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Title: Cruciverb puzzles not opening
Post by: Retro67 on July 21, 2022, 06:01:06 PM

Hello,
    This happened once before:  When I try to open the Universal, Wall Street Journal puzzles, the cursor just spins; the puzzle never opens. I just donated money too, will that help?  Retro67

Title: Re: Cruciverb puzzles not opening
Post by: paradog on July 21, 2022, 06:12:41 PM

LA Times seems to work, but WSJ also doesn't work for me.

Title: Re: Cruciverb puzzles not opening
Post by: admin on July 21, 2022, 06:20:21 PM

Hi,

The Universal and Wall Street Journal puzzles are hosted on the herbach.dnsalias.com server. For those puzzles, I just provide the links. I do not know what the issue is. Let's hope it's up and running again soon.

-Kevin (site owner)

Title: Re: Cruciverb puzzles not opening
Post by: FancyLady on July 21, 2022, 11:20:54 PM

I hope so too. We do them every day.

Title: Re: Cruciverb puzzles not opening
Post by: trauer1282 on July 22, 2022, 04:51:44 PM

Martin Herbach is on vacation as the main Cruciverb page now indicates (thanks Kevin!) Best workaround until he returns: download from the source.

Use the excellent Crossword Scraper for Chrome or Firefox to create a .puz file if you prefer solving with Across Lite.  Many of us use the scraper for the NYT puzzles now that they no longer post them for subscribers in .puz format. Links are below.

Hope this helps!  :)

https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
https://www.wsj.com/news/puzzle

Title: Re: Cruciverb puzzles not opening
Post by: swordman on July 25, 2022, 05:46:21 AM

Martin’s site is down until the end of July. It will be back next week

Title: Re: Cruciverb puzzles not opening
Post by: Glenn9999 on July 29, 2022, 08:12:19 PM

Quote from: admin on July 21, 2022, 06:20:21 PM

Hi,

The Universal and Wall Street Journal puzzles are hosted on the herbach.dnsalias.com server. For those puzzles, I just provide the links. I do not know what the issue is. Let's hope it's up and running again soon.

-Kevin (site owner)

Note the site is back up and running.  Probably will be some time before any missing files are replaced, but thought that I'd mention that I'm aware of it being back online.

Title: Re: Cruciverb puzzles not opening
Post by: orangehills on May 23, 2023, 04:49:38 AM

Quote from: trauer1282 on July 22, 2022, 04:51:44 PM

Martin Herbach is on vacation as the main Cruciverb page now indicates (thanks Kevin!) Best workaround until he returns: download from the source.

Use the excellent Crossword Scraper for Chrome or Firefox to create a .puz file if you prefer solving with Across Lite.  Many of us use the scraper for the NYT puzzles now that they no longer post them for subscribers in .puz format. Links are below.

Hope this helps!  :)

https://www.nytimes.com/dumb ways to die (https://dumbwaystodie.io/)
https://www.wsj.com/news/puzzle

Very unique and creative idea