Re: Number of days solving puzzles
wjgjr wrote:
Yeah, my number dropped too. But, I think I really did miss a day - I just got credit for the timed puzzles that day from the prior day. I'm guessing it was previously counting for the later day but is now being counted with the prior day when the timed puzzles were actually completed.
Friend, you've come upon the dark underbelly of calcudokuing! It's a sad, harrowing tale that needs to be told as a warning to future generations. You see, I'm bram, and I'm a
deliberate inflater of the count of consecutive days
Yes, I can only imagine the shock and sense of betrayal all you regulars must be feeling right now. You may have been thinking of me as a (
reasonably) straight shooter, and now this
Curse the day I discovered the timed-puzzle trick!
It may seem innocent at first (just a pleasant surprise, really) when you've missed out on the 'doku for one day through no fault of your own and then find that the timed puzzles from the day before have maintained your count of consecutive days. But then one day you'll tell yourself there's no harm in
scheduling time away from puzzling. And so you put the whole thing on autopilot for a day by making sure to solve a least one timed puzzle the day before. "Only this once, right?" Yeah, right
Once you've walked down that road, there's no turning back. It's like a gateway drug. Slowly but surely, you'll feel more and more
entitled to your phony, inflated, immoral consecutive-day count!
And you'll start making up increasingly far-fetched excuses: "Those consecutive days aren't displayed for others to see (except maybe in obscure forum threads once in a while), so it isn't really cheating!" Pathetic, I know, but that's how it works. Trust me, I've been there
Thanks to Our Founder for unveiling the truth and making me own up to past mistakes! I may have been going, "My Preciousss!" at the sight of the fake 402-day count on my monitor, but what a relief it is to look my real count of 171 days straight in the eye and know I actually accomplished this
This message was sponsored by Concerned Calcudokuers for Transparency and Accountability.PS: Shoutout to the
true completists who
never miss a day and have the gold stars to prove it