Comments on Puzzle #35339: American Idiom 41
By Brian Bellis (mootpoint)
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solvability: line & color logic only
peek at solution solve puzzle
quality: difficulty: solvability: line & color logic only
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#1: Joanne Firla (JoFirla) on Sep 8, 2021
Good grief!#2: besmirched tea (Besmirched Tea) on Sep 9, 2021
funny image!#3: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Sep 9, 2021 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#4: Aurelian Ginkgo (AurelianGinkgo) on Sep 9, 2021 [SPOILER]
Comment Suppressed:Click below to view spoilers#5: Steven Paradise (gossamerica) on Sep 14, 2021
I love it!#6: BlackCat (BlackCat) on Sep 14, 2021
Very cute! Fun to solve. No guessing.#7: Andrew Schultz (blurglecruncheon) on Sep 20, 2021
Wow, just 12 days from being a new puzzle to being in the daily random shuffle! This one was fun to see again.#8: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Sep 20, 2021
I wonder what the record is, or the odds are that we would at some point in 10+ years have had <10 days between creation and making the shuffle, or if webpbn has a minimum number of days to wait before a puzzle goes in the shuffle.
Obviously if the daily random shuffle appeared to start, one must've appeared within sooner than 12 days.
I thought that was really fast too!#9: Valerie Mates (valerie) on Sep 20, 2021
Back in March I looked up the algorithm that the site uses to select featured puzzles. That thread is here:
https://webpbn.com/read.cgi?type=T&id=1037&what=all
There is no minimum age for a puzzle to be listed there, but there is a minimum number of people to have entered a rating. That number ranges from 5 to 15, depending on the difficulty level of the puzzle.
Originally when Jan launched the site, the front page was different. If I remember right, it was more like the New Puzzles tab of the Find Puzzles page. But as the site grew and got lots of visitors, it was very slow to generate that page that way every time someone visited it, and in turn that slowed down everything on the entire site. So Jan created the current front page, which is only rebuilt at certain times, because it is much faster for the system to display that. So the answer to your question is that the Featured Puzzles section wasn't there yet when the site first launched.
I don't think there is any log that would show which puzzles were featured when, so I don't think there is a way to look up the record fastest time from a puzzle being created to being featured. But if this puzzle doesn't hold the record, it seems like it has to be close!
I looked in the Wayback Machine to see if it had a record of what the original front page of the site looked like. The oldest record I found was from 2006 -- but it only shows the logged-out version of the site:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060221005929/http://webpbn.com/
The site had 939 puzzles - I like that!
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