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A warning to future players: I got to rule 16 and was given an egg named paul that I had to keep safe. Then on rule 18 a fire (of emojis) broke out in my password, killing paul and ending the game. Dont be like me, keep Paul safe.

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Later on there is a rule where you have to feed Paul bugs, and I lost by feeding him too much

I, too, overfed Paul :(

for me, he starved while I was looking for a youtube video and I am not strong enough to play through this again, even if I loved the game

Exactly same here. I gave him too much food while I searched and returned to a dead paul :(

Yep. Went to find a YT video and came back to find Paul was dead. Couldn't bring myself to start again.

I was immensely disappointed when I googled "13 minute 39 second video" and then the Youtube video titled "13 minute 39 second countdown" was in fact 13 minutes and 54 seconds long.

I Gave up on the youtube video.

Honestly though, this is still better than some of the "secure password" prompts I've encountered in life.

Same

Paul needs 3 bugs every minute. Overfeeding him looses the game

Don't be like me, don't overfeed Paul

You can keep Paul safe by adding something like a lot of = before the egg and continuously delete the appearing fires and at some point the fire will be gone

I killed Paul when trying to get the atomic numbers to equal 200. My plan was to add "H" until the rule was satisfied. Then, I thought I accidentally went past it, so I started holding backspace. I went too far.

hahaha yes exactly the same happened to me too

Not even surrounding Paul with water emojis could stop the fire.

Nice idea, he died from fire on my first run as well. Maybe I'll try again in the evening.

Also, Paul must not be overfed

^^I tried leaving him a bunch of worms so I could search for a youtube video and I was betrayed, greedy Paul.

Me too :<

Found it out the hard way :(

same here... Paul burnt to death an I lost :(

Thirding it. I'm guessing the move is to back up the password, move Paul to the first/last character, and delete everything to save him.

Update: this strat works. But then don't immediately overfeed him.

How'd you solve it (rule 16)?

I'm completely stuck on it... I've tried every single combination that came to mind :/

The position seems to be randomized each time you play it, so their solution isn't going to be of much use for you

Also make sure to add the x for captures and the + for check and things like that

You can cheat by entering the board state into a site like https://nextchessmove.com/

try chessvision.ai, it allows you to scan the page and get the next best move.

I came up with "invalid notation" a bit, but on my first go I had something like "Bh5" and I needed "Bh5+"

If you put the opposing king in check you need to put the +

Paul was slain :(

"SiP@pepsin.VII@Vmay8y63f-2aboutcolombiaKh6"

Decent password 10/10

For me the fire didn't break out until Rule 20

"PAUL WAS OVERFED"

OH NO!!

Me too :(

that's when i gave up - it took the game from solving puzzles to fast-reaction video gaming.

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