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Solve the clues to fill in the grid! Type in the answers to the clues on the right side of the Hypercross puzzle below. Clicking a thumbnail image will enlarge it. You can Tab through the clues while the image is enlarged. You can also click on the first space of a word in the grid to view the clue for that word. If two words begin in the first cell, click the cell again to view the downward word. Be sure to check your spelling! Click on the "Check your Answers" button when you think you’ve got them all.
56 Comments
yelowflower
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:03 PM |
let me be the first (possibly the last too, but) HUH?
metafor
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:04 PM |
well this seems to require special skills...which I certainly do not have.
comishcraig
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:04 PM |
Seems pretty obvious to me, but I don't have the knowledge to solve it.
loserkid7182
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:05 PM |
huh?
scoutmom
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:05 PM |
OMG, I don't get ANY of these tonight!
pepperhead
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:07 PM |
you do not have to know javascript to get this do you? becase everyone knows javascript
yelowflower
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:07 PM |
[3] yeah, obvious to a coder/programmer, but not me by any stretch
tlmitch7
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:08 PM |
Is #2 supposed to be 1 letter?
pepperhead
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:09 PM |
BTW If I remember correctly this is in fact javascript, and it is the series of commands that you learn to do your first program "Hello world"
slog
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:10 PM |
Yay! A 1st!
gst
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:11 PM |
another lame scavenger hunt. not a puzzle.
jewelia
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:11 PM |
Are you sure it's not in a bunch of different programming languages--only one of which is java script?
comishcraig
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:12 PM |
[7] yep, same here.
Tahnan
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:12 PM |
4th. Fortunately, it's by and large easy to Google. (I knew some of them, miraculously; pieced together much of the rest; Googled at the end.)
QurqirishDragon
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:16 PM |
I got the theme, but I can't solve more than a few of them.
vandy
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:16 PM |
[8] yes
entropy
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:16 PM |
11th! I knew that CSci degree would be useful for something eventually.
gchild469
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:21 PM |
Wow, there were a lot of them I didn't have a clue about, but finally got it. Boy, if you don't know anything about the theme, you are going to have a bit of a hard time finishing this, but you should be able to finish it with google's help
yelowflower
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:25 PM |
makes it not a lot of fun....if I want to work at something, I want to get paid.....;o(
nrkii
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:26 PM |
stuck on #7
zyrilia
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:26 PM |
Wow, it's been a long time since I wrote a Hello World program...
tlmitch7
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:27 PM |
[19] Agree, heck I am just flat stuck.
nrkii
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:29 PM |
nm, got #7 through wiki
hwango
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:34 PM |
Theme was easy, but it's not worth it to me to go through the effort of researching the 11 I don't know.
escKey
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:34 PM |
Wow, CW! You had some guts posting this :-)
I like the puzzle, but I doubt many will.
It's not too hard to google a list for these. I found one from a German site (de) that helped the most. The page had both the summary and detail so it was easy to use for crossword find and find strings.
Rastus
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:35 PM |
I got most, but had to search for 5 of them. Wiki is the place to look.
Rastus
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:42 PM |
Yes #2 is one letter.
Yes it is many different languages.
Javascript is one of them and of course there is only one place it will fit.
by3times1minus1
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:44 PM |
i got them all but according to the wiki page i was referencing, and all my answers fit. something's not taking though. can i TG my answers to someone to check what's wrong?
escKey
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:50 PM |
[28] sure
by3times1minus1
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 07:55 PM |
nvmd it must have been a glitch. it took it when i tried again even though i didn't change anything.
comishcraig
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 08:00 PM |
I got it, but I had to look up all but one. I've only used 3 myself.
dduensing
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 08:05 PM |
Being a code-wrangler from the 70s, I got all of them right off except for one.
Too bad one of the old classics... COBOL wasn't in there.
BigSlick
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 08:10 PM |
Wouldn't you know it. I decide to better myself by staying at the gym past Tanga-Time and of course there is a computer-geek puzzle posted. Luckily, I have programmed in most of these, (although it's been a looong time for most of 'em) so I still got a few bonus points.
Really surprised to find #7 in there, and like [32] said, no CROBAR, er COBOL?
dagibbs
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 08:15 PM |
Yeah, I went looking for Cobol, too.
John
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 08:26 PM |
Loved it. Thanks!
jeep
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 08:40 PM |
Knew them all but 5 and 9... guess I'll have to google those two unless someone will salt them. ;)
EDIT: After posting, I recognized 9.
BigSlick
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 08:42 PM |
[36] #5: I could see how you could have a *devil* of a time with this one; you may know it as the name of a *star*
jeep
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 08:46 PM |
[37] Thanks, I got it from google... found a great site for non-programmers. I'll post it after 100 solves if I'm still up.
I don't want to think what it means that I was able to identify all but one of these without googling...
CWarrior
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 09:14 PM |
[25] This was one of my first attempts at making a Hypercross. I had only been around tanga for a few days and thought I'd try my hand at making a puzzle.
So, yeah ... I'm a geek. I know the theme isn't for everyone, but for those who did get it, I hope it was fun.
A note for those who aren't programmers: this is the single most famous program in computer history. It's often someone's first program when they start learning a new language.
xanadudan
Posted on Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:20 PM |
sorry, nice idea but way too much work for a layman.
Arnott
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 01:56 AM |
[39] CW, it's really no worse than having to look up Sports Teams or Song Titles or anything else that's just a list of stuff. Though I think you did those puzzles one better (albeit only slightly) with your choice of theme.
As long as the clues are fair, I think these are perfectly okay... they're just not exactly fun if you don't dig the subject matter, that's all.
I didn't know any of these (well, except #10), but I like that they're very specialized - especially in kind of a cool subject that many here, presumably, would recognize.
For me, these list puzzles don't excite, but I don't hate them, either... again, as long as the clues are fair. And yours were, 100%. I'd take this over, say, mascot recognition ANY day of the week.
brupop
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 01:54 AM |
I haven't coded in over twenty years, almost got lost in stupid parentheses.
yelowflower
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 01:57 AM |
yeah Arnott, it IS worse, at least with sports teams or song titles you can recognize the answer when you see it...I found a really good site, had scads of great info, and I still couldn't just look at them and know which was which, so it became a real chore to flip back and forth to the puzzle back to the info, back again to see if it's even close. I know most of the names, but not the actual guts, so I must respectfully disagree with your assessment. Sorry CW...I am not saying you didn't create a good puzzle, because I think you did....what I am saying is that it was quite difficult for those of us who do not/did not program. Almost as hard as one that is totally face recognition
CWarrior
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 04:23 AM |
[43] I think the BIG difference between this and face recognition is that you've actually got searchable text in each clue. When you're trying to nail down a mascot or an actor, you've often got nothing but salt to work with.
I'm not saying this is a great puzzle, but even if you choose to simply google the contents of each clue, it is solvable. I would say this is easier for the non-programmer than many other puzzles are for non-sports or non-Hollywood types.
Oh well, the good news is that it'll likely be a while before you're tortured again with this kind of puzzle.
yelowflower
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 04:31 AM |
your opinion is as valid as mine....and mine is as valid as yours....I admited it is a good puzzle, not being argumentative, just expressing mine. sorry if you dislike that aspect of things. I believe my real point was that for non-programmers this wasn't much fun....so not fun that I didn't finish it...and that is highly unusual for me and hypercross puzzles. Please don't let anything I say change your opinion of this puzzle....not my intent
scotwk
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 07:02 AM |
Great puzzle today!
[11] and [19], now you now how I feel whenever a puzzle has actors or movies in it :)
dkeith
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 07:03 AM |
Ironically, the Easy OWW seems to exactly this kind of puzzle, where you have to search lists of items for matches. Perfect for coffee aficionados, but not my cup of tea.
Must be time to clean the lists at Tanga.
steve
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 08:45 AM |
I love this one! Two or three were a little tricky to find, but wikibooks and others are super useful (and probably nostalgic for some of us). This's the best of the search-through-lists-to-find-the-answer-if-you-don't-know-the-specific-theme, yet! I've only ever used maybe four or five of these, but could pin down most within a few searches.
#6 was frustrating, not only because I hadn't used it since middle school, but because I wanted that language to be on the list, and didn't recognize that format anymore. I was expecting the straight text output version -- not the hard way.
Irrenarzt
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 09:48 AM |
Okay so all of my answers fit and, to the best of my searching ability, are correct with the programming language. Still getting a sorry not correct. Can I shoot my answers to someone for verification?
delusionalnye
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:12 AM |
Search for Hello World Collection on Google and the first site should give you everything you need.
Saphon
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:21 AM |
It's Embarassing... I've got a CS degree back in 1997, and I've been working FOR MICROSOFT in the Developer Division for half a decade, and *I* don't know half of these. *SIGH*
metafor
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:26 AM |
Well that was hard...I know nothing about this but googling solved everything...not exactly "fun" but I learned a thing or two and the puzzle is certainly fair if I can solve it with nothing but grunt work....it would never be a top 100 finish for me thouh!!!
wingedkat
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:55 AM |
I just joined Tanga to solve this. drove me crazy, but I love it! had to google 5 of them... but I've only ever used 6 of the 14 languages so I guess that's reasonable.
boop
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 02:58 PM |
Little much salt, eh [53]?
TangaJordan
Posted on Tue Apr 29, 2008 03:45 PM |
Good one! :)
BadCat
Posted on Fri May 02, 2008 09:01 AM |
Geeky fun! [32] COBOL isn't in there because COBOL doesn't belong *anywhere*! ;)
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