The Password Game has taken the world by storm, with many rushing through the puzzle trying to solve it. You’ll be familiar with this game if you’ve ever needed to make a password: it’s gotta have five characters, a number, a symbol…and the country of a random Google Image?
The Password Game’s Rule 14 will test your geography skills to their limits when building your ultimate password. To complete Rule 14, you’ll need to find out where exactly a location is and add the country’s name to your password, but sometimes it’s easier said than done.
Here are some quick tips to help you find the secret country for Rule 14 of The Password Game.
What is Rule 14 in The Password Game?
Rule 14 in The Password Game opens up a small window with a randomly generated location on Earth. If you’re familiar with the popular Google Maps search game GeoGuessr, this one might be a simple task, but if you’re not so geographically inclined, you might need some help finding out the answer to this rule.
Finding out the Rule 14 country in The Password Game: Tips and tricks
Find a street sign
If you’re lucky, your Google Maps location search will drop you on or near a road. Using the arrows in the bottom right of the window, “drive” yourself around nearby looking for street signs and city names that could give you clues as to which country you’re in.
Remember, you’ll only be needing the country name here, but knowing which city you’re in will make it very easy to look up and confirm.
Look for a phone number or website
Is there a phone number somewhere in the image? Perhaps a store or advertising board is listing their website on a sign or vehicle? If you see a link to a website or a phone number somewhere, look for the country code.
Most numbers will include a country code before them, such as +1, meaning the U.S. Finding a country code and looking up the value will almost assuredly get you the country you’re hunting for. Likewise for web links: check the link after the .com or .co at the end of the link and you’ll likely see a two-letter designation. Chances are it will refer to a specific country.
Use popular landmarks for clues
Can’t see any signs or shops? Look for specific landmarks that might give away where you are in the world. This requires a little more geographical knowledge, but if you see a specific building or statue you recognize, a simple lookup will be all you’ll need.
Google Lens is a really handy tool you can use here as it acts as a bit of a reverse image search. Get a screenshot of your location and upload it to Lens—it might just spit the location back at you!
Find and check a car’s license plate
Another method to determine which country you’re in is by checking the license plates of nearby vehicles. In most cases, Google automatically blurs any identifying information, but as they use AI to do this, sometimes it makes mistakes and forgets to blur them.
Try to find an image where multiple vehicles are displayed at once, like a busy highway or car park. I’ve often found Google fails to blur every single license plate, leaving one or two clear. Look for a country, state, or province that gives away the country you’re in.
Use any pictured language you can find
If you can’t spot any particular landmarks but see signs, try and pick up on hints of your location via the language used. While this may not narrow your options down to one specific country, it will most certainly reduce the number of possibilities. Don’t forget, if you’re wrong, it won’t reset—just delete your wrong guess and try again.
Unsure about which language is displayed? Type it into Google Translate and select “Detect language.” Most of the time Google will know what you’re trying to say and display the language for you, narrowing down your search!
If all else fails, refresh and try again
Did The Password Game drop you in the middle of nowhere and you really don’t have a clue? Copy your current password and refresh the window, then paste it back in. You’ll skip all the steps you’ve solved so far and Rule 14 will give you a new country to try and solve.
