The Password Game is a web-based puzzle that released on June 27th, 2023 by Neal Agarwal who created the website neal.fun. The objective is to create a password that follows unusual and strict rules. Eventually The Password Game became extremely popular because of how absurd and complicated the game gets at one point. However a few people wanted to try to create the shortest password possible by optimizing many characters used for multiple rules.
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The Password Game has recently been completed in 53 characters by SimPleased on May 18th, 2024, 3:59 AM EST. kzhead.info/sun/pZmukpmDmKODeZE/bejne.html Before this run however a few weeks prior on April 29th, Alex Ivoninsky also completed The Password Game in 53 characters. kzhead.info/sun/rZylgNmJiWdqo68/bejne.html However Alexs run was appeared to be invalidated because the run had a hex color of #8c23ff which shouldn't be possible, the reason why is explained in-depth at 17:57 in this video. Alexs run was rejected on speedrun.com on May 17th, 2024.
I rewatched this video in exactly the right time
@@spothix x2
i can't believe i'm watching this video now and the game is actually completed
kzhead.info/sun/rZylgNmJiWdqo68/bejne.htmlfeature=shared I was literally about to tell you 😂
can someone explain how it works
Great video! Fun side note, I had a 61 character run a few days before my record, but Paul starved in the second I tried to press "yes" to confirm my final password...
I havent gotten that far yet, but i want to beat this game. Does paul starve as soon as he runs out of food or 20 seconds after. Amazing job btw
@@apalocholo20s after
@@shiaidk thanks
there's nothing fun about that
@@righteous-bison there is
This video taught me that Paul% and Apaulcalypse% exist, and I am grateful to know that some speedrunners are killing Paul as quickly as possible repeatedly and in exciting ways.
paul has to get rekt
Paul really has it rough
@@ayoCC As he should.
*get to rule 23 as quickly as possible *overfeed paul
i freaking hate paul
Clearly whoever did this is a person who knows how to make a secure password.
idk, he showed us all his methods in this video, seems fairly replicable
@@joosh.e true but getting exactly what they did in the process is still hard to guess
He can make them for sure. How is he going to input it tho?
@@FrenchDinosaurcopy paste
Fun fact Neal didn’t even beat the game because it was too difficult I’m not kidding
The speedrun community for Password game is impressive, especially how much of it is random
If anyone in that community is not an engineer in real life they're fucking up big time...and making me feel even more useless
Well now I want to know about 59 character passwords with a functional geoguesser
even 53 one exists - we've found it already it's just... inhuman rng
@@glowblock6477 is it documented somewhere? sounds intruiging
He shows 53 at 20:04 containing Iran
@@speedstyle. that one actually doesn't work since there is no leap year but in the discord server there are already like three humanly possible 53 character passwords (though still insanely hard)
@@glowblock6477IF ONLY 57 WAS A PRIME NUMBER!
imagine the dev creates a new rule: "your password cannot be this one: (insert 59 character record here)"
"That password is already taken."
@@machinedramon3532lol that's just cruel they should add that
The game doesn't enforce a maximum character count, but practically speaking, it's logistically infeasible to keep track of everything after 300.
*makes password 301*
Make a max character% category and watch mf's input 3k character passwords...
we already got 5k-7k passwords it becomes kinda laggy and unplayable around 10k though
Northernlion beat it in 1021 characters
The strat i saw does it in 211
as soon as the prime number rule came up i immediately thought “oh my god this is just like og mario speedruns”
I had the same thought!! Where it didn’t really matter if you could save a few frames here and there, until you had saved an entire frame rule, you weren’t gonna get a faster time.
Summoning Salt music plays “Imagine framerules like a bus leaving on a fixed schedule…”
@@IONATVSimagine frame rules like prime numbers
@@aeghohloechu5022imagine prime numbers like a bus leaving on a fixed schedule
@@lentlemenproductions770imagine buses leaving on a prime numbered schedule like a frame rule
Imagine using such a password but you get locked out when the chicken dies 😂
It happened. Check the top comment.
@@Jivvi I think he means in an actual device...
imagine you use it as your bank account password and paul dies taking all your money with him
@@RafaelMunizYTuh oh
just watching around 9 minutes, you can train yourself to recognize a colour that ends in beac fairly easily since hex codes are just hexadecimal RGB codes, having GB be tied to beac leaves only red to be scaled, and that means your colour scales from a teal colour to a peach colour, so you wouldn't have to check every single hex colour, just ones that look fairly close, cutting down on the time it takes by (maybe?) a lot
minimum characters runs aren't timed (only the password length is taken into account in the leaderboards) so it being faster isn't super important (though it'll probably make it easier to deal with Paul, lol) pretty cool tip nonetheless
Or you write a bot that checks the hex color 1000 times per scond
@@user-tu5yi4pe2zWouldn't that be a TAS run tho?
@@user-tu5yi4pe2zI don’t think they would allow that..
@@Raiya.Merlyan Why not? It's not humanly impossible the way a TAS is or anything
The prime number is going to be the next Mario frame rule
So imagine a bus stop
@@NibiruTheChannelThat leaves on a fixed schedule
@@Ryann9y’all lmfao
all we have to do is keep uploading youtube videos until one is absolutely pristine
You know, I'd love to see a theoretical run for this. Something that takes RNG completely out of the equation, where the chess puzzle is exactly what's needed, the hex code is the one you want, there's no need to feed Paul... it's kinda like framerules in SMB1, what's the lowest framerule you could reach ?
If that's the only possible 53 charachter run, you could try just resetting untill you get everything but the hex and captcha, then reroll those. Probably hugely time consuming, and also entirely removing skill from the runs, but it might be the best strategy.
It would probably take weeks to re-roll that and remember you need to keep the caterpillar alive and ya know sleep ,eat ,have a life.
@@JJ5_dragon_heart could use a robot mechanically workin hand that can press a designated key that would enter a decided ammount of caterpillar in the gap of a set time period all while u can reroll whenever possible to get the perfect combination... And then u could, ya know sleep,eat, have a life.
@@rajisunil9598 yeah I guess but the record is cooler if it’s just a person doing it. They could have a separate category for that
@@JJ5_dragon_heart alr alr, ig there could be another category for that
And I think the risk vs reward of doing it is not worth it@@JJ5_dragon_heart
There should be a sequel called "the verification game". The last step is coming to an in-person machine to verify you are a human.
I wish you had talked about theoretical lower bound on password length what's the highest number that we definitely know won't be reached with these records
🐔🏋🏋🏋🌗 - 5 characters hex code - 7 characters youtube link - 20 characters none of these can overlap and the next prime after 20+7+5 is 37
He replied to another comment with the shortest one we've managed to make (47 characters) that would theoretically work, but it'd require a very specific KZhead url which is highly unlikely to happen
What about the maximum characters possible? Is it infinite?
@@ddodd69 technically yes, in reality once you get to like 200+ it gets impossibly hard to keep track of all the rules
I can't believe Password Game is shorter than some of my actual passwords now.
speedrun history videos are the actual best thing to listen while doing any activity
Hmmm… I have to wonder if manually blocking geoguesser through the firewall would be a valid technique
No, blocking Google Maps wouldn't work. That's because The Password Game does not use Google Maps to know which country the places are in. It has a list of Google Maps URLs with their countries. All blocking Google Maps would do is not let the user see the place.
Not google maps, but something else. Is there a firewall block that can be done?
@@sophialaird6388 No. The game knows the countries because they are stored on Neal's website. So it's Neal's website you'd have to block. And then you wouldn't be able to play the game.
If the game has a locally stored list of urls with their respective answers then there's not much that could be done (except straight up hacking into the server lmao)
@@rubenbohorquez5673 Maybe you could play the bugged version of the game from 15:11. But how would you play old versions of the game? I've tried The Wayback Machine, but the KZhead rule didn't work, so I couldn't get any further. I've noticed that when Neal updates the game, he changes the URL of the main JavaScript. Then the old main JavaScript URL is just some HTML, I think. Given the popularity of the game, there's a good chance the main JavaScript files are getting archived on The Wayback Machine. Currently, the main JavaScript is named d04557c.js. As always, it's in the _nuxt folder on Neal's website. It's not in a directory specifically for the Password Game. It took me a few minutes to find the current main JavaScript. And in the mean time, I think I found the main JavaScript for one of Neal's other projects.
Can we just acknowledge how sad it is that Siam is no longer the name of a country?
I think it's Thailand now?
it would be crazy if someone travelled back in time to 1939 to convince the prime minister at the time to not change Siam's name to Thailand just so they can optimise their speedrun of a quirky password game 84 years later.
@@415-k1ubAt that point they should have convinced the prime minister to change the country's name to the letter I
Pepsiamloved
S[iam]enough etc- I get it!
For the hex value, if it ends in 0, cant you have it at the end of the password and remove the 0? So would a hex value of #000000 be possible? And you could just write; #
tas lowest characters% be like 🐔🏋♂🏋♂🏋♂🌘VIIamloVed19:43#mayoutu be PepSIRANe8+
had to remove . and / for it to post cause of it being a link, so yt clearly recognizes it...
Also next one up if you need captcha because you don't get lucky that it's contained in the phrase is 9:47 and Ne5+ to alter the numbers, dropping the 9 lower if you end up with a number 8 or below.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention that Rg, besides being the answer to the chess puzzle, is also the element roentgenium
what...???? that isn't a real element lol
It is a real element. Although it cannot occur in nature, and instead was synthesized artificially as the 111th element on the periodic table. It is named after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, a mechanical engineer and physicist who discovered x-rays.
@@AttackSpeed407 Oh yeah my bad, just realized its actually on the periodic table 💀💀
3:55 lots of people do that when they first get to the rule where Paul hatches When my brother played he got to that rule and overfed Paul. When I first played I got to the rule where I have to feed Paul and then feed him one 🐛 and then he told me to keep feeding him but I refused to so I let Paul starve.
Came here randomly, funny how there are significant records beaten in mere months, meanwhile portal community discovering shortcuts 10 years after last 100% optimized run
2:45 I love that the game effectively has a "super mario framerule" mechanic, where it doesn't matter how good you are, records are only countable at discrete intervals
What would a theoretically perfect run look like with all of the luck elements? How many characters can it physically get? How lucky would that run be?
I saw a reply saying the "theoretical lowest" is 37 characters because the emojis take up 5 characters, the hex takes up 7 characters, and the URL takes up 20 characters totaling to 32 characters that can't overlap and are required however the password would need to be 37 characters because of the prime number. But from what I've seen I think the lowest you can get is 47 characters, the password would look something like this however we'd need a URL that exactly has "VIIraNe7pepS" in it, which is 1 in 73 quintillion so I doubt we'll ever get that. But the password would probably look like this (credit to MarkoFogati) makzhead.info/sun/ia2CosWGnGmmmKi2/bejne.htmliamloVed#4cdcb3:47🐔🐛🏋🏋🏋🌑
@@SlashedWasTakendamn, paul still gets his worm due to the prime number rule
@@SlashedWasTaken actually it's 4 in 73 quintillion, the capitalization of the second e or a doesn't make any elements ;)
@@timelordomega5914 The worm can still be used for another purpose like leap year, digits, etc,
@@SlashedWasTaken what if you told paul he can't have his worm and did something along the lines of 🐔🏋♂🏋♂🏋♂🌘VIIamloVed19:43mayoutu be PepSIRANe8+# and somehow got #000000 and it was ok with you shortening it to #, while having the captcha luckily contained in the password already. Also you save the same character by swaping pepsi and iamloved for the same start; so 2 possible urls to work with. Also adding another possibility by using the Ne7 completion you just showed, freeing up a character. I doubt iamloved is allowed to be interrupted but if it is then #ed19** (* being any number) and #ed**19 both being valid for hex at least, haven't checked if it's part of the remaining list though. Also 1948 if allowed out of order should count as leap year.
People are just not committed enough to optimizing for length. Why has nobody thought of the obvious strategy of founding a new country, giving it a very short name and then having Google streetview cars cover it so it can be added to GeoGuessr?
yeah bro let's create whole ass country for a quirky ahh password game record
i wonder if this game has been TAS'd for shortest password since checking the colour of a pixel and refreshing until a __beac is found is fairly trivial to automate I'm more curious about the theoretical minimum than anything else honestly
Fun fact: Before entering the game page, there is "Rule 0: The password must match. Congratulations! You have sucessfully chosen a password in 0 characters." so technically you beat the game before playing it EDIT: 600 likes in 19 hours my comment is now the 2nd most liked comment lmao
Next update: Neal add both Rule 0 and negative rules
but 0 isn't a prime n-
@NaCubical and 0 is less than 8 but we're just going to forget about that now aren't we?
"What a strange game, the only winning move is not to play."
just forget about the other rules the game should be easier not like we all are humans
very nice video! I get why you chose the title the way you did, but it spoiled a bit the "is xy characters possible" arc you had going in your video. Still an amazing video and breakdown.
you had to open the video, go full screen, and forget the number. That's the optimal strategy
@@ventriloquistmagician4735Can confirm. I completely forgot the title and thumbnail once I clicked on the video and went full screen, then I accidentally spoiled myself by checking the time left on the video and saw the title. Full screen is the answer 👍
@@mcsy98 kek
ive never played or heard of this game before, but you explained it so well for me to understand😭 seems fun, i dont know how speedrunners have enough patience for this though
same
new speedrun tech is to hack into GeoGuessr servers and bring down their API at the start of your run
I love these kinds of videos, and this one imo was really well made, I even thought you'd be making these for years, really, keep up
Nice video, you did a good job covering this, earned a sub
Omg- I was not expecting to see my record at 2:50, jumpscare fr. Also fun fact, that run was actually my second ever attempt at a minimum characters speedrun
Now someone needs to get a 59 char password faster than the speedrun wr
finding optimal youtube URLs sounds like a pretty fun and also achievable web scraping project
This video is actually amazing 🤩 Give this man more views
Really well made video, you made things easy to understand while still keeping things entertaining
This is really good. Thank you for finding these good people!
This is such a great quality video, I rarely take the time to comment but I enjoyed every second of this one, nice work!
I keot getting the video recommended and didn't realize why until I finally clicked on it and realized it's because I'm already subscribed to you from when you'd play a really big fricking house and pain. You're new video essay content is great dude!
Thanks for making this! It was really interesting, I never knew this game had competition
THANK YOU for citing your music choices!
Your documentary videos are amazing. And this video was no exception.
20:16 lmao the character count is measured in milliseconds
Every time he says atomic numbers I die a little inside
Ok but the 73 character could not have dropped down to 71 since they had the speedrun timer rule.
This was a pretty fun video! I’m glad I didn’t just leave it to rot in my Watch Later tab~ I hope to see more like this. *subscribes*
First video I saw from this channel and the production was awesome
im loving these videos of yours, they are well made and are very entertaining
why are all of them Linux users😭
Linux = gud and Mac = Linux
intellectual larpers
Woah congrats on going viral dude! I was so surprised to see only 13k and 22 vids on you channel hahaha
Yoo nice vid keep up the 👍 work
Just seeing the music name pop into the upper left corner is all the indication I needed to like and subscribe
as someone who knows how hex colors work and how extremly simple it is, the idea that someone would reroll random colors until they find the hex they want just sounds ridiculous and wasting time hex has 6 characters, each characters are between 1 and F, its super simple to find the numbers u want also, they are in 3 groups of 2 characters and are the hex value of red green and blue which is how u can easily guess a color while looking at a hex value edit : I just discovered that it has to be a verry specific color, in which I would probably program something in python to find it by fast brute forcing
Brute forcing? You can easily get the hex of whatever ur hovering on
@@oringofekzy2019 Yeah, but to check the new color manually you need to click reroll, use whatever color picker tool you choose to see the number, *internalize that information in your slow ass human brain*, decide if that is a acceptable color, and if not repeat. There are ways you could make this process more optimal but the final conclusion would eventually be a bot to automate the entire process so you can check colors as fast as the website is able to reload them, without needing to have the human brain keep up.
@@Ender_Onryo its what I was thinking about by brute forcing, having a script that check the collor and if it doesnt contain the characters I want, click regenerate, and then let it work until it finds the perfect color u want (am sure it could be like 15 lines of python code if I tryied but meh, too lazy)
I remember my playthrough of the game with a friend. We got down to the last few rules and had to wait for 3 hours until 4 am to finish it with 251 characters. Good time.
Let’s go for max characters now.
in the end, all they tried to do is make their password less safe.
Not having to include the Wordle by putting a future date feels like cheating to me. Because Wordle is a fixed (and repeating!) wordlist that's visibly included in the website code, you can easily (and fairly) optimize by searching for a 5-letter-word that fits (e.g. "loved" is NOT on the list, while "lover" is! I feel as if the "I am loved" is deliberately chosen for that).
08:20 I'm always so happy when people use songs from Jet Set Radio 😭💖
Dang bro, you got 1 million views. Good job!
"you've probably heard of the password game at some point." Why yes I have. That point being now, the first sentence of this video.
this game is literally what it feels like to try to make a password on some websites
That's crazy!!!! I didn't know u could do that!
Another banger from a random small youtuber! The future is bright! Keep it up!
I never made it to the prime number part, so I find it really interesting that there’s only a limited amount of new world records that can be held
All this to make a password guaranteed to be forgotten
wait this isnt a channel with hundreds of thousends of subs? damn you are underrated
this needs to have more views tbh
sick documentary man!! hoping for an algorithm blow up!!
one of the most interesting slashed videos
You can extra urls from a list in Java, and verify the capitalization ~ 16:30 So, youd have to write your own program, but it is possible
So much info is making my head hurt, great video tho !
Yes, I'm that one guy who celebrated with wine after setting the record
YOOOOO
@@bozai526 bozai my man 🫶🏼
its the legend 🔥
us respecting each other: 🗿
Great video! I might have missed the explanation, but why was the Geoguessr rule free in the 59-letter run?
It hasn't exactly been confirmed but someone said it was a Google Maps outage but I'm unsure if that's the case, it could've also just been a bug on the password games side or google maps side and eventually it was fixed
Its been a while since we saw eachother Noah. Glad to see you got popular
Congrats on your first step becoming summoning salt❤
Can’t wait for summoning salts video on this topic
Neat video, but atomic number is not a unit, so pluralizing it is very painful to every chemistry nerd out there (it is a property of elements, but its unit is just the number of protons in an element)
JSR music spotting. That’s awesome
congrats on 2k views slashed!
Nice thumbnail kokodak looks like a receptionist 🐓 🤙
Did i really just watch a 20 minute video on the password game and enjoy every second?
Damn 300k views now? Bro just yesterday you wete at like 600! well deserved.
Thats crazy, I didn't think it was possible to get under triple digits let alone under 60
This is amazing.
Great video!
You should just make an optional one where you can choose the country, chess board and youtube length etc.
On my first run I let Paul burn because I wanted to know what would happen. I know, I'm a bad person.
You're wrong about the catipillar optimization around 4:00 because of the rule of including a prime number, length of password. 73 was in the text. couldn't be less.
That is correct, although keep in mind at 4:25 another character could've been saved by optimizing the last hex character and first wordle character, then changing 73:50 to 71:52
My boy hjdoogan appearing in the video. Absolute legend
The only reason the google maps is empty is because of the date being mismatched to the signature, so _technically_ correct, because there is no country.
this title reads like a summoning salt title and im all here for it
Speedrunners' willingness to effectively throw dice till they all stick to the wall as 5 nat 20s in a row is frightening
was thinking this video needed some HOME music, then the nichijou music hit, and you know what? even better
People are speedrunning passwords now
wow i actually have this game idea written in game ideas notes, i wonder if i knew about it before and forgot or its just a coincedence
"But is it possible?" (checks the video title) I dunno. I wonder if someone tried to solve it programmically. If someone can find a specific Minecraft seed by a photo through bruteforcing million combinations, surely a script can get a full list of valid rules that overlap.