Ramblings

25/08/2026: Statement on future of the site

In recent months, I became aware that many players were both excessively hinting, as well as directly sharing answers to puzzles of all difficulty levels. This fundamentally undermined the ‘reliability’ of the leaderboard, and I set about implementing the insight system in an effort to repair it as much as possible.

Not long after - recognising the limitations of that system - I set about creating several new puzzles to provide new opportunities to gain insight. A process that shouldn’t be underestimated – especially if you hold yourself to a high standard and want to maintain consistency with a body of work that you have developed over several years. A body of work that, in large part, draws on your life, memories and meditations. Reducing that body of work to some kind of ‘asked and answered’ checklist to be powered through, without any serious reflection, is anathema to everything I set out to achieve with wyfio.

But more difficult to bear than any of this, was my relegation from creator to ‘producer’ in far too many recent interactions. I felt compelled to unpublish the site and burn all socials to disentangle myself from the weight of negativity. As I began to sink the ship, the handful of comments that I did see were, unfortunately, all too predictably expectant.

In the stillness that followed, I reflected on what a genuine pleasure it used to be to discuss the way puzzles had played out for people, learning of the tangents, coincidences and synchronicities (?) along the way. It is for these people - honest people of good conscience, the people who took the time - that the ship shall be salvaged.