I hate this. Also, I love it. Fuck Paul.

I hate Paul…

I made it up to rule 25 and then Paul starved because I was thinking too long about which characters to ban.

To make it over Rule 24 (Paste the URL of a Youtube video with a certain random length), I even created a video with the correct length and kept uploading it to Youtube to get a URL without roman numerals and decently usable atomic weights.

When I tried it again after that dumb chicken starved, I hit Youtube’s maximum daily upload limit. Now Youtube thinks I am a spambot or something.

Btw, there are 35 rules total, in case anyone else makes it over 24. And spoiler, the one that got me doesn’t matter at all. It’s one of the easiest of all.

I thought I was so smart spamming the caterpillars into the password. I overfed Paul.

The funniest moment has to have been when I Googled “9 minute 34 second Youtube video” and there was at least one video literally titled “9 MINUTES AND 34 SECONDS TIMER COUNTDOWN [574 seconds - 9:34]” and the video was 9 minutes 49 seconds long. I proceeded to Google different numbers of seconds looking for one that hit the perfect number and literally none of the videos, despite seemingly hundreds of videos of very specific times happened to fall on the 9 minute 34 second mark. Like, what insane world is happening in the great depths of Youtube where people spend hours posting completely arbitrary timers on Youtube, but specifically avoid ones that are 9 minutes, 34 seconds in length. I felt set up. I was rolling in laughter. 10/10 would spend my night Googling Youtube timers and overfeeding an emoji chicken again.

As a someone who frequently argues with IT teams over ridiculous hidden password rules that drive crappy user experience I feel triggered by this game.

This is fantasticll

Dang it, finished on rule 24

gg and good luck to ya’ll

Some useful resources:

Emoji Moon Phases, you’ll need Waxing Gibbous right now (🌔)

https://starinastar.com/moon-phase-emojis-a-review/

Today’s Wordle Answer:

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/what-is-todays-wordle-answer

The Elements sorted by Atomic Number:

https://www.angelo.edu/faculty/kboudrea/periodic/structure_numbers.htm

Chess Move Solver:

https://nextchessmove.com/

What killed me was trying to feed the chicken while hunting for a YouTube video of a certain length. I did get past that once when I was lucky enough to be asked for a 9 minute 0 second video. Because people upload “timer” videos of exactly X minutes, that was possible. The “26 minute 59 second” video resulted in a dead chicken.

I did 32nd Rule but I broke Rule 5. I wasn’t going to juggle the hex colour, the length of the password, the captcha, and the youtube url, so that the numbers add to 25… Don’t know if it’s possible even…

https://imgur.com/a/t8L6J1c

edit: 31 to 32 was hard, I added a before pic as well, had to change strategy.

Can’t believe that in 2023 we still rely on passwords so much, even more so when there are silly rules for password “strength”.

“Your password must include the URL of a 23 minute 42 second long YouTube video.”

lol

I’m not gonna do google searches, I give up.

That was fun! Kinda hit the wall at the youtube link rule. Couldn’t find a way to search YT videos by exact length, so you either need to get super lucky and find one randomly or upload such a video yourself. Then you better hope the video URL does not contain any roman numerals… All while keeping Paul fed (but not overfed!)

Playing this game was infuriating when the egg hatched.

I think I will quit at this point.

PAUL HAS STARVED is the most evil thing :P

Also I got Madagascar, which was kind of hard…

Nice game, thanks for sharing ! I stopped at rule 24, looking for videos with correct length and url was too frustrating for me…

Edit: typo