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Selecting letters for 7-by-many puzzle

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yelnats:
I think if those same letters were open in a "your puzzle" it wouldn't be possible to use them in a 7bm puzzle. I once tried to use the local paper's puzzle to make a "your puzzle" and it wouldn't go in because coincidentally it was the same word as an open Chi puzzle. I was able to do it when the chi puzzle closed.

Maudland:
My ‘current’ puzzle is nixing’s INUCYAL.

I tried to enter C as the mandatory letter - nothing showed. R, though, was accepted. It would then only let me enter other letters (for the other 6) that were not in nixing’s puzzle. I tried Y  but it didn’t accept it.

When I went back to my current puzzle, CY was showing where you enter the words.

So I was entering them under the create your own puzzle screen/page, but they were going to the current puzzle instead. The two pages were connected in some way with letters automatically going to the current puzzle rather than the one I was trying to make.

Is that any clearer? Not sure how else to explain it, and not technical enough to know how else to put it! 😳

Maudland:
Maybe should add that you select ‘new’ from a current puzzle, which remains open behind the page/screen to create your puzzle … and then selected letters go to the page behind where they’re in play.

Alan W:
Thanks, Maudland. Now I follow you.

Yes, something odd is going on. It seems to be only on Apple iOS devices: iPhones and iPads. It's no doubt related to the fact that on these devices you can use the on-screen keyboard to play Chihuahua, something that doesn't work on Android phones and tablets. But why do we not have this problem on a computer? I shall investigate.

Maudland:
It’s all beyond my ken, Alan! (As you could probably tell from my technical description.) There’s enough other ways to play a puzzle so it’s not breaking my heart … I suspect you might not be satisfied with it though. What a wizard.
Thanks for everything you do!

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