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Lord Error

Member
Oct 27, 2017
4,372
Now I'm stuck on chess, and it won't register the best move. Worked fine the last few times so it seems like a bug. It actually recognizes the move but I guess thinks it's not the best one. But it is the best one, as calculated by the best chess engine in existence, heh.

RIP 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Yep. Save your password somewhere aside the next time.

There's a sign in a different language that acts as a clue. That said, some do get super frustrating but I guess that's the point.
Unless I'm missing something, that's not always the case. Sometimes you just get totally non-descript view.
 

Murlin

Member
Feb 12, 2019
1,051
the map, capcha, and chessboard are randomized every time, as well as the required length of the youtube video
 

Niosai

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 28, 2017
4,927
It's neat, but I don't like how it basically just turns into a math problem.
 

Buzzkiller_20

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,143
Rule 18 got me. Wasn't sure why some parts in my password got highlighted when they weren't even elements. Unless ut became an element I don't know about. Only element I could find with ut was a fake element, but I don't think they would really use that.
 

PlayBee

One Winged Slayer
Member
Nov 8, 2017
5,543
Tried again and somehow broke it, couldn't type anything even though there was no game over screen. Not gonna bother anymore
 

KevdotL

Member
Oct 25, 2017
500
Downloaded an extension for my chrome to solve the chess question

Edit: Got to Rule 19 then

PAUL HAS BEEN SLAIN
 
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Conkerkid11

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
13,969
Been messing around with this for a while. Genuinely learned algebraic chess notation by playing this.

If anybody's interested, these are all of the rules:
  1. Your password must be at least 5 characters.
  2. Your password must include a number.
  3. Your password must include an uppercase letter.
  4. Your password must include a special character.
  5. The digits in your password must add up to 25.
  6. Your password must include a month of the year.
  7. Your password must include a roman numeral.
  8. Your password must include one of our sponsors:
  9. The roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35.
    1. If anything conflicts with this, just use a lowercase letter instead.
  10. Your password must include this CAPTCHA:
    1. You can reroll the captcha as many times as you want. Try to get something without any numbers in it.
  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.
    1. Just look at the ground and there should be a street name you can Google.
  15. Your password must include a leap year.
    1. Just use "0"
  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.
    1. Just bold everything.
  20. Oh no! Your password is on fire. Quick, put it out!
    1. Delete all of the fire emojis as fast as possible.
  21. Your password is not strong enough 🏋️‍♂
    1. Copy/paste the weightlifting emoji into your password.
  22. Your password must contain one of the following affirmations:
    1. The "I" can be lowercase.
  23. Paul has hatched! Please don't forget to feed him, he eats three 🐛 every minute.
    1. If there are more than 8 worms in your password, Paul will be overfed and die.
  24. Your password must include the URL of a ... 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.
    1. Wait until the hour is a low number and top of the hour, because of the rule where digits have to add up to 25.
  36. Is this your final password?
 
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Nov 2, 2017
6,815
Shibuya
I got very stonewalled on 16. Tried five different setups (which is a pain because you have to redo stuff like the geoguessr bit) bu I could never get the valid, correct move. :(
 

Fossora

Member
Jun 14, 2023
1,216
Rule 11 seems to make Rule 9 impossible based on today's answer having a letter which is over 35.

This one got me too. The answer is:
use a lower case "c" - I'm actually annoyed how long it took me to solve this!

Just finished, and by finished I mean...
PAUL HAS BEEN SLAIN. OH NO. PAUUUUUUUUUUL!
Got to #24/25 on my next run and meh. if the QTE wasn't enough to put me off, this part is.
 
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Sr Kitsune

Prophet of Truth
Member
Oct 27, 2017
1,960
Baja California, Mexico
Been messing around with this for a while. Genuinely learned algebraic chess notation by playing this.

If anybody's interested, these are all of the rules:
  1. Your password must be at least 5 characters.
  2. Your password must include a number.
  3. Your password must include an uppercase letter.
  4. Your password must include a special character.
  5. The digits in your password must add up to 25.
  6. Your password must include a month of the year.
  7. Your password must include a roman numeral.
  8. Your password must include one of our sponsors:
  9. The roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35.
    1. If anything conflicts with this, just use a lowercase letter instead.
  10. Your password must include this CAPTCHA:
    1. You can reroll the captcha as many times as you want. Try to get something without any numbers in it.
  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.
    1. Just look at the ground and there should be a street name you can Google.
  15. Your password must include a leap year.
    1. Just use "0"
  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.
    1. Just bold everything.
  20. Oh no! Your password is on fire. Quick, put it out!
    1. Delete all of the fire emojis as fast as possible.
  21. Your password is not strong enough 🏋️‍♂
    1. Copy/paste the weightlifting emoji into your password.
  22. Your password must contain one of the following affirmations:
    1. The "I" can be lowercase.
  23. Paul has hatched! Please don't forget to feed him, he eats three 🐛 every minute.
    1. If there are more than 8 worms in your password, Paul will be overfed and die.
  24. Your password must include the URL of a ... 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.
    1. Wait until the hour is a low number and top of the hour, because of the rule where digits have to add up to 25.
  36. Is this your final password?

I got to 24 and haven't managed to be able to get 25 in time before eventually I nuke 24 for waiting too much or putting too much lol. I think I'll leave it at that, seems kind of insane if I have to keep tabs of 24 for the rest of the game lol.

Edit: Ahh, I didn't see the trick for 24... maybe I give it another go later.
 

Success

Member
Oct 27, 2017
201
I got to 24 and haven't managed to be able to get 25 in time before eventually I nuke 24 for waiting too much or putting too much lol. I think I'll leave it at that, seems kind of insane if I have to keep tabs of 24 for the rest of the game lol.

Edit: Ahh, I didn't see the trick for 24... maybe I give it another go later.

Are you able to share the word that got you the furthest? I would like to see all of the different rules displayed but I am not smart enough to get past rule 14.
 

roguesquirrel

The Fallen
Oct 29, 2017
5,488
Got up to the prime number one before tapping out because I was tired of juggling all the digit subrules
 

Superstash

Member
Jun 19, 2022
32
That was super fun! Nice little 2-3 hour timesink.

My final password + the end screen for anyone who wants to see it (spoilers of course):

Password: 🐔🐛🐛🐛🐛dpbydXXXVEs00A$JunePepsi am loveddenmarkabout🌔🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♂️🏋️‍♂️Qf7+youtube.com/watch?v=0jyKBupmtcY#3aed2111310:006bcdefhij

the-password-game-completed.jpg
 

MayorSquirtle

Member
May 17, 2018
7,983
Got to 20 and I'm out, can't be bothered starting over after that. After seeing the later rules, sounds like an awful time anyway lol
 

Giga Man

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 27, 2017
21,243
My password after 13 rules is "VasdfVIIg39HAprilShell!wg625tractBe🌔".

Y'all can have it. Rule 11 asked me to insert today's wordle (which is "tract" btw, got it 4th try), and I don't feel like doing WORK to play a game. Neat idea, though. I respect the sense of humor.
 

mr_Balli

Member
May 11, 2021
120
This is hilarious and crazy
Some of the rules are very creative

Paul is a menace, and the exact YouTube video length URL is where I gave up
 
Oct 30, 2017
765
I got wrecked during 24. Finding one would've been okay, but I did too much copy/pasting for 23 thinking it'd buy me a lot of time, but instead it put me into a fail state. RIP Paul.
 

Feep

Lead Designer, Iridium Studios
Verified
Oct 25, 2017
4,605
16 is bugged for me. Not sure what it wants. I did Qe7 and it says invalid notation. The wiki article and ChatGPT confirm I'm correct and if I try the obscure emoji symbol thing like in the wiki as well, it doesn't get it. Tried both capture notations as well. Still wont register it. So idk.
If the move causes check, it should be Qe7+, and if it's checkmate, Qe7#.
 

Orso

Member
Oct 28, 2017
631
Gave up at 10 becuase
CAPTCHA's cause me enough stress already

Seems like a cool game though
 

Aztorian

Member
Jan 3, 2018
1,456
Done at Rule 18. My chess answer has Rf in it. Rf has Atomic mass of 261, Rule 18 caps Atomic Mass at 200. Lame.
 

Fromskap

Member
Sep 6, 2019
321
Got to the Youtube video one. Keep running into the problem that the URL has a roman numeral in it, and finding another of the exact length is too bothersome. But for the people wanting to go further, these timer Youtube channels are a great asset.

Done at Rule 18. My chess answer has Rf in it. Rf has Atomic mass of 261, Rule 18 caps Atomic Mass at 200. Lame.
For me it was atomic number, not mass.
 
Oct 31, 2017
12,090
Can't get Rule 14 lol

No idea what country that is.

EDIT: wtf I refreshed the page and it changed

EDIT 2: k got the new country
 
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Plum

Member
May 31, 2018
17,309
The chess one and the numbers in the captcha add up to over 25. Is there anything I can do? :(
 

KillstealWolf

One Winged Slayer
Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
16,099
The chess one and the numbers in the captcha add up to over 25. Is there anything I can do? :(

You can re-roll the captcha to something with smaller/less numbers in them. It is possible to get a completely impossible set of rules to finish though so do be aware of that.
 

Ginger Hail

One Winged Slayer
Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
3,136
Messed with this last night and got all the way to Rule 24 but stopped because finding a video with such a specific length felt like such a time sink after a brief attempt. Definitely a funny little thing for what it's worth.