[geluso]

I'm stuck at "iatetomatoesyesterday0265Z#521juneVpepsiVIIxngxcaboutAg[moon emojis]italy2020Bf7+" trying to solve the chess notation puzzle.

I especially laughed at the rule "must include today's Worldle" and I'm happy with my solution including every emoji for "must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji."

(HackerNews doesn't seem to display emoji. My solution is to paste every moon phase emoji.)

Excited to see what's next after figuring out the best move in this Chess puzzle.

This reminds me of trying to manually construct an Autogram like below. This one is a quote someone else made. I tried to do it myself and it is so hard because the counts keep changing as you write out other counts!

Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogram

[Reason077]

I got the chess one pretty easily but I'm stuck on "The elements in your password must have atomic numbers that add up to 200". I haven't found a way to satisfy both this and "The roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35" simultaneously. Iodine (I) and Uranium (U) have high atomic numbers which blow out way higher than 200 and I haven't found a way to avoid them.

Edit: OK, just realised that it's case sensitive. So I can use a lower case "u" to avoid it being interpreted as an element.

[porphyra]

I had a chess move that's Rg8+ but Rg has an atomic number of 111...

[dreday]

You wanna start the chess move with Q...

[plewd]

Many of the puzzles are different for each player, I personally had Rf8+

[dunham]

Yeah, I got an Rf8+ and between that and the roman numerals, didn't know how to get down to 200. Then I tried to move the egg to a different spot and the chicken died.

[porphyra]

But the best move in the chess puzzle I got requires moving the rook.

[sobriquet9]

Qxg7+. Chess subreddit has a counter of days without a puzzle that starts with a queen sacrifice.

[sicariusnoctis]

Technically impossible since queens cannot materialize out of thin air, except in crazyhouse.

Also Rg1+ is a rather pretty attraction/clearance sacrifice/double check/mate-in-2.

[porphyra]

The chess puzzle is different for everyone...

[halestock]

XXXV also works for the roman numerals.

[sobriquet9]

XXXV * I = 35. Po (from Poland), V, and I add up to 160, so you need to add Zr.

[andy_ppp]

Seems to accept Qxh6+ as well as the other answer given here, I guess both work!

[teddyh]

Python:

  >>> sentence = """Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !"""
  >>> import collections
  >>> sorted(collections.Counter(sentence.lower()).items())
  [(' ', 73), ('!', 1), ("'", 23), (',', 27), ('-', 7), ('a', 10), ('b', 3), ('c', 4), ('d', 4), ('e', 46), ('f', 16), ('g', 4), ('h', 13), ('i', 15), ('k', 2), ('l', 9), ('m', 4), ('n', 25), ('o', 24), ('p', 5), ('r', 16), ('s', 41), ('t', 37), ('u', 10), ('v', 8), ('w', 8), ('x', 4), ('y', 11)]

Checks out.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

The worldle one I found kind of annoying because now I have to go play another game to keep going, one I don't find all that interesting.

[epicalex]

You can just search for the answer to save having to do that

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Now it seems progress has become literally impossible because the chess move + the captcha includes digits that add up to more than 25. I guess having to restart is intended to be part of the game, or is this a bug?

[anticrymactic]

You can reroll the captcha

[lyvxh]

You can cycle the captcha.

[Taniwha]

It doesn't seem to understand how wordle does timezones

[dsego]

You can fail at wordle and get the correct answer revealed at the end.

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

This is indeed what ended up transpiring, but only after trying really hard to figure it out all the while thinking the meanings of gold and green were the opposite of eachother.

I take puzzles way too seriously, and I suck at word puzzles.

[nurettin]

Made me stop playing, because I block wordle shares on every social media channel.

[chrisweekly]

"Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !"

nice job! autograms are strangely pleasing.

[nabakin]

I think the chess one is bugged. I've entered every possible move for the board I received and none of them worked.

Edit: figured it out

[jayelbe]

I couldn't get it to accept a move which involved the knight jumping over a hostile piece. It was definitely the best move (I fed it into stockfish and got the same response). I refreshed the page to get a new puzzle and got a new street view as well. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Edit: Oooohhh, I think I forgot to add a + for check!

[Rosalyn]

Can you please tell me? I've been stuck on it for an hour and a half.... I really need help ;-;

[nabakin]

tl;dr

K = King

Q = Queen

B = Bishop

R = Rook

N = Knight

Pawns have no letter

.

You append a "+" to the end when it is a check move

You append a "#" to the end when it's a checkmate move

You add an "x" when your move eats another piece

.

Examples

- Moving a rook to g6: Rg6

- Moving a queen to d7 which eats a piece: Qxd7

- Moving a bishop to a3 which checks the opponents king: Ba3+

- Moving a pawn to e5: e5

- Moving a queen to h7 which eats a piece and checks the king: Qxh7+

- Moving a pawn to f4 which checkmates the king: f4#

[kuboble]

There are few more.

Rae1 - rook a to e1. if two rooks on the first line can move to e1. R4d4 - if two rooks on the 4th line can go to d4. Ngxh2# - the knight from g captures on h2 with checkmate.

Nd2e4 - In a rare case that there are 3 knights that can go to a single square

Pawn captures are denoted as exd5 (pawn on the line e captures a pawn on d5) even if there is only one pawn that can make a capture.

[rkagerer]

I learned more from your concise post than I ever have from articles, Wikipedia, etc.

[9dev]

For Real. I finally understood chess notation.

[have_faith]

Just adding promotion

- d8N# pawn moves and promotes to a knight resulting in checkmate (it can happen)

[Tistron]

Thanks for this. What if two rooks can both get to e5, how do you disambiguate?

[bonzini]

Using the column they are on, or the row if they are both on the same column. For example Rac8 moves a rook from a8 to c8, R1d2 moves it from d1 to d2.

[ghayes]

It worked for me, but I had to include `Rxb6+` for the capture and the check.

[saikaushik]

Isn't Q×h6+ the best move for white, since there is a mate in 1 after that move. Am I missing something?

[messe]

The game is selected at random each time you play, so depending on which you get the solution will differ.

[YetAnotherNick]

Enter without ×.

[Potterqueen23]

How tell me.

[bowmessage]

Also got stuck on the chess game - had to peruse the webpacked source code for the array of solutions...

[dr_orpheus]

Also got stuck at the chess one with "551A!mayShellVIIVr8gecmaboutAuSingaporeBxe6"

[themanmaran]

You may need the + at the end of your notation if you're putting the king in check.

[sandyarmstrong]

Yup, I had to come here to figure out that the + was missing in mine! TIL!

[festive-minsky]

I had to use stockfish

[jug]

Haha, yeah I used Chess.com analysis and it gave me a clearly best sequence of moves (three to checkmate) but it didn't take the first move from white that it asked for. :( I saw many other struggle with this one too. Anyway, I gave up here and seeing some of the subsequent steps I doubt I'll reach the end anyway!

[tiborsaas]

Brutal

[zoklet-enjoyer]

I got stuck at the chess move too A591@juneShellVIIVec6pmtractFeNigeria2020

[vilkkala]

I'm too stuck at the chess move with XXXVJanuarypepsi@3pe4g99tractHechile

[irrational]

Italy? Interesting that it is giving different locations. I got Qatar.

[croddin]

I got Colombia, and C is a roman numeral so I think I'm stuck. edit: nevermind I can just make it lowercase.

[BIG_H0TD0G]

I got colombia to, you just have to make the letter lowercase!

[iso1631]

It's random

[chankstein38]

You could potentially paste the chess notation into chatgpt and ask for the next move! It's not perfect but it'd be better than me at it at least

[ailef]

ChatGPT is really and at chess. I'd just paste it in one of the online chess engines.

[wongarsu]

There are apps that detect the positions from an image, and run a local version of stockfish to get the best move

[noSyncCloud]

https://chessvision.ai/