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Posted at 2007-12-31 15:10:23
House Results Work again!
For the nearest hour or so the Resorting into Another House will appear to be broken, as I work with those scripts.
The work on those scripts is finnished, and everything work as normal once more. *smile*

/Evreka

Posted at 2007-12-30 16:01:03
Login fix complete
The changes to login scripts previously mentioned are sailing and working. Thanks for your patience! You will see no change, but it was still an important change. *smile*

/Evreka

Posted at 2007-12-29 00:46:27
Finally Fixed the JigSaws
Tonight I finally located the reason most Jigsaw puzzles refused to load, and consequently fixed it... So at least now the Jigsaws will load. Phew! About time... *non-plussed*

Happy Puzzling everyone!

/Evreka

Posted at 2007-12-25 19:05:59
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
I hope you all are enjoying your hollidays. *smile*

Evreka

Posted at 2007-11-29 20:30:04
New Puzzles Up and other good news!
First of all, welcome to the newest members! *supergrin*

As of today a whole bunch of new Puzzles are available:
Patronus Quiz
DH Crossword
The Diversers Logic Puzzle
And three new Jigsaw Puzzles as well. You will find them through the menu above under Puzzles.

Some of these contain info from DH, and as the spoiler policy hasn't been lifted yet, you will have to login to take them. The reason it's not lifted yet is mainly because I will first have to go through all existing older puzzles and see if they are still accurate after DH. Also, the translations of DH are only just released.

Also, I've changed the banner yet again, as the old one was pretty dreadful on most screens. I hope this one looks better for all of you. *smile*

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Originally posted at 2007-08-20 18:44:30:
The news letter I sent out 3 weeks ago ..., for some reason ended up in people's spam folders in an hitherto unprecedented way.
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As a way to address this, I have got an email address especially for Try & Trix' use, which will enable you to reply to any email from T&T. Hopefully this will help, and the news letters will be delivered as quickly and reliably as before. If not… I'll see what else I could do about it. However, there is also the chance that this might solve the problem with the AOL emails as well? You never know until you tried it!

The update emails has been sent to everyone on the email list. If any of you who get such an email would either reply to it, very shortly, to say that you got it, or post in the guestbook or anything like it, just to let me know, I would appreciate it greatly. Thanks!

Welcome back and Happy Puzzling!
/Evreka


Posted at 2007-08-20 18:44:30
Another DH Quiz up and more
Welcome to the newest members! *supergrin*

The news letter I sent out 3 weeks ago (before going off on a vacation for a fortnight), for some reason ended up in people's spam folders in an hitherto unprecedented way. I am still a bit confunded as to why exactly, but am working on a way to (hopefully) avoid it in the future.

Today, finally, I have finnished some rather big changes in the database structure behind Try & Trix. Phew! At the moment you can see nothing of this, but eventually the difference will mean quite good news to you too. *smile*

Another result of this huge restructuring is that I've looked through some HTML-codes that has been buried in the database too, updating it to work better with the new CSS (ie look). One effect of this is that any quotes in the quizzes now stand out more from the surrounding text.

As of today I've added one new DH Quiz, and as before you must login to solve it, to help avoid accidental spoilers.

A few days ago I also played around a bit with the Harry image on the welcome page. Hopefully it looks somewhat better now.

/Evreka

Posted at 2007-08-02 11:27:22
First New DH Quiz Up!
Today the first quiz to build on what we've learned in DH has popped up. *big smile* Go to Puzzles/Quizzes and scroll to the heading DH. As a spoiler protection, to stop someone from accidentally seeing this quiz, you will have to login to take it. In fact, all puzzles that will use any information from or about DH will appear under this heading for quite awhile - and will require you to login to take them. Enjoy!

See also the nearest news below this one, please...

The update emails has been sent to everyone on the emaillist. (I'll deal with the AOL addresses shortly.)

Posted at 2007-07-30 18:05:40
New Puzzles and more
Upon a new visit to WB Webring's pages today, I finally found the update for OOTP. As a result Harry on the Welcome page is now a year older, and we have some new JigSaw puzzles up too, starring characters from OOTP. Finally! *smile*

Tomorrow I will not be able to post anything here, so I better address the magical day of tomorrow now... A bit early, but anyway...

Happy Birthday, Jo Rowling!

Thanks for a terrific series! *supergrin* May you have a great day and really get the chance to celebrate!!! *supergrin*

Right... and now to the problem... One of the most debated things for DH is whether Harry lives or dies. I want this site to be Spoiler free... How on earth do I solve this? *huh* I think we can all agree that this is not a spoiler.

Happy 17th Birthday, Harry Potter! *joking*
Whether there will be any more birthdays after that, you'll find out upon finishing DH!


/Evreka

Posted at 2007-07-28 17:13:17
Guestbook opened - New Look
So... Today the last HP book has been out for exactly one week. A fabulous book indeed, in my opinion... And that's as far as comments on DH will get at T&T any time soon!

This site will remain absolutely spoiler free on the whole, but be aware that any puzzle marked with the DH Category will contain spoilers.

Also, I have re-opened the guestbook for comments. Although I will strive to keep it spoiler free, and any comment whatsoever giving away content from DH will be removed as soon as I see it, I have no way to guarantee that noone will post such a thing. Therefore, read it at your own risk!

Anyone who might be interested in what predictions I came up with... Take a look under Links/DH_Predictions in the menu!

As you may have noticed the colors and banner(s) changed today. I have long been looking for a somewhat different coloring here, but since I wanted to stick with the general feeling of a Gryffindor coloring it's been easier said than done. The current coloring scheme may or may not be here to stay, but at least the colors clash less with eachother than the old colors did... You're welcome to use the guestbook to comment on the change of colors: Better, worse, as bad, boring, good? Or whatever else you might think.

When T&T was new it was a fun idea to have one top banner per part of the site. However, with time the amount of different parts on this site has grown, whereas the amount of banners have not... This has more and more rendered that idea impractical. So the time has definitely come to test a new banner. Again, you can use the guestbook to tell me what you think of the change!

Welcome to the newest members!! *supergrin*


/Evreka

Posted at 2007-07-18 16:25:33
Spoiler Protecting T&T
As of today I have temporarily disabled comments in the Guestbook to prevent anyone from posting a spoiler or a link to a spoiler there. It will be turned back on in about a week's time, possibly sooner, when I am through DH.

Also, please notice that I will not check my emails the nearest few days, also until I am through DH. If you send a message any of these nearest days, it will be read some time next week when I am through the books.

Anyone who'd like to check what I predict for DH, can find that info under Links/DH_Predictions in the menu. (Honestly, I'll be very happy if any of them turns out to be correct...)

I hope everyone will have a Happy reading of DH in just a few days time! *supergrin*

/Evreka

Posted at 2007-06-28 22:28:59
Back on line - READ ME!
Phew! Try & Trix is back up and running! However, some accounts may be affected!!!

A few days ago the server where T&T lives had a hard disk crash, wiping out pretty much everything. *sad* Our host, tydal, has now fixed a new disk and run the backups to restore things. Unfortunately the last database backup was from April 27, so any results, ratings, comments, registrations or whatever after that day is just gone. So is any email changes or preference changes. *sad* I am very sorry about that, but what wasn't in the backup is gone... You're welcome to re-register, re-take puzzles and so on. Sorry for the inconvenience.

This has been a most unreal spring/early summer... IRL has pretty much stopped me from working on this site for some time... and then a disk crash on top of everything else! Sigh... But at least we are back up and running and hopefully all pages work as usual. They should! If not, please alert me! And I hope to soon be able to gear up here again...

/Evreka

Posted at 2007-04-26 20:40:48
Smaller fixes
I recently updated the link to the Crossword Help page from the FAQ, (before it still pointed to the old one).

Thanks to Sneezler who alerted me to a confusing misstake of mine in the General Crossword 2. The long word going down only consists of 2 words, not 3 as I previously claimed. Your score has been upgraded with one point to correct for this confusion. Thanks for the alert! *smile*

I've also added a line at the logic Puzzles that the easiest way to start over, would you want to, is to simply reload the page. This will cause all select boxes to revert back to "Choose...". Reloading the page is also the best way to start over in a quiz or crossword.

/Evreka


Posted at 2007-03-30 18:23:45
Checked rating Comments :-)
Welcome to the newest members! *supergrin*

I've just checked the rating comments for the puzzles, and thanks for the feedback everyone! *smile*

Thanks to a recent rating comment I have removed the boldness of one word in one question in the COS Review Quiz. It's no big deal, but checking the puzzle again, I agree the boldness wasn't needed. *smile*

/Evreka

Posted at 2007-03-25 21:36:56
New Puzzles Up Today!
Welcome to the Newest Members! *supergrin*

As an early Easter egg Try & Trix has now been updated with several new and quite unique JigSaw Puzzles starring some of the fascinating HP environments in CoC. Thanks, Carl, for allowing this! *big smile*

A few days ago I remade the image manipulation of Try & Trix's pet, Minerva the site owl. *joking* logo Owl. She now glows with a new sharpness everywhere except in the banners, which I haven't touched. At the same time I have removed the oldest JigSaw, and replaced it with a newer version of Minerva. You can find the JigSaws under Puzzles/JigSaw in the menu above!

There is also one new Quiz up, a COS Review Quiz for anyone wanting to check how much you remember from this book. *smile*

Welcome back and Happy Puzzling!

And I also want to wish everyone an (early) HAPPY EASTER! *big smile*


Edit: The update emails has now been sent to everyone on the email list.

/Evreka

Posted at 2007-03-14 22:37:06
Fixed the Counter
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Originally posted at 2007-03-12 18:54:14:
Mishap with one Counter
Ooooops! I'm afraid I just had a mishap with one of the counters. At the moment it doesn't show any of the hits from 2007, as a result of a really clumsy move from me.

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Just used the backup to fix this little problem. The counter is now back to as normal as it will be. About three weeks of hits are gone forever, but other than that the history is back! *smile*

Phew!

See also the nearest news items below this, they're just a few days old.

/Evreka
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