I'm going to need you all to create a new password.

@narfcake I think there’s a step that can be made impossible by the randomness of another step, but I’m not certain.

@ExtraMedium Managed to get past some of the math ones, but gave up at Wordle.

@narfcake I thought I was going to beat it. I saw Rule 24…I did not beat it.

@narfcake I gave up at the chess one. I tried websites that would allegedly tell me the best move, but all the moves I entered came up as illegal.

@heartny @narfcake I ran into that the first few tries and then realized it is as complicated as the result I was getting back. Things like Kng6+ and such.

@ExtraMedium @narfcake I was in that situation (the conflicting randomness part), but on careful inspection of the earlier step I found a workaround. Trying to relieve pressure on step 23 led to failing an earlier step, but not before revealing step 24, which was enough to make me give up and not try again.

@ExtraMedium @heartny @narfcake Huh, what would the n be in Kng6+? I don’t see anything about that in the article linked there.

@michabailey I was wrong about that one. See my comment below for clarification. Would be K or N but never Kn.

@mbersiam If only there were websites that you could put in what your board looks like and a computer could tell you the next best move…

@ExtraMedium i have a list of like 10 websites I use daily and do not wander into the internet outside of those sites. Very odd how I found meh under those conditions, but here we are.

@mbersiam Very odd indeed. I’m pretty sure I passed through 10 websites while typing this reply. I actively avoid looking at my own web history. “Here be dragons.”

@mbersiam Took me a bit to figure out that the notation includes extra information beyond the move itself, and that such embellishments are mandatory.

@mbersiam @michabailey Same. I think it’s ok to say this one to help anyone similarly stuck: I needed a + at the end of my move for it to be accepted.

@dave @mbersiam But only if the move puts the king in check, since that’s what the + means (I don’t know if any of the boards it gives you are such that the best move isn’t a check).

@dave @mbersiam @michabailey Things you have to know going into that step
K = King
Q = Queen
B = Bishop
R = Rook
N = Knight
Pawns have no letter

You append a “+” to the end when it is a check move
You append a “#” to the end when it’s a checkmate move
You add an “x” when your move eats another piece

I reached and passed Rule 32 but doing so broke a past rule and after enough tries I finally let it go. I’ll call that close enough.

@ExtraMedium @mbersiam

If only there were websites that you could put in what your board looks like and a computer could tell you the next best move…

All I saw was a website that listed each step you hit. I am presuming if someone gets to the end (which I did not) the creator of this will just create more steps that are even more complicated/tricky/sneaky.

@Yoda_Daenerys Just a bit of “fun” to get your brain going today.

@ExtraMedium @Yoda_Daenerys For certain perverse values of the word “fun”, anyway. It reminds me of the pop quizzes that I used to encounter once in a while, in which the prof would sternly admonish the students to read the entire quiz before starting to answer any questions.

@blaineg “Password2” – why didn’t I ever think of that for my update?

@dave By far the longest step since it had to be done while returning to the page to feed Paul regularly, but I did find that there’s no upper limit on the number of times you could feed him, so long as he didn’t have too much food at any given time.

@ExtraMedium I stopped at umm, 16 I think, the one with the country. Yellow field with a sun was not helpful.

@ExtraMedium But don’t you wonder what would happen if you hit 36? Would your computer blow up with fireworks? Would you be sent a winning fake lottery ticket? Would Black Hat suddenly suddenly kidnap you to engage you with them in their endeavors?.. Enquiring minds need want to know. You got way closer than I did. Keep trying!!!

@djslack Does it take “fukyu”? Asking for a friend, I don’t do wordle.

@djslack @werehatrack On a lark, I discovered that Wordle does have “DILDO” in its word list.

I continued… and Paul starved.