Puzzles seem to be severely broken

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EinC

Highly frustrating puzzle experience with the latest puzzle formulas. Miniscule gains for successful solves regardless of how quickly they are solved and absolutely punishing point damage for a failure. You have to be completely on top of your puzzle game with no "off days" allowed. Classic negative reinforcement. You don't want to be slapped now kid do ya? Then don't be a failure. Don't miss an easy puzzle!

Haris_Eldon

2 Months and still no progress?

alanjhunter

I like the puzzles that start with "capture my bishop to solve this puzzle" - then you capture the knight (cause that's the only logical move) and it's "well done, puzzle solved"....

Haris_Eldon

Really enjoying losing 29 points for missing a puzzle rated at 3800 and then having to solve 6 with a success rate in the 20's to recoup the points.

Whisper
alanjhunter wrote:

I like the puzzles that start with "capture my bishop to solve this puzzle" - then you capture the knight (cause that's the only logical move) and it's "well done, puzzle solved"....

Those kinds of mistakes are all through the "new puzzle instructor bots", and don't start me on the hints.

I got one puzzle recently, "oh no I blundered. you could capture my Knight". There happened to be one diagonal to one of my Pawn. I one shot puzzle? Ok, I don't mind and took it. It got the X to tell me I failed.

I just finished the Legend level with about 790,000 point and level 4 Prestige. I'm not feeling particularly prestigious over here. They started me over with Wood, which isn't going to happen. I'm puzzled out with the mistakes and just generally the system as well.

That's enough. I learned a few interesting new Checkmates, but not much else.