As a someone who frequently argues with IT teams over ridiculous hidden password rules that drive crappy user experience I feel triggered by this game.
This is fantasticll
My company finally went to a non expiring multi-word based policy. Took them a major breach but finally some sanity.
Have you ever played You Shall Not Pass?
I hate Paul...
I made it up to rule 25 and then Paul starved because I was thinking too long about which characters to ban.
To make it over Rule 24 (Paste the URL of a Youtube video with a certain random length), I even created a video with the correct length and kept uploading it to Youtube to get a URL without roman numerals and decently usable atomic weights.
When I tried it again after that dumb chicken starved, I hit Youtube's maximum daily upload limit. Now Youtube thinks I am a spambot or something.
Btw, there are 35 rules total, in case anyone else makes it over 24. And spoiler, the one that got me doesn't matter at all. It's one of the easiest of all.
That's a heroic effort! I laughed so hard.
Do you know what all the rules are? Could you perhaps put it in a spoiler quoted comment? I'm not about to get through all of these rules lol.
I tag teamed with someone and they were constantly counting to make sure Paul got fed while I tried to find a 23m03s YouTube video
I got a text HOURS saying “I can still hear myself counting” lol
I think I will quit at this point.
OK, I may have hit a wall with this one.
That's where I quit too
I gave up around the roman numbers because I chose to include
May...Think I should try again.
edit: okay, I'm going to call it on the Wordle rule.
That's as far as I got as well
im case you tackle it again, the month does not need to be capitalized, and if its lower case, it doesn't count as a roman numeral
One day I might solve this, but this day is not today.
This whole website is great, thanks for sharing! Currently hooked on drawing a perfect circle
This is the best I could do
Let’s go!
I found bigger circles made it easier.
Some useful resources:
Emoji Moon Phases, you'll need Waxing Gibbous right now (🌔)
https://starinastar.com/moon-phase-emojis-a-review/
Today's Wordle Answer:
https://www.tomsguide.com/news/what-is-todays-wordle-answer
The Elements sorted by Atomic Number:
https://www.angelo.edu/faculty/kboudrea/periodic/structure_numbers.htm
Chess Move Solver:
What killed me was trying to feed the chicken while hunting for a YouTube video of a certain length. I did get past that once when I was lucky enough to be asked for a 9 minute 0 second video. Because people upload "timer" videos of exactly X minutes, that was possible. The "26 minute 59 second" video resulted in a dead chicken.
What the hell is a gibbous and why does it need waxing?
Today’s Wordle Answer:
I already had my WordleHelper so that wasn't actually that hard.> What killed me was trying to feed the chicken while hunting for a YouTube video of a certain length.
Chess Move Solver:
https://nextchessmove.com/That's the stuff! I chickened out at the chess question.
What killed me was trying to feed the chicken while hunting for a YouTube video of a certain length.
That will be solved with the browser's dev tools, I guess 😇
LMAO this game is amazing. I got to rule 25 with this bad boy
Semplice1!2711shellJanuaryV🥚Sixngxctract🌔norway2004Qxb7+🏋️♂️🏋️♂️🏋️♂️VIIamloved🐛🐛🐛🐛https://youtu.be/QfUYWkPNDqUbut fucking Paul starved as I was converting all the vowels to bold. If anyone's wondering why there's a link in there, rule 24 required you to put the URL of a YT video with a duration of exactly 11 minutes and four seconds. Will probably be different for you, if you try it.
Just select all and make it bold! 😉
Which will probably come back to bite you
Let me just say: screw Paul and his inability to pace himself when eating. I just gave him a bunch of food to satiate him and he decided to eat it all at once and die from overeating...
Cool concept though!
I did 32nd Rule but I broke Rule 5. I wasn't going to juggle the hex colour, the length of the password, the captcha, and the youtube url, so that the numbers add to 25... Don't know if it's possible even...
edit: 31 to 32 was hard, I added a before pic as well, had to change strategy.
Did you make it to rule 34? If it is not releated to "Rule 34", I'd be disappointed.
Impressive. I never got past the YouTube URL. But I refresh the captcha until it doesn't contain any numbers so that it doesn't mess with the "25". Still, it the YouTube video contains too many numbers, then it's difficult.
Didn't even think that the captcha could be numberless... And now that I look at it youtube urls had no number... F***!
Maybe it's a good think I quit, I have work to do :P
Playing this game was infuriating when the egg hatched.
I hate this. Also, I love it. Fuck Paul.
PAUL HAS STARVED is the most evil thing :P
Also I got Madagascar, which was kind of hard...
I accidentally overfed him, which I guess is just as bad due to the Dark Souls themed overlay lol.
Paul was overfed and has also died...
i did too. i had to wander around for ten minutes before i found a sign that helped me make a guess.
Reminds me of https://youshallnotpass.glitch.me/. But this one is even harder. :D
Oh this is hilarious! I could accept each absurd rule up until I had to play Wordle, then I called it quits. But I kinda want to continue and see how high it goes.
Edit: Now stuck on chess
Edit 2: Oh no! I panic deleted during the fire.
That was fun! Kinda hit the wall at the youtube link rule. Couldn't find a way to search YT videos by exact length, so you either need to get super lucky and find one randomly or upload such a video yourself. Then you better hope the video URL does not contain any roman numerals... All while keeping Paul fed (but not overfed!)
Same, this was also my limit.
I think at that point the game requires two players cooperating. One searches for YouTube videos while the other is feeding Paul.
I got through YouTube by searching for
speed run “mm:ss”since speedrun videos usually have the speedrun time in the title. Then it’s just a matter of searching for speed runs of slightly shorter times than it until you happen across a video which is both of appropriate length plus or minus the one second tolerance it gives, and which doesn’t kill either your Roman numerals or elements
Omg I overfed Paul lol
Same. Overfed Paul and decided that was enough for me lol
That was fun! I couldn’t put out the fire on mobile, I couldn’t move the cursor around fast enough, and then Paul starved 🙀
I panicked with the fire and lost half of my password, it was enough for me...
hi, i'm stuck on rules 9 and 11, because i cannot both have today's wordle answer, and also have it multiply to equal 35 in roman numerals. what do i do?
It only counts in Roman numerals if they're capitalized. Give the wordle answer in lower case.
oh perfect, thanks!
If you write in lowercase it doesn't count as Roman numerals ;)
thanks I hate it
This is hilariously difficult
I thought I was so smart spamming the caterpillars into the password. I overfed Paul.
The funniest moment has to have been when I Googled "9 minute 34 second Youtube video" and there was at least one video literally titled "9 MINUTES AND 34 SECONDS TIMER COUNTDOWN [574 seconds - 9:34]" and the video was 9 minutes 49 seconds long. I proceeded to Google different numbers of seconds looking for one that hit the perfect number and literally none of the videos, despite seemingly hundreds of videos of very specific times happened to fall on the 9 minute 34 second mark. Like, what insane world is happening in the great depths of Youtube where people spend hours posting completely arbitrary timers on Youtube, but specifically avoid ones that are 9 minutes, 34 seconds in length. I felt set up. I was rolling in laughter. 10/10 would spend my night Googling Youtube timers and overfeeding an emoji chicken again.
i wish i had read the comments. they never told me I could overfeed paul, and now i feel a little bit bad about killing a chicken emoji
9 minutes 34 of audio bible anyone?? https://youtube.com/watch?v=mdEttg1lN0I
Paul info within
spoiler
To keep Paul alive for a long time you can put newlines in front and the newlines get removed before the food does, but it doesn't overfeed.
even with the above I couldn't ever find a video of length 24:45. the youtube timers are all a second or two off. I wasn't gonna upload one, so my final solution was (youtube url was incorrect)
96mm3nnn5pfebruarypepsitractlXXXV🌖 malaysia 0 Ne2+ 🐔🏋️♂️🏋️♂️🏋️♂️ I am loved FmSi 🐛 🐛 🐛 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wMHUgyaY4II created a video of the correct length using the Windows built-in video editor and uploaded that. The problem is, to get this right, the link cannot have roman numerals (except for I and V) and the atomic weights cannot be too high.
So I kept re-uploading until I had a URL without roman numerals and without high atomic weights.
And then I took too long thinking about the next thing, even though it was trivial, and that dumb chicken starved.
I created a video of the correct length using the Windows built-in video editor and uploaded that.
That's the spirit.
to avoid paul starving just do what I put in my spoiler! you seem more driven than me. I'm not gonna spend time uploading youtube videos lol
hunter2
I wonder how many of us went hunter2 right off the bat
i gave up in the google maps lmao
Same, typed all of the countries I could think of and then noped out.
Since maps only works in iframes and I my browsers don't like that. After a dozen attempts to brute force, I considered it fair to put a breakpoint in js and look at the stack (a habit I gained after playing untrusted ). I only glimpsed at the code for what was still ahead. When I encountered the chess question I decided to go finally to bed - since that wasn't the last rule or even close. I guess Friday after work would be the best time to start this again.
Encyclopedia Britannica has a list of all countries on Earth.
Screenshot the landmark and put it in Google lense
The map didn't load for me so I just grabbed a big list of countries and pasted them there lol
Kinda stumped here... the county one was super hard the camera was on a radio tower so I couldn't move around
You just need to copy paste that emoji (weight lifting) into your password multiple times. It will eventually be strong enough.
Damn I already closed it
The last character tells you what to type there.
I gave up at "Roman numerals must multiply to 35"
You can just write XXXV. You don't need any other roman numerals.
I used "VVII" for that one 🤷
Nice game, thanks for sharing ! I stopped at rule 24, looking for videos with correct length and url was tok frustrating for me...
Ha, this was brilliant. I got up until the chess move!
Can't believe that in 2023 we still rely on passwords so much, even more so when there are silly rules for password "strength".
I figured out what random country I got dropped into was, but I cannot for the life of me figure out the best chess move. Made it though up to rule 16 with this:
Pepsi2004assnbcgb🌔wordVII114355!JuneVTRAcTKuwaitFor the chess rule, you may need an x before and a + after.
I wonder what is the last rule there...
spoiler
Holy hell, rule 16.
Rule 16 if your captcha contains e4 and it's not even a legal move
So, it turns out I didn't actually get en passant. Also, it will ignore illegal moves if the correct one is there.
Put your move before the captcha
Ever rule after rule 5 made laugh audibly. Great work.
Did anyone else get the periodic table elements that must add up to 200 atoms? I'm not sure, but I think it was impossible since my captcha included an "Nd".
You can change the captcha using the refresh button next to it. But Nd is not a problem. Its atomic number is 60. You need to add up to 200. Fm: 100, Zr: 40. I knew that memorizing atomic numbers would pay back some day :P
Ohh, I'm dumb. I mistook atomic number for atomic weight. English is not my first language. Thank you!
My captcha and chess move add up to more than 25 😢
You can change the captcha by refreshing it using the button next to it
oh, i'm dumb. thanks.
Redraw (f5?) or use other browser.
This is weirdly fun. Man, I love that website.
Edit: Paul died and I'm trying again. I'm pretty sure there's a checkmate on this board that it won't accept.
Game gets pretty intense
I overfed Paul... It was going so well! I was trying to find a video with a length of 26 minutes and 31 seconds and I did find Lily and Poki flirting for 26 min and 31 sec but it didn't work and two other videos that were of the same length but still didn't work. Don't know if it was a bug or just YouTube's funky video lengths.
The Geoguessr one didn't actually load for me so I started by guessing random countries that have street view, starting with Europe. When I was about to try Germany, I thought that it didn't have street view so I didn't guess that one. Too bad that was the right answer, took me a little longer to get it right :/
My location spawn was right by an identifiable sign. Lol
Why would Qe7 be called out for illegal notation when there’s only one white Queen on the board?
If your move is a "check" move, you need to add "+" to it:
Qe7+Yes it was. That was my second time through getting stuck on that step too.
The answer usually is that enpeseant is forced
Maybe it's check? Qe7+
Damn. That’s it
Omg. I just shared this with my family to join me in the misery. I can't stop!
I was on the phone and got to Rule 11, if I was on the computer I would have continued but will restart from scratch later when I am on the computer..
who else is gonna send this to family members and watch them get frustrated over messages 🤣
