The Password Game

The Password Game is a 2023 puzzle browser game developed by Neal Agarwal, on the online website neal.fun, where the player creates a password that follows increasingly unusual and complicated rules. Based on Agarwal's experience with password policies, the game was developed in two months, releasing on June 27, 2023. The game went viral and was recognized in the media for the gameplay's absurdity and commentary on the user experience of generating a password. It has been played over 10 million times. Read by CanonNi. Recorded January 2025; the article may have changed since. The article as it stood when recorded: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1269973751 Article today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Password_Game Original recording: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:En-The_Password_Game-article.ogg License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This episode is a format-shifted (MP3) copy redistributed under the same license. Chapter images come from the recorded article via Wikimedia Commons; each chapter links its file page for credits. This show is an independent community project, not affiliated with or endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation.