There's no hint button? I saw it come and go randomly but haven't seen it lately..
Anyway, clicking show solution shows you the next correct move and then it shows the puzzle as being done.
The only way to keep playing the puzzle is to restart.. but if you refresh, you lose the puzzle as it goes to the next one.. you have to click the puzzle number link to get it to restart. If you do remember you do that, at that point you lose the category you were possibly playing in as well.
After it shows the first move of the solution, you'll have arrow buttons to proceed through the rest. It's kind of easy to miss that. I didn't notice for months.
No way to keep playing it without a tricky reload though right?
@wolfeskate I think the new v2 puzzles are great and the best thing that's happened to lichess since v2 of the website, and a more important development than even that.
But the way puzzles are "tracked" is completely terrible. It's a huge mistake in my opinion that the url doesn't contain the puzzle as it means that if you pause to do something else and resume later on - perhaps on a different device - you'll get a different puzzle, wasting any time you've spent so far on the current one. It's hard not to see it as a major bug, frankly.
The workaround is to click on the coloured square under the puzzle board. You want the rightmost one. Or at the top left where it says the puzzle id (such as #asnbef) you can click there. Both refresh the page but crucially it puts the puzzle it into the url so it's in your browser history; you can bookmark it etc. I have no idea why this isn't the default behaviour.
Do this as soon as you start a new puzzle; then your reload - after revealing the solution and just observing the first move - is just a simple press of F5 and attempting the puzzle again after playing the first move.
I mainly use the mobile app for Android, and there it's a simple click on "Retry this puzzle." I'll look at the browser version when I get a free moment but I'm almost positive it's equally simple.
It's still tricky for me on mobile, I use chrome without desktop view.. refreshing takes you to the next puzzle even if you're on the puzzles specific link/page.
I love the new puzzles, the categories!! Wonderful, amazing. Just waiting for next update!!
Saving puzzles, redoing puzzles, better hint action.. Hope it works on the mobile webpage!
@wolfeskate That sounds odd. I've not seen that behaviour on desktop. When you get the next puzzle even though you were looking at a page with the puzzle id in the url did the puzzle id part of the url change/disappear? If it did then you should be able to go back to the puzzle via the browser history. If the url stays the same (containing the puzzle id) then that's very odd indeed.
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