Feedback and Questions

I am hoping people will notice and let me know if it is working. Will take some time to appraise the difference and I think we need a decent sample. I tested the two daily puzzles you wrote to me a few weeks ago. They seem to adjust their grade in the right direction.

From 1st of October I am replacing the daily puzzle stock. For the rest of the year I am picking puzzles which happen to have the same grade in both systems. This should remove puzzles that might have been problematic but also be a good transition. I’ll continue to post both scores for easy comparison. Will write up a page about it today to explain it.

I think there is a bug as well. If you press “Restart” it will work fine. Works fine from your link. Will investigate. Going to be hard one I know :)

Thanks for buying the book! It is tough to design a Str8ts player for all the many varieties of phone/tablet etc Can you go here
https://www.whatismyscreenresolution.org/
and screen shot the report? Might be able to duplicate your experience. I don’t have many emulators however. Also a screen shot of the player would be very helpful. Maybe I can see space I can reduce

I’ve taken a look at these two puzzles. The “tough” one scoring 387 is inflated by the Simple Colouring getting 6 eliminations leading to 10 solved cells. The contribution to the score is too high so I’m going to spend some more time balancing the strategy weights. I also have a system to promote and demote puzzles if they under or overscore but the strategies used are either all quite low ones or some high ones. Probably confuses people as well. But the diabolical one does use several high end strategies while the tough one sticks to tough or less. So broadly they are correct. Time for some more testing.

Thanks for letting me know. Fixed now.

My bad with the last update. Refresh, should be okay now
Appreciate the bug report

I think you are right. I should move it up the list. Getting more popular ;)

Taking about when you edit the small board? Uncheck “Auto clear”
If the big board I removed the effect of auto clear there but take step will put numbers back.
Can you describe in more details the moves you are making? Some people use the solver differently

Thanks for the bug report on copying from the solution count popup. Just fixed that now.

Regards the solution count I can explain the behaviour by stating that the solution count works off clues and solved cells. Not the current candidate spread. I pass in an 81 character string so its one digit per cell. I can see the utility of checking for a solution count based on the current spread. 99.9% of the time there will be no difference as the candidates conflicting with solved/clues are flashed removed on the first step in SC. But I suppose if you are pecking way at candidates it’s a way of checking you didn’t remove a solution
I might add that to the job queue. Guess it will need some kind of checkbox.

Possible there is a problem with the very limited rule set I have for exocet. I have never had a false positive yet so I assumed I wasn’t making a mistake. But I need to go back to exocet and look at the whole thing again. Probablu after Tridagons which I need to look at first
Cheers