This is a great app, Victor, thank you for telling us about it and trying to get these bugs worked out. I did buy the full game pack, but have only played games 1-10 so far. Thank you also for the instructions you gave for accessing it. :-) In Christ, Lisa
On 2/23/13, Victor Gouveia <victor.gouv...@rogers.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > As I introduced WordLadder to the list, I've just discovered something that > I think people should be warned about if they're going to pay out the money > for the various game packs. > > First though, I want to mention a bug regarding the free daily puzzle. > > As many of you may have noticed if you went into the game and played the > daily puzzle for today, there were the usual dates there, however, the most > recent date was February 22, which was yesterday's date. The Problem is, if > you look at the first two cells of the date range, you'll notice two dates > there for June and July. This happens occasionally, but you don't have to > worry, as the daily puzzle for the date are in those two dates, just in case > you haven't been able to find the daily puzzle for today. As I said, this > occasionally happens, but I've notified Sporcle about this bug, and they're > working on it. > > Speaking of bugs, this brings me for the main issue. > > If you're thinking of purchasing any of the game packs, or purchasing the > all game packs option for the 4.99 USD which includes over 500 game puzzles, > please be careful, as some of the 500 puzzles are not accessible at this > time using Voiceover. > > The way it works is that in Game Pack I, you'll find puzzles 11 through 29, > and in Game Pack II, you find game puzzles 61 through 80. Presumably, there > should be puzzles 21 through 59 in Game Pack I, however, they're no where to > be found, and, down below, where you would find the page 1 of 1 icon, you'll > now find page 1 of 3. > > Naturally, one would assume that those missing puzzles are on pages 2 and 3, > but alas, pages 2 and 3 are not reachable using Voiceover. > > Don't get me wrong, should you purchase the all games packs for the 4.99 > USD, you'll get plenty of puzzles, but you'll be short changed, and, > assuming that each game pack is missing in excess of 30 puzzles, then there > are over 300 puzzles missing from their advertised 500 puzzles. > > I have contacted Sporcle about this, and am in an e-mail exchange with a > woman named Rachel who seems interested in resolving this problem for us, > but I'm still waiting for word on my last e-mail. > > I' not saying that you shouldn't purchase the game packs, which ever one > that may be, but I just thought I should warn you in case you do decide to > purchase the over 500 game packs selection, and somewhere along the line you > only count 100 or so of the puzzles. > > Naturally, I'll keep everyone posted as to if and when Sporcle resolves this > bug/issue, so if you want to wait until then, feel free. > > Sorry about not warning everyone earlier, but I just found out about this > now. > > Victor Gouveia > Vice-President > Training Coordinator > VIP Tech > Tel: 1-(888)-737-1115 > Fax: 1-(888)-737-1116 > vipt...@rogers.com > victor.gouv...@rogers.com > Limiting Disabilities with Limitless Possibilities > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
