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Alan, something weird is happening.
« on: January 04, 2018, 07:30:23 PM »
I'm just doing today's standard game and one of my words has changed the 's' to 'z' and there is no 'z'!

I have a screen dump to send you when it has closed...

But it has fixed itself with an F5 refresh.
« Last Edit: January 04, 2018, 08:01:59 PM by yelnats »

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Re: Alan, something weird is happening.
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2018, 10:02:18 AM »
I'm not aware of this happening before, yelnats. Weird indeed. Were you playing with the mouse or keyboard?
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Re: Alan, something weird is happening.
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2018, 06:27:10 PM »
Keyboard on a laptop.

Screen dump...

prise became prize and there is a space between most of the row's first letters and the next, and there is an uppercase for Rise at the end of a line.
« Last Edit: January 05, 2018, 06:35:32 PM by yelnats »

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Re: Alan, something weird is happening.
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2018, 06:40:31 PM »
The word list also contains the word residue, which can't be formed from the letters in the puzzle!

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Re: Alan, something weird is happening.
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2018, 05:55:38 PM »
"residue" is actually "rest" on the refreshed list.
« Last Edit: January 06, 2018, 05:58:56 PM by yelnats »

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Re: Alan, something weird is happening.
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2018, 06:55:59 PM »
An early contender for weird thing of the year.
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Re: Alan, something weird is happening.
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2018, 03:47:24 PM »
If I may put my 2 cents in ..

Most computer systems involving data, databases and data sets, use offset addressing.

Just to illuminate that;
A direct or absolute address might be something equivalent to 1234 Some Street, Somewhere.
An offset address might be something equivalent to 'x' houses up the road from 1234 Some Street, Somewhere.

Now, if you ever have a computer ( data ) glitch, you could end up in the wrong place.
If the data you are accessing is a list of words, instead of retrieving the desired word, you could end up retrieving a nearby word.
For example, instead of retrieving the 123rd word in the 'A' list, you could end retrieving say the 124th word in the 'A' list.

Thus you could see the results described.

As to what might cause the 'glitch', that's a whole other and longer topic.

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Re: Alan, something weird is happening.
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2018, 10:10:46 AM »
Another weird thing... I just went to the Challenge puzzle and noticed that although I was showing as Player: pat, on the actual scoreboard I was showing as Pat (capital P). I switched to another puzzle, which showed me as pat, then went back to the Challenge puzzle which had also reverted back to pat. Very odd.
« Last Edit: January 11, 2018, 10:13:22 AM by pat »

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Re: Alan, something weird is happening.
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2018, 03:40:38 AM »
Cue The Twilight Zone theme.