You know the old saying. There are old Bugs. There are bold bugs. But there are no old bold bugs (excluding the roaches of course!).

I can;t reach my twin's profile from the challenges page because there's a '.html' missing from the end of the link URL.

I have the same problem, I think...with the link to the name by the scores. The one on the left in the actual challenge text worked though.

Sigh, trying to complete a crossword, but as happens so often to me, it does not want to budge. Checked and double checked. All is correct, but still no movement, wherever I click.

Edit: worked the second time around with exactly the same words, strange.

Maybe try deleting a letter and retyping it in. Sometimes that helps for me, for the few crosswords that I've played. Other times, there is more than one option for a line, and I choose the wrong one, or a typo.

Edit: Oh, glad it worked!

Same problem here, but the link on the left does work.

For the challenge involving playing Mind Melt in Timed mode, will it count if I play "old style timed" or must it be Timed from the larger link beside Untimed?
(Oh and what is the difference between new timed style and the old style, if anyone can be bothered to tell me - I haven't played it since it was a new game and have no idea what to expect if I hit Timed now...)

New style gives you the options on the left as a drop-down from which to select after you click one of the right-hand entries (for the second and third parts only). Depending on your technique for making the matches, you may find it extremely useful, or irritating.

That doesn't answer your first question, to which I don't know the answer.

Either timed mode will work. The difference is not in scoring, just in presentation.

I was given credit in the medium challenge - WhoamI score of 855 or more I think, in difficult mode - before I had completed WhoamI. I have subsequently achieved the challenge hurdle.

I play old style, as I find the new version doesn't suit my way of playing. I can verify that the score counts, because I had that challenge today, too (and got lucky). On the other hand, my difficult challenge is for a game I rarely play, and I'm quickly finding out why I decided to drop it from my repertoire. At least it's an hourly, so there's still time, although I suspect my patience may run out before the games available do.

At a loss here, completed the "7 done" category yesterday now on to epic. Am I due a badgelet for this as none received ?

Navaho, you don't yet have 7 complete. Your play record shows 2 easy, 2 medium and 2 difficult won - that makes 6, not 7.

If you win the epic (which is still possible although you'll need a really good score in the last one), you will complete your 7th challenge and get both badgelets. Otherwise, you'll need to win one more tomorrow for 7.

I did my challenge yesterday, collected 9 credits but no green tick or badgelet. Is there a hold up?

invinoveritas, I don't see an issue. You do have three challenges complete yesterday and five total. Once you have completed two more, the 9 credits can buy you one more challenge if you want to play more (and hope for an epic).

To win the badgelet, you need seven challenges completed, not just seven credits. Do two of today's and your badgelet will appear.

This isn't a 'bug' as such but a concern about the practicality of one of the 'harder' challenges (may well end up sounding egotistical but isn't meant to be!) ...

I changed my harder challenge today and as a replacement got 'win a game in your division of Word Wizard'. Happy days for me, as I quite often do (and had already done today, so the challenge was achieved retrospectively).

But it struck me that the Champs division of WW (in particular) is won A LOT by a FAIRLY SMALL NUMBER of active players (of which I'm one - that's the potentially egotistical bit!) and will be very difficult to achieve for many (most?) Champion division players.

I know that 'hard' is meant to mean hard, but I wonder if it's just a bit on the frustrating side of the line and is going to exacerbate other players' annoyance at people who continuously win some of the hourly games. Personally I'd be happy to stand aside now and again for a game or two if someone PMed me saying they were going for the challenge - but I neither want to give up the game altogether, or be a persistent obstacle to other players in the separate Daily Challenge game.

(There may be other games that the same situation will arise in, but it's probably particularly true of Word Wizard.)

Edit to say: Would 'finish in the top three of a game of Word Wizard in your division' still be genuinely hard without being frustrating?

One of my ambitions is to beat dsimpy in WW one day. In many attempts, I've failed every time, so I hope that challenge doesn't appear for me too soon. I don't get annoyed or frustrated normally, as I admire his ability, but I might if I have that challenge to meet!

I can't have got that in testing or I'd certainly have moaned! Top in Word champions' division is not a challenge, it's impossible. Top three is asking a bit much too, lol.

I just spent credits to get a new challenge.
It took away the credits, but didn't give me a challenge???

Cheers Wes, still coming to terms with the format.

Never mind Word Wizard, here's mine for the day lol:

"Feeling psychic today? Your goal is to win an hour of the Crystal Ball game by guessing the secret word!"

This whole challenge thing looks like it's going to be a HOOT. Am sure there will be loads of "swapouts" over the course of time for tasks that don't seem "do-able" for whatever reason : )

I see 4 challenges under your challenge list...... ??

I understand what you're saying. I looked back at my word wizard history and found the best I'd scored was 4th. I can imagine myself muttering, "No, not again," but my thinking is that we can't expect to win every challenge every day, otherwise it's not a challenge.

Just making sure I understand. You gained credit for this one before ever even starting Who am I today?

Interesting you point that one out, because I had reservations when I added it that it might be too hard. I think it would make a great epic level badge, but agree that because it specifies a specific game it's too difficult.

I'm thinking of changing it to top 2 or top 3 for the future.

Sorry, Terry. I see it now :-)

Top 3 Terry, pleeeeease, it really is tough in there.

Crikey! That one is certainly crazily difficult, except for the couple of people who sit there with an online dictionary program every hour in order to clock up yet another victory!

But I guess the point of these challenges is that no-one should expect to complete all three every day. At the moment, it's a bit frantic as all the badge tarts are going all out to win everything as quickly as possible, but it'll all calm down with time.

I swapped out yesterday to get rid of a challenge to win the Buzzy Bee scavenger hunt, which would have meant playing endless examples of those tedious "Follow My Directions" brain twist quizzes, which would have rotted my brain after about halfway through the third quiz!

Yeah I kinda like the crystal ball one. It's certainly incredibly tough, but I like it for variety's sake.

The "top score" one is not particularly unique, so shouldn't be quite so impossible.

That said, it looks as if you just did it! Well done! What is a canebreak, anyway?