The Password Sport will take you on a journey throughout the web within the try to create a password that meets extremely particular necessities. What’s at this time’s Wordle reply? The present section of the moon? A particular chess transfer? What do these have in widespread? It’s essential to embody the solutions in your new password. (And the moon section have to be within the type of an emoji.) Google is your good friend within the try to satisfy Neal Agarwal’s more and more absurd password requirement guidelines.

Agarwal launched The Password Sport on his web site on Tuesday, the place it’s accessible to play through your browser. Right here’s the way it works: The sport begins on a principally clean web page with an enter field: Please select a password. The one requirement is that it must be 5 letters. The subsequent few necessities are recognizable — embody a quantity, an uppercase letter, a particular character. After which the directions stack up, getting more and more bizarre and generally extraordinarily difficult. The Password Sport broke me, as an example, after I needed to give you the very best chess transfer on a given board.

Agarwal advised Polygon it took two months to make The Password Sport, which he began growing in late April. “The thought itself has been on my bucket record for years, and as password guidelines on the web have gotten weirder, I felt like now was a great time to lastly make it,” he mentioned in an e mail.

Agarwal’s preliminary tweet on Tuesday has racked up greater than 11,000 retweets as gamers brag within the feedback about their accomplishments or lament their inadequacies. (I can say this as a result of I’m additionally insufficient, people — I solely received to rule 16.) Among the guidelines had been solutions from Twitter, too: Agarwal requested customers for assist final month. It’s the place the Geoguessr rule got here from, as an example.

The Password Sport received so exhausting that even Agarwal hasn’t overwhelmed its diabolical guidelines — he’s solely performed it as much as rule 28. “I really like that individuals are discovering methods to beat it. I attempted a number of instances earlier than giving up,” he mentioned. “I wasn’t actually certain if it was even doable after I launched it. However in the event you give the web a problem, they may discover a method.”

It’s the kind of sensible sport that’s easy on the floor, with a number of secrets and techniques stuffed beneath its layers. A part of the shock can also be in how humorous and silly it’s — it’s a comedy set in a consumer interface. Who knew? Nicely, The Password Sport has had greater than one million visits because it was launched on Tuesday, Agarwal mentioned, so lots of people know now. The sport’s attraction additionally invokes the likes of Wordle: It’s the kind of factor that’s made for sharing with pals.