WSJ Acrostic [Sat, 01/27/24]
- DBMiller
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WSJ Acrostic [Sat, 01/27/24]
Hadn't done an acrostic in some time and happened upon this one. Had to laugh at the clue/answer for the R entry
If I'm around, I am willing to join the Muggle Zoom room at other times to lend a hand to those in need.
- mattythewsjpuzzler
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Last few of these have prefilled with last solve and revealed the answer. You have that?
- KayW
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I know there's been lots of grumblings on it on the WSJ comments section the past several acrostics. I think there's a caching confusion of some sorts - the browser somehow gets confused and thinks it's the same puzzle as last time? But I'm not the most tech-savvy.mattythewsjpuzzler wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:25 pm Last few of these have prefilled with last solve and revealed the answer. You have that?
I always solve on a Windows 11 platform. The pre-fill gibberish happens to me whenever I open an acrostic in the Edge browser. I am reluctant to clear my cache or cookies there, so I use Mozilla Firefox for the acrostic puzzles. In Firefox, the puzzle ALWAYS comes up blank for me. Even if it's a puzzle I already solved, like this past week's when I went back to it just now. So it seems like "all or nothing", and in this case I prefer NOTHING to be retained from visit to visit.
Hope that made sense and helps!
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- woozy
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It's a pain (but kind of funny to see the old answers jammed into a new grid). But if you click the ERASE icon it clears it.
Also annoying is there acrostic front page (https://www.wsj.com/news/types/acrostic) hasn't been fixed to account for puzzles with dates in the new year. (New Year being 2023)
Also annoying is there acrostic front page (https://www.wsj.com/news/types/acrostic) hasn't been fixed to account for puzzles with dates in the new year. (New Year being 2023)
I guess I should change my signature, and start promoting this meta: Hungry Little Creature. I was going to sent it to people for testing but I dropped the ball on it.