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The Password Game

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As a someone who frequently argues with IT teams over ridiculous hidden password rules that drive crappy user experience I feel triggered by this game.
This is fantasticll
- My company finally went to a non expiring multi-word based policy. Took them a major breach but finally some sanity.
- Have you ever played You Shall Not Pass?

I'm not gonna do google searches, I give up.
- Haha, I also played along until the wordle thing.
  
  I tried. Apparently, it's 'ABOUT': https://www.tomsguide.com/news/what-is-todays-wordle-answer#section-today-s-wordle-answer
  But nothing happens. Meh. Was nice :)
- I just opened devtools to see the answer lol

I hate Paul...
I made it up to rule 25 and then Paul starved because I was thinking too long about which characters to ban.
To make it over Rule 24 (Paste the URL of a Youtube video with a certain random length), I even created a video with the correct length and kept uploading it to Youtube to get a URL without roman numerals and decently usable atomic weights.
When I tried it again after that dumb chicken starved, I hit Youtube's maximum daily upload limit. Now Youtube thinks I am a spambot or something.
Btw, there are 35 rules total, in case anyone else makes it over 24. And spoiler, the one that got me doesn't matter at all. It's one of the easiest of all.
- That's a heroic effort! I laughed so hard.
- I tag teamed with someone and they were constantly counting to make sure Paul got fed while I tried to find a 23m03s YouTube video
  I got a text HOURS saying “I can still hear myself counting” lol
- Do you know what all the rules are? Could you perhaps put it in a spoiler quoted comment? I'm not about to get through all of these rules lol.

"Your password must include the URL of a 23 minute 42 second long YouTube video."
lol
- Careful with Paul. He may starve.
  
  Also this:

I think I will quit at this point.
- OK, I may have hit a wall with this one.
  
  Anal beads to the rescue!
  
  Im on the same bit atm and put the match into a chess bot but it tells me illegal move everytime i try
  
  That's where I quit too
  
  My captcha included an invalid chess move, so a had to regenerate a different captcha: Hunter 913 VII April Shell bdg84 about He 🌔 Venezuela
  
  Yep, don't feel like play chess right now haha. Maybe if the answer was en passant 😳

This whole website is great, thanks for sharing! Currently hooked on drawing a perfect circle
- This is the best I could do
  
  Let’s go!
  
  I found bigger circles made it easier.

Some useful resources:
Emoji Moon Phases, you'll need Waxing Gibbous right now (🌔)
https://starinastar.com/moon-phase-emojis-a-review/
Today's Wordle Answer:
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/what-is-todays-wordle-answer
The Elements sorted by Atomic Number:
https://www.angelo.edu/faculty/kboudrea/periodic/structure_numbers.htm
Chess Move Solver:
https://nextchessmove.com/
What killed me was trying to feed the chicken while hunting for a YouTube video of a certain length. I did get past that once when I was lucky enough to be asked for a 9 minute 0 second video. Because people upload "timer" videos of exactly X minutes, that was possible. The "26 minute 59 second" video resulted in a dead chicken.
- What the hell is a gibbous and why does it need waxing?
- Today’s Wordle Answer:
  I already had my WordleHelper so that wasn't actually that hard.> What killed me was trying to feed the chicken while hunting for a YouTube video of a certain length.
  Chess Move Solver:
  https://nextchessmove.com/
  That's the stuff! I chickened out at the chess question.
  What killed me was trying to feed the chicken while hunting for a YouTube video of a certain length.
  That will be solved with the browser's dev tools, I guess 😇

I gave up around the roman numbers because I chose to include May...
Think I should try again.
edit: okay, I'm going to call it on the Wordle rule.
- That's as far as I got as well
- im case you tackle it again, the month does not need to be capitalized, and if its lower case, it doesn't count as a roman numeral
- One day I might solve this, but this day is not today.
- Shortly after the Wordle rule I got told I had to include the country Colombia. Which, with an L, made it impossible to multiple Roman Numerals to equal 35...
  
  Only uppercase letters get treated as Roman numerals, same for periodic table. The real killer one for those two is YouTube url

LMAO this game is amazing. I got to rule 25 with this bad boy
Semplice1!2711shellJanuaryV🥚Sixngxctract🌔norway2004Qxb7+🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♂️VIIamloved🐛🐛🐛🐛https://youtu.be/QfUYWkPNDqU
but fucking Paul starved as I was converting all the vowels to bold. If anyone's wondering why there's a link in there, rule 24 required you to put the URL of a YT video with a duration of exactly 11 minutes and four seconds. Will probably be different for you, if you try it.
- Just select all and make it bold! 😉
  
  Which will probably come back to bite you

I hate this. Also, I love it. Fuck Paul.

That was fun! Kinda hit the wall at the youtube link rule. Couldn't find a way to search YT videos by exact length, so you either need to get super lucky and find one randomly or upload such a video yourself. Then you better hope the video URL does not contain any roman numerals... All while keeping Paul fed (but not overfed!)
- I think at that point the game requires two players cooperating. One searches for YouTube videos while the other is feeding Paul.
- Same, this was also my limit.
- I got through YouTube by searching for speed run “mm:ss” since speedrun videos usually have the speedrun time in the title. Then it’s just a matter of searching for speed runs of slightly shorter times than it until you happen across a video which is both of appropriate length plus or minus the one second tolerance it gives, and which doesn’t kill either your Roman numerals or elements
  
  Great tip, thanks. Might give it a go

I did 32nd Rule but I broke Rule 5. I wasn't going to juggle the hex colour, the length of the password, the captcha, and the youtube url, so that the numbers add to 25... Don't know if it's possible even...
https://imgur.com/a/t8L6J1c
edit: 31 to 32 was hard, I added a before pic as well, had to change strategy.
- Did you make it to rule 34? If it is not releated to "Rule 34", I'd be disappointed.
- Impressive. I never got past the YouTube URL. But I refresh the captcha until it doesn't contain any numbers so that it doesn't mess with the "25". Still, it the YouTube video contains too many numbers, then it's difficult.
  
  Didn't even think that the captcha could be numberless... And now that I look at it youtube urls had no number... F***!
  Maybe it's a good think I quit, I have work to do :P

Oh this is hilarious! I could accept each absurd rule up until I had to play Wordle, then I called it quits. But I kinda want to continue and see how high it goes.
Edit: Now stuck on chess
Edit 2: Oh no! I panic deleted during the fire.

I thought I was so smart spamming the caterpillars into the password. I overfed Paul.
The funniest moment has to have been when I Googled "9 minute 34 second Youtube video" and there was at least one video literally titled "9 MINUTES AND 34 SECONDS TIMER COUNTDOWN [574 seconds - 9:34]" and the video was 9 minutes 49 seconds long. I proceeded to Google different numbers of seconds looking for one that hit the perfect number and literally none of the videos, despite seemingly hundreds of videos of very specific times happened to fall on the 9 minute 34 second mark. Like, what insane world is happening in the great depths of Youtube where people spend hours posting completely arbitrary timers on Youtube, but specifically avoid ones that are 9 minutes, 34 seconds in length. I felt set up. I was rolling in laughter. 10/10 would spend my night Googling Youtube timers and overfeeding an emoji chicken again.
- i wish i had read the comments. they never told me I could overfeed paul, and now i feel a little bit bad about killing a chicken emoji
- 9 minutes 34 of audio bible anyone?? https://youtube.com/watch?v=mdEttg1lN0I

Reminds me of https://youshallnotpass.glitch.me/. But this one is even harder. :D

Playing this game was infuriating when the egg hatched.

Let me just say: screw Paul and his inability to pace himself when eating. I just gave him a bunch of food to satiate him and he decided to eat it all at once and die from overeating...
Cool concept though!

PAUL HAS STARVED is the most evil thing :P
Also I got Madagascar, which was kind of hard...
- I accidentally overfed him, which I guess is just as bad due to the Dark Souls themed overlay lol.
- i did too. i had to wander around for ten minutes before i found a sign that helped me make a guess.

This is hilariously difficult

Dang it, finished on rule 24 ::: spoiler because (spoiler) because I overfed Paul and it died :( ::: gg and good luck to ya'll
- I got to this same result on my 3rd attempt, and had to throw in the towel. Everything's randomized every time.

hi, i'm stuck on rules 9 and 11, because i cannot both have today's wordle answer, and also have it multiply to equal 35 in roman numerals. what do i do?
- It only counts in Roman numerals if they're capitalized. Give the wordle answer in lower case.
  
  oh perfect, thanks!
- If you write in lowercase it doesn't count as Roman numerals ;)

thanks I hate it

i gave up in the google maps lmao
- Same, typed all of the countries I could think of and then noped out.
- Since maps only works in iframes and I my browsers don't like that. After a dozen attempts to brute force, I considered it fair to put a breakpoint in js and look at the stack (a habit I gained after playing untrusted ). I only glimpsed at the code for what was still ahead. When I encountered the chess question I decided to go finally to bed - since that wasn't the last rule or even close. I guess Friday after work would be the best time to start this again.
- Encyclopedia Britannica has a list of all countries on Earth.
- The map didn't load for me so I just grabbed a big list of countries and pasted them there lol

Omg I overfed Paul lol

That was fun! I couldn’t put out the fire on mobile, I couldn’t move the cursor around fast enough, and then Paul starved 🙀
- I panicked with the fire and lost half of my password, it was enough for me...

Ha, this was brilliant. I got up until the chess move!

Nice game, thanks for sharing ! I stopped at rule 24, looking for videos with correct length and url was tok frustrating for me...

Kinda stumped here... the county one was super hard the camera was on a radio tower so I couldn't move around
- You just need to copy paste that emoji (weight lifting) into your password multiple times. It will eventually be strong enough.
  
  Damn I already closed it
- The last character tells you what to type there.

Paul info within ::: spoiler spoiler To keep Paul alive for a long time you can put newlines in front and the newlines get removed before the food does, but it doesn't overfeed. :::
even with the above I couldn't ever find a video of length 24:45. the youtube timers are all a second or two off. I wasn't gonna upload one, so my final solution was (youtube url was incorrect)
undefined

96mm3nnn5pfebruarypepsitractlXXXV🌖 malaysia 0 Ne2+ 🐔🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♂️ I am loved FmSi 🐛 🐛 🐛 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wMHUgyaY4I
- I created a video of the correct length using the Windows built-in video editor and uploaded that. The problem is, to get this right, the link cannot have roman numerals (except for I and V) and the atomic weights cannot be too high.
  So I kept re-uploading until I had a URL without roman numerals and without high atomic weights.
  And then I took too long thinking about the next thing, even though it was trivial, and that dumb chicken starved.
  
  I created a video of the correct length using the Windows built-in video editor and uploaded that.
  That's the spirit.
  
  to avoid paul starving just do what I put in my spoiler! you seem more driven than me. I'm not gonna spend time uploading youtube videos lol

I figured out what random country I got dropped into was, but I cannot for the life of me figure out the best chess move. Made it though up to rule 16 with this:
Pepsi2004assnbcgb🌔wordVII114355!JuneVTRAcTKuwait
- For the chess rule, you may need an x before and a + after.

I gave up at "Roman numerals must multiply to 35"
- You can just write XXXV. You don't need any other roman numerals.
- I used "VVII" for that one 🤷

I wonder what is the last rule there...

Did anyone else get the periodic table elements that must add up to 200 atoms? I'm not sure, but I think it was impossible since my captcha included an "Nd".
- You can change the captcha using the refresh button next to it. But Nd is not a problem. Its atomic number is 60. You need to add up to 200. Fm: 100, Zr: 40. I knew that memorizing atomic numbers would pay back some day :P
  
  Ohh, I'm dumb. I mistook atomic number for atomic weight. English is not my first language. Thank you!

hunter2
- I wonder how many of us went hunter2 right off the bat

Can't believe that in 2023 we still rely on passwords so much, even more so when there are silly rules for password "strength".

My captcha and chess move add up to more than 25 😢
- You can change the captcha by refreshing it using the button next to it
  
  oh, i'm dumb. thanks.
- Redraw (f5?) or use other browser.

This is weirdly fun. Man, I love that website.
Edit: Paul died and I'm trying again. I'm pretty sure there's a checkmate on this board that it won't accept.

Ever rule after rule 5 made laugh audibly. Great work.

I was on the phone and got to Rule 11, if I was on the computer I would have continued but will restart from scratch later when I am on the computer..

who else is gonna send this to family members and watch them get frustrated over messages 🤣

Why would Qe7 be called out for illegal notation when there’s only one white Queen on the board?
- If your move is a "check" move, you need to add "+" to it: Qe7+
- The answer usually is that enpeseant is forced
- Maybe it's check? Qe7+

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