Password 🔑 (game)

[Mem]

thimble

 

[GaryA]

shot glass

(smallest [measuring] cup)

 

[Sculpt]

cupboard?

Not cupboard

 

[Cameron143]

Children's attention spans

 

[Sculpt]

thimble

shot glass
(smallest [measuring] cup)

Not these.

Hint 2: This password is known as something that engages when certain unwanted things go beyond specific parameters.

(Hint one: This word used to be known as the smallest "something" in the house. )

 

[Sculpt]

Children's attention spans

lol nope, not chitlens attention spans

 

[Mem]

 

[Cameron143]

My paycheck is the smallest thing in the house now and it doesn't engage well with the bills. But that's backwards from the clues, so...

 

[Mem]

...is it a sort of chaperone?

 

[Sculpt]

...is it a sort of chaperone?

The password is not chaperone. But chaperone is definitely one form of the password.

 

[Sculpt]

Let me give the 2nd hint its own post, just so no one misses it.

Hint 2: This password is known as something that engages when certain unwanted things go beyond specific parameters.

(Hint 1 was: This word used to be known as the smallest "something" in the house. In america)

 

[Mem]

I had originally included babysitter in the inquiry, which makes me think of a television which 'engages' the attention of children, or distracts them, from persisting in unwanted behaviors.

 

[GaryA]

What is hint #3 ?

 

[GaryA]

I presently can only think of one thing that fits hint #1 - but, I do not see how it would fit hint #2.

 

[GaryA]

However because of family obligations, I am not able to monitor the responses to the clues in a timely way.

Quite frankly, I don't think it would really matter that much if you were only able to give it attention once or twice a day...?

 

[Sculpt]

Hint 3: The password is a compound word, and both a noun and a verb. The second part of the word can be defined as someone who protects something.

(Hint 2: This password is known as something that engages when certain unwanted things go beyond specific parameters.)

(Hint 1: This word used to be known as the smallest "something" in the house. In american media.)

 

[Cameron143]

Part is guard

 

[Sculpt]

Part is guard

Yes

 

[GaryA]

"Safeguard - the smallest soap in the house."

 

[Sculpt]

"Safeguard - the smallest soap in the house."

You got it Gary!

the password was Safeguard.