(try playing this at https://neal.fun/password-game/!)
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the password game takes the ripe joke of having to obey increasingly specific password requirements when signing up for a site and runs with it. it is divided into levels - “rules” - that you have to follow, a new one revealed once you fulfil all pre-existing ones. at least 5 characters? sure. a special character? you got it. an emoji for the current phase of the moon? uhhh… the notation for the winning move in this game of chess? uh oh….
if i was meaner i would be assigning this a rating and docking it some points. this was definitely intended to get increasingly ridiculous to play into the joke, and not as a game structured for anyone to beat. the dev admits as such on twitter. theres an entertaining level of entropy to the whole game the further you get in due to how the “rules” all have to be fulfilled at once - i had to start accounting for boron in my answer because i was forced to move my bishop during a previous level (the algebraic notation for this beginning with a B). lets hope that youtube url you need doesnt contain a C, M or X because youre going to fuck up your roman numeral multiplication that way!! and you can pad your answer with special characters if you know the fire is coming…
its a decent quick laugh. again, i would most likely be rating this negatively as an actual game due to an unsatisfying luck factor (rule 24 is so unfair!!) but theres enough novelty here to be funny to show friends and gauge reactions as they delve further. and i had a fun enough time trying to optimise an “ideal run” through it. so i bear no ill-will
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the password game takes the ripe joke of having to obey increasingly specific password requirements when signing up for a site and runs with it. it is divided into levels - “rules” - that you have to follow, a new one revealed once you fulfil all pre-existing ones. at least 5 characters? sure. a special character? you got it. an emoji for the current phase of the moon? uhhh… the notation for the winning move in this game of chess? uh oh….
if i was meaner i would be assigning this a rating and docking it some points. this was definitely intended to get increasingly ridiculous to play into the joke, and not as a game structured for anyone to beat. the dev admits as such on twitter. theres an entertaining level of entropy to the whole game the further you get in due to how the “rules” all have to be fulfilled at once - i had to start accounting for boron in my answer because i was forced to move my bishop during a previous level (the algebraic notation for this beginning with a B). lets hope that youtube url you need doesnt contain a C, M or X because youre going to fuck up your roman numeral multiplication that way!! and you can pad your answer with special characters if you know the fire is coming…
its a decent quick laugh. again, i would most likely be rating this negatively as an actual game due to an unsatisfying luck factor (rule 24 is so unfair!!) but theres enough novelty here to be funny to show friends and gauge reactions as they delve further. and i had a fun enough time trying to optimise an “ideal run” through it. so i bear no ill-will