bergensbest Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: EasyCompletion time: 6:46Used 'auto remove' Used 'show invalid' Used 'show wrong moves' Used 'check puzzle' when incorrect
I finished it, checked it -correct-, closed window. When I returned to the site it showed my status as 'saved' and there was no time recorded. It had been saved in its completed form. I've tried to 'reset' and confirmed this is what I want to do but nothing happens!!!!!
Posted 12th Apr 2026 at 00:35
gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Has started but not yet finished this puzzle
I can see you have a blank saved position now, so it looks like you have subsequently reset the puzzle and saved it? It sounds like the initial problem was that you temporarily didn't have internet access, so when you finished the puzzle it failed to update the server to mark your completion. It should tell you this in the completion window, but if it didn't then that's a bug.
Posted 12th Apr 2026 at 01:39
bergensbest Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: EasyCompletion time: 6:46Used 'auto remove' Used 'show invalid' Used 'show wrong moves' Used 'check puzzle' when incorrect
I just opened it. I still see the completed puzzle and can't reset it!!!
Posted 12th Apr 2026 at 03:15
bergensbest Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: EasyCompletion time: 6:46Used 'auto remove' Used 'show invalid' Used 'show wrong moves' Used 'check puzzle' when incorrect
Tried a different machine. Same result. Then logged out and logged in again. Same old same old 🤔
Posted 12th Apr 2026 at 19:20
gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Has started but not yet finished this puzzle
There isn't a completed saved puzzle stored on the site for your user - I have checked the database - so something between your machine(s) and the Puzzlemix server is causing this effect, presumably by caching the result of a request. That should never happen, since the files are marked as instantly expiring, so must be a configuration error somewhere between you and the server. However I have deleted the (reset!) save file that had been saved for you on this puzzle, which may or may not help. In any case, I've never come across this issue before so that's really odd behaviour. It should always be the case that force-reloading a puzzle - or using a different device - will trigger a fresh fetch for dynamic content.
Posted 12th Apr 2026 at 19:22
gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Has started but not yet finished this puzzle
Posted 13th Apr 2026 at 02:50 Last edited by bergensbest 13th Apr 2026 at 02:52
bergensbest Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: EasyCompletion time: 6:46Used 'auto remove' Used 'show invalid' Used 'show wrong moves' Used 'check puzzle' when incorrect
I clicked on this and was presented with the same completed puzzle unable to be reset By the way none of this is a problem for me!! I'm not trying to replay the puzzle, just reporting strange events 🤪
Posted 13th Apr 2026 at 02:57
bergensbest Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: EasyCompletion time: 6:46Used 'auto remove' Used 'show invalid' Used 'show wrong moves' Used 'check puzzle' when incorrect
Another strange one: my list of games is now showing this one in green .When I click on it, up comes the completed puzzle again and, yes it can't be reset. None of this is a complaint. I'm merely bemused 🤣
Posted 13th Apr 2026 at 03:28
gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Has started but not yet finished this puzzle
I've looked into this further, and I hope you won't take offence if I'm incorrect but I am now just about certain that you are confused. All Hitori puzzles open with all the digits fully filled in. I think you are seeing that and believing that the puzzle is already finished - but that's just what they look like.
The icon shows a green play+pause symbol for you because you have opened it but not finished it, without a save file.
I am confident now that everything is, in fact, working exactly as it is supposed to.
Posted 13th Apr 2026 at 05:29
bergensbest Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: EasyCompletion time: 6:46Used 'auto remove' Used 'show invalid' Used 'show wrong moves' Used 'check puzzle' when incorrect
Gareth, You're quite right. Of course you are. I am so upset with myself, Talk about 'senior moment'. Sorry.
Posted 13th Apr 2026 at 12:40 Last edited by gareth 13th Apr 2026 at 12:40
gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Has started but not yet finished this puzzle
No problem at all, and I’m glad to get to the bottom of it. I’m sure you’re far from the first person to think this, so I’ll bear that in mind in any future redesign in terms of presenting hitori puzzles!
Posted 14th Apr 2026 at 03:41
bergensbest Daily subscriber Rated puzzle: EasyCompletion time: 6:46Used 'auto remove' Used 'show invalid' Used 'show wrong moves' Used 'check puzzle' when incorrect
Thank you, Gareth. I'm sure your design is fine just as it is. I've been playing it very happily for 25 years!!
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When I returned to the site it showed my status as 'saved' and there was no time recorded.
It had been saved in its completed form.
I've tried to 'reset' and confirmed this is what I want to do but nothing happens!!!!!
Then logged out and logged in again. Same old same old 🤔
https://www.puzzlemix.com/playgrid.php?id=100386&type=hitori&randomextrastuff=blah
Last edited by bergensbest 13th Apr 2026 at 02:52
By the way none of this is a problem for me!! I'm not trying to replay the puzzle, just reporting strange events 🤪
None of this is a complaint. I'm merely bemused 🤣
The icon shows a green play+pause symbol for you because you have opened it but not finished it, without a save file.
I am confident now that everything is, in fact, working exactly as it is supposed to.
Last edited by gareth 13th Apr 2026 at 12:40
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