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beaker
Posted on: Thu Apr 01, 2021 12:15 am
Posts: 931 Location: Ladysmith, BC, Canada Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 am
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Mistake Indicator
Love the new mistake indicator when doing a puzzle ......hope this in the right forum
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eclipsegirl
Posted on: Thu Apr 01, 2021 12:17 am
Posts: 692 Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:20 pm
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Re: Mistake Indicator
I was going to write about it too. I like it.
Thanks Patrick
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beaker
Posted on: Thu Apr 01, 2021 1:11 am
Posts: 931 Location: Ladysmith, BC, Canada Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 am
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Re: Mistake Indicator
Yes.....now all we need is to have the same thing in timed puzzles.....I am sure this would not speed up times but for us slower users it might help the frustration of making a mistake and then having to look for it for the next number of minutes
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eclipsegirl
Posted on: Thu Apr 01, 2021 1:31 am
Posts: 692 Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:20 pm
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Re: Mistake Indicator
Maybe what we need is some type of handicap for older people?
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beaker
Posted on: Thu Apr 01, 2021 2:54 am
Posts: 931 Location: Ladysmith, BC, Canada Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 am
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Re: Mistake Indicator
Thanks eclipsegirl, but a handicap system on this site I do not think it would work as what would be the cut-off age where one would be deemed OLD(no grey colour to choose)
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beaker
Posted on: Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:20 am
Posts: 931 Location: Ladysmith, BC, Canada Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 am
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Re: Mistake Indicator
Whoops!!!....just started to try some combo's in the +3 to -3 and sure do not like the mistake indicator for this one .....maybe this one could have the old way of mistake indication
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starling
Posted on: Thu Apr 01, 2021 7:02 am
Posts: 212 Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 2:11 am
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Re: Mistake Indicator
beaker wrote: Yes.....now all we need is to have the same thing in timed puzzles.....I am sure this would not speed up times but for us slower users it might help the frustration of making a mistake and then having to look for it for the next number of minutes I think that'd put a pretty big dent in top times as well. You can take more risks on 80/20 cages and it also reduces the time required to scan a row/column for the one missing element by a fraction of a second.
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pnm
Posted on: Thu Apr 01, 2021 9:03 am
Posts: 3304 Joined: Thu May 12, 2011 11:58 pm
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Re: Mistake Indicator
beaker wrote: Love the new mistake indicator when doing a puzzle ......hope this in the right forum Not sure what it is, I'm guessing it's a bug. (I was testing some "dark mode" code yesterday) That, or it's beaker's April Fool's joke?
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beaker
Posted on: Thu Apr 01, 2021 6:46 pm
Posts: 931 Location: Ladysmith, BC, Canada Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 am
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Re: Mistake Indicator
No joke ....it is real and the distracting part of it is that the cage lines turn red and continue to where, say another number in the same column is the same number one just entered.......I would think this would be very distracting for users when doing larger puzzles (like any puzzle greater or equal to a 7x7)........Happy April Foolls Day.
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beaker
Posted on: Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:38 pm
Posts: 931 Location: Ladysmith, BC, Canada Joined: Fri May 13, 2011 1:37 am
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Re: Mistake Indicator
Thanks for correcting that "correction notice"
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