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The Password Game: How to solve Rule 5

Screenshot of The Password Game with the text "Rule 5".

This Password Game guide explains how to solve Rule 5.

The Password Game is a puzzle game available for free. Its concept is quite straightforward – devise a password that meets the criteria specified by the game’s rules. Seems fairly simple, doesn’t it? Think again. The rules of the game become progressively more demanding as you advance, with certain ones necessitating substantial time and contemplation to crack.

This aspect has garnered the game a significant following among speedrunners and streamers. While the experience may be captivating for puzzle enthusiasts, it can prove immensely exasperating and arduous.

As you navigate your way through the ever-increasingly intricate rules of The Password Game, your password will elongate and grow more intricate.

Rule 5 – arguably one of the game’s more simple rules – is perhaps the first that will cause players to pause for thought. That’s because it requires players to include digits in the password that add up to 25.

Screenshot of Rule 5 in The Password Game.
Rule 5.

While this sounds simple enough, there are few things to bear in mind when attempting to solve Rule 5.

How to solve Rule 5 in The Password Game

This is how to solve Rule 5 in The Password Game:

To solve Rule 5, you must add numbers to your password that total 25. Digits are counted separately, meaning you can’t use numbers greater than 9. One solution may be to add the numbers 9, 9, and 7 to your password while removing any numbers you already included in it.

And that’s all you have to do – Rule 5 is certainly one of the easier rules to resolve. With that being said, you just need to remember that numbers greater than 9 will not count so, for example, you can’t use 12+13 to get 25.

Things definitely get more complicated as you progress, so appreciate these simpler rules while you can!

How far have you made it through The Password Game? Let us know in the comment section below and don’t forget to check out our other gaming articles…

Joe Harby

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