I do agree with you, in a language like German, it takes 5 hints just to get to the first letter of the word (4 for the article and the space).
But somehow I am sitting on a cushion of 30 hints at the moment. I spend a lot more wisely. Maybe you must consider to take a fail… have a leap of faith in yourself 
@sircemloud How do you know you are using Beta or something? I was asked once if I wanted to do beta testing, but I don’t know if I am actually doing it 
Anyway, I don’t mind limited hints. If my answer is wrong, I will just delete it and try again few times till I get it right. And if I get bored trying, I will go for a mistake. Word will come sooner for a review and that’s it.
And… I am now at 100 hints, and that number is not changing for two days now, so I guess we are limited to 100 hints
Did I just overlook the existence of hints, or were they only available to some people? Because I only noticed them now with the new version, and it actually announced them to me as if it was a new thing.
I don’t need them; if I don’t know, it’s fine to be wrong; but I’m surprised that everyone seems to have been using them.
I was wondering where the limit was. thank you.
I know I use beta, because the icon on my app carries the little yellow beta greek letter.
Oh, OK, I am not using beta then
Bryan_Gilstein8 described more of the things that I’m seeing. Since yesterday, I’ve been doing nothing but reviewing, in a curious attempt to see how many hints I can save up. It’s still below 60, and that’s an amount I could spend in no time. It’s not enough hints to be very useful.
I guess I need to worry less about getting things wrong!! Maybe I’m being too much of a perfectionist and should just get over it (although, isn’t My Difficult Words less useful if it gets filled up with things you actually know?). Either way, this change has definitely hurt my rhythm and momentum. When when you’re enrolled in a bunch of courses, with thousands of words and different course styles, it’s not always apparent exactly which word or phrase they’re asking for, even when it turns out to be something you know well. The hints helped me through these situations so that I could keep a nice pace going. I’m finding now that I often stop dead and spend what feels like wasted time trying to figure out something that I already know.
OK. I’m done making a bid deal of this !
this extraordinary app…
in three years and a half on memrise, I never got any “hints” …Web users are being repressed! come and see the violence inherent in the system! This is really unfair! No, it is not, I’m joking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7qT-C-0ajI
I’m am learning Chinese and, on top of that, Bahasa (Melayu) Indonesia, an agglutinative language with ter-, be-, men-, me- etc as standard modifying prefixes, etc. The chances to get it wrong? very high! 
Oh Mann …how did i made it through all this… …
you’ll manage, really… it is okay without hints as well … unless those items you are reviewing do have alternatives which the course creators did not give or forgot to give as valid alternatives… then the “hints” simply save the user from “false mistakes” (in which case, given the user cannot change how the course is made, memrise should grant unlimited hints?, or forgive typos?)
Hey, Hydroptere. I didn’t watch the video, only because I know it by heart .
Congrats on the 3.5 years.
Are there cases in Memrise where alternate answers are accepted? I haven’t run into that yet. Regarding the hints…see how fast one can become spoiled? I’ve only been here for 3 or 4 months and apparently can’t live without them 
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Finally I got limited hints too, today. A little no 3 sitting next to a wand. I almost never used it, because when you have autodetect on it shows you anyway if you’ve got smth wrong by mistake or if you’ve typed wrong alternative for that course. Curious to see how long does it take to get from 3 to 100 hints.
For those who can’t live without hints, remember Making mistakes is learning. You can only truly learn something by getting them wrong at first and learning from mistakes (this goes to life also, not only language learning)
Have you noticed the pattern. If you get right 5 times in a row you’ll get one hint after reviewing. If you get 10 thing right in a row you’ll get 2 hints. Reviewing 50 items and getting them all correct earns you 10 hints.
Atikker, which autodetect are you referring to? Oh, I think you mean how Memrise automatically marks something right when you have the correct answer. That’s one of the coolest things about Memrise for sure.
The pattern you suggest sounds right to me. Over time, as I keep reviewing my old courses, I’m sure it will become easier to navigate these things. At this point, I’m still trying to solidify my memory and also deal with the differences between courses (for example, in Italian, some courses require definite articles with words and some don’t. And there are other idiosyncrasies). I don’t know if I am even close to getting 50 answers in a row correctly, or if I’m willing to spend the time being careful enough to make that possible.
I’m going to resist further beating the dead horse . People who relied on the hint feature are going to be disappointed, and people who didn’t will wonder what the fuss is about. It’s cool. We all have different preferences and strategies.
Would you please tell me, what are these hints?
I know nothing about earning/using hints.
What did I miss?
If you tap on it it will give you characters of wanted phrase. So if you don’t know the word the program will tell you letter by letter
@Atikker
thank you Atikker for your explanation.
On my laptop I don’t have this feature/wand.
Maybe it’s only on Android apps.
It’s on iOS too. It’s an app feature
I like it too. This way it notifies me when I have made a typo. I make a lot of them. If the answer doesn’t go through I can mend it before submitting
Unfortunately it helps you not just with typos, but also with selecting the correct case ending, etc. Which is why I don’t use it - I need for these mistakes to be counted as mistakes.
If it doesn’t go through because of the wrong ending (not typo) you can easily add it to DW
@Bryan_Gilstein8 You don’t have to spend 10 hints. If you know the beginning, type it. If you have forgotten the ending then use your magic wand. Don’t waste it on characters you know. It automatically corrects the thing you typed before, if you did some mistake there. And you only spend 1 or 2 hints
The new wand works a little bit different.
I rarely use the hints but I updated my wife’s apps and now she is mad at me because she likes using them and is furious that she only has 3 hints. It is not even clear how she gets any more. She hasn’t touched Memrise since she discovered the change, and she was a fanatical user before. Surely the Memrise staff can treat us like adults and let us decide whether we want to use hints or not!
