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WSJ Acrostic [Sat, 01/27/24]
Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2024 2:35 pm
by DBMiller
Hadn't done an acrostic in some time and happened upon this one. Had to laugh at the clue/answer for the R entry
Re: WSJ Acrostic [Sat, 01/27/24]
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:25 pm
by mattythewsjpuzzler
Last few of these have prefilled with last solve and revealed the answer. You have that?
Re: WSJ Acrostic [Sat, 01/27/24]
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:36 pm
by KayW
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 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.
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!
Re: WSJ Acrostic [Sat, 01/27/24]
Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:11 am
by woozy
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)