The Password Game is so absurdly demanding, even its creator hasn’t beaten it

polygon.com:

The Password Game will take you on a journey across the internet in the attempt to create a password that meets highly specific requirements. What is today’s Wordle answer? The current phase of the moon? A specific chess move? What do these have in common? You must include the answers in your new password. (And the moon phase must be in the form of an emoji.) Google is your friend in the attempt to meet Neal Agarwal’s increasingly absurd password requirement rules.

Agarwal released The Password Game on his website on Tuesday, where it’s available to play via your browser. Here’s how it works: The game starts on a mostly blank page with an input box: Please choose a password. The only requirement is that it has to be five letters. The next few requirements are recognizable — include a number, an uppercase letter, a special character. And then the instructions stack up, getting increasingly weird and sometimes extremely challenging. The Password Game broke me, for instance, when I had to come up with the best chess move on a given board.

The password game is out now! Good luck > https://t.co/kXhmbHqYTK pic.twitter.com/d6lbnfHrbx

Agarwal told Polygon it took two months to make The Password Game, which he started developing in late April. “The idea itself has been on my bucket list for years, and as password rules on the internet have gotten weirder, I felt like now was a good time to finally make it,” he said in an email.

Agarwal’s initial tweet on Tuesday has racked up more than 11,000 retweets as players brag in the comments about their accomplishments or lament their inadequacies. (I can say this because I am also inadequate, folks — I only got to rule 16.) Some of the rules were suggestions from Twitter, too: Agarwal