“The evilest will-breaking browser game to exist.”

In 2023, Neal Agarwal created The Password Game, a viral browser-based game. Wikipedia has a nice summary: Although the initial requirements include setting a minimum of characters or including numbers, uppercase letters, or special characters, the rules gradually become more unusual and complex. These can involve managing having Roman numerals in the string to multiply, adding the name of a country that players have to guess from random Google Street View imagery (as a reference to GeoGuessr), inserting the day’s Wordle answer, typing the best move in a generated chess position using algebraic notation, inserting the URL of a YouTube video of a randomly generated length, and adjusting boldface, italics, font types, and text sizes. The explanation goes on for another paragraph, but I don’t want to spoil too many surprises. However, if you’re not a puzzle kind of person, you can just watch a 40-minute video of Bog trying to beat it: Last year, Agarwal followed The Password Game with…