[HN Gopher] The Password Game
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The Password Game
Author : kretaceous
Score : 1280 points
Date : 2023-06-27 14:51 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (neal.fun)
(TXT) w3m dump (neal.fun)
| johtso wrote:
| I keep getting illegal move on the chess problem.. although my
| move is not illegal. [Variant "From Position"]
| [FEN "3k4/1p3Bp1/p5r1/8/P3P1N1/5Pp1/1P1r4/2R4K b - - 0 1"]
| 1... Rgd6
|
| When I put Rgd6 I get "d6 (Illegal move)"
| shawabawa3 wrote:
| I'm not sure if this is your problem, but you have to include
| captures (x), check (+) and checkmate (#) if applicable
| hgsgm wrote:
| Try Rd6 or Rd6+ for check.
| icoder wrote:
| Or Rd6++ for check mate
| mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote:
| # is check mate, ++ is double check.
| bacchusracine wrote:
| 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...
| rizky05 wrote:
| [dead]
| nashashmi wrote:
| At least it has a great UI
| tiago123 wrote:
| I'm stuck at the atomic numbers rule... Does someone know how to
| solve it?
| hnick wrote:
| 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.
| blharr wrote:
| 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
|
| 2x23+2x53+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 wrote:
| you can just use switch to XXXV. No I needed.
| hiergiltdiestfu wrote:
| today's wordle contains a C, but the game doesn't know about
| roman numeral fractions :(
| ghayes wrote:
| Type it in lowercase and it won't count against the Roman
| numerals.
| cgordon2028 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| I may have had that one; there was southeast asian writing on a
| sign and it was Malaysia.
| VoodooJuJu wrote:
| Was fun until I got "what's today's wordle"? Wasn't googleable
| enough for me and I don't play wordle.
| cheeze wrote:
| literally the first result of "todays wordle"?
| VoodooJuJu wrote:
| 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.
| danfritz wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| I was confused for a while but it means the individual digits
| when summed should total 25. That worked for me.
| jbombadil wrote:
| Well. I got stuck.
|
| 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 wrote:
| Change it to "malaysia". It accepts lowercase for country name
| and only recognizes uppercase as Roman numerals.
| bandrami wrote:
| 22 is a decent approximation (that's two backwards capital S
| glyphs, if it doesn't render)
| TT-392 wrote:
| I gave up when I overfed paul
| alexarborist wrote:
| 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.
| gpvos wrote:
| So Neal solves Wordle every midnight to keep this game running?
| chimeracoder wrote:
| 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.
| ripley12 wrote:
| Not sure exactly where the data comes from, but the game uses
| an API at https://neal.fun/api/password-
| game/wordle?date=2023-06-15
|
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| anoncow wrote:
| My password caught fire at Stage 18 and Paul sadly became an
| burnt omelette!
| Night_Thastus wrote:
| This is so much goofy fun. Thank you so much for making this. :)
| Dwedit wrote:
| Had to stop at the "Name of this country" question because the
| iframe was blocked by uMatrix.
| keira_c wrote:
| [dead]
| valiant55 wrote:
| Oh god, I got to the part where the password starts catching on
| fire, eventually poor Paul was consumed by the fire.
| hgsgm wrote:
| I deleted Paul :-(
| vonwoodson wrote:
| I love it. I especially love that it doesn't tell you what's
| wrong until too late!
| filmgirlcw wrote:
| This is the most fun I've had wasting time in months.
| FlamingApe wrote:
| [dead]
| leshenka wrote:
| that's also different for everyone. I needed a 12 minutes and
| 13 seconds video
| muhammadusman wrote:
| it does help you find a really strong password, sponsored by
| Pepsi!
| TomK32 wrote:
| Make it PepSi for bonus points on other tasks.
| p4nthera_ wrote:
| 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.
| batmansmom1 wrote:
| 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.
| [deleted]
| gcoakes wrote:
| 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.
| FinnKuhn wrote:
| same here... Paul burnt to death an I lost :(
| YellOh wrote:
| 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.
| 19wolf wrote:
| For me the fire didn't break out until Rule 20
| zem wrote:
| that's when i gave up - it took the game from solving puzzles
| to fast-reaction video gaming.
| afterburner wrote:
| "PAUL WAS OVERFED"
|
| OH NO!!
| dsego wrote:
| Me too :(
| Rosalyn wrote:
| How'd you solve it (rule 16)?
|
| I'm completely stuck on it... I've tried every single
| combination that came to mind :/
| iso1631 wrote:
| 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 +
| roboticmind wrote:
| 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
| TheDreamPolice wrote:
| [dead]
| Mogzol wrote:
| You can cheat by entering the board state into a site like
| https://nextchessmove.com/
| riffraff wrote:
| try chessvision.ai, it allows you to scan the page and get
| the next best move.
| CaptainNegative wrote:
| Not even surrounding Paul with water emojis could stop the
| fire.
| kriro wrote:
| Nice idea, he died from fire on my first run as well. Maybe
| I'll try again in the evening.
| blharr wrote:
| Later on there is a rule where you have to feed Paul bugs, and
| I lost by feeding him too much
| captainpiggies wrote:
| I, too, overfed Paul :(
| MissingHandle wrote:
| Same
| riffraff wrote:
| 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
| whatatita wrote:
| Exactly same here. I gave him too much food while I
| searched and returned to a dead paul :(
| kjrose wrote:
| 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.
| porphyra wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Yep. Went to find a YT video and came back to find Paul was
| dead. Couldn't bring myself to start again.
| hobo_in_library wrote:
| Paul needs 3 bugs every minute. Overfeeding him looses the
| game
|
| Don't be like me, don't overfeed Paul
| Georgelemental wrote:
| Also, Paul must not be overfed
| romwell wrote:
| Found it out the hard way :(
| tw04 wrote:
| ^^I tried leaving him a bunch of worms so I could search for
| a youtube video and I was betrayed, greedy Paul.
| sebastos wrote:
| Me too :<
| chaxor wrote:
| Paul was slain :(
|
| "SiP@pepsin.VII@Vmay8y63f-2aboutcolombiaKh6"
|
| Decent password 10/10
| princevegeta89 wrote:
| 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
| flippy_flops wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Among Us?
| [deleted]
| drsopp wrote:
| I suspect a bug: I got the chess solution Rh2+ that also matches
| an element with too high atomic number..
| icoder wrote:
| Yep, same here with Re and then something
| [deleted]
| Quiza12 wrote:
| 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!
| surume wrote:
| 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!
| h4x0rr wrote:
| 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...
| aftbit wrote:
| Super fun. Sadly I accidentally killed Paul by misclicking while
| trying to simultaneously include the right elements and Roman
| numerals.
| tiago123 wrote:
| I'm stuck at the atomic numbers rule... How to solve it?
| sprokolopolis wrote:
| 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.
| cuddlyogre wrote:
| The iPhone keyboard wiped out my progress when the Roman numerals
| part started.
|
| Man I miss my Android.
|
| Fun game though.
| roozbeh18 wrote:
| I learned alot today. #win
| sen_armstrong wrote:
| Congratulations! You have sucessfully chosen a password in 131
| characters. https://files.catbox.moe/uvkktj.png
|
| bare
|
| juneshellaboutromania XXXV Fm IxbcbxRxg7+ 2 131 % (.)(.) i am
| enoughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3h3exBxTKs#1daebe 11:20
|
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| 0LWZhbWlseTogV2luZ2RpbmdzOyBmb250LXNpemU6IDQycHgiPjxzdHJvbmc+PGVt
| PiA8L2VtPjwvc3Ryb25nPjwvc3Bhbj48c3BhbiBzdHlsZT0iZm9udC1mYW1pbHk6I
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| mU6IDRweCI+PHN0cm9uZz48ZW0+MjwvZW0+PC9zdHJvbmc+PC9zcGFuPjxzcGFuIH
| N0eWxlPSJmb250LWZhbWlseTogV2luZ2RpbmdzOyBmb250LXNpemU6IDBweCI+PHN
| 0cm9uZz48ZW0+MDwvZW0+PC9zdHJvbmc+PC9zcGFuPjwvcD48L2Rpdj4K
|
| (rule 34 not skipped)
| hkab wrote:
| Lost at Rule 24. Really shouldn't ignore the 1 minutes feed
| notice ^^ Fun game btw.
| adotbacon wrote:
| Lost there too doing the opposite... I tried to get ahead of 3
| per minute by creating a nice stockpile. Dead from overfeeding.
| mcdonje wrote:
| This made me angry. Good job.
| wavemode wrote:
| 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.
| spinsser wrote:
| I changed my phone's clock to 1:00 and it worked for me
| aidenn0 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| You can just delete the fire.
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| > 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".
| cubefox wrote:
| Rich text passwords, an amazing innovation.
| jcranmer wrote:
| I had no problems getting 'canada' recognized with the a's
| bolded.
| [deleted]
| bowmessage wrote:
| 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!!!
| spinsser wrote:
| Same length as mine
| ghayes wrote:
| 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.
| iso1631 wrote:
| 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.
| [deleted]
| geluso wrote:
| 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 !
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogram
| dr_orpheus wrote:
| Also got stuck at the chess one with
| "551A!mayShellVIIVr8gecmaboutAuSingaporeBxe6"
| themanmaran wrote:
| You may need the + at the end of your notation if you're
| putting the king in check.
| sandyarmstrong wrote:
| Yup, I had to come here to figure out that the + was
| missing in mine! TIL!
| festive-minsky wrote:
| I had to use stockfish
| tiborsaas wrote:
| Brutal
| jug wrote:
| 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!
| Reason077 wrote:
| 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.
| halestock wrote:
| XXXV also works for the roman numerals.
| [deleted]
| sobriquet9 wrote:
| XXXV * I = 35. Po (from Poland), V, and I add up to 160, so
| you need to add Zr.
| porphyra wrote:
| I had a chess move that's Rg8+ but Rg has an atomic number of
| 111...
| [deleted]
| dreday wrote:
| You wanna start the chess move with Q...
| sicariusnoctis wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| The chess puzzle is different for everyone...
| [deleted]
| sobriquet9 wrote:
| Qxg7+. Chess subreddit has a counter of days without a
| puzzle that starts with a queen sacrifice.
| porphyra wrote:
| But the best move in the chess puzzle I got requires
| moving the rook.
| plewd wrote:
| Many of the puzzles are different for each player, I
| personally had Rf8+
| dunham wrote:
| 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.
| irrational wrote:
| Italy? Interesting that it is giving different locations. I got
| Qatar.
| iso1631 wrote:
| It's random
| croddin wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| I got colombia to, you just have to make the letter
| lowercase!
| zoklet-enjoyer wrote:
| I got stuck at the chess move too
| A591@juneShellVIIVec6pmtractFeNigeria2020
| chrisweekly wrote:
| "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.
| vilkkala wrote:
| I'm too stuck at the chess move with
| XXXVJanuarypepsi@3pe4g99tractHechile
| nabakin wrote:
| 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
| saikaushik wrote:
| Isn't Qxh6+ the best move for white, since there is a mate in
| 1 after that move. Am I missing something?
| YetAnotherNick wrote:
| Enter without x.
| messe wrote:
| The game is selected at random each time you play, so
| depending on which you get the solution will differ.
| jayelbe wrote:
| 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. (+deg#deg)+( +-+
|
| Edit: Oooohhh, I think I forgot to add a + for check!
| charlie2012 wrote:
| [flagged]
| Rosalyn wrote:
| Can you please tell me? I've been stuck on it for an hour and
| a half.... I really need help ;-;
| nabakin wrote:
| 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#
| Tistron wrote:
| Thanks for this. What if two rooks can both get to e5,
| how do you disambiguate?
| TheDreamPolice wrote:
| [dead]
| bonzini wrote:
| 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.
| rkagerer wrote:
| I learned more from your concise post than I ever have
| from articles, Wikipedia, etc.
| 9dev wrote:
| For Real. I finally understood chess notation.
| TheDreamPolice wrote:
| [dead]
| have_faith wrote:
| Just adding promotion
|
| - d8N# pawn moves and promotes to a knight resulting in
| checkmate (it can happen)
| kuboble wrote:
| 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.
| ghayes wrote:
| It worked for me, but I had to include `Rxb6+` for the
| capture and the check.
| Potterqueen23 wrote:
| How tell me.
| chankstein38 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| ChatGPT is really and at chess. I'd just paste it in one of
| the online chess engines.
| wongarsu wrote:
| There are apps that detect the positions from an image, and
| run a local version of stockfish to get the best move
| noSyncCloud wrote:
| https://chessvision.ai/
| mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote:
| 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.
| dsego wrote:
| You can fail at wordle and get the correct answer revealed at
| the end.
| mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Made me stop playing, because I block wordle shares on
| every social media channel.
| epicalex wrote:
| You can just search for the answer to save having to do that
| mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| You can reroll the captcha
| lyvxh wrote:
| You can cycle the captcha.
| Taniwha wrote:
| It doesn't seem to understand how wordle does timezones
| bowmessage wrote:
| Also got stuck on the chess game - had to peruse the webpacked
| source code for the array of solutions...
| jhhhhhh wrote:
| [flagged]
| abcd123123 wrote:
| What does rule 5 mean
| Paultheca wrote:
| [dead]
| blharr wrote:
| 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
| glonq wrote:
| fun! i stopped at 'today's wordle answer' since i don't know (or
| care) about such things.
| pragmatic8 wrote:
| Thanks for letting us know that you don't waste your precious
| time with such frivolities as Wordle.
| omnibrain wrote:
| Same for me. Never looked at "wordle" once.
| phaedryx wrote:
| ABOUT
| xp84 wrote:
| 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.)
| verbify wrote:
| 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.
| j0057 wrote:
| This just goes to show how wise it was to write a script for
| cheating on Wordle.
| [deleted]
| captainpiggies wrote:
| 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.
| tw04 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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"
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| "Congratulations! You have sucessfully chosen a password in 113
| characters."
|
| 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...
| ghayes wrote:
| Did you actually manage to re-type that?
| JoshTriplett wrote:
| 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.
| StinkyFish01 wrote:
| StinkyFish01
| KolmogorovComp wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| you can write tract in lower case
| KolmogorovComp wrote:
| It's case-insensitive.
| aidenn0 wrote:
| The elements are not case-sensitive "ra" is not detected as
| an element, but "Ra" is.
| tatarenstas wrote:
| The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add
| up to 200.
| schemescape wrote:
| 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.
| Paultheca wrote:
| 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
| dhakdusb wrote:
| Got to rule 35 where I had to include the current time and it was
| impossible to do... how many rules are there
| madcaptenor wrote:
| List of countries in geoguessr: AlbaniaAndorraArgentinaAustraliaA
| ustriaBangladeshBelgiumBhutanBoliviaBotswanaBrazilBulgariaCambodi
| aCanadaChileColombiaCroatiaCzechiaDenmarkDominicanRepublicEcuador
| EstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGhanaGreeceGuatemalaHungaryIcelandIndo
| nesiaIrelandIsraelItalyJapanJordanKenyaKyrgyzstanLatviaLithuaniaL
| uxembourgMalaysiaMexicoMongoliaMontenegroNetherlandsNewZealandNig
| eriaNorthMacedoniaNorwayPeruPhilippinesPolandPortugalRomaniaRussi
| aSenegalSerbiaSingaporeSlovakiaSouthAfricaSouthKoreaSpainSriLanka
| SwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanThailandTurkeyUnitedStatesUgandaUkraineUni
| tedArabEmiratesUnitedKingdomUruguayEgyptPakistanChinaDominicanRep
| ublicIndiaVietnamBermudaPuertoRicoRunionFaroeIslandsGreenland
|
| 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)
| sesm wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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...
| fullstop wrote:
| 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.
| sb8244 wrote:
| 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.
| jncfhnb wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| mogoh wrote:
| I got El Salvador which is not is the list.
| paxys wrote:
| How did you find my company's login page?
| BIG_H0TD0G wrote:
| 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!
| LandR wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Try Qe8+ if it's check or Qxe8 if you're taking a piece.
| LandR wrote:
| Thanks! That worked, it was a check.
| [deleted]
| ovulator wrote:
| 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
| xigency wrote:
| RomanianPepSiPotat0VzVII3p4nn57aboutJuneQe6+
| [deleted]
| cafeinux wrote:
| 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_ wrote:
| 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.
| zakanfein wrote:
| RIP Paul :')
| maerF0x0 wrote:
| > The digits in your password must add up to 25.
|
| > X4X5I6V7V8V9!
|
| Unclear what is not adding up to 25 here. Is it a bug?
| nerdponx wrote:
| 4+5+6+7+8+9 > 25, no? They mean exactly 25, not at least 25.
| maerF0x0 wrote:
| This is the concept I was missing. Thank ya.
| gield wrote:
| 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 39
| codetrotter wrote:
| > > X4X5I6V7V8V9!
|
| > Unclear what is not adding up to 25 here. Is it a bug?
|
| 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 39
| Kiro wrote:
| Let me guess. You often think it's a bug in the compiler.
| YChacker100 wrote:
| Super fun game ahah thanks for making!
| claar wrote:
| The chess one is much easier with my favorite Chrome extension,
| chessvision.ai
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chessvisionai-ches...
|
| 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.)
| AdamSpits wrote:
| The digits in your password must add up to 25 what do they mean
| with this?
| TomK32 wrote:
| about9_9_7
| aodonnell2536 wrote:
| Got stuck at rule 18, not sure what an atomic number is in this
| context
|
| Password26$_june_pepsi_VIIV_33p4e_about__germanyQxh7+
| jazpy wrote:
| P = phosphorus, atomic number 15
|
| V = vanadium, 23
|
| I = Iodine, 53
|
| So in your password they add up to 167
| aodonnell2536 wrote:
| 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
| squeaky-clean wrote:
| 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.
| AdamSpits wrote:
| The digits in your password must add up to 25 wath do they mean
| with this?
| donalhunt wrote:
| 1234564 = 1+2+3+4+5+6+4 = 25
| ews wrote:
| I got Netherlands as country and I can't make L and D roman
| numerals to multiply to 35
| fifticon wrote:
| you get V times VII ?
| brna wrote:
| F... the on fire part :D
| gault8121 wrote:
| Got to rule 33 after like two hours! The cap on adding up to 25
| becomes really tough with the later rules.
| raspo wrote:
| Really well done. I loved the password on fire part! :)
| NKosmatos wrote:
| Reminds me of BOFH :-) https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell
| preinheimer wrote:
| The classic stories brought a smile to my face for a long time.
| username923409 wrote:
| 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.
| rubyron wrote:
| This would be great to use on my sites so users choose stronger
| passwords.
|
| Is there an api planned, or is it open source?
| javajosh wrote:
| An api that's $1/request unless you have a prime number of
| requests, then it's free.
| Pannoniae wrote:
| please try playing the game, it's not about this :)
| rubyron wrote:
| didn't think I needed the /s
| Pannoniae wrote:
| I apologise for being an idiot. I will buy a new sarcasm
| detector shortly.
| _flux wrote:
| 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!
| [deleted]
| madcaptenor wrote:
| Gave up at the YouTube video. My final password:
|
| cmabout[gibbous emoji]swedenQf8+[chicken emoji]Tir8gecmVshellapri
| l9Fe[weightlifter][weightlifter][weightlifter]VIIamloved[caterpil
| lar][caterpillar][caterpillar][caterpillar]
| nabakin wrote:
| Should help https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36499194
| lazylion2 wrote:
| The fire part took me by surprise, RIP Paul
| sashank_1509 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| What's the chess puzzle? Qxh6+ is not working for me?
| sashank_1509 wrote:
| Everyone gets a different puzzle
| hotboy69 wrote:
| 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.
| earth_walker wrote:
| Hint: V = Vanadium and I = Iodine.
| tervuren wrote:
| 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
| alextalks wrote:
| Solved! https://imgur.com/a/fZjalRA
| Phemist wrote:
| Chess move came out at Rg1+.. romand numerals multiplied are 35 -
| so VII * V
|
| Atomic number of all of these combined: 113 + 23+53+53 + 23=275..
|
| Looks like Im not going to complete it
| bowmessage wrote:
| XXXV * I
| Phemist wrote:
| Oh, duh..
| [deleted]
| YellOh wrote:
| 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
| blharr wrote:
| The notation for capturing should be something like "Nxe6." I'm
| guessing the mistake you're making is just doing "Ne6"
| ufo wrote:
| Also, add "+" at the end if you're putting the king in check.
| geluso wrote:
| 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!
| fjkh wrote:
| what is rule 14
| fisian wrote:
| 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.
| [deleted]
| Georgelemental wrote:
| Just use XXXV? No need to do 5 * 7
| neurosage wrote:
| it parses the V in XXXV as an element group
| zeven7 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Same boat. I tried doing some parenthetical math
| (X-III)(III+II) but it doesn't work.
| amon_raw wrote:
| 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.
| [deleted]
| 0xml wrote:
| A funny game! For anyone else struggling with the wordle, the
| answer is here[1]. For anyone else struggling with the country,
| you can fill in the names of all the countries, then run a
| bisection.
|
| [1] https://www.nytimes.com/svc/wordle/v2/2023-06-28.json
| benskupro wrote:
| [flagged]
| jackdh wrote:
| 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"
| xavdid wrote:
| 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.
|
| https://www.troyhunt.com/building-password-purgatory-with-cl...
| fjkh wrote:
| what is the answer to rule 14
| WatchDog wrote:
| Here are some leap year digit tallies[0], which might help a few
| people.
|
| [0]: https://pastebin.com/hNVR2MG6
| hbn wrote:
| 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!
| willblaire wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| dudinax wrote:
| Password wouldn't recognize chess moves on row 7 or 8, and the
| best move was on row 7!
| bakedfanta wrote:
| [flagged]
| Ximba wrote:
| my password got on fire, i lost it, how? no idea, i'm pissed off
| willblaire wrote:
| can someone help me on rule 18 (the elements in your password
| must have atomic numbers that add up to 200)? I'm not sure what
| it's asking 3:
| jaktet wrote:
| Each element maps to an atomic number:
| https://www.angelo.edu/faculty/kboudrea/periodic/structure_n...
|
| It should highlight the likely multiple atomic numbers that are
| already in your password.
| LelouBil wrote:
| 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
| !
| dddmmmjjj wrote:
| HHeLiBeBNOFNeNaMgAlSiPSArK" verwenden, da die Ordnungszahlen
| von Wasserstoff (1), Helium (2), Lithium (3), Beryllium (4),
| Bor (5), Stickstoff (7), Sauerstoff (8), Fluor (9), Neon (10),
| Natrium (11), Magnesium (12), Aluminium (13), Silizium (14),
| Phosphor (15), Schwefel (16), Argon (18) und Kalium (19)
| zusammen 200 ergeben.
| nabakin wrote:
| Reached 28 and forgot to feed Paul. That Rule is so frustrating
| YellOh wrote:
| 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):
|
| xngxcaboutjuneshell0000XXXV*I54malaysia0Nd3+Gd d4dbc1170
| gault8121 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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)
| pynappo wrote:
| 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...
| qt31415926 wrote:
| 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
| gault8121 wrote:
| The Chrome Inspector Color Picker does not return the right
| hex code! You have to go into the properties to get the right
| value.
| nabakin wrote:
| "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.
| [deleted]
| porphyra wrote:
| 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?
| starrz_r_cool wrote:
| im stuck on question 16 and what annoys me is that everyone gets
| a different puzzle
| Kiro wrote:
| 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.
| GingerSpice wrote:
| How do I get past Rule 21 "Your password isn't strong enough "
| None4U wrote:
| Copy the strong emoji in the rule three times
| Lord_Hagen wrote:
| 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.
| msravi wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| You can refresh the captcha to make it work.
| j-h-k wrote:
| Got to the youtube video length url, but then I overfed Paul.
| Hilarious and frustrating at the same time :D.
| jayelbe wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| doh, of course the video length is randomized.
| nanmu42 wrote:
| Oh no my chicken is dead. LOL
| zakanfein wrote:
| I found the video .... but the elements now ....
| koalateacontrol wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| I copied it when it asked me to confirm my password and pasted
| it.
|
| It worked instantly.
| koalateacontrol wrote:
| Yeah I redid the whole thing and copied before the last step.
| Successfully created a 211 character password.
| mhdm wrote:
| 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.
| bakedfanta wrote:
| 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
| ineedausername wrote:
| What is this abomination.
| javajosh wrote:
| It's called a "joke".
| anoncow wrote:
| 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.
| Symbiote wrote:
| I was dropped into the ruin of an ancient amphitheatre (the
| tourist/foot StreetView thing):
| https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9520096,35.9393566,2a,75y,14...
|
| After a 'walk' I saw flags which confused me, but it turns out
| this country has a very similar flag to its neighbour.
| stsourlidakis wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| That's excellent
| TomK32 wrote:
| Didn't know you could move, but then, why would I when I was
| shown a beach in Israel.
| StingyJelly wrote:
| 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.
| WaxProlix wrote:
| Hah! I was wondering about that. Mine dropped me into what
| looks like a 3D modeled version of a real place, but sandboxed
| - there's no way to move around.
|
| (that iframe embed is:
| https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m...
| )
|
| It led me down the path of reverse engineering these URLs
| though, so that's fun.
| amaretto448 wrote:
| here is the street view link:
|
| https://www.google.de/maps/@25.0897073,51.1817779,3a,75y,268.
| ..
| WaxProlix wrote:
| That's great! How did you get that?
| Nifty3929 wrote:
| I feel this password field is Turing complete.
| monkeybusiness8 wrote:
| Played with my girlfriend and we got to rule 35, include the
| current time
| monkeybusiness8 wrote:
| [dead]
| crumblingaway wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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)
| GingerSpice wrote:
| Stuck on Rule 21 "Your password is not strong enough "
| jerdthenerd wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| How does Wordle handle time zones?
| RancidDiarrhea wrote:
| You can also enter more than one chess move. only one has to be
| right.
| ranguna wrote:
| 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.
| jer0me wrote:
| You can refresh the captcha
| cubefox wrote:
| Reminded me of this video:
|
| https://youtube.com/watch?v=WqnXp6Saa8Y
| sixstringtheory wrote:
| neal.fun and ciechanow.ski are vying for the number 1 spot on my
| list of HN auto-upvote submission hosts
| 8ivek wrote:
| [dead]
| monkeybusiness8 wrote:
| [dead]
| cm-t wrote:
| > 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 :'(
| echeese wrote:
| It means sum, so 55555 would work
| cm-t wrote:
| got it, thank you!
| thorin wrote:
| It means individual digits e.g. 997 === 9 + 9 + 7
| arijun wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| funny that i had to remove weight of my initial digit since
| the CAPTCHA (rule10) :>
| arijun wrote:
| The captcha could itself add up to more than 25, making an
| immediate game over
| jackson1442 wrote:
| You can request a new captcha without restarting
| hgsgm wrote:
| 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.
| well_actulily wrote:
| I overfed Paul :(
|
| 111about[weightlifter][dead paul][worm][worm][weightlifter]VIIaml
| ovednovemberen4n41E2111shellV[weightlifter][weightlifter][worm][w
| orm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][worm][
| worm]
| DasCorCor wrote:
| I laughed out loud many times, thank you! :)
| burnished wrote:
| 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
| MissingHandle wrote:
| Once I overfed [name], I reached my limit
| asdaa21332 wrote:
| 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!
| [deleted]
| layer8 wrote:
| Nope.
| anthony_romeo wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| You can re-roll the captcha.
| [deleted]
| asdaa21332 wrote:
| [flagged]
| lycos wrote:
| 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!
| Symbiote wrote:
| 8 AD was a leap year.
| icoder wrote:
| so where 0 and 4 ;)
| wizofaus wrote:
| 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.
| Symbiote wrote:
| 0 isn't a year anyway, 1AD is preceded by 1BC.
|
| Wikipedia has some information on leap years around this
| time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar#Leap_
| year_erro...
| wizofaus wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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.
| TomK32 wrote:
| leap year? what? I guess I had passed that by accident, 4 and 8
| were leap years I guess?
| sltkr wrote:
| The country is randomized; mine was Albania (that was NOT easy
| to figure out!)
| danuker wrote:
| 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.
| Goz3rr wrote:
| Mine gave me a place a Qatar, which doesn't even seem to
| have real photos but 3D renders instead:
| https://goo.gl/maps/YynAc2JSfKJzeAwWA
| hgsgm wrote:
| Google a street name.
| icoder wrote:
| 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.
| lycos wrote:
| I saw a hot spring and got a very lucky guess, I can imagine
| there are a lot of hard ones in there yeah!
| iso1631 wrote:
| I had albania which was easy -- there was a nearby poster
| with some writing on, and a short ddg led to albanian sites.
| caddy wrote:
| Spoiler: You can save a couple characters by using PepSi (Pepsi
| + Silicon) which answers 2 requests.
| jameshart wrote:
| 2000 was a leap year and it doesn't screw with your numeric
| total too badly :)
| POOWHILERUNNING wrote:
| This was fun until I reached the time-sensitive rules
| hhhahahjgjgjg wrote:
| [flagged]
| [deleted]
| naitsa wrote:
| 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]
| BarneySz wrote:
| Do we need to put out the fire?
| shanks512 wrote:
| 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
| ?
|
| 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...
| Symbiote wrote:
| Doha:
| https://www.google.com/maps/@25.0897073,51.1817779,0a,82.2y,...
| shanks512 wrote:
| Thanks, that's the one!
| noxvilleza wrote:
| Try Dubai or Abu Dhabi?
| shanks512 wrote:
| I can no longer access it now. But I have posted the Google
| maps embed link if that helps.
| axiore wrote:
| how to do the atomic 200
| ankaAr wrote:
| I want to say that i really hate you
| Radoxel wrote:
| [dead]
| lcabral wrote:
| 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...)
| fishtoaster wrote:
| I ended up refreshing the captcha until I got one with only one
| number, in order to get around that kind of issue.
| anoncow wrote:
| If it included a check Qh6+ could have been the answer?
| [deleted]
| sakras wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| THANK YOU! I was stuck not knowing the "+". In my case it
| was a check mate.
| jameshart wrote:
| You can regenerate the captcha at any time.
| jamilton wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Yeah, I got Croatia in the Geoguessr section, which means I
| can't possibly multiply roman numerals to 35, since C is 100.
| Apes wrote:
| You can use a lowercase c, and it won't count as a roman
| numeral.
| fisian wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| You can refresh the captcha. I had to a couple of times.
| greenpizza13 wrote:
| For the chess solution I ended up putting a breakpoint in the
| Javascript. To each their own.
| javajosh wrote:
| 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.
| lrvick wrote:
| This is now my new favorite way to explain to people that
| passwords should not exist. Long live FIDO2 and passkeys.
| chme wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| > 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| > 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| > 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.
|
| 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.
| caddy wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| > 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.
| hhhahahjgjgjg wrote:
| [flagged]
| Radoxel wrote:
| [dead]
| Radoxel wrote:
| [dead]
| spinsser wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Can you explain the bug?
| geluso wrote:
| 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?
| joshgel wrote:
| 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...
| captainpiggies wrote:
| I would find it hilarious if someone would come up with a
| password generator that generates passwords that would pass
| this game.
| squirtlebonflow wrote:
| Should be pretty easy, since you can check the generated
| password against all the criteria. Making it fast might be
| difficult though
| qt31415926 wrote:
| 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.
| gcoakes wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Re-upload until you get a good ID
| vezuchyy wrote:
| I almost overturned my table when Paul didn't survive the fire.
| No way I'll play again!
| vezuchyy wrote:
| I played again and fcking Paul overate
| [deleted]
| Mizoguchi wrote:
| This is how Chase Bank password policies feel like
| impalallama wrote:
| > The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add
| up to 200.
|
| And I'm out lol. Fun game though.
| tervuren wrote:
| hey it lets you use multiple elements for this one. I used Hf,
| Ir, and Ni to get to the next rule.
| yellowman1 wrote:
| I tried it and it didnt work
| meetpateltech wrote:
| 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?
| [deleted]
| raldi wrote:
| And then what happens after 36?
| druskacik wrote:
| 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 :(
| Pannoniae wrote:
| You can't pass 36. Just saying.
| YellOh wrote:
| Honestly not sure how you'd pass the youtube one, unless you
| were incredibly lucky
| TomK32 wrote:
| I found one by the United Nations. In the meanwhile Paul
| starved to death.
| Pannoniae wrote:
| by searching for the length in your favourite search engine
| :)
| YellOh wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| It would have likely screwed up your previous answers --
| roman numerals etc.
| roflyear wrote:
| I think you just have to search for it and hope for the
| best, my query got me this video which is hilarious:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRoUEr1l0n8
| nabakin wrote:
| I figured out a way to get a list of videos all matching
| the time you want. Should help.
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36499194
| [deleted]
| stoicprancer wrote:
| finished it, finally, https://i.imgur.com/SP8JOSs.png
| genjii931 wrote:
| Brilliant!
| h1fra wrote:
| 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.
|
| cshell-may-p4pde-about-bulgaria-00-991-Qg2+-XXXV-bFmN- -iamloved-
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWJaxlYRSc0
| icoder wrote:
| 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.
| oxguy3 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| It sounds like the problem I was having on FF. Switch to
| Chrome and see if this problem persists
| quantumsequoia wrote:
| Tried Chrome on multiple OS, still not working
| d--b wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| XXXV also works
| d--b wrote:
| Jesus, of course thanks
| kretaceous wrote:
| 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.
| dalai wrote:
| I gave up on rule 18: The elements in your password must have
| atomic numbers that add up to 200.
| lnx01 wrote:
| 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_
| jenjenneration wrote:
| https://nextchessmove.com/
| KomoD wrote:
| You can regen the captcha, I stopped at that too because I
| couldn't be bothered.
| ufo wrote:
| It works if you put the chess move before the captcha
| sltkr wrote:
| I wonder if the password becomes invalid if you leave the tab
| open for 24 hours...
| squeaky-clean wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| Mmm, I overfed a certain part of the password.
| JoelSanchez wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| It's easy to spam guesses of moves until you get approved.
| soupslush wrote:
| i still can't pass rule 5
| gnutrino wrote:
| RIP Paul. This was really hard on mobile.
| momirlan wrote:
| do people here have so much free time on their hands ?
| axiore wrote:
| what is rule 5 idk how
| captn3m0 wrote:
| I got a "Paul has been slain" message, when I deleted half my
| password to debug something. Weird.
|
| Got to the vowel capitalization.
| TomK32 wrote:
| It's not capitalization, it's about selecting the characters
| and pressing the "bold" button.
| icoder wrote:
| Or just ctrl-a + ctrl-b
| jameshart wrote:
| Paul is the chicken
| axiore wrote:
| how is rule 5
| bluecipher wrote:
| https://imgur.com/paCJTiR
| rngDolphins wrote:
| rip Paul, but also I love this concept. I would love to see it
| expanded with more varied requirements!
| ezekg wrote:
| I got to the chess move and didn't feel like putting in the
| effort there.
| charles_f wrote:
| 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.
| joestrong wrote:
| 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
| c120 wrote:
| 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
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