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Chi-chat lets you chat with other players while you're playing Chihuahua.
If a puzzle has Chi-chat attached to it, the chat panel will be on the right of the screen, above the Forum Latest panel. It's your choice whether to have Chi-chat open or not. The picture on the right shows the panel with chat closed. To open it, click on the Open button at the bottom right of the panel. When chat is open, there will be a Close button at the bottom right of the panel.
Every daily Challenge (green) puzzle has a Chi-chat panel, visible to all registered players. In Your Puzzles, the player that makes a puzzle is the one who decides whether it has Chat. Everyone who can see the Chat panel is able to join in the chat, but please have a look at the Chi-chat Terms of Use before you start.
Each message can contain up to around 200 characters (including spaces). Type your message into the box under the chi-chat heading. When you've finished typing a message, press Enter on the keyboard, or click the Send/receive button above the message. You can update the Chat display by clicking Send/receive without typing a message. The Chat display is also updated automatically from time to time while you're playing the puzzle.
Chat messages are displayed with the latest at the bottom. When the display is updated,
new messages are shown with an arrow. If you move the mouse pointer
over the top of
Forum Latest, you should be able to drag it up or down, to adjust the way the space is
distributed between Chi-chat and the Forum summary.
You can scroll up to see older messages - if necessary, click on the
"Get earlier messages..." link at the top of the messages. Each
player's name is shown with a different colour behind it, to make it easier to see at
a glance which messages are from the same person. The colour coding has no special
significance, and varies from puzzle to puzzle.
The stream of chat messages is specific to the puzzle on the screen. People playing other puzzles cannot see your messages.