What are the chances?

That is very odd indeed. They are under the top griddler solvers for the month of July, 2011.

My only guess is that they are doing the most recent puzzles or most popular puzzles for the past few months. Maybe they haven't figured out how to use the interface to search for other puzzles.

Hi
all the users with the same score had user_id=0 and were deleted. In fact we had some broken records in the database and the user with id 0 was shown several times.
We did cleanup these records and the score is now correct.

Ra100

Ra100,

Thanks for noticing and fixing the database. All databases eventually develop "noise" that should be cleaned up. Your solving this problem was probably, I hope, an intellectual challenge similar to solving the puzzles on this site.

I used to work with large million-record databases where I could look at, but not change, the data. I had great difficulty at times getting someone to correct the "broken" data and would frequently hear "Are you sure?" after I presented the facts.

Your job is one that receives little recognition or thanks since you work behind the scenes. But it is very important and provides us users with countless hours/days/weeks/months of intellectual stimulation and enjoyment. So I really appreciate your ongoing work in maintaining Griddlers.net in all its facets. I look forward to being a subscriber for a long time (especially since it will take that long to solve all the puzzles). Thank you very much!

Now back to trying to figure out these puzzles!!

Bill

P.S. This is my first post and I am more of a "reader" than a "poster". I have no artistic ability but really enjoy the results of the authors' creations. I also enjoy the comments accompanying the puzzles - some have even helped me toward a solution or provided some laughter. My thanks and appreciation to all involved with Griddlers.net for providing this incredible and fun experience.