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by meetpateltech·3y ago·view on hn ↗

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?

You can't pass 36. Just saying.

Honestly not sure how you'd pass the youtube one, unless you were incredibly lucky

I found one by the United Nations. In the meanwhile Paul starved to death.

"Youtube Time Filter" Chrome extension

by searching for the length in your favourite search engine :)

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?

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.

It would have likely screwed up your previous answers -- roman numerals etc.

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

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

And then what happens after 36?

You have to repeat the password before a bomb explodes. I tried to somehow copy it using developer tools, but did not manage to do it in time :(