The Password Game Rules Explained

Have you heard about The Password Game? If you haven’t heard about this once you’ve been living under a rock. Everyone these days has a password and now you can take part in an epic challenge created by Coder Neal Agarwal. The rules are simple, but are they really? Do you have what it takes to create the best password? Is your password strong enough? With this free game, you can develop various passwords that will have you banging your head on your desk. It’s hard, it’s fun, and it’s available now. Here are the rules of The Password Game and what they mean.

Rules in The Password Game

Think of this game as real life where you’re creating bad passwords. Sometimes the characters are too long, you’re missing special characters, or your password is easily recognizable. The creator thought of this game because of his experiences with websites over the years and how password rules have become weird these days.

There are a total of 35 rules that are included in this game. Some of these are self-explanatory, whereas others need a bit of an explanation. Here’s a list of all of the rules we have encountered so far and what they mean:

• 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 & 7: Your password must include a Roman numeral.
• 8: Your password must include one of our sponsors.
• 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: Protect Paul.
• 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 *strong man emoji*
• 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 worms every minute.”
• 24: “Your password must include the URL of a X-minute Y-second 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.” and is automatically checked off
• 35: “Your password must include the current time.” 

Tips to Beat The Password Game

When the game progresses and you’ve reached up to 16 is when the game starts to get difficult. If you’re wanting to get passed the chess notation you’re going to want to remember these easy hints: K is for King, Q is for Queen, R is for Rook, B is for Bishop, N is for Knight, X is Capture, + for Check and ++ for Checkmate. Another tip you can use is for rule 20 when the text tells you to put the fire out. You need to get rid of the fire ASAP or Paul will burn to death, speaking of Paul, if you delete the egg you will kill him. Protect Paul is rule 17, so keep that egg protected. At any point in this game if you lose you will have to start all over from the beginning.

Are your passwords looking secure these days? Keep playing The Password Game so you can try to create unique passwords for the future. Be sure to check out Gamer Journalist on Facebook to join the discussion and keep up to date with our content. You may also want to check out our guides and news.