbers on said table.
Change, remove, modify letters until you reach 200 based on the sum of their atomic numbers.
For easy cheese, add H to increment by 1. Repeat capital H until you have reached the sum if you are under. Easy to later add and remove H until you satisfy the condition.
zakanfein 671 days ago [-]
I found the video .... but the elements now ....
Mizoguchi 671 days ago [-]
This is how Chase Bank password policies feel like
xigency 670 days ago [-]
RomanianPepSiPotat0VžVII3p4nn57aboutJuneQe6+
Nifty3929 671 days ago [-]
I feel this password field is Turing complete.
lazylion2 671 days ago [-]
The fire part took me by surprise, RIP Paul
DasCorCor 671 days ago [-]
I laughed out loud many times, thank you! :)
gnutrino 671 days ago [-]
RIP Paul. This was really hard on mobile.
YChacker100 671 days ago [-]
Super fun game ahah thanks for making!
hiergiltdiestfu 671 days ago [-]
today's wordle contains a C, but the game doesn't know about roman numeral fractions :(
ghayes 671 days ago [-]
Type it in lowercase and it won't count against the Roman numerals.
rngDolphins 671 days ago [-]
rip Paul, but also I love this concept. I would love to see it expanded with more varied requirements!
ankaAr 671 days ago [-]
I want to say that i really hate you
starrz_r_cool 671 days ago [-]
im stuck on question 16 and what annoys me is that everyone gets a different puzzle
Kiro 671 days ago [-]
Why is that annoying? I think it's great that you actually need to craft your unique password and can't just copypaste a solution.
BarneySz 671 days ago [-]
Do we need to put out the fire?
nanmu42 671 days ago [-]
Oh no my chicken is dead. LOL
TT-392 672 days ago [-]
I gave up when I overfed paul
33nick12 670 days ago [-]
same :)
roozbeh18 671 days ago [-]
I learned alot today. #win
brna 671 days ago [-]
F... the on fire part :D
ineedausername 672 days ago [-]
What is this abomination.
javajosh 672 days ago [-]
It's called a "joke".
maerF0x0 672 days ago [-]
> The digits in your password must add up to 25.
> X4X5I6V7V8V9!
Unclear what is not adding up to 25 here. Is it a bug?
Kiro 672 days ago [-]
Let me guess. You often think it's a bug in the compiler.
nerdponx 672 days ago [-]
4+5+6+7+8+9 > 25, no? They mean exactly 25, not at least 25.
maerF0x0 672 days ago [-]
This is the concept I was missing. Thank ya.
codetrotter 672 days ago [-]
> > X4X5I6V7V8V9!
> Unclear what is not adding up to 25 here. Is it a bug?
4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 39
gield 672 days ago [-]
4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 39
abcd123123 671 days ago [-]
What does rule 5 mean
zakanfein 671 days ago [-]
RIP Paul :')
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ertrteert 664 days ago [-]
hyub
StinkyFish01 671 days ago [-]
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soupslush 671 days ago [-]
i still can't pass rule 5
glonq 672 days ago [-]
fun! i stopped at 'today's wordle answer' since i don't know (or care) about such things.
pragmatic8 671 days ago [-]
Thanks for letting us know that you don’t waste your precious time with such frivolities as Wordle.
omnibrain 671 days ago [-]
Same for me. Never looked at "wordle" once.
phaedryx 671 days ago [-]
ABOUT
fjkh 672 days ago [-]
what is the answer to rule 14
genjii931 671 days ago [-]
Brilliant!
cafeinux 671 days ago [-]
I lost at rule 35 (out of 36) because I overfed Paul.
Some tips I gathered:
9. Use XXXV, as the chemical symbols contained in (V,VII) add up 152, which is already very close to 200 for rule 18;
10. Refresh the captcha so that it only includes lowercase letters, you'll need numbers later and they can't add up to more than 25 according to rule 5;
14. Pray for having a country with a short name, whose first letter isn't also a chemical element and that includes common letters (curse you Zimbabwe);
15. I think 4 is a leap year...
17. Put Paul at the start or the end of your password;
19. You can bold the whole string to meet the condition, but beware of rule 26. Also, before meeting the condition, copy-paste your password elsewhere;
20. Just select the fire and some more characters and delete them, then fill the gap from your copy-pasted password;
22. Use "i am loved" (all lowercase, cf. rule 18) as you'll need to sacrifice two letters for rule 25, but you will already use 'o' for youtu.be, 'v' for XXXV, 'e' for youtu.be, and probably 'l' and 'd' in your captcha, URL (cf. rule 24) or color (cf. rule 28). Also, it's the shorter word of the three, and for rules 32 and 33 it's simpler to add padding symbols than to remove mandatory characters to control the length of the password;
23. Try to have between 2 and 6 max worms at any time, it should give you enough time to think without overfeeding Paul. 9 worms will definitely kill Paul (maybe less, but 6 should be safe);
24. On Chrome, you can use the "YouTube Time Filter" extension to find videos of the correct timelength. On YouTube, type a very generic request (like "game", "car", or even just "p"), open the filters and choose "Video" (to filter out shorts) as well as a length range (to reduce client-side filtering) then in the YouTube Time Filter insert a length range one second before and one second after the required range (the game has a one second leniency). Then scroll and scroll. Of course, once you find a suitable video, strip any superfluous parameter from its length, and make sure that the video id doesn't include any uppercase 'M', 'D', 'C', 'X' (because those roman numerals don't multiply to 35, cf. rule 9) and preferably no 'V' or 'I' (because of rules 9 and 18). It's hard, but with a bit of patience, it doable. Also use the short URL (youtu.be, not youtube.com) and trim the "https://www.", you don't need them;
25. If you applied those tips correctly and you were lucky on the captcha and the country, you should be able to strip the letters 'w' and 'z' at the very least. Other letters if you were very lucky (maybe try to choose another month for rule 6 if it can make you unuse a letter, or maybe you should have used "i am enough" ?);
26. Just put the whole string in italics;
28. Refresh until you have a color without numbers (or 0 at most), for rule 5;
32. It's better to have 123 characters than 97 (cf. rule 5);
33. Sorry, I meant 113. Other probable candidates, depending on your current password length are: 101, 103, 113, 131, 151, 211, 223, 233, 311 and 313. Other numbers are fine too, but it's up to you to see if you can have them depending on your URL and chess move. Maybe include 8 padding symbols at the end of the password, in prevision to rule 35. Know that the length will vary when you feed Paul, but the length should usually be correct;
34. Just skip this one, really;
35. Unfortunately, I didn't pass that one as I overfed Paul, but I think it would be easier to play around midnight, ideally at 00:00:00, because you know, rule 5. But make sure to write it at 23:59 and change the police size to 0px before midnight, so every rule can be met at midnight. Not sure if the seconds are needed or not, since I didn't pass it.
p4nthera_ 671 days ago [-]
To add a couple of things to this:
9. I use XXXV (23), He (2), Fm (100), these make it easier to adjust the symbols later on.
15. 0 is a leap year
20. Ctrl+Backspace will delete the whole fire if you place your cursor at the end of it
24. If you type your exact time into youtube (e.g. 32:15) you will find many videos with that length, bad thing about this solution however is that if you're given a time that can also be a date (e.g 21:01) you'll just get a bunch of news broadcasts from that day.
Also I think the limit for Paul is 5 caterpillars, I keep it at 4 just to be safe though.
bowmessage 669 days ago [-]
Seconds aren't needed. Also, copy your password before confirming it! You'll need it on the clipboard for the next step...
axiore 671 days ago [-]
how to do the atomic 200
axiore 671 days ago [-]
what is rule 5 idk how
rashford_prime 670 days ago [-]
wtf is the answer??
fjkh 672 days ago [-]
what is rule 14
momirlan 671 days ago [-]
do people here have so much free time on their hands ?
I'm stuck at level 28 where I have to convert the image to hexadecimal which I have done using multiple websites all getting the same answer however when I copy it over to the game it doesn't work. Please help I've spent too long doing this
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blharr 671 days ago [-]
I had the same issue and had to look at a few different ones.
I ended up finding javascripter.net/faq/rgbtohex.htm which worked for me
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leshenka 671 days ago [-]
that's also different for everyone. I needed a 12 minutes and 13 seconds video
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Played with my girlfriend and we got to rule 35, include the current time
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For example "9 9 7", It counts the single digits so "10 15" would be "1 + 0 + 1 + 5 = 7" so in that case you'd need "10 15 9 9"
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AdamSpits 672 days ago [-]
The digits in your password must add up to 25 wath do they mean with this?
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 to see what's next after figuring out the best move in this Chess puzzle.
This reminds me of trying to manually construct an Autogram like below. This one is a quote someone else made. I tried to do it myself and it is so hard because the counts keep changing as you write out other counts!
Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogram
Edit: OK, just realised that it's case sensitive. So I can use a lower case "u" to avoid it being interpreted as an element.
Also Rg1+ is a rather pretty attraction/clearance sacrifice/double check/mate-in-2.
I take puzzles way too seriously, and I suck at word puzzles.
nice job! autograms are strangely pleasing.
Edit: figured it out
Edit: Oooohhh, I think I forgot to add a + for check!
K = King
Q = Queen
B = Bishop
R = Rook
N = Knight
Pawns have no letter
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You append a "+" to the end when it is a check move
You append a "#" to the end when it's a checkmate move
You add an "x" when your move eats another piece
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Examples
- Moving a rook to g6: Rg6
- Moving a queen to d7 which eats a piece: Qxd7
- Moving a bishop to a3 which checks the opponents king: Ba3+
- Moving a pawn to e5: e5
- Moving a queen to h7 which eats a piece and checks the king: Qxh7+
- Moving a pawn to f4 which checkmates the king: f4#
Rae1 - rook a to e1. if two rooks on the first line can move to e1. R4d4 - if two rooks on the 4th line can go to d4. Ngxh2# - the knight from g captures on h2 with checkmate.
Nd2e4 - In a rare case that there are 3 knights that can go to a single square
Pawn captures are denoted as exd5 (pawn on the line e captures a pawn on d5) even if there is only one pawn that can make a capture.
- d8N# pawn moves and promotes to a knight resulting in checkmate (it can happen)
Honestly though, this is still better than some of the "secure password" prompts I've encountered in life.
Don't be like me, don't overfeed Paul
Update: this strat works. But then don't immediately overfeed him.
I'm completely stuck on it... I've tried every single combination that came to mind :/
Also make sure to add the x for captures and the + for check and things like that
If you put the opposing king in check you need to put the +
"SiP@pepsin.VII@Vmay8y63f-2aboutcolombiaKh6"
Decent password 10/10
OH NO!!
For anyone else struggling with how to make the country name work with roman numerals or element names, you can lowercase the country name then it doesn't count as a roman numeral nor element.
If your chess move is illegal, make sure you're also notating the effect of the move (Nxe6 for N captures on e6, not just Ne6. Ne6+ if it's a check. Ne6# if it's mate.)
Spaces are also allowed so feel free to break up parts of the password to separate things and prevent them from interfering with each other.
Use XXXV as the roman numeral. Easiest to work with since only V (23) is an element.
Reroll your color if its hex has any numbers in it. You'll thank me later.
I made it to the final challenge (password must contain the current time) and it became extremely difficult because the current time, the length of the password itself, and a pesky 9 that was in my youtube URL were just too much to add up to 25 (even though I tried to overlap things, like 3:383 to cover 3:38 current time as well as 383 prime password length). I would've needed to somehow reupload a video that didn't have any digits in it (or at least one that had a lower digit like 1 or 2) or wait until it was 10:00 pm or something.
Ultimately I finally got a password with length 211, including the current time, that fit all of the rules!
[spoiler] the final step has you re-type your password to "confirm" it, in an impossible amount of time [/spoiler]. What a frustrating ending!!!
Other hints:
* The eyedropper is a good way to get the hex quickly.
* On Youtube search the time you need and then scroll until you load a metric ton of videos then Cmd+F for the time (e.g. 28:22) since the times are searchable text on screen.
Unfortunately, "country name" and "all the vowels in your password must be bold" are fundamentally incompatible, since it doesn't recognize country names unless they have unbolded vowels.
EDIT: Gah. I tried every Unicode "bold" variant I found, before finding that the password field had in fact become a rich text field and allowed actual "bold".
This was a horrific abomination, and delightfully evil.
My solution (which includes some spoilers, even though each game has somewhat different rules): https://social.joshtriplett.org/@josh/posts/AX8ypcJYS8eSFLUX...
It reminds me of "Password Purgatory" that Troy Hunt (of "Have I Been Pwned" fame) built. It sends real scammers to a real-looking site that basically makes them play this game until they give up and go away.
https://www.troyhunt.com/building-password-purgatory-with-cl...
“A special character…” Okay, how about: “
“No, not THAT special!! (Shh, we are worried about a SQL injection attack… in your password… which we dont even know how to escape)”
Let the many implications sink in for a minute.)
For about 2 years I reset my password many times, always to the same one and that would also log me in. I just figured the site was broken for me but this worked and contacting support is rarely helpful for stuff like this so whatever, until it suddenly dawned on me the ' might be the "problem".
I recommend copy/pasting before you get there. It doesn't let you copy once that final resubmit form appears.
This is the last saved copy of mine (from ~5 steps before the end; also, yc doesn't capture the various fonts, text sizes, and emojis):
xngxcaboutjuneshell0000XXXV*I54malaysia0Nd3+Gd d4dbc1170
I guess I should have been wary of a confirm password phase. i even wrote a tiny auto hotkey script to keep feeding that stupid chicken for 40 minutes while I waited for time to tick from 8:20 (I didn't have the password ready yet) to 9:01...
In my case it was 8:20 and I had a sum of 15 so I fixed my password in the next 20ish minutes and set the target time to 9:01 at the earliest and spun up an auto hotkey script to paste the food for Paul every 20ish seconds (in reality I think it eats faster than that)
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.
Screaming and crying.
from https://geoguessr.fandom.com/wiki/Countries_on_Geoguessr
(unfortunately the only way to use this I can find is to put it in the password and then delete it bit by bit)
Then I accidentally lost all progress by clicking the chess notation link and when I got back to the geo guessing it was a small forested area with nowhere to walk to so I gave up :(
It looks like
Is there an api planned, or is it open source?
In fact, also the length should be obscured, show nothing, as is the way in Unix password prompts!
Fun game though, I laughed out loud at the Wordle requirement.
Remove your card before the clerk gets annoyed at you. The screen is flashes various messages like "PLEASE REMOVE YOUR CARD after the TRANSACTION IS COMPLETE". Push the card too hard and the reader falls off the table. Pull at an angle or too slow and it drags the reader.
Unfortunately got a dead-end yesterday when reaching the rule (18?) about the sum of the periodic elements equating to 200, with the chess move being Nh8 (containing Nh, no 113) and the wordle solution being (tract, containing Ra, no 81), making it impossible to go below 201.
I would have liked in that case a way to request another chess puzzle, just like it is possible to do for the captcha.
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
Just make sure to add captures/check/etc (Examples from wavemode on this thread: Nxe6 for N captures on e6, not just Ne6. Ne6+ if it's a check. Ne6# if it's mate.)
Fun bonus: it can't seem to figure out what's going on with the knight. Using "K", "N", or "S" for knight all get me "invalid notation" warnings. I'm having a lot of fun.
New update: got the chess answer! It will accept "N" for my Knight iff I make stupid moves with it. Moving my knight to take a bishop is "invalid notation", but apparently putting it in the middle of nowhere to be captured by a rook is the best possible move.
Final update: Paul died in a fire. :I
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 to use."
I chose poorly, I thought it was for questions going forward, and I knocked out the "S", needed (amongst other things) for all the sponsors.
C'est la vie I guess.
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 35.
Your password must include this CAPTCHA:
Your password must include today's Wordle answer.
Your password must include a two letter symbol from the periodic table.
Your password must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji.
Your password must include the name of this country.
Your password must include a leap year.
Your password must include the best move in algebraic chess notation. (picture of chess puzzle)
← This is my chicken Paul. He hasn't hatched yet, please put him in your password and keep him safe.
The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200.
All the vowels in your password must be bolded.
Oh no! Your password is on fire. Quick, put it out!
Your password is not strong enough
Your password must contain one of the following affirmations:
Paul has hatched! Please don't forget to feed him, he eats three every minute.
A sacrifice must be made. Pick 2 letters that you will no longer be able to use.
Your password must contain twice as many italic characters as bold.
At least 30% of your password must be in the Wingdings font.
Your password must include this color in hex.
All roman numerals must be in Times New Roman.
The font size of every digit must be equal to its square.
Every instance of the same letter must have a different font size.
Your password must include the length of your password.
The length of your password must be a prime number.
Uhhh let's skip this one.
Your password must include the current time.
Is this your final password?
Looking at the JS, these rules use RNG such that you can have an inconsistent or impossible password. E.g. if the only youtube video URLs that work with your duration have roman numerals that multiply above 35 in it you are hard stuck. Your youtube URL can also hard stuck your atomic number summation to 200 if it happens to contain enough elements that adds above 200. Your color hex can hard stuck your 25 sum, etc. The code does not try to generate working passwords given all the rules, it simply adds checks and randomly generates the requirement per rule.
You'd have to have the RNG rules to align well in order to win i.e. youtube video with no roman numerals or numbers or elements, captcha with no numbers or roman numerals or elements, to minimize conflict.
I first search this on Google
"0:00 / mm:ss" site:youtube.com
Where mm:ss is the desired length. Then I used some Javascript to scrape the results, finding only youtube urls without roman numbers, and print them out sorted by digit sum and atomic number
I've done it a few times, never had a situation where there was no suitable url
As for the color hex, if it's not suitable, you can regenerate it
Make the generator use Pupetter and your YT credentials to upload an empty mp4 video of the given length.
Reminds me of something I built a few years ago, to answer spammers who keep contacting me with their offers of "services": https://cingen.net/moostik/signup/
The most insistent one tried 31 times (the rules are conflicting and it's impossible to satisfy the answer). Special attention was given to the security questions, but somehow spammers keep picking the simplest one.
Died after the URL, it was too much to recalculate the atomic numbers and keep track of Paul. Maybe this chicken was the most unfair part of this game, the random captcha and country make it impossible to retry easily (maybe the time frame for feeding could be slowed down); but loved everything else, really ingenious.
cshell-may-p4pde-about-bulgaria-00-991-Qg2+-XXXV-bFmN- -iamloved-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJaxlYRSc0
Also wouldn't url's with roman numbers in it fail the entire thing as 35 only can be obtained by multiplying 5 and 7? Ah right, or 35, true that but still same issue.
- roman numerals must multiply to 35
- my chess move is: Rf7+
- Atomic numbers of elements must add up to 200
So I need V, VII and Rf7+ in there but then the atomic numbers are way past 200 already.
Update: I found the answer in another comment -- I can make the c lowercase! Thank you HN!
Looking at the code it should be possible to get a lot further, in theory. Wonder how Paul is doing!
Spoiler: There is !1d and !2d, followed by coordinates.
Wikipedia has some information on leap years around this time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar#Leap_year_erro...
Year 0 is what historians like to call 1 BC, but historians are also just making that up. Nobody numbered years from Anno Domini anywhere near year 0.
I'm sure it's clear to everybody here why year 0, -1, and -2 are significantly better arbitrary, ahistorical names for the three years preceding year 1.
I think it should be 9.08N, 7.52E and it works
Edit: I had saved the url, but I don't know how to use it - https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m...
The different font sizes for different characters ended up crashing the browser. I went out just after this:
> XXXV-75-may-Shell-dbfen-straw--china-Qf5+-0000-i am loved- https://youtube.com/watch?v=BprGlhu_Hfs- Po-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@-@@@@@#cd1520-xngxc-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-$$$$$$-
Edit- emojis don’t save..
Couple of tips.
- 0000 is a leap year and doesn’t add to your numbers tally
- “not strong enough” - paste the strong man emoji three times.
- hex color - screenshot and upload to a hex color picker (on iOS turn off the screen dimming). Choose a hex color with low numbers. Enter as lowercase to avoid creating more chemical elements such as “F” and “C”
- chess move - install Chessvision.ai and upload screenshot. Taking a piece add an “x” between the piece taking the move and the target square e.g. Qxe5. Taking a piece and putting the king in check Qxe5+. Checkmate Qxe5#
- captcha - avoid numbers. Leave all lowercase. Avoid captchas that could be confused for a chess move (e.g. contains “e5”)
- YouTube URL - google “mm:ss YouTube” replacing the minutes and seconds. Only use one without Roman numerals and very few numbers in the URL. The times are shown in the screenshot on google search
- on fire? Smash the delete button. Add loads of zeros to pad it out to give yourself a chance. You can delete them later.
- copy the password regularly in a notes file. After Everything goes up on flames you can paste it back in
- country - enter it in lower case. Take a look around if you can and hint for tips. Road signs, tree types (cold or warm climate), road name overlays, advertising, company names, etc. only once I couldn’t figure it out. Middle of a ruined castle??
- you not allowed to overfeed Paul. I kept him up at 5 bugs and it allowed me to jump between apps and jump back. Maybe you can add more but I didn’t risk it.
- ChatGPT can help you with the periodic table and help you with the math.
"00:00 / <minutes>:<seconds>" 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.
> site:youtube.com "00:00 / 16:18"
Or you know you could just try to work it out for yourself.
cmabout[gibbous emoji]swedenQf8+[chicken emoji]Tir8gecmVshellapril9Fe[weightlifter][weightlifter][weightlifter]VIIamloved[caterpillar][caterpillar][caterpillar][caterpillar]
111about[weightlifter][dead paul][worm][worm][weightlifter]VIIamlovednovemberen4n41E2111shellV[weightlifter][weightlifter][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm]
Rule 9: The Roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35 Rule 14: Name this country (Malasysia for me)
Given that M=1000 in roman numerals, I need to find x such that x*1000=35
How do I write 0.035 in Roman Numerals?!
But I wasn’t able to finish: I got a captcha with digits 5, 3, 7, and 8. When the chessboard appeared, the best move was Qe6. These conflicted with the rule to have all digits sum to 25 (5+3+7+8+6=29).
Made it to "the length of your password must be included in your password" and decided to throw in the towel.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/svc/wordle/v2/2023-06-28.json
mAy@VpepsiVIIm3588tractSibelgiumNe6+
m3588 is the captcha and Ne6+ is the chess move in the above
I've also tried putting something like -5 in the hope that it recognizes negative numbers, but no luck!
I had a captcha value "ex0888" and the answer for the chess puzzle was Rd8+. Now I can not statisfy the Rule "digit sum adds up to number 25" cause total of all the digits in password was exceeding the 25. Can't go ahead of this!
But It was fun playing and keeping up all the rules!
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/starbucks/shell)
9. The roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35.
10. Your password must include this CAPTCHA:
11. Your password must include today's Wordle answer.
12. Your password must include a two letter symbol from the periodic table.
13. Your password must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji.
14. Your password must include the name of this country.
15. Your password must include a leap year.
16. Your password must include the best move in [algebraic chess notation].
17. ← This is my chicken Paul. He hasn't hatched yet, please put him in your password and keep him safe.
18. The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200.
19. All the vowels in your password must be bolded.
20. Oh no! Your password is on fire. Quick, put it out!
21. Your password is not strong enough
22. Your password must contain one of the following affirmations: (i am loved, i am worthy, i am enough)
23. Paul has hatched! Please don't forget to feed him, he eats three every minute.
24. Your password must include the URL of a <random> long YouTube video.
25. A sacrifice must be made. Pick 2 letters that you will no longer be able to use.
26. Your password must contain twice as many italic characters as bold.
27. At least 30% of your password must be in the Wingdings font. 28. Your password must include this color in hex.
29. All roman numerals must be in Times New Roman.
30. The font size of every digit must be equal to its square.
31. Every instance of the same letter must have a different font size.
32. Your password must include the length of your password.
33. The length of your password must be a prime number.
34. Uhhh let's skip this one.
35. Your password must include the current time.
36. Is this your final password?
Got to the vowel capitalization.
When entering the chess game moves make sure to add `x` when taking a piece, `+` when checking, and `#` for checkmate.
Hardware and biometric keys can be stolen, cloned and lost. And trusting third-parties with keys to harddrive encryption is also not really trustworthy.
2. Passkeys allow you to pick a backup solution of your choosing. Could be your own nextcloud server in the corner. This is no different than giving someone a choice of cloud-synced password manager
Both solutions avoid phishing, password re-use, keylogging, or people picking weak passwords.
There is no excuse for anyone even supporting passwords at this point. Sysadmins have not commonly used passwords for ssh in 20 years, favoring private keys on either hardware or encrypted disks. Keys better than passwords-over-the-wire in every way.
How does that help if someone steals your hardware key, login in with it and then puts it back. You don't even know that it was stolen and your account was messed with. With a good password you know if you tell someone. Granted people could film you typing your password, but stealing your hardware key is much easier.
> 2. Passkeys allow you to pick a backup solution of your choosing. Could be your own nextcloud server in the corner. This is no different than giving someone a choice of cloud-synced password manager
This isn't about backup, but trust. Do I trust a third-party to manage the keys to my kingdom? No. And even if, the third-party is a much easier target for 3 letter agencies, governments or other rich/influential bad actors. Also I haven't seen a solution where passkey can be used to decrypt my LUKS partition.
> There is no excuse for anyone even supporting passwords at this point. Sysadmins have not commonly used passwords for ssh in 20 years, favoring private keys on either hardware or encrypted disks. Keys better than passwords-over-the-wire in every way.
The encrypted disks are hopefully protected with a password, and not magically unencrypted, just by booting it with the right TPM configuration. The hardware hopefully requires a pin or password in order to unlock the SSH key, and the SSH key on disk is hopefully encrypted with a password as well.
2. Fido2 lets you decide who to trust. A non technical user can use google or apple or a hosted nextcloud instance as a backup. A technical user is more likely to enroll the TEEs built into their phones and laptops, with a yubikey in a safety deposit box as a backup.
Passkeys and FIDO2 offer a massive reduction in attack surface and are superior to passwords in every way for every threat model I have ever heard of.
You have all the same options for managing a fido2/passkey/webauthn key as you do an ssh key.
Web passwords should go die in the same fire as SMS 2FA.
You are jumping around various attack scenarios to make your point. If your child steals your hardware token to shop on amazon and then put it back afterwards is a different and much more likely scenario then some targeted attack by some hacker that is prepared and breaks into your home...
Most online threads are about social engineering, where the person that is attacked actually cooperates with the attacker, AFAIK there is no safeguard against that, other than not trusting people with their own stuff.
I would worry more about someone stealing a locked laptop. If there is no password (or other kind of knowleged based protection), then they have everything they need to unlock it.
> Web passwords should go die in the same fire as SMS 2FA.
So since you limited your argument now to just Web passwords. Does that mean you agree with me that you don't think there is a good solution to replace passwords for encryption or local authentication that works offline and doesn't move the trust away from the user?
You can do FDE with a smart card+pin or smart card+biometrics depending on your threat model.
I consider a pin provided to local hardware or for local decryption different from the concept of a password as is widely deployed on every web service under the sun.
Services should never see your secrets though, only public keys.
I assumed we were talking about web passwords given that is the only scope FIDO2/passkeys cover.
I consider PINs, passwords and passphrases as the same thing, just different rules to create/input them. Numerical PINs might be easier to remember, but as with unlock patterns on a phone, it is also easier to casually observe someone entering and memorizing it.
Biometrics I am not a fan of, because they can be stolen without you noticing. With password you have to enter it in an untrusted environment, which takes more effort to setup. Also biometrics cannot easily be changed if they leak. And they also change with time and events involuntary and some people even have identical biometric data.
> I assumed we were talking about web passwords given that is the only scope FIDO2/passkeys cover.
The discussion started with wanting to replace all passwords.
I don't know anything about passkey, but FIDO2 can be used for harddrive encryption: https://0pointer.net/blog/unlocking-luks2-volumes-with-tpm2-...
IMO, 2FA via hardware key etc. next to a password/PIN it great, but IMO some kind of proof of knowledge can not be replaced by just a proof of possession.
However, if you use a Yubikey or Trezor for example as a Passkey (No Password), you have to enter a pin on either (Yubikey via OS and Trezor on device) before they will fulfil the request and log you in.
Personally I consider a PIN, password or passphrase the same thing, just different rules. It is security based on knowledge. So If I enter a PIN somewhere it is still a password. IMO this is fine.
From the captcha + the chess move alone I am already above 25... I tried subtracting, did not work. Anyone have an idea here?
It worked instantly.
Im already stuck here with `Password!25XXV` or `Password!1234567890123456789012345` or `Password!34` (9+25)
I'm not native english, so if there is a pun in the rules description, I might not get it :'(
Copy your password and reload to continue with only a few missed rules.
[0]: https://pastebin.com/hNVR2MG6
(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.
https://www.google.de/maps/@25.0897073,51.1817779,3a,75y,268...
After a 'walk' I saw flags which confused me, but it turns out this country has a very similar flag to its neighbour.
"Congratulations! You have sucessfully chosen a password in 211 characters."
I got lucky when I found a bug with Paul (otherwise I would have given up)
Anybody else have the same problem?
The best move is Queen to e8, which I'm sure is represented in algebraic notation as Qe8. But it says that Qe8 is invalid notation.
Rf7+"
in rule 18 The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200. Please help!
Turned out to be Cambodia for me!
Atomic number of all of these combined: 113 + 23+53+53 + 23=275..
Looks like Im not going to complete it
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WqnXp6Saa8Y
Password26$_june_pepsi_VIIV_33p4e_about__germanyQxh7+
V = vanadium, 23
I = Iodine, 53
So in your password they add up to 167
And I'm out lol. Fun game though.
Man I miss my Android.
Fun game though.
For example, "VII" and "V" is forced by Roman Numerals needing to multiply to 35. Then, my chess puzzle was "Rf7+"
The atomic numbers - V: 23, I: 53, Rf: 104
2×23+2×53+104 adds to a number over 200, which is frustrating because it seems like there should be a trick, or it should at least be solvable
For me, V and VII from the roman numerals = 152 so I needed 48. Did He and Pd. Then of course a later rule came along.
55555 = 25
or
64555 = 25
you get the gist just add the digits til you get 25
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.
Seems like it has answers up to July 30, so he's either a time traveller or it's possible to get future answers by looking at the Wordle source.
i gave up when it got to chess, guess "55A%SeptemberXXXVStarbucksgny6baboutgeorgia2016" will have to be enough
It should highlight the likely multiple atomic numbers that are already in your password.
So go find a table on wikipedia, add up the elements it already recognized and choose strategically a couple of new ones to add !
Change, remove, modify letters until you reach 200 based on the sum of their atomic numbers.
For easy cheese, add H to increment by 1. Repeat capital H until you have reached the sum if you are under. Easy to later add and remove H until you satisfy the condition.
> X4X5I6V7V8V9!
Unclear what is not adding up to 25 here. Is it a bug?
> Unclear what is not adding up to 25 here. Is it a bug?
4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 39
Some tips I gathered: 9. Use XXXV, as the chemical symbols contained in (V,VII) add up 152, which is already very close to 200 for rule 18; 10. Refresh the captcha so that it only includes lowercase letters, you'll need numbers later and they can't add up to more than 25 according to rule 5; 14. Pray for having a country with a short name, whose first letter isn't also a chemical element and that includes common letters (curse you Zimbabwe); 15. I think 4 is a leap year... 17. Put Paul at the start or the end of your password; 19. You can bold the whole string to meet the condition, but beware of rule 26. Also, before meeting the condition, copy-paste your password elsewhere; 20. Just select the fire and some more characters and delete them, then fill the gap from your copy-pasted password; 22. Use "i am loved" (all lowercase, cf. rule 18) as you'll need to sacrifice two letters for rule 25, but you will already use 'o' for youtu.be, 'v' for XXXV, 'e' for youtu.be, and probably 'l' and 'd' in your captcha, URL (cf. rule 24) or color (cf. rule 28). Also, it's the shorter word of the three, and for rules 32 and 33 it's simpler to add padding symbols than to remove mandatory characters to control the length of the password; 23. Try to have between 2 and 6 max worms at any time, it should give you enough time to think without overfeeding Paul. 9 worms will definitely kill Paul (maybe less, but 6 should be safe); 24. On Chrome, you can use the "YouTube Time Filter" extension to find videos of the correct timelength. On YouTube, type a very generic request (like "game", "car", or even just "p"), open the filters and choose "Video" (to filter out shorts) as well as a length range (to reduce client-side filtering) then in the YouTube Time Filter insert a length range one second before and one second after the required range (the game has a one second leniency). Then scroll and scroll. Of course, once you find a suitable video, strip any superfluous parameter from its length, and make sure that the video id doesn't include any uppercase 'M', 'D', 'C', 'X' (because those roman numerals don't multiply to 35, cf. rule 9) and preferably no 'V' or 'I' (because of rules 9 and 18). It's hard, but with a bit of patience, it doable. Also use the short URL (youtu.be, not youtube.com) and trim the "https://www.", you don't need them; 25. If you applied those tips correctly and you were lucky on the captcha and the country, you should be able to strip the letters 'w' and 'z' at the very least. Other letters if you were very lucky (maybe try to choose another month for rule 6 if it can make you unuse a letter, or maybe you should have used "i am enough" ?); 26. Just put the whole string in italics; 28. Refresh until you have a color without numbers (or 0 at most), for rule 5; 32. It's better to have 123 characters than 97 (cf. rule 5); 33. Sorry, I meant 113. Other probable candidates, depending on your current password length are: 101, 103, 113, 131, 151, 211, 223, 233, 311 and 313. Other numbers are fine too, but it's up to you to see if you can have them depending on your URL and chess move. Maybe include 8 padding symbols at the end of the password, in prevision to rule 35. Know that the length will vary when you feed Paul, but the length should usually be correct; 34. Just skip this one, really; 35. Unfortunately, I didn't pass that one as I overfed Paul, but I think it would be easier to play around midnight, ideally at 00:00:00, because you know, rule 5. But make sure to write it at 23:59 and change the police size to 0px before midnight, so every rule can be met at midnight. Not sure if the seconds are needed or not, since I didn't pass it.
Also I think the limit for Paul is 5 caterpillars, I keep it at 4 just to be safe though.
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(rule 34 not skipped)
I ended up finding javascripter.net/faq/rgbtohex.htm which worked for me