Post by Lancival in 📰 [Week 12: Message in a Bottle] Results and discussion

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I only just solved that puzzle today, and I didn't switch tabs or do anything unusual while solving the puzzle, since I was solving a bunch of them in a row. I suspect it has to do with leaving my tab open, because I discovered your game about two days ago, and that approximately lines up with the 2600 minutes.

Here's the relevant entry from the local storage:
"2026-01-28":{"isComplete":true,"startTime":1769739097515,"endTime":1769739059925,"completeTime":156463840}

Not sure why the "completeTime" seems to be unrelated to the difference between start and end times.

Celia2 days ago(+2)

Thanks for grabbing that, I appreciate it!

I think that the timer started for the Jan 28th puzzle when you started playing the game (guessing based on these numbers that was Wed Jan 28 2026 01:43:53 GMT-0500.) When you started playing, you probably went to How to Play and then Solve from the Beginning? Something didn’t pause the 28th’s timer correctly so it still had that start time when you eventually solved it. (I don’t know why the startTime then got a new value after the endTime…)

This gives me a lot to go on to repro, thank you! Will try to get this fixed.

Celia10 hours ago

I tried and I wasn’t able to reproduce this exact issue, but I did some cleanup to the timer code that I’m hoping would help. Now to keep an eye out if anyone else runs into it!

Thanks for the report!

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