So for the usual upcoming advent event i normally do, although i got hospital visits, the whole moving stress, and helping my mom with her stroke recoveryi am not sure if it's smart to do it and maybe alas skip a year however i am also seeing no other recruitment threads yet, fearing it's might be a year with few events.
One moment i read they fixed the "cheating" on another i read people still found work arounds, so how is it with jigidi.com and were there other alternatives?

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jigidi Blog

Sometimes I think they were taking anti-fraud measures last year.
There may be some traces on the blog.

But I don't know much about it because I didn't have much time to organize events last year and this year, including jigsaw puzzle related events.🤔🙄

https://www.itstoohard.com/
This one should be replaced by a cloud version at some point, but it doesn't seem to be yet.

I believe the person who created the replacement tool was featured in the Tools and Add-ons category.
It seems to work, but I have not used it yet.

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https://solveme.edc.org/
I think the name was similar to this one but I can't remember the official one.

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https://2solve.me/

It's not perfect, but it does the job :)

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(σ゚θ゜)σThis! Thank you♪

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I was going to say the creator is on these forums, but then I realized you're him. 😉

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/blkBO/

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Thank you.

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The cheaters are still active there. Forget it and bury the idea with combining it with GAs.
It's hard to say it but it isn't worth all the bad stuff from the cheaters.

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Thank you, sad how always bad people ruin it for the rest.

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There is to be a site por colaborative projects, like github, and among them there was the project to avoid jigidi where the cheaters met. As far as I know, there was some kind of arms race between them and jigidi, but the cheaters gave up at the end and closed the project and jigidi won.

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People were cheating on jigsaw puzzles? That kinda defeats the point of playing them.

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At one time, there was a person who completed a puzzle of several hundred pieces in a few dozen seconds for ranking purposes and remained in the rankings.

I won't give out "the word" specifically....
To prevent such cheating, other people have responded by registering as a jigidi user, completing the jigidi puzzle, and then attaching their finish screenshot and ranking on Steam message.

In my case, I was careful to include a link to SGTools and other puzzles in the message after completion.
I don't have much idea what's going on these days, but it seems that some people are being sent to other dimensions by CG in an attempt to get SG's invitation link by total randomness.
⏺Danger link🙅
*This URL only works for people with poor daily behavior.
If the general public opens it, just [back] your browser and you will be fine.

It seems that when you pack "karma" in SteamGifts, "this screen" appears.
Therefore, do not try to use any tools or anything Auto-based that attempts an unauthorized resolution.
Perhaps your Steam account will also go missing.
Oh, of course, I mean those who dabble in such tools.
The space translator is unstable. It is not about you.ヾノ'Θ'o)

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I think this time the translator had a stroke half way through, after the second paragraph the text gets pretty hard to follow.

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If I may make one addendum to my previous story.I am talking about people looking for a link to GA without solving the Puzzle, even if I create the Puzzle.


This is off topic for discussion....
[translator happening]
As happened recently in early March, there seems to be an anomaly in the Earth's automated translation sites.
As a result, there has been a recent increase in the number of translations that need to be corrected or amended from time to time.

It may be a side effect of the collapse of the Tower of Babel in the birdcage that is Twitter.
Such discrepancies seem to occur when a service that handles a useful tool of humanity breaks down.

In any case, if think something is wrong, ask everyone. Incomprehension will ruin the earth.=͟͟͞͞( っ'Θ')╮ =͟͟͞͞🌠 🌏

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Yes and in, at least, 2 dif. ways.

Pause the clock - To be in the top 10 if it give something for the fastest solver(s).
Highlighting jigsaw puzzle parts in dif. colors - To know which ones need to be grabbed as next one. Which of course speed it up by a lot too.

And they still do it.
I don't heard that jigidi won, besides for a few weeks, and seen only the opposite on the long run.

And yes, playing bigger jigidis to get a GA link is wasted time with jigidi cheaters and on top users that share the links, in forums, after solving them with their cheating help.
The only practical thing are jigidis with only 12 - max. 30 parts, because the advantage of cheaters are there not big and cheating, nearly, "not worth it".

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It kinda sucks the fun out of it tho.
If I see a jigsaw that's too hard to bother, I just don't bother, cheating at a game in order to get a chance at winning another game feels a bit absurd to me.

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Freebie sites and sg shown me a lot of really ugly + greedy people, that use every possibility to cheat/exploit/abuse in every possible way. [300 acc on Lootboy, up to 77 acc on every freebie site, 50 accounts on sg, cheating in sgtools protected GAs, sharing sgtool protected GA links, cheating in jigidis and sharing the links, sharing (solved) puzzle GA links, sharing the christmas gifts GA links and so on....]

They are much more as the nice and/or fair ones and they, mostly, don't see themself as doing something wrong.

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I thought I saw a thread stating that Jigidi went down. Did it go back up? Is it's going down and up (again, assuming that wasn't just a misuderstanding on my part) tied to dealing with the fraud stuff under current discussion?

Jigidi's not a fantastic jigsaw site, given its very standard cut jigsaws, but it's super easy to upload and manage puzzles on, so I've definitel got a soft spot for it. Always hoped it'd become more robust and stable as time went on..

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Never heared it was down, maybe confused with itstoohard?

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Maybe? Well, glad it's still up. Sucks that it's apparently bugged to the point of inhibiting giveaways related to it, though.

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