UK Puzzle Association

Hmm... curiously, I'm no longer able to log into croco-puzzle, as of yesterday. I use an automated site to deliver my password, so I don't believe anything has changed on my end. It *is* a very strange password with many unusual characters, though, so I'm wondering whether something has changed on t...

Schlangenrätsel/Schlange (Snake) ( example ) Instructions: You must locate a snake in the grid. The head and tail of the snake are given. Occasionally some other parts of the snake are also given. The snake may not touch itself, not even diagonally. The numbers at the edge of the grid indicate how ...

Follow-up to earlier note on Firefox 4 incompatibility w/ croco-puzzle: I'm sad but not surprised to report that the release version of Firefox 4 appears to display the same issues as the release candidate; viz., that the second and subsequent puzzles after application startup are insensitive to key...

@calavera, "they fixed it before so they can/should fix it again"; unfortunately, I'm not nearly as confident as you. In particular, it strikes me as entirely possible here that the existing croco-puzzle applet depends on unspecified behavior that's been changed to other unspecified behavior or actu...

Heads-up: Firefox 4 RC prevents all keyboard input in croco-puzzle applet Starting two days ago, I started a puzzle and discovered that the keyboard inputs were completely ignored by the java applet. I clicked to give the applet focus (a common problem), but this didn't help. I finished the puzzle w...