The height of the red or yellow column indicates the number of people in that time band, with the largest columns reaching the top. The column you are in is yellow with a blue background. If that is also one of the columns with the largest number of solutions, the blue will be completely masked by the yellow bar.
(that's my reverse-engineering attempt... how the time bands are defined, I don't know)
Posted 4th Mar 2026 at 10:32 Last edited by gareth 4th Mar 2026 at 10:33
gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Has not played this puzzle yet
Exactly right! :) The longest time used (shown on the right) is divided evenly among all the bars, then times binned into the nearest bar.
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A yellow/light blue highlight in the time distribution charts highlights your time, where relevant.
Rating scores out of 10.0 show the average difficulty rating chosen by users, where 1.0 is "Easy" and 10.0 is "Hard".
If a puzzle is opened more than once, including by loading from a saved position, then this is potentially a significant aid so it is listed as being completed with 'multiple sessions' for the purpose of the best time/average rating displays above.
Minor aid is defined as no more than one use of 'Check solution' when incomplete and/or no more than one use of 'Check solution' when wrong; and/or using highlighting aids (show repeated digits, show broken inequalities and show valid/invalid placements [slitherlink] only). Major aid is any and all other use of the solving aids except for 'show wrong'.
Why do some of the coloured columns, as here, go only part way up?
What does a mixed blue/yellow column mean?
The column you are in is yellow with a blue background. If that is also one of the columns with the largest number of solutions, the blue will be completely masked by the yellow bar.
(that's my reverse-engineering attempt... how the time bands are defined, I don't know)
Last edited by gareth 4th Mar 2026 at 10:33
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