How to beat Rule 14 of The Password Game – Tips to find the secret country

The Password Game is a real head-scratcher, but you’ll be familiar with the premise if you’ve ever needed to make a password: It has to have five characters, a number, a symbol—and the country of a random Google Image.

The Password Game’s Rule 14 tests your geography skills to their limits when building your ultimate password. To complete Rule 14, you 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 the answer to this rule.

How to find the Rule 14 country in The Password Game: Tips and tricks

Find a street sign

If you’re lucky, your Google Maps location search drops you on or near a road. Using the arrows in the bottom right of the window, “drive” around nearby, looking for street signs and city names that could give you clues about which country you’re in.

Remember, you only need the country name here, but knowing which city you’re in makes 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 lists its website on a sign or vehicle? Look for the country code if you see a link to a website or a phone number somewhere.

Most numbers include a country code before them, such as +1, meaning the U.S. Finding a country code and looking up the value almost assuredly gets 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 refers 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 a simple lookup is all you need if you see a specific building or statue you recognize.

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 it uses 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.

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 skip all the steps you’ve solved so far, and Rule 14 gives you a new country to try and solve.