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June 27, 2023 9:43 PM Subscribe
Tapped out at chess notation. It even got me to do wordle again for the first time in a year! I can’t see myself using I,Butt$8pfxxXXXVshellapril881aboutAu🌔india as anything but you never know.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 10:55 PM on June 27, 2023
posted by Jon Mitchell at 10:55 PM on June 27, 2023
I overfed poor Paul
posted by simmering octagon at 12:09 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by simmering octagon at 12:09 AM on June 28, 2023
I'm stuck at the chess notation too. It keeps saying invalid notation, but I think it really means it's a sub optimal move. Given that I haven't played chess since I was a teenager, and then rather indifferently, there's no way I'm figuring out the best move.
posted by Hactar at 12:55 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by Hactar at 12:55 AM on June 28, 2023
(nextchessmove.com will probably give you the answer it's looking for, for that bit)
posted by rifflesby at 1:10 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by rifflesby at 1:10 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
It did not warn me that I could overfeed paul! unfair!
posted by vibratory manner of working at 2:00 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by vibratory manner of working at 2:00 AM on June 28, 2023
I overfed paul while looking for a youtube video of exactly 10:13 length.
posted by Bobicus at 3:02 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by Bobicus at 3:02 AM on June 28, 2023
“The digits in your password must add up to 25” seems to be impassible for me
posted by The River Ivel at 3:34 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by The River Ivel at 3:34 AM on June 28, 2023
As a hint: A friend of mine complained about that too because they confused "digits" with "numbers".
posted by bigendian at 3:53 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by bigendian at 3:53 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
I could get the digits adding up to 25 to work, but I don't see how to add a trademark.
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 4:17 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 4:17 AM on June 28, 2023
Never mind about the trademark. I found a solution.
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 4:20 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by Nancy Lebovitz at 4:20 AM on June 28, 2023
sadly does not seem to understand how wordle does timezones ....
posted by mbo at 4:26 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by mbo at 4:26 AM on June 28, 2023
Today's Wordle has C in it.
Which surely means that the Roman Numerals multiplying to 35 can never be satisfied?
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 4:30 AM on June 28, 2023 [4 favorites]
Which surely means that the Roman Numerals multiplying to 35 can never be satisfied?
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 4:30 AM on June 28, 2023 [4 favorites]
it doesn't count lowercase as roman numbers
posted by fleacircus at 4:41 AM on June 28, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by fleacircus at 4:41 AM on June 28, 2023 [2 favorites]
Which surely means that the Roman Numerals multiplying to 35 can never be satisfied?
Apparently roman numerals are only capitalized?
(but what country is thiiiiis, why are there no hints?!)
posted by mittens at 4:42 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
Apparently roman numerals are only capitalized?
(but what country is thiiiiis, why are there no hints?!)
posted by mittens at 4:42 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
(but what country is thiiiiis, why are there no hints?!)
Drive around until you see a flag or the name or similar.
posted by Meatbomb at 4:52 AM on June 28, 2023
Drive around until you see a flag or the name or similar.
posted by Meatbomb at 4:52 AM on June 28, 2023
I gave up at 'must include this capcha'. This is cute and amusing enough but it made me think 'oh, this could all be a ploy to get people to solve capchas' and while I don't think that's actually likely, it knocked me out of the mood.
posted by jacquilynne at 4:52 AM on June 28, 2023 [3 favorites]
posted by jacquilynne at 4:52 AM on June 28, 2023 [3 favorites]
🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐔tractHAgaustralia🌔Rxd8+w52fn55A!🏋️♂️🏋️♂️🏋️♂️juneVpepsiVIIamloved but now it wants me to include the URL of a 32 minute 18 second long YouTube video and I'm supposed to be working.
posted by miguelcervantes at 5:13 AM on June 28, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by miguelcervantes at 5:13 AM on June 28, 2023 [2 favorites]
Dammit I can’t play chess (not well enough to know what the optimal best move is anyway)
posted by Mchelly at 5:25 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by Mchelly at 5:25 AM on June 28, 2023
i didn't heed simmering octagon's warning about paul, and now the game is over :(
posted by mittens at 5:27 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by mittens at 5:27 AM on June 28, 2023
Dammit I can’t play chess (not well enough to know what the optimal best move is anyway)
I shamelessly used nextchessmove.com to solve that one because I couldn't figure out what it wanted me to write (it turned out the code needed the
posted by simmering octagon at 6:16 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
I shamelessly used nextchessmove.com to solve that one because I couldn't figure out what it wanted me to write (it turned out the code needed the
x to signal a capture)posted by simmering octagon at 6:16 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
Very hard on mobile... the fire ended poor Paul's existence...
posted by Cannon Fodder at 6:31 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Cannon Fodder at 6:31 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
Told my boss that he has to change his password and to check that the new password complies with NIST standards by using that site.
posted by charred husk at 6:32 AM on June 28, 2023 [9 favorites]
posted by charred husk at 6:32 AM on June 28, 2023 [9 favorites]
I gave up at 'must include this capcha'. This is cute and amusing enough but it made me think 'oh, this could all be a ploy to get people to solve capchas' and while I don't think that's actually likely, it knocked me out of the mood.I was thinking the same, which led to this thought: Taken separately, these are trivial things - what months does someone usually choose? What letters do they put in uppercase? Which of these sponsors do they prefer? But combined, and with a large set of people answering, they just might be useful in password cracking. Sigh. I hate that the current state of web security shifts people into this hyper-guarded line of thinking, even when we know things are likely just fine.
Tricky set of puzzles though. Whether it's dodgy or not, the same quote from a famous movie AI applies:
"A Strange Game. The Only Winning Move is Not to Play."
posted by Hardcore Poser at 6:35 AM on June 28, 2023 [2 favorites]
Tapped out at Roman numerals. “Roman numerals? They never even tried to teach us that in school!”
posted by General Malaise at 6:54 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by General Malaise at 6:54 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
For whatever reason the geoguesser part didn’t load for me so I got an empty box saying “must include this country” which was good because then I was finally free to stop playing! (Though Indian try cold guessing a dozen countries)
posted by aubilenon at 6:54 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by aubilenon at 6:54 AM on June 28, 2023
Am I wrong in thinking some of these are unwinnable? I'm currently stuck with a chess move that equates to an element with a high atomic number, which when combined with the roman numerals = 35, means I have no way to get below 200. Do you just have to reload the page and hope for a better one? (Why am I still playing this?!)
posted by mittens at 7:36 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by mittens at 7:36 AM on June 28, 2023
SPOILERS in these links: someone on Resetera posted the full set of rules. Also, here's an example of a winning password. Shoutout to a friend on Discord for finding these.
posted by May Kasahara at 7:55 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by May Kasahara at 7:55 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
On my third attempt... just had to stop in to say fuck Paul
posted by mincus at 8:16 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by mincus at 8:16 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
I'm going to spend the rest of my morning trying to convince our security engineer to send this to the company as a password hardening exercise.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 8:52 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 8:52 AM on June 28, 2023
Hardcore Poser, I had the same thought, so deliberately did not use my 1st choices. But, yeah.
posted by theora55 at 9:29 AM on June 28, 2023
posted by theora55 at 9:29 AM on June 28, 2023
I got as far as having to find a 36 minute 10 second video, and Paul starved.
Dammit, Paul.
posted by Hamusutaa at 10:37 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
Dammit, Paul.
posted by Hamusutaa at 10:37 AM on June 28, 2023 [1 favorite]
131AlNamay🐛🐔VVIIpepsixngxcTract🌔2000belgiumQxh6+🏋️♂️🏋️♂️🏋️♂️iamlovedyoutu.be/vwtsbhPGFjEqxxxxxxcscccccccvvvvvvwwwwwwwwwqqqqqqqqq1#3aee312:11
SPOILER
Refresh the captcha until you get one with no numbers
Refresh the hex color until you get one with no/low numbers
search youtube for "XX minute timer" and there will likely be one with XX minutes and YY seconds in the list
it makes you retype the whole thing at the end - capture it with copy/paste before you accept it as your final password
posted by mincus at 11:18 AM on June 28, 2023 [2 favorites]
SPOILER
Refresh the captcha until you get one with no numbers
Refresh the hex color until you get one with no/low numbers
search youtube for "XX minute timer" and there will likely be one with XX minutes and YY seconds in the list
it makes you retype the whole thing at the end - capture it with copy/paste before you accept it as your final password
posted by mincus at 11:18 AM on June 28, 2023 [2 favorites]
Creator offers a glimpse into how he made this fun, infuriating "Mess of RegEx."
previouslys
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 1:47 PM on June 28, 2023
previouslys
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 1:47 PM on June 28, 2023
I'm currently stuck with a chess move that equates to an element with a high atomic number, which when combined with the roman numerals = 35, means I have no way to get below 200
Ha I had that problem too, seemed like a hard block.
posted by fleacircus at 1:52 PM on June 28, 2023
Ha I had that problem too, seemed like a hard block.
posted by fleacircus at 1:52 PM on June 28, 2023
If you're stuck on "invalid chess notation" and your best move puts your opponent in check, be sure to include the + suffix.
posted by flabdablet at 2:47 PM on June 28, 2023
posted by flabdablet at 2:47 PM on June 28, 2023
The URL for my 24:45 youtube video has an L (50) in it! And it doesn't accept random URL shorteners for the video. Which I think it should - I spent ages periodically pasting in 🐛s for Paul trying match up the atomic numbers.
posted by wilberforce at 9:39 PM on June 28, 2023
posted by wilberforce at 9:39 PM on June 28, 2023
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