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Play Overview
The Password Game (2023) is a brain game where you must create a password that obeys an increasingly complex set of rules. It starts like any other password request, needing a capital, number and symbol, but the criteria soon get more complex, demanding, and strange. The premise is developed in unexpected and entertaining ways (the current moon phase, or today's Wordle answer, for example) to create an ever-changing puzzle of micro-management and logic.
Play involves typing in letters, numbers, and special characters to create your password. At first, you're given a single Rule of needing 5 characters. Once complete, a second rule appears and so on until you have countless rules all needing to be satisfied simultaneously. As you progress, the rules get ever stranger and more complex. For example, every instance of the same letter must have a different font size, or adding the name of the country from Google Maps Street View.
Some new challenges require you to change existing pieces of your password; you must include numbers that sum to 25, but then later must include the current year, and then add a coordinate, then the length of your password (which continues to change), continually requiring you to reassess what you've done.
The result is a game that's as much about adapting what you already have as it is adding more characters, as you grapple with managing the ever-expanding list of rules. Slowly making progress through the challenge requires patience and determination, but the satisfaction of completing it makes it all worth it.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked The Password Game 3 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 3 months ago.
Play involves typing in letters, numbers, and special characters to create your password. At first, you're given a single Rule of needing 5 characters. Once complete, a second rule appears and so on until you have countless rules all needing to be satisfied simultaneously. As you progress, the rules get ever stranger and more complex. For example, every instance of the same letter must have a different font size, or adding the name of the country from Google Maps Street View.
Some new challenges require you to change existing pieces of your password; you must include numbers that sum to 25, but then later must include the current year, and then add a coordinate, then the length of your password (which continues to change), continually requiring you to reassess what you've done.
The result is a game that's as much about adapting what you already have as it is adding more characters, as you grapple with managing the ever-expanding list of rules. Slowly making progress through the challenge requires patience and determination, but the satisfaction of completing it makes it all worth it.
Our examiner, Ben Kendall, first checked The Password Game 3 months ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 3 months ago.
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Play Style
This is a Brain Game game with Sequencing elements. This is a single-player game.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Duration
Play Time: It takes between 1 hour and 2 hours to play a round of this game. As many of the clues will be randomised each time you play, you can create countless passwords with a new challenge each time.
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
Skill Level
10+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Many of the clues are very challenging and require either extremely good general knowledge or problem-solving skills. Ensuring that the solution to one rule doesn't beak another quickly becomes a significant challenge in micro-management in and of itself.
Costs
Game Details
Release Date: 27/07/2023
Price: Free
Out Now: Web
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Brain Game and Sequencing
Accessibility: 20 features
Components: Text
Developer: Neal Agarwal (@NealAgarwal)
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