Unfinished puzzles states now saved

[Hjlawrence7]

Wow! An acrostic quote from John Derbyshire, who writes for a far right white-nationalist website VDARE. I am done with Puzzle Baron unless they want to apologize for supporting racist writers.

[sewaneesue]

I'm having a problem today. Whenever I complete a new Acrostics Puzzle, Im getting a message that the puzzle has already been solved, so I am not getting credit for these puzzles. Has this happened to anyone else?

[oddcouple]

Great! I've been kicked out of puzzles before and had to start from scratch. That was always frustrating.

[admin]

X out just means closing the window the puzzle is in.

[sewaneesue]

What is X out of a puzzle?

[admin]

No, the timer continues regardless, in order to keep the competition fair.

[duhmel]

Does the timer stop while you are off the site?

[capnelaine]

Like that!

[atmold]

Or if the phone rings

[breldan]

Oh that’s wonderful, thanks!

[admin]

Just a quick note to let everyone know a new feature has been added today that will automatically save your acrostic puzzle states once every 10 seconds so that if you accidentally refresh the puzzle page, or if you X out of a puzzle and come back to finish it later via "Recent Games", your puzzle progress should no longer be lost, forcing you to restart the puzzle from scratch.

The new code has been tested across multiple devices but if you notice anything strange happening please let me know.