freezing during game?

[silk]

every so often my screen will freeze, and i cannot enter letters. then it will unfreeze and the timer will jump ahead however many seconds. i don't know if it's on my end or not. wondering if anyone else has the same issue.

[BoredInTheCar]

Yes, I have been having the same issue (on a Mac, using Sequoia 15.0, and Safari).

I did try rebooting, and I think that's helped.

[BoredInTheCar]

Actually, I think I withdraw my comment. I was playing the NYT Spelling Bee this morning and that screen froze, at which point I realized I was mixing up my word games. (After all, you can never have too many of those!) I haven't had a problem with Wordtwist.

[silk]

thanks! (and i agree, fellow hive member!)

[bwt1213]

Now for a different meaning for the original post. I am not quite freezing; it's noon and still -6F outside, but at least there's a nice stiff wind behind it. But in the place where my computer lives, it's 55F inside. I'm dressed warmly enough not to feel very cold, but my fingers are a little stiff and it's harder than usual to type fast. Those of you playing in Australia can now laugh. And those living in New Orleans can go out and shovel some snow.

[BoredInTheCar]

my fingers are a little stiff and it's harder than usual to type fast.

I sympathize. My typing speed goes way down when my fingers are cold, and it doesn't take much for that to happen. (But I thank my lucky stars that I live in Hawai'i now, so I'm pretty insulated from truly cold weather.)

[boysmom]

I have the same problem with the screen freezing mid-game on my phone while also using a safari browser. I often times have to open a different app momentarily and reopen safari and it quickly starts working. This has been going on for over a year for me.

[dannyb]

Hmm . . . I wonder what RussDNails wrote that wasn't posted here. I guess he took umbrage with the sarcasm of bwt1213.

[RussDNails]

Nothing important I just saw his post right before I had to walk across the parking garage after my shift at the hospital where I work. Air temp was -14F and wind chill below -50. I’ve seen worse but not by much. Literal torture being out for even a brief moment with the wind. Plus I was on the roof of the garage—for whatever reason that seems to amplify the wind force…..deleted the post because I didn’t want to hijack it from the original poster’s intent……

[dannyb]

Thanks for the explanation.

[bwt1213]

Nothing important I just saw his post right before I had to walk across the parking garage after my shift at the hospital where I work. Air temp was -14F and wind chill below -50. I’ve seen worse but not by much. Literal torture being out for even a brief moment with the wind. Plus I was on the roof of the garage—for whatever reason that seems to amplify the wind force…..deleted the post because I didn’t want to hijack it from the original poster’s intent……

Yeah, I was trying to be a little funny with the cold the whole nation was feeling, and I didn't have to be out in it. It was garbage day, and I didn't even wheel the bins out; it's just the two of us and we have so little I could probably take them out once a month in the winter when everything's frozen anyway.

I have to agree that really bad windchills are sheer agony. I've been in -43F with absolutely no wind and it felt like an ordinary -20F day. I had a paper route in Ishpeming (mid 1950s) and walked about three miles to deliver them all, and I was dressed for extreme cold. The last quarter mile, I couldn't feel anything below mid-thigh. When I got home, I had ice on my toenails and my socks were frozen to my feet. I lost a little skin but nothing worse than that. But the whole thing was painless -- cold, but painless. In the mid or late 80s in Northern Illinois, I had to go out and get the mail -- a simple 50 yard walk to and 50 back from the mailbox. Air temperature was -27 (record for that location, ever) and the winds were 50 mph with gusts to 60 or so, with a windchill of -100F. I was dressed for it, I thought. Felt like being flayed alive, and the wind brought the cold right through everything I wore. I have a feeling that -100F with no wind wouldn't have felt nearly as bad. So I have to sympathize with you for the windchill you experienced. Trust me, a real -50 would not have felt nearly as bad as what you felt. You might have frozen just as fast either way, but without wind it would have been a sneaky freezing and you might not have had any moments of actual pain. Windchill actually hurts. You have my sympathy and understanding.

[RussDNails]

Yeah, I used to be able to handle these extremes better when I was younger......now my extremities turn blue without good protection

[bwt1213]

For the last week or so, my internet service provider (Spectrum) in our area has had really uneven service. I have used the OOKLA speed test and it has reported download speeds of 490 Mbps and upload speeds of 11 Mbps, and then ten minutes later the same numbers are 20 and 0.02. It's really hard to play this game with an upload speed of .02 (which I suspect is sometimes 0.1 and more often o.00). Yes, the screen DOES freeze. If you ask to see a new game, that simple keystroke just isn't being sent for a good while.

Is this just my particular problem, or is it a general one? Is it specific to Spectrum? I will say that I first began noticing the problem late at night, after midnight, but now it's becoming more general and extending into the day.

[Indyanna]

I thought it was just my computer. My game freezes and I can still hear when it accepts a good word or rejects the word. Then when it unfreezes the words I have typed are there as far as I can tell. I have had it freeze to the point that I get a pop up saying the game is finished and to start a new game without me being able to see any stats or information.

And we hit double digits here at 11 degrees with lots of snow on the ground

[bwt1213]

Right now, it's at the high temp for the day -- 4F with a brisk 12 mph wind. Tonight, -12F and colder tomorrow. Only about 8 inches of snow on the ground, though. About 50 miles from Ishpeming (where I was born and raised) there's more than 10 feet of snow on the ground and temperatures as cold or colder. So we can all be happy we're not living there.

The biggest effect I've seen from the upload stoppages and download slowdowns are that I can request a new board and have nothing happen, or have downloads go into buffering. I have streaming TV, and the shows will stop and the little spinning circle will appear, then the show play a few seconds and the wheel appears again, etc. As little bandwidth as this game uses, when it is buffering or going effectively off-line for a few tens of seconds you know that there is a real problem somewhere -- I'd just like to know where.