cheater

[n-j-b]

There is a new person cheating, their username is will0417 (they're unrelated to will0416, I checked with will0416 earlier) . Their average time is 7.4 seconds with ~98% accuracy. And now I just saw they set multiple 1 second records in the same minute.

(I could maybe see someone being really fast with high accuracy but I don't think they can get two 1 second records in 1 minute!)

[CozYNut]

hi njb i agree

[n-j-b]

hi cozynut

[LLapp]

n-j-b, have you notified Stephen, the site admin? You can use the Questions form at the foot of the chat page.

[n-j-b]

yeah I did a few days ago

[LLapp]

N-J-B, thank you!

[Lurker]

Ooh, does that mean we're going to get some high score resets? That's what happened last time Stephen kicked out a cheater. All his records were reset to 60 seconds by Guest.

[admin]

Player has been removed and all records expunged. Thanks for reporting this!

[n-j-b]

thank you!

[kb83]

Okay, I'll ask the stupid question: How does someone cheat?

[Eureka]

In response to kb83: "There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions. " — Unattributed
There must be a computer program that will solve a cryptogram in a second. But where's the fun in that? It defeats the whole purpose of playing.

[Eureka]

Or maybe a person can slow down the time on their computer so that they actually take 10 seconds to solve a puzzle but it shows up as 1 second instead.

[kb83]

I have to admit a certain grudging respect for the wherewithal it takes to implement either of those methods. Thanks, Eureka!