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Aha, that helps a bunch, thanks!

So: Completion stats are stored in your browser’s localStorage, and it looks like you’ve hit a limit to how much data can be stored. This is not expected on its own since the localStorage limit per domain is 5 MB and each day’s stats are pretty small. You could have thousands of days of stats and be fine.

But, I see you’re playing on itch, and on itch, all embedded games’ localStorage records are stored together. So if there are other games that have also saved data to localStorage, they’re taking up TDS’s precious storage space!!

Action from your side:

1. My top recommendation is to play on our dedicated site, the-daily-spell.com. The game will always remain available on itch, but I generally recommend players use the site to avoid some complications like this one.
   • (Your completion stats will not copy over, so you can just use the Unlock All Past Puzzles buttons to reveal past articles - unless you want to looking into copying and pasting the-daily-spell-stats record from one localStorage to another.)
2. Or, if you want to stay on itch, you can try deleting records from localStorage for games you don’t care about to make room (at your own risk 🙂).

What I’ll do: Because under normal circumstances it will be hard to run out of room, I’m not going to do something like start dropping old days’ stats to make room for incoming days, that’s too complex. But I will catch the error so it doesn’t break the whole completion flow like it is now, and show a alert so the next time someone runs into this it’s at least clear what the problem is.

Thanks for stress testing this part of the game! 🫡