#1: Jan Wolter (jan) on Oct 28, 2004

I haven't exactly advertized this site much. I'm wondering how people found it. I'm guessing google and word of mouth account for just about everyone.

Google for me. Definitely the best site I have found. The pictures and numbers are so easy and I like that the grids are multiples of five usually. I have spent way too much time on here but a great way to clear my head. And I dream the puzzles if I do them too much. Can't wait for some new ones- although now I can get back to doing other things...

Cool. Thanks for the comments.

I just found this site 2 weeks ago and I'm addicted! I don't think I've spoken to my boyfriend since then. What was his name? Anyway, thanks for taking the time to make all of these puzzles. Keeps me entertained when he's playing on his consoles :D
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You're welcome.

found via google. luv it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Same as Sherri - spend wwwaaayyy tooooo much time on it but really luv it!!
Have been playing a few months now. The way it is set up it great. Keep up the good entertainment!

I read about it in a forum on www.conceptispuzzles.com. It's got one of the better programs for solving on the computer that I've seen online.

I found this site a long time ago, i just never had time to come often, found it through yahoo searching for puzzles to print, but i love this whole concept of keeping track of which ones you've solved, i can't wait till i solve them all :-)

Same as Ray I found your site through yahoo. These are my favorite puzzles and I cant find them too often in puzzle magazines. I've tried other pbn sites and your's is by far the best. I also like that I can make my own (even if they don't come out that great) pbn's. Thanks for all the fun!

I first discovered this type of puzzle 10 years in GAMES Magazine while in the Army. I have often lamented that since then I have not been able to find them. Then on a whim all these years later I decided to do a web search and found your site. Now I'm hooked. I'm having almost as much fun making puzzles as I am solving them.

Cool.

You know, that's a good point. One of the less obvious virtues of paint-by-number puzzles is that they are fun and easy to make, given a half-way decent set of tools.

i found it through yahoo search...

I first discoverd the type of puzzle in logic books that you would get in the store, then I wanted to do more but couldn't find the right kind of books with enough to satisfy my crave, so I went looking online. I actually don't use Google, I found the site using Yahoo.

WOW.. exactly same story as Kris. except for the last line... I used Goggle to find site.I'm addicted too. And clearly, your Site is the best. :-)

Yahoo here! I've looked a few times over the last few years, & not found this site before. But you've come up! #9 on the first page of "paint-by-number puzzle" search!

Cool. We've been very slowly creeping up the search engine ranks. I've made some effort to make the site work well with search engines, but haven't really been aggressive about trying to boost the ratings. That tends to backfire anyway. I expect as the site accumulates more puzzles and more users, it's rank will climb.

Started with the ones in GAMES, then the ones at http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/, and had only one left to solve there when the whole site went away for some reason. So I Googled and here I am. Still getting use to the differences, but it'll happen.

Wow. I never looked very much at that site, but it's been around for years. I'm surprised to see it suddenly vanish. I wonder what's up with that?

Hmmm... the http://www.playtsunami.com site also seems to be off the air. Odd. At least http://www.griddlers.net is still there.

When I try to enter the http://www.playtsunami.com site , it says: Our site is temporarily unavailable, but will be back online shortly.

So I guess it`ll be back eventually.

i wanted to google where http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/ went to, and here I am...

wasn't there a yahoo group with info about where http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/ is going to some time ago? when it was switching servers every so often? can't find it

I am another ex-user of http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/ it has gone down before, so I still check if it's back sometimes.
I've done griddlers (I prefer that name) for about 4 years now, I was first introduced to them in a crossword-paper that sadly enough didn't keep them for long. Griddlers don't seem to be popular in Sweden for some reason.
over the years I have googled for different sites to provide me with new puzzles, but somehow I haven't stumbled on webpbn.com until now.

I see I'm not the only one looking for a replacement for http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/. Addicted for a long time and still hoping the site will be back.
I just googled and this is the next best thing.

I too, found this site by trying to find Pbn.homelinux.
Has anyone been able to find any information?
Best to all :-)

i was shown by my mother, who started my account, but accidentally put her own name. Thank you Jan for changing it! I enjoy making puzzles maybe even more than solving them.

google searching

Just wanted to let My know that there is at least one more in sweden who loves these puzzles.

Funny, I just did a google search for "paint-by-number puzzle" and the PDF files on webpbn came around the 4th place!
Clicking on "More results" lead to more PDFs and some forum extracts.
(Jan, you should add "solve puzzles online" to the PDF or something like that)
A search for "paint by number puzzle" placed you in page 2 (number 12).
Not bad!

Hmm. At some point I did some configuring on Google to encourage it to point to the front page. I wonder what happened.

I'm pretty much with marso, but I tried "paint by number" as I reacll, because I got a lot of ads for the old fashion paint brush and strip'o'paints and numbered canvas board.

I too was lost without http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/ so I was SOOOO happy to find this site on google! I enjoy the addition of multi-colored puzzles than homelinux didn't offer. I'd probably spend a little more time with my family if I hadn't found webpbn, but they seem to be getting along just fine without me...

Count me as another pbn.homelinux user. Started looking for another outlet when it up and disappeared and tried a couple of other places before I found this one. I like this one much better and think I will stop my search...

Yes Deana, stop searching, stay here with us, we will take good care of you, welcome! :)

BTW... I didn't answer the question I guess. :D

Google. Google is what brought me here.

Thanks with the Welcome Marie-Louise!

Nice to have you here Deana! Welcome :D

Google for me too! I used to do these puzzles on a web site a few years ago. I don't remember the name, but the puzzles were called "Japanese logic puzzles," and they were only black and white. Lately I'd been doing a lot of sudoku. (websudoku.com is great for that, btw.) But, when I got bored with that I decided to look for these puzzles again. I didn't know they were called paint by number! I think my search was just for "logic puzzles online," or something like that. This site was 3 or 4 pages in with that search, but what a find! I have to limit the number of hours I spend playing now that my vacation has ended!

Has anyone been able to find anything on http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/ ?

I really miss it!

My sister and I have done Pbn.homelinux puzzles for years and were sick of running out of puzzles and waiting for the server to come back up. When I went searching for a replacement I was soooo thrilled to find this one. None of the other PBN sites I've found have come close. Thank You!

Hey another Jan! Welcome to webpbn! Jan Wolter (the creator of this site ) is male. May I ask if you are male or female so as to eliminate any confusion? I go by my login name, Gypso. What would you prefer to be called?
It's nice to have you (and I hope your sister as well) on this site. It's a lot of fun here! ^>^

I am female Jan is short for Janice. I like to go by haidapup. Thanks again Jan - I'm really enjoying it!

Then haidapup it is! Welcome ^>^

Not with out a story. What does haidapup mean? (if you don't have a story, Gypso will make one up, and man, she can be rough!)

I used to use Haida which was my first puppies name but everyone kept asking if I was Haida indian so not to confuse the two I added pup and it's just stuck for over 15 years. I wouldn't mind hearing Gypso's version though!

Oddly enough Haidapup, my story would have run along the same lines. I'm pronouncing your name in my head like this: had a pup. Is this correct? ^>^

I was more thinking Hide a pup. :)

Ohhhhhh! Now THAT would make a good story. From whom? What had the pup done? Was anyone in peril?

Haidapup,
ate like a hog
she grew up
now she's a dog

Wow such beautiful poetry. ;)

I second that

Wait til you hear the one about the kitten from Nantucket..

It is Hide-a-pup and I just love the poetry....thank you!
What about that kitten?

Wow, I just found this site, looking for printable nonograms. Google lead me here, and wow, this site is by far the most impressive and clean-styled site that I've found concerning nonograms. Needless to say, I'll be here a while ;)

Welcome Andrew! What name would you like to be called while on this site? Come visit the other discussion topics too!
Glad to have you here. ^>^

Gypso. She's my kinda-sorta-second-Mom. I'm dating her youngest son, and am over joyed to be considered a daughter ^_^

Glad to have you aboard, Nasuoni, if that is what you prefer to be called. Well, welcome no matter what you prefer to be called. What should we call you?

Thanks J.C.
You can call me Adria, that works just fine. Nasuoni is just my online moniker, so it's easier to track me down on aim and such through that name.

That's cool. Nasuoni sounds like the opposite of a tsunami, or something in japanese. but if you spell it backwards you get Inou-san, which sounds like a Japanese honorific.

It is a Japanese honorific. At least the san part is.
Nasuoni is actually two words shoved together.
Nasu, eggplant.
And Oni, demon/evil

A friend of mine came up with it, thought it was funny, so it was an inside joke that we called me that for awhile. It just stuck, and I've had it for over 4 years now.

I generally find eggplants to quite evil. Tasty, but evil.

As do we all >;}

I love that! I've often said to friends (just ask them, they call it "complaining") that the eggplant is evil. The one fruit/vegetable that completely vexes me in the kitchen. Not much you can do withit that poeple don't say "hmm, this tastes pretty good -- have you tried it without the eggplant?"

Awww.... no eggplant :'(

Eggplants always look so beautiful when they are raw and whole. I've often suspected that the best thing to do would be to leave them out of dinner and display them as a centerpiece instead.

I was completely lost without http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/

So I googled, and found here. Yay!! Am so loving it. Thank you, thank you.

Like the new menus, by the way. Just saw them today, and was a bit startled at first. Nice work.

I was completely lost without http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn/

So I googled, and found here. Yay!! Am so loving it. Thank you, thank you.

Like the new menus, by the way. Just saw them today, and was a bit startled at first. Nice work.

Okay, that's embarrassing -- I really didn't mean to post it twice. Oops.

That's okay Piglet!

That's okay Piglet!

Funny, Gyps. And you also know there is no abbreviating "piglet". Except may be 3.1417...

Hehe, a pi joke...i love nerds.

You're in the right place then! ;)

why is that joke from JC don't surprise me at all???

AS an english major we laugh that you math people can make the number go on forever, but that you can't finish a three letter word for dessert.;o

mmmmm pi.

I too am a former http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn user. That URL now redirects to griddlers.net. I have never really liked that site, so I did a Google search and ended up here.

Thanks for the site.

I had the exact same problem, but now am very happy I found this :)
Huge thanks for Jan!!!

I googled it :)
Of all the sites, I nly use this one and conceptispuzzles.com.. But since they only have 4/week its not enough. So Im really glad I´ve this.
Thanks alot Jan. Many hours of happiness for me! :)

I too am a former pbn.homelinux user who found this site through Google when I started going through "blue dots" withdrawal. I was doing those puzzles from easiest to hardest to get my score up quickly, but the site disappeared when I had only the six hardest to go, so I never finished. Bummer. I'm doing the same here but still can't keep up. I've dabbled with Griddlers.net. The puzzles are imaginative, but my last visit didn't seem user-friendly. This site feels just right. Thanks Jan.

George - griddlers.net used to be my main PBN site. Then they ruined things by trying to make it a paid site and limiting the options for non-paying members. That's when I did my google search (several years ago now) and found this one. Now this one has grown to the point where I can't keep up with the puzzles any more - hope it stays that way.

Hello Robert! I've seen your name all around this site. It's nice to know how you found Webpbn.

Thanks Gypso - I'm more of a puzzler than a chatter - only speak up when I feel like I have something to add. Consider me a stalker (in a good way I hope) - always there, never know when I'll make an appearance!

It's always been nice when you do make an appearance Robert.

Robert I will put you in the big time user club as soon as I can find a way to incorporate your stalker way of life, lol with your way to long username. But one day I promise you gonna be in mister I look but I don't talk

see ya ( or you'll see me...)

You are one sweet guy Sylvain. You're easy to love. :)

You're starting to sound like my wife - she'd like to find a way to shorten that name too. Good luck.

I too am a former http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn user, and after months of diddling around half-assedly looking for a replacement(optimist, thinking the cite would come back), finally found this place.

Though I dug their setup a bit more, the addition of colors definitely makes up for it :D

Welcome Brad! Nice to have you here.

I was looking for other puzzles and stumbled ontothese-all my summer holidays have been sucked up by them. No sooner finish one than I just move right on to the next. I hope my family are getting on OK without me.

Another homelinux addict who is now very happy that site disappeared into the ether and brought me here! Googling and a little trial and error showed me the way (I, too, am befuddled by the Griddlers.net site). Thank you so much for this site, Jan!

I'm another http://pbn.homelinux.com/pbn user. Seems that a lot of us migrated here...

Hi Ceci! :)

Pity that that site went away. All the more so because so many fine puzzle contributed by so many people went with it. I think that is why sustainability is a major goal for me here.

i have logic art in the back of my dell varity mag's but they only give us 2 puzzle's to do each month.. i thought i would do a yahoo web search and clicked on a few site's, but none were as good as this one.. this one is a little out of date, but i LOVE how u have it-to where everyone can join in on making and solving. i dont just like solving alone. i have always thought in my mind there should be a site like this.. i goto anothing site, but i only get 4 a week. there have many more colors to work with and much more advanced. If i had to pick i - BY FAR - pick this site over them all..

What do you mean by "a little out of date"?

yeah i was confused by that also

Well, the graphic design of this site is certainly a bit old-fashioned. The way the forums work echo's the old Confer model from 1973 and isn't exactly what people are used to any more, but that's just because I'm a conferencing dinosaur. The puzzle solving/creating tools are based on AJAX technology. That's not exactly bleeding edge any more, but it's still pretty modern.

I like the simple design of the site. There's nothing to clutter what you're working. I also like the way you have the forums set up. You don't have to search through all the topics just to find new comments. When there is a converstation that has new comments, you don't have to search for the last comment you read. Overall, I like this site a lot better then most of the other ones I've visted.

yeah, long live the dinosaurs of coding.

Harris Harris, which Dell mag has "logic art" ?? I love solving on paper as much as here.

yes -- I'm dragonfreak's mom and i showed him the site after doing what most people here did ... google. this was the second site i visited and haven't looked back. I was searching because i enjoyed the puzzles in his Games magazine and was looking for more to do. you finish the ones in the magazine and then have to wait another month
Thank you Jan for webpbn. i do too many at work!

Hi, all the links do not seem to be operational all the time. Has anyone else noticed this?

-=puzzles=-

i found this site from my friends its fun for me and relaxing so thx for this

I learned about this site from talking to Jan at a park.

Jan... has.... a.... life...!?!?!?

WAIT!!! How is that possible????

;)

Jan was at a park?
that's just weird.

Jan talks to real people?
Am I dreaming?

Wait, Jan is real??

LOL :D

Don't worry, it followed the natural process. I met him online first.

*sighs with relief*

It's odd knowing that Jan has a life... but knowing that everything begins and ends online.... that makes it better. ;)

It's true that I met Dave on-line, so long ago that I only dimly remembered him (well, for me that covers everything that happened more than a few hours ago, but this was much longer ago than that). The reason we were both in a park at the same time, however, had nothing to do with that meeting. It had to do with the astonishing fact that not one but both of us found women who actually seem to like hopeless geeks and then we went and had sons who found themselves in the same class at school and became best friends. So we see each other pretty regularly these days, sometimes in parks, more often in carpools.

Isn't life great?

a close relative showed me this site

Hmmm... seem to be a lot of monkey friends in our midst lately. :)

Ah..but I'm the "QUEEN" of monkey's..they cover my home from very tiny to over 5' tall (I have been collecting monkeys since I was a little girl)

Oh no I'm the queen!!

uh, oh! monkey fight!

LOL

Lol Arduinna. I was thinking the same thing. :D

Hey Monkeylover! Welcome. :)

Thank you

I just found this site today and did my first puzzle. I found it through a forum on the Big Fish game site. I had posted that I like a game called Gemsweeper and someone wrote back and suggested I might like this site. Gemsweeper is basically the same type of puzzle as what's on this site. I really love these puzzles. Thank you!

I have a friend who has been solving these for a year now. I think he was introduced to a related site by his girlfriend and then found this one on his own. Everytime I visit he's working on one of these and we have similar logic and puzzle solving interests. He egged me on to try the site and I finally aquiesced about 2 weeks ago. I'm not as addicted as he is - not doing them every night - but I find when I do log on I tend to suddenly find that I've done 5. Created my first puzzle tonight and will probably find that its tougher than I thought it would be, but if solved you'll find its a nice image! Good luck and thanks for the great site.

glad to have you aboard :)

I got hooked on these puzzles on another site, and when they ran out, I did a Google for more online puzzles, and found webpbn! I absolutely love this site.

I initially got into "Paint by Numbers" through Games magazine (a must for all real game fans). Then I found the O'ekaki books, and searched on-line, and found this site.

I love these puzzles so I googled for some free online puzzles and I tried out a LOT before I found this site, and it was ‘love’ at first sight. It’s a great site, there are a lot of puzzles and they are easygoing

One time for fun my teacher handed us some Paint-By-Number puzzles to try and soon I was addicted. I Google-Searched "Paint By Numbers" and this was the first worth-while site I found. At first I just printed a few puzzles, but then I decided to join since then I could find puzzles to my specifications and make my own.

Google - by searching for "picross 'rotational symmetry'".

Interesting. That brings you to the "Advanced Puzzle Solving Techniques" page, which is kind of an unusual way to enter the site.

But I see you posted some comments on advanced puzzle solving techniques on wiipicross.com's forums, so I guess it makes sense. Interesting to see different names and different categorizations to some similar techniques developing on different websites. Of course, since we have multi-color puzzles, and permit puzzles with multiple solutions, some of the techniques aren't exactly applicable to different sites.

Correct. The techniques evolved and changed over time.

Another difference between the sites is Symmetry. Since only unique solutions are allowed (except for Anomalies, but that is a different topic), then Symmetry is a viable technique there.

Of course puzzles with multiple solutions are almost always flagged here, so one could claim that the lack of a "multiple solutions" flag and the lack of a question at the bottom of the screen asking if you think it has multiple solutions means that you "know" it has a unique solution.

However I'm inclined to believe that those things aren't part of the puzzle. So my rule is that if the puzzle author says in the title that the puzzle has a unique solution,then that info has been given to you as part of the puzzle and using symmetry is valid. Otherwise not.

Some sites avoid this by just banning all symmetric puzzles.

Googled Paint by Number.

Google found it for me, too. I was looking for a PBN site I used to use (so long ago that I don't have the bookmark anymore). It seems to be defunct now, but I like this site even better!

Google, Paint by Numbers and I am here.

This site actually found ME.

I Yahoo-ed "paint by numbers logic puzzle" and there y'all were! I am addicted to this site too. Thanks for it!

Yahooo-oooo!

I Googled it. And I'm so happy I did!

Google. First touch with PBN in a crossword puzzle magazine (game was called "pintura numerica" - numeric painting?) When I finished all three puzzles I said "there must be something like this to solve online" First spent several months solving the puzzles in another site (can't remember the URL) before I dared to solve any puzzle in this site. It's over a year now, and I'm totally addicted.

google

A friend left a games magazine in the bathroom and I loved the paint by numbers. I did a web search either google or bing and found the site.

Found this site via google when I got bored with "conceptis".. I needed a larger variety and this is a GOD send!! lol.. Yes, my name is Alicia and I am an addict.

yahoo ... paint by number.. your 3rd in the listing

Googled "paint by numbers," lamenting the loss of another pbn site I frequented for a few years. Still prefer their script, but this gets me my fix.

We're glad you found this site, Xiao. Jan's script will grow on you, and before you know it, you will appreciate his design. And the community here is quite, um, interesting. :-)

to say the least, Teresa ;)

I think the descriptor "interesting" just about covers it all, don't you think, Tom? Weird, opinionated, brainy, dense, and funny. And that's just ONE person! Whom I shall not name. And now, everyone is asking, "Is she talking about ME?" JK :-D

you forgot brilliancy, Teresa

Same as Xiao, I Googled "paint by numbers". My previous site went down a couple of years ago, but I didn't really attempt to find a new one until now.

Anyway, I'm enjoying it a lot. Thanks, Jan.

I found this because someone 'thanked' someone else for all the amount of time they had 'wasted' on it since the other person had told them about it.

Of course, being a procrastinator, I can always use a new outlet.

I found this googling "logic art puzzles." I love these! Thank you so much for the great puzzles!

I did a couple of logic art puzzles in a magazine, and I wanted to find a place to print out more to complete while I was at work. You can't imagine my delight when I discovered that I could solve them on the computer!

My dad sent us Johns people the site. Not sure where he found it...

I found this site searching for Logic Art puzzles on Google. My sister-in-law had introduced me to a different site that I wasn't happy with, so I searched for others, and I don't need others because I am very happy here. I can be challenged when I want, or I can just relax with something simpler. Thank you so very much for this site.

My son introduced me to paint by number puzzles at a black and white site only. I did a search out of curiosity and found this one. I like it much better. I love your forums and comment capability.

I was looking for javascript dynamical loaded script. About pbn I didn't know. After click on link from one site I found webpbn. AND I recognize -- it is fun.
ad) #155 - Yes it is this page. Btw. nice article about dynamical js.

Sounds like you came here via this page: http://unixpapa.com/js/dyna.html

Not sure how my husband found it, but I picked it up from him. Had never done pbn puzzles before, but became hooked. Used to stay up half the night, every night in order to monitor my preemie twin babies' breathing. DH took the early morning shift. This site was a great way to pass the time and stay awake. That was in 2006. Pbn fell by the wayside once the babies got bigger and better able to breathe. My boys are in kindergarten now. I can't believe how many puzzles have been generated since I left. There were about 450 when I first came and now are over 16,000!

I happy your children survived

Welcome back, Bobbie. :-)

My 4 year old granddaughter is artistically inclined and I was looking for a Christmas gift along those lines. Put paint by number in my Yahoo search and.....the rest is history.

i found it on google

I found it on google, searching for "logic art puzzles." I love it!

I used to be a member of Kajitani's PBN site and I've always enjoyed the ones in Games Magazine. I was longing for the old days, so I Google'd PBN and found this wonderful place!

It is pretty fun. It took me about a year before I started creating them. Do the author's a favor and comment on them!

Google ......and great site...first time here but I really enjoyed the puzzles I have tried so far.

Welcome, Zoey. This is a funtastic community :-)

I got this addiction from my sister. I never understand why she was always sitting on this site.

....and now I cant do anything else.

I think 8 hours per day is just too much .. I even dream those puzzles (the times I remember to go to sleep :P)

Shortly: I love this site!

Welcome! They are too much fun. Try creating a couple. You will be beyond addicted.

ha ha ...my coolaid is working :D

No, I didn't suck the KoolAid, rather sampled the Crack...

Via a citation in a javascript book I'm reading (Secrets of the Javascript Ninja, which led to unixpapa.com). Or, rather, I *was* reading that book, until I found this site. Now I spend all my spare time here instead.

Welcome, Ben! You jumped right in to creating puzzles. Way cool. Took me a year and a half and I get petulant at times... Tom

my grandmother gave me a book with paint by numbers so i came online to learn how to play the game wonderful sight who knew

Welcome, Zelmarie. I remember when I discovered this site. It was like discovering a secret gem, just waiting to be found. Jan is a genius, and a generous one, for programming this site into a friendly (mostly) community for all of us to enjoy and express our creativity.

I mostly play at home, but occasionally play at work. Recently, I have not been able to login at work. In the past it has always just "known" me. (At home, it still "knows" who I am.) Has something changed on your in? Or in the security at work?

Thx,

Thanks for playing, Susan. You can probably log in at work if you waste an incredible amount of time designing puzzles for absolutely no reward :) Give it a shot. You will receive ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in return (except some frends). That IS worth it. Tom

Word of mouth for me. A friend on another site talked about it, and I had to check it out. I have been hooked ever since.

Welcome to the family! Would you rather be called Vesta or Dessa46?

Welcome! Please comment on the puzzles that you solve, and try creating some. Tom

Hello everyone! I had been playing a lot of Websudoku puzzles and that site has a link to "pic-a-pix" which I found very interesting. But in order to play more than a few simple puzzles there you need to pay for a subscription and I thought "surely there must be a free site!" Eventually Google led me here and I just love it. Thank you Jan and the community that has blossomed here! It is nice to know there are others who are just as addicted as I have become. =]

welcome aboard, Shively

Someone needs to fix the site.

The problem is that the creator, Jan Wolter never dreamed that the site would attract so many users. In fact, so many that it has vastly slowed down the system. However, he is extremely busy right now and is not sure when he will be able to fix it as it will take many hours. This site is free and there are no pop up ads. He has generously donated his time and energy and so we are all waiting patiently.

jan for #17 topic 2 i know that if you google "online paint by numbers free" it shows up on the second page with the sidebar and everything

My puzzles won't open. Is it my computer's problem,or a site problem?

I've had the same problem. I can open puzzles on my iPad (via Safari), but not on my desktop or laptop (both use Internet Explorer)

I don't have an iPad. I have Internet Explorer, too. What can we do about it?

I fixed it. I went to FAQ. There's a link to browser compatability. It says we should upgrade to IE 9 or better. I didn't know what mine was, so I googled Internet Explorer and found that I could upgrade to IE 10. I did that, and now it works.

I am already on IE9 and webpbn stopped working two or three days ago. Seeing comments online, I tried going on to IE10 and also Chrome and neither worked, however using Firefox has resolved the problem on my laptop.

Installing Chrome worked for me.

Sorry. I had complaints that webpbn wasn't working with IE 10. The particular hunk of code that was failing was a package I got from someone else that is designed to work around all the bugs in IE's handling of http requests, and make it work exactly like a real browser. It was a three-year old version of the package, so I figured that if I replaced it with a newer version then maybe it would fix the IE 10 problem. It did. But what I didn't discover right away is that it broke all previous versions of IE, so for the moment IE 10 works, but all previous versions of IE don't. I need to figure out what is going on here, but it's going to take a little while because debugging other people's code is a bother. I hope to have a fix for this sometime tomorrow.

Interestingly the cause of all the confusion looks like it might be that Microsoft finally fixed IE's bugs in this area. But that confused all the packages that work around IE bugs because they are not used to IE working correctly. Many IE 10 "bugs" seem to be of this nature. IE 10 is functioning more like a real browser than any previous version of IE, and the entire Internet is used to IE not working right.

I really love this site, have done so ever since I found it. Trouble is I'm now addicted and have not been getting my fix because I'm unable to save. It appears a number of people, including myself, are unable to save puzzles or retrieve any saved puzzles. Is it a site problem or something I need to do my end? Would love to continue puzzling.....Did I mention I'm addicted? Withdrawal hurts.

Nothing at your end. Jan doesn't have a lot of time to spend on this site so we just kind of have to wait. Unfortunately you can't save a puzzle that you are working on. If you have finished it you can go back to the puzzle list and bring down the drop down puzzle, click on rate this puzzle and there is a box to click on that says to show this puzzle as solved. This will take it off the current list. In the meantime go to Find Puzzles and you can take your pick of some excellent smaller, easier to solve puzzles if you don't feel you have time for a larger, newer one. Glad to have you on board and so happy you are as addicted as the rest of us.:)

Thanks for your reply. Had a feeling there was a lot of fellow addicts out there. Patience is a virtue.

Web site isn't working with IE or Chrome. I need my fix!

The problem is not with you. It is with the site. Go to the Forum and click on #5 Bugs and at the end of the comments is a lot of discussion about the problem and how people are working around it until Jan has time to work on it.

From a teacher website!

I was Googling "Paint by Numbers" because I didn't know it was a thing other than coloring books.

I found this because my class was using it.

Elaborate please. What class and how are you using it? Before I retired, I thought it might be cool to have my students work some puzzles but couldn't really fit it into the curriculum.

It was a project about doing logic puzzles and some of the puzzles were on this website.

I found WebPBN by googling Jan Wolter after using his other website "politaire.com", the best solitaire site on the web.
Now, politaire has a banner ad for WebPBN to help spread the word.

Oh cool! I created the WebPBN banner and put it on the Politaire site a few months ago, but didn't know if anybody would see it or click on it. It rotates with Jan's other non-ad ads that he put there.

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