Cabudare Kids
Build a strong password
A trick for passwords nobody can guess. You never type your password here: we only play with examples.
The random words trick
A password is a secret key that opens your accounts.
The trick: put together several random words that have nothing to do with each other.
A long phrase beats a short password full of strange symbols.
Every word you add makes it much, much harder to guess.
And it's easy to remember: picture a turtle playing a drum on a cloud.
The golden rules
- Use a different password for each account. If someone finds out one, the others stay safe.
- Don't tell anyone, not even your best friend. Only your mom, your dad or whoever looks after you.
- If someone asks for it in a message, even if they say they're from the game, don't give it. Tell a grown-up.
- Don't use your name, your birthday or your pet's name.
- If you think someone knows it, change it with a grown-up. It's okay: it can be fixed.
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For grown-ups
This page never asks for a password and has no text fields. The dice uses the browser's cryptographic randomness (crypto.getRandomValues); nothing is stored or sent.
The advice follows the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC): three random words make a password “long enough and strong enough” and easy to remember.
Note: the dice list has only 64 words, so it gives 16,777,216 four-word phrases (262,144 with three), fewer than a random 5-character password. It's for playing: a real password should use words chosen from the whole language, not from this list.
For you: a password manager creates and remembers a different password for each account, and the NCSC recommends one. Protect your email first, with a password you use nowhere else.
With your children: agree that they only tell their password to you, and make it together.