I can only assume you mean a situation where a column which would otherwise be fully red (as it ties for the most common time value within the histogram) happens to be where your time is situated: therefore the colour scheme - which converts red-black bars to yellow-blue - ends up appearing fully yellow, as the bar for someone who didn't score in that time bracket would look fully red!
Posted 6th Oct 2025 at 01:34
gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Has not played this puzzle yet
gareth Administrator Daily subscriber Has not played this puzzle yet
That does seem excessive! The page must have got stuck in some kind of web crawler, or run through a script that was trying to hack into the site and involved sending endless queries to it. I've fixed the counter, which otherwise goes up each time the puzzle page is loaded.
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A yellow/light blue highlight in the time distribution charts highlights your time, where relevant.
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