Zero word puzzle

[bocci]

Has anyone ever played one of these? I skipped playing it as it seemed a guaranteed average killer. Screenshot_2020-04-14-15-36-20.png

[bwt1213]

Seems I read someone played one of those. A puzzle was actually displayed, but none of the words typed were accepted. If you played it until time ran out, you'd have a total score of zero. As a guess, I would say that the board is linked to the valid word list and to the statistics, and for whatever reason the link failed. So all you have is the board, and when the game tries to validate your word against the list, the list is empty. I am just guessing, though.

[bionicflutist]

Those turn up every once in a while. I always skip them. They are probably filled with consonants.

[pdiddp]

I played one once quite awhile ago just to see what would happen but now I can't remember if the game wouldn't accept any input or if it did but called the words invalid without a link to verify them. I do remember not bothering to finish since it wasn't working right.

[Spike1007]

I see them (all zero stats) but no board comes up when I click on "Play this Game." I just get a little indicator that it's trying to display it. I tried waiting it out once, but I lost patience after 5-10 minutes. I often get the same behavior if I leave the stats screen alone overnight & try to play that game in the morning. I assume it has to do with links that are no longer valid.