u/harlows_monkeys

Solution Counts for week of 2026-07-06

Day	Date	Easy	Medium	Hard
Monday	2026-07-06	>!      1!<	>!      1!<	>!      1!<
Tuesday	2026-07-07	>!  2,2,1!<	>!  2,2,1!<	>!      1!<
Wednesday	2026-07-08	>!      1!<	>!  4,4,2!<	>!      1!<
Thursday	2026-07-09	>!      2!<	>!  2,1,1!<	>!  4,2,2!<
Friday	2026-07-10	>!      1!<	>!  2,1,1!<	>!      1!<
Saturday	2026-07-11	>!      1!<	>!      1!<	>!  4,2,2!<
Sunday	2026-07-12	>!      1!<	>!  4,2,2!<	>!      1!<

Note: When three counts are shown the highest is the count with any
difference counted as a separate solution. The second highest count
does not count solutions as different if they only vary by rotation
of tiles by 180 degrees within a region. The lowest count considers
solutions the same if they only differ by moving tiles to locations
that do not change which region each half of the tile is in.


Warning: The NYT uploads puzzles well before the day they appear in
the app or on the website. The counts here are based on those early
uploads. A few times there was an error in the upload and thet then
uploaded correct puzzle, which can lead to incorrect counts here if
the puzzle is corrected after this report is made.

Solution counts for recent weeks: 2026-06-29 2026-06-22 2026-06-15 2026-06-08 2026-06-01 2026-05-25 2026-05-18 2026-05-11 2026-04-27 2026-04-20

For the last few weeks I'm seeing a lot of problems trying to read stories in web browsers. I don't know if this also happens in the app.

A typical example goes like this. I'll get an alert that a story I'm following has been updated. I'll go look at it and it will say it has say 29 chapters. It had 28 before so that makes sense. But on the chapter dropdown it only lists 28. I'll wait a couple days, because sometimes it takes a while for chapters to actually show up.

When chapter 29 does show up in the dropdown, it might work to go directly to it. However, if I go to chapter 28 to reread that first, the chapter dropdown in 28 does not show 29 and there is no next button in 28.

When I come back later, it might have changed so that now the dropdown in 28 does show 29 and has a next button, but actually trying to go to 29 gives the messages about it not being available and saying it can take up to 15 minutes for new chapters to show up.

In one story I'm following it now has 39 chapters but the dropdown in chapter 1 only shows 37. Going to 39 be editing the URL works to get to 39 and the dropdown there lists all 39, but 38 gives the not available wait 15 minutes message.

At first it just seemed like it was being slow to update and get everything synced, but once the chapter showed up it was good. But now I'm seeing chapters go away and later come back, as described in the previous paragraph, so something seems to have gotten noticeably worse recently. It feels like either a database corruption issue or a cache invalidation issue.

I've tested all this from multiple browsers and with caches and/or cookies cleared so I don't think it is a problem on my end.

Anyone else seeing anything like this?

Solution Counts for week of 2026-06-29

Day	Date	Easy	Medium	Hard
Monday	2026-06-29	>!   6,4,4!<	>!       1!<	>!   8,2,1!<
Tuesday	2026-06-30	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!   2,1,1!<
Wednesday	2026-07-01	>!       3!<	>!       1!<	>!  32,8,4!<
Thursday	2026-07-02	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!  16,1,1!<
Friday	2026-07-03	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!       1!<
Saturday	2026-07-04	>!       1!<	>!   2,1,1!<	>!   8,4,4!<
Sunday	2026-07-05	>!       1!<	>!       2!<	>!   4,1,1!<

Note: When three counts are shown the highest is the count with any
difference counted as a separate solution. The second highest count
does not count solutions as different if they only vary by rotation
of tiles by 180 degrees within a region. The lowest count considers
solutions the same if they only differ by moving tiles to locations
that do not change which region each half of the tile is in.


Warning: The NYT uploads puzzles well before the day they appear in
the app or on the website. The counts here are based on those early
uploads. A few times there was an error in the upload and thet then
uploaded correct puzzle, which can lead to incorrect counts here if
the puzzle is corrected after this report is made.

Solution counts for recent weeks: 2026-06-22 2026-06-15 2026-06-08 2026-06-01 2026-05-25 2026-05-18 2026-05-11 2026-04-27 2026-04-20 2026-04-13

Solution Counts for week of 2026-06-22

Day	Date	Easy	Medium	Hard
Monday	2026-06-22	>!         1!<	>!     6,4,4!<	>!    16,4,1!<
Tuesday	2026-06-23	>!         1!<	>!         1!<	>!         2!<
Wednesday	2026-06-24	>!         1!<	>!  14,11,11!<	>!     4,1,1!<
Thursday	2026-06-25	>!         1!<	>!     4,2,1!<	>!         2!<
Friday	2026-06-26	>!         1!<	>!     2,1,1!<	>!     4,1,1!<
Saturday	2026-06-27	>!         1!<	>!         1!<	>!     8,1,1!<
Sunday	2026-06-28	>!     3,3,2!<	>!     2,1,1!<	>!     2,1,1!<

Note: When three counts are shown the highest is the count with any
difference counted as a separate solution. The second highest count
does not count solutions as different if they only vary by rotation
of tiles by 180 degrees within a region. The lowest count considers
solutions the same if they only differ by moving tiles to locations
that do not change which region each half of the tile is in.


Warning: The NYT uploads puzzles well before the day they appear in
the app or on the website. The counts here are based on those early
uploads. A few times there was an error in the upload and thet then
uploaded correct puzzle, which can lead to incorrect counts here if
the puzzle is corrected after this report is made.

Solution counts for recent weeks: 2026-06-15 2026-06-08 2026-06-01 2026-05-25 2026-05-18 2026-05-11 2026-04-27 2026-04-20 2026-04-13 2026-04-06

Solution Counts for week of 2026-06-08

Day	Date	Easy	Medium	Hard
Monday	2026-06-08	>!    2,2,1!<	>!        1!<	>!        1!<
Tuesday	2026-06-09	>!        2!<	>!        1!<	>!  128,4,1!<
Wednesday	2026-06-10	>!        7!<	>!        3!<	>!    2,2,1!<
Thursday	2026-06-11	>!        1!<	>!   16,4,1!<	>!        1!<
Friday	2026-06-12	>!        1!<	>!        1!<	>!    2,1,1!<
Saturday	2026-06-13	>!        1!<	>!        1!<	>!        1!<
Sunday	2026-06-14	>!        1!<	>!        1!<	>!    2,1,1!<

Note: When three counts are shown the highest is the count with any
difference counted as a separate solution. The second highest count
does not count solutions as different if they only vary by rotation
of tiles by 180 degrees within a region. The lowest count considers
solutions the same if they only differ by moving tiles to locations
that do not change which region each half of the tile is in.


Warning: The NYT uploads puzzles well before the day they appear in
the app or on the website. The counts here are based on those early
uploads. A few times there was an error in the upload and thet then
uploaded correct puzzle, which can lead to incorrect counts here if
the puzzle is corrected after this report is made.

Solution counts for recent weeks: 2026-06-01 2026-05-25 2026-05-18 2026-05-11 2026-04-27 2026-04-20 2026-04-13 2026-04-06 2026-03-30 2026-03-23 2026-03-16

Solution Counts for week of 2026-06-15

Day	Date	Easy	Medium	Hard
Monday	2026-06-15	>!      1!<	>!      1!<	>!      1!<
Tuesday	2026-06-16	>!      1!<	>!      1!<	>!      1!<
Wednesday	2026-06-17	>!      1!<	>!      1!<	>!      1!<
Thursday	2026-06-18	>!      3!<	>!      1!<	>!  2,1,1!<
Friday	2026-06-19	>!      1!<	>!      1!<	>!  2,1,1!<
Saturday	2026-06-20	>!      1!<	>!  4,4,2!<	>!  4,1,1!<
Sunday	2026-06-21	>!      1!<	>!      4!<	>!  4,1,1!<

Note: When three counts are shown the highest is the count with any
difference counted as a separate solution. The second highest count
does not count solutions as different if they only vary by rotation
of tiles by 180 degrees within a region. The lowest count considers
solutions the same if they only differ by moving tiles to locations
that do not change which region each half of the tile is in.


Warning: The NYT uploads puzzles well before the day they appear in
the app or on the website. The counts here are based on those early
uploads. A few times there was an error in the upload and thet then
uploaded correct puzzle, which can lead to incorrect counts here if
the puzzle is corrected after this report is made.

Solution counts for recent weeks: 2026-06-08 2026-06-01 2026-05-25 2026-05-18 2026-05-11 2026-04-27 2026-04-20 2026-04-13 2026-04-06 2026-03-30

Solution Counts for week of 2026-06-01

Day	Date	Easy	Medium	Hard
Monday	2026-06-01	>!       1!<	>!  16,4,1!<	>!       1!<
Tuesday	2026-06-02	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!   4,1,1!<
Wednesday	2026-06-03	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!   2,1,1!<
Thursday	2026-06-04	>!       1!<	>!   2,1,1!<	>!   4,1,1!<
Friday	2026-06-05	>!       1!<	>!   2,2,1!<	>!       2!<
Saturday	2026-06-06	>!       1!<	>!   2,1,1!<	>!       1!<
Sunday	2026-06-07	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!       3!<

Note: When three counts are shown the highest is the count with any
difference counted as a separate solution. The second highest count
does not count solutions as different if they only vary by rotation
of tiles by 180 degrees within a region. The lowest count considers
solutions the same if they only differ by moving tiles to locations
that do not change which region each half of the tile is in.


Warning: The NYT uploads puzzles well before the day they appear in
the app or on the website. The counts here are based on those early
uploads. A few times there was an error in the upload and thet then
uploaded correct puzzle, which can lead to incorrect counts here if
the puzzle is corrected after this report is made.

Solution counts for recent weeks: 2026-05-18 2026-05-11 2026-04-27 2026-04-20 2026-04-13 2026-04-06 2026-03-30 2026-03-23 2026-03-16 2026-03-09

It can sometimes take a lot of clicking to reveal all the spoilers in the daily hard guide and sometimes other posts. Reddit does not allow a single spoiler to cover multiple paragraphs, or multiple list items, or code blocks, which can make a poster choose between organizing their post in the clearest fashion at the cost of the reader having to click a bazillion times to reveal spoilers or shoving everything into one or two paragraphs with minimal formatting.

Here is a bookmarklet that on old.reddit.com will reveal all the spoilers at once on a page:

javascript:(()=>{const sels=['[data-click-id="text"]','[role="button"]','span,div'];document.querySelectorAll('span,div,[role="button"],[data-click-id="text"]').forEach(el=>{const s=getComputedStyle(el);const t=(el.textContent||'').trim();if(/spoiler/i.test(t)||s.filter.includes('blur')||s.webkitFilter.includes('blur')||s.backgroundImage||s.color==='transparent'||s.opacity==='0'||el.className.toString().match(/spoiler|blur|censor|hidden|nsfw/i)){el.style.filter='none';el.style.webkitFilter='none';el.style.background='none';el.style.color='inherit';el.style.opacity='1';el.style.textShadow='none';el.style.pointerEvents='auto';el.style.userSelect='text';el.classList.remove('spoiler','spoiler-text','blurred','nsfw');}})})()

To install make a new bookmark in your browser, then edit the URL saved in the bookmark and replace it with that JavaScript. To run it simply open that bookmark while on an old.reddit.com page that contains spoilers.

It has to be old.reddit.com because the fancy stuff on www.reddit.com does spoilers in a more complicated way.

Disclaimer: I had an LLM find this for me. It is working for me, and a brief look at the code doesn't show it doing anything obviously shady, but front end code is not one of my strong points so if it doesn't work for you I will not be able to help.

Solution Counts for week of 2026-05-25

Day	Date	Easy	Medium	Hard
Monday	2026-05-25	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!   2,1,1!<
Tuesday	2026-05-26	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!       1!<
Wednesday	2026-05-27	>!       1!<	>!       2!<	>!       1!<
Thursday	2026-05-28	>!       1!<	>!   4,1,1!<	>!  48,6,1!<
Friday	2026-05-29	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!       1!<
Saturday	2026-05-30	>!       1!<	>!   2,1,1!<	>!   4,1,1!<
Sunday	2026-05-31	>!       1!<	>!   2,1,1!<	>!       1!<

Note: When three counts are shown the highest is the count with any
difference counted as a separate solution. The second highest count
does not count solutions as different if they only vary by rotation
of tiles by 180 degrees within a region. The lowest count considers
solutions the same if they only differ by moving tiles to locations
that do not change which region each half of the tile is in.


Warning: The NYT uploads puzzles well before the day they appear in
the app or on the website. The counts here are based on those early
uploads. A few times there was an error in the upload and thet then
uploaded correct puzzle, which can lead to incorrect counts here if
the puzzle is corrected after this report is made.

Solution counts for recent weeks: 2026-05-18 2026-05-11 2026-04-27 2026-04-20 2026-04-13 2026-04-06 2026-03-30 2026-03-23 2026-03-16 2026-03-09

Solution Counts for week of 2026-05-18

Day	Date	Easy	Medium	Hard
Monday	2026-05-18	>!        1!<	>!    4,4,2!<	>!        1!<
Tuesday	2026-05-19	>!        1!<	>!        1!<	>!    2,1,1!<
Wednesday	2026-05-20	>!        1!<	>!        1!<	>!  96,12,1!<
Thursday	2026-05-21	>!        2!<	>!        2!<	>!    2,1,1!<
Friday	2026-05-22	>!        1!<	>!        1!<	>!   16,2,2!<
Saturday	2026-05-23	>!        1!<	>!        1!<	>!   48,6,1!<
Sunday	2026-05-24	>!        1!<	>!    5,3,3!<	>!    4,1,1!<

Note: When three counts are shown the highest is the count with any
difference counted as a separate solution. The second highest count
does not count solutions as different if they only vary by rotation
of tiles by 180 degrees within a region. The lowest count considers
solutions the same if they only differ by moving tiles to locations
that do not change which region each half of the tile is in.


Warning: The NYT uploads puzzles well before the day they appear in
the app or on the website. The counts here are based on those early
uploads. A few times there was an error in the upload and thet then
uploaded correct puzzle, which can lead to incorrect counts here if
the puzzle is corrected after this report is made.

Solution counts for recent weeks: 2026-05-11 2026-04-27 2026-04-20 2026-04-13 2026-04-06 2026-03-30 2026-03-23 2026-03-16 2026-03-09 2026-03-02

Solution Counts for week of 2026-05-11

Day	Date	Easy	Medium	Hard
Monday	2026-05-11	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!768,96,1!<
Tuesday	2026-05-12	>!       1!<	>!  16,9,9!<	>!       2!<
Wednesday	2026-05-13	>!       1!<	>!   6,4,4!<	>!       1!<
Thursday	2026-05-14	>!   2,2,1!<	>!       1!<	>!   2,1,1!<
Friday	2026-05-15	>!   4,2,1!<	>!144,18,1!<	>!       1!<
Saturday	2026-05-16	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!   4,2,1!<
Sunday	2026-05-17	>!       1!<	>!       1!<	>!  64,4,2!<

Note: When three counts are shown the highest is the count with any
difference counted as a separate solution. The second highest count
does not count solutions as different if they only vary by rotation
of tiles by 180 degrees within a region. The lowest count considers
solutions the same if they only differ by moving tiles to locations
that do not change which region each half of the tile is in.

Warning: The NYT uploads puzzles well before the day they appear in
the app or on the website. The counts here are based on those early
uploads. A few times there was an error in the upload and thet then
uploaded correct puzzle, which can lead to incorrect counts here if
the puzzle is corrected after this report is made.

Solution counts for recent weeks: 2026-04-27 2026-04-20 2026-04-13 2026-04-06 2026-03-30 2026-03-23 2026-03-16 2026-03-09 2026-03-02 2026-02-23