[HN Gopher] The Password Game
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       The Password Game
        
       Author : kretaceous
       Score  : 575 points
       Date   : 2023-06-27 14:51 UTC (8 hours 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
        
       | 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...
        
         | nashashmi wrote:
         | At least it has a great UI
        
       | 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.
        
       | 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.
        
       | 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!
        
       | 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.
        
         | 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.
        
         | 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
        
           | 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.
        
         | 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 :(
        
           | 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
        
         | Georgelemental wrote:
         | Also, Paul must not be overfed
        
           | tw04 wrote:
           | ^^I tried leaving him a bunch of worms so I could search for
           | a youtube video and I was betrayed, greedy Paul.
        
         | 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.
        
       | 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]
        
       | 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.
        
       | 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.
        
       | 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
        
         | irrational wrote:
         | Italy? Interesting that it is giving different locations. I got
         | Qatar.
        
           | iso1631 wrote:
           | It's random
        
         | 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#
        
           | ghayes wrote:
           | It worked for me, but I had to include `Rxb6+` for the
           | capture and the check.
        
         | 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/
        
         | bowmessage wrote:
         | Also got stuck on the chess game - had to peruse the webpacked
         | source code for the array of solutions...
        
       | jhhhhhh wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
       | Paultheca wrote:
       | I've been stuck on the 28 level and the converting the colour to
       | a hex code, which I do using a website(tried in multiple
       | websites) however no matter what I try when I put it into the
       | password it doesn't work
        
       | glonq wrote:
       | fun! i stopped at 'today's wordle answer' since i don't know (or
       | care) about such things.
        
         | 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.
        
       | 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
        
       | 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?
        
       | 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
        
       | [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.
        
       | 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.
        
       | 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
        
           | 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
        
       | 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
        
       | 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
        
       | 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
        
       | [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.
        
         | 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]
        
       | 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
        
       | 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:
        
       | 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:
        
       | 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
        
         | 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
        
           | 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.
        
       | j-h-k wrote:
       | Got to the youtube video length url, but then I overfed Paul.
       | Hilarious and frustrating at the same time :D.
        
         | 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.
        
       | 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.
        
         | 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.
        
       | 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]
        
       | 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]
        
       | 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
        
       | [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]
        
       | 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).
        
         | 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.
        
           | 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.
        
         | jameshart wrote:
         | 2000 was a leap year and it doesn't screw with your numeric
         | total too badly :)
        
       | 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]
        
       | 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.
        
       | hhhahahjgjgjg wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
       | 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?
        
         | 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.
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | impalallama wrote:
       | > The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add
       | up to 200.
       | 
       | And I'm out lol. Fun game though.
        
       | 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?
        
         | raldi wrote:
         | And then what happens after 36?
        
         | 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]
        
       | 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.
        
       | 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.
        
       | momirlan wrote:
       | do people here have so much free time on their hands ?
        
       | 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
        
       | 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.
        
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