Recent Games issues

[dancingartichoke]

I am seeing two things I am confused about on the Recent Games tab.

1. I noticed that I am randomly seeing some games that show as incomplete even though I thought I completed them. Is anyone else seeing this? Ideas on what could be causing it?
2. When I retry a game from the Recent Games tab, it looks like the timer includes not only the time I had the game open before (expected), but also the time the game was paused. Is this intentional?

Grateful for any insight. Thanks!

[Unikittycornastegasaurus]

I had never used the Recent Games tab before. While experimenting with it, I did notice that Recent Games lists a Conspiracy puzzle as incomplete if I went to the page with the Start button on it even if I did not click the Start Puzzle choice.

I'm not sure about the questions on the timer, but I think it is doing exactly what you say it is doing.

I suggest the Help or the Contact Us tab at the bottom of the chat thread here if you continue having problems.

[grimmgiraffe]

This site has no pause button. You can save your puzzle, but that does not pause it. The timer always keeps running. No, I don't think anyone actually likes this feature. We just deal with it.

The conspiracy puzzles, since they have no options for settings to choose from, create a puzzle with what feels like one fewer page between puzzles. If you are looking at the results of one puzzle and click New Puzzle - you are making a puzzle. There is no page between these, like for logic puzzles, etc. If you push the Play tab on the top, you have also created a puzzle.

I've gotten in the habit of clicking on the scores tabs when I want to stop playing between puzzles, so I don't accidently start a new game.

[TangoPapaOscarWhisky]

It's a conspiracy theory puzzle not spam, please approve

[dancingartichoke]

grimmgiraffe That makes sense. I will click on the scores tab when I want to stop playing. Thanks!

[TangoPapaOscarWhisky]

What type of puzzle is this? It's titled Puzzle 1.

Puzzle 1

[I bet - you're wondering why I spent all - this _ time to - create - such a - go - nowhere - loop - around _ tab clicking - labyrinth - so I'll - tell - you - the fact _ is it's not - really that difficult - to - get - through _ but the - enticement - of - your curiosity - is what I __ was after - if - you think there - is - some sort _ of prize - then - you figured - right - mostly - it's - to _ educate you - on - a - theory I have - that may _ or may - not - be real to - which - it - probably _ isn't anywho - the - theory is you - know how - the _ world leaders - speak - live - on the - old groove tube __ like they're - reading - off - a que - card or in _ a broken - speech - pattern with - odd - pauses - and - connected __ words that - seem - to run sentences without - any spaces _ between the - words - kinda like - how - this is written _ well remember - no - matter where - you are there - you _ go If - you - feel life's - content - no - anger left _ to vent - try - a puzzle - you will - see - the __ space reserved is - more you'll see - read - the message __ find the - key - to that that - hides in - reality _ it's in - your - face it's - everywhere - get - off _ the couch - and - feel the - air smell - a rose _ touch a - tree - feel the - grass - beneath - your - feet _ you ask - yourself - why - am - I here so - you __ think must - I - remind - you of - what you have _ done until - you - can see - with the use of _ the key - everything - you - hear you - can not believe __ the only - thing - left to - say - to - yourself - is _ to unfold - the - truth - of these - lies in - your _ head remember - these - words - and remember - them well being _ in comfort - is - what drives us - all with concurrence _ of this - progress - continues until - a - new - challenge - puts _ it in - fault - this should - not - be - welcomed - but _ must be - expected - this - is life's proportional - integral derivative _ to which - we - must - constantly adjust to - CONSTANTLY - that __ is all and good luck!]

Why is it being flagged as potential spam, I'm a real person not a spammer

[Unikittycornastegasaurus]

More experimentation with the recent games tab and Conspiracy Puzzles for anyone who is interested....

A new puzzle is created if you go to the page with the "Start this Puzzle" choice. I get there one of two ways. Either I click the More Puzzles tab and select Conspiracy and then tell it to create a new puzzle OR I select the option to create another puzzle when I finish a puzzle and I am on the page with the scoreboard.

If you create a new puzzle it goes automatically to the Recent Games tab. But if you did not click the "Start this Puzzle" choice, you can actually play this puzzle from your Recent Games tab and the timer will start at zero.

But, as grimmgiraffe correctly pointed out, there is no pause button. Therefore, if you do click the "Start this Puzzle" choice and then quit the puzzle and come back to it later on, the timer will have been counting down for the entire time.

As for the puzzle posted by TangoPapaOscarWhiskey, I have no idea what that is. I was wondering where that puzzle comes from? Surely there would be directions for solving it at its source.

[hughk]

Repeatedly throughout the day today, while I am in the middle of trying to play a 5x5 Word Twist game, the game board is glitching and reverting to a screen with an ad for Pandora on it. Each time it does this, I am unable to continue my game AND am stuck with the stats associated with a low game score. I have attached a screenshot of the ad that keeps coming up instead of my previously-ongoing game board.