Password Game 2: Rules and Hints

1. The first rule is only about how much you type.
2. The card shows a live count. Keep typing until it reaches the minimum.
3. Twelve characters is enough. Spaces count, and so does every other symbol.

1. This one asks for a kind of character you may not have used yet.
2. Type a digit anywhere in the password.
3. Any single digit from 0 to 9 passes. Remember it: a later rule adds up your digits.

1. Look at the letters you have typed so far.
2. Make at least one of them a capital.
3. Hold Shift and type any letter from A to Z.

1. Letters and digits are not enough here.
2. You need a symbol that is neither a letter, a digit nor a space.
3. Something like an exclamation mark, an at sign or a hash passes.

1. This rule has a widget on its card. Use it rather than guessing.
2. Pick every tile that shows the thing the challenge asks for, then confirm.
3. The form rejects your first correct answer on purpose. Answer correctly again on the second grid. The widget then gives you a short code that starts with OK and types it into the password for you.

1. The rule wants a total, not a particular digit.
2. Add up every digit in the password and compare it with the target on the card, which shows your running sum.
3. Spread the total over a few digits, for example nines and a remainder. Digits that arrive later, such as the clock time and a chess move, count too, so leave room for them.

1. Think calendar.
2. The password must contain the name of a month of the year.
3. Spell out a whole month name in full, not an abbreviation. Capitals do not matter, and a month name hidden inside a longer word still counts.

1. This rule depends on today's date.
2. It wants the answer to today's Wordle, the five-letter word game.
3. Solve or look up today's Wordle and type the answer in any case. If the live feed is unreachable the rule passes for free.

1. The card names a few companies.
2. You only need to plug one of them.
3. Type the full name of any listed sponsor. Capitals do not matter, but the spelling and spaces do.

1. This is a puzzle with six switches, not a text rule.
2. Switching a toggle off also flips one other toggle, its fixed neighbor. Click one and see which neighbor changes.
3. Aim to switch off a toggle whose neighbor is currently on, so both end up off. Switching one off while its neighbor is off turns the neighbor on. When all six are off the widget types the confirmation phrase into your password.

1. Another kind of number, from a different era.
2. Use a Roman numeral. The letters count only in capitals.
3. Any of I, V, X, L, C, D or M in uppercase passes.

1. The numerals in your password are multiplied together, not added.
2. Each run of capital Roman letters is one numeral. Multiply the values of all the runs and match the target on the card.
3. One numeral equal to the target is enough. Check your other capitals: a stray I, V, X, L, C, D or M elsewhere makes another factor.

1. Look at the card for the country name.
2. The card names a country. You have to type that country.
3. Spell the country's full name. Capitals do not matter. If the live feed is unreachable the rule passes for free.

1. The answer changes while you play.
2. The password must contain the current time, hours then minutes, on a 24-hour clock with a colon.
3. Read your device's clock and type it like 09:05 or 17:42. The minute rolls over while you play, so check this rule again before you finish. Its digits also count toward the digit sum.

1. Trust your eyes.
2. A large swatch is shown without a name. Find the matching swatch in the row of choices.
3. Click the choice whose color matches. The widget types the color's lowercase name into your password.

1. The card shows a position from a daily puzzle.
2. Find the single best move for the side to play.
3. Click the move out on the board, or type it in standard notation. The widget types it for you. If the live feed is unreachable the rule passes for free. The move's digits count toward the digit sum.

1. After a floor, a ceiling.
2. The password may not be longer than the cap on the card. The card shows your running length.
3. Do not pad. If you are over, delete characters the rules do not need, such as filler between the required pieces. Junk that events wedge in counts too.

1. One of the words in this game's name has to appear.
2. It must appear spelled the other way round.
3. Type the word password reversed. Capitals do not matter.

1. Nothing is asked of your password here.
2. This rule always passes once it appears. It unlocks the Create account button.
3. Check that every other rule is green and no event rule is red, then press Create account to start the finale.

A fish moves into the form and gets hungrier over time. Press FEED now and then. At submit he must have been fed within the last minute. A fish kept alive helps in the finale.

A fire burns down steadily. Press STOKE to add fuel; the button needs a moment between uses and it likes to move. A low fire eats letters from your password, and at submit it must still be burning. A fire kept alive helps in the finale.

Flowers bloom and fill a hive with honey. Now and then a bear approaches, and if it finishes its raid it tramples the garden. Press THROW BASKET while the bear approaches or raids to send it away. At submit the hive needs enough honey. A garden kept alive helps in the finale.

One character corrupts and the corruption spreads to its neighbors, but never across a space. The rule that appears shows an antidote sequence of lowercase letters; type it anywhere in the password to clear everything. Spaces slow the spread.

An anchor pulls your letters out of the password, nearest first. A banner shows a word to feed it. Typing that word anywhere in the password ends the pass and the letters return in place. Left alone, it ends by itself after a few captures.

A fake character is slipped into the password. It looks like its neighbor but is not counted by the length and digit rules, so a rule goes red for no visible reason. It wiggles faintly. Click it to evict it. A second one arrives if you wait too long.

Waves of aliens dive and grab letters out of the password. Type the grabbed letter to shoot the alien down and get the letter back, or click an alien before it grabs. The last wave must be shot down completely before you submit.

A snake swallows your last letter on a regular beat. Put the cursor at the very end of the password and type the snake's snack character to feed it. Feed it a few times and it leaves, returning everything it swallowed. At submit nothing may be left inside it.

Ten junk blocks drop into your password. Unlike other intruders they count toward your length. Click a junk block to shatter it, or delete it with Backspace. At submit none may remain.

A consent dialog appears. Declining spawns more of them. Only one banner in the whole stack carries the real Reject all control, and the others are decoys. Typing is never locked, and the swarm leaves on its own after a while.

Every few seconds it quietly rewrites a word in your password, and a toast is the only warning. The off switch is hidden in its settings dialog among six toggles; Helpful corrections is the one that stops it. It also gets bored and leaves on its own.

A loading bar seizes your keyboard and stalls near the end. Mashing keys nudges it along, and it always releases you after a fixed time. It is a joke, so stay calm and wait it out.