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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.
60 Comments
pitbull44
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:09 PM |
Why bother when they are this easy.
hannah69
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:11 PM |
easy?
scoutmom
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:12 PM |
[2] They haven't solved yet, so I don't know what they are talking about.
racheal0101
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:18 PM |
is anyone else staring blankly at the screen?
scoutmom
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:18 PM |
[4] Not staring blankly -- type, type, damn, clear....
pitbull44
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:18 PM |
Thanks!
You solved this puzzle in 6 minutes and 23 seconds and were the 7th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 97 points for solving this.
Murdoctor
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:19 PM |
Figuring out the answers is easier than figuring out the placement. It took a few tries of different methods before stumbling on the right one.
Murdoctor
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:20 PM |
[6] Nice try... but there haven't been 7 solves yet. And 7 solves wouldn't be worth 97 points.
racheal0101
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:20 PM |
my brains must have gone into hiding. I have no idea what to do with this.
hokie98
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:23 PM |
[6] also hypercrosses are not timed
scoutmom
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:25 PM |
[6] Really? I see only one person has solved this - and you aren't it!
racheal0101
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:28 PM |
I want to "type, type, damn, clear"
racheal0101
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:29 PM |
I can't even get that far
pitbull44
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:29 PM |
LOL - it is salt, not a real solve - LOL
martinp13
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:33 PM |
[13] Start by identifying what you can. Things should start to make sense when you apply the title to it.
racheal0101
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:36 PM |
[15] Yeah I am trying that and still the blank stare. You have stumped the heck out of me! :)
scoutmom
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:37 PM |
[16] Not there yet, but moving along. Start with the 8 letter word and build backwards.
Murdoctor
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:39 PM |
[17] There are pointers to where things go... but it's not easy to follow the trail of redirection.
Philana
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:50 PM |
I've got the grid filled in, but it's not right. Aargh!
Edit: Finally found my error.
jewelia
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:44 PM |
[19] Yes . . . everything fits, but "Sorry, that is not correct."
cyncat
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:46 PM |
Wow, this won't work if you rearrange the clues. Would have been better if the answer just depended on the letter corresponding to number.
Clue #1 tells you that word corresponding to the letter corresponding to 1 is the answer to #8.
scoutmom
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:48 PM |
I'm in the same spot as you [19] [20]
racheal0101
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:48 PM |
I have exactly no square filled in. I am either completely obtuse or my meds are to strong
Murdoctor
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:48 PM |
[21] Woah, that's salty...
I was just going to say "the clue numbers are important, too".
soccer_ref
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:49 PM |
Just to make it harder still, some of the clues have more than one obvious word.
jewelia
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:49 PM |
Ooops! I need to go to traffic school.
zyrilia
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:50 PM |
Brain cramp. 8)
soccer_ref
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:50 PM |
[24] Her comment may have been salty, but I wouldn't have gotten the placement from that. I did what scoutmom did. Start with the shortest one and work backwards till they all fit.
martinp13
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:53 PM |
[28] The placement of the words is not random... there is a "method to the madness". The short one is the best place to figure that out.
Murdoctor
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:55 PM |
[29] Actually, the short one can throw you off track, because it lacks the "redirection" that the rest have.
mnemonica
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:56 PM |
[21] Sadly, that's not working for me. Frustrating!
racheal0101
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:57 PM |
I surrender
nrkii
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:58 PM |
[21] I have no idea what that means!
martinp13
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:58 PM |
[30] Sure it does... the only different between that one and the others is that it's shorter???
Murdoctor
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:00 PM |
[34] Yes, but that might lead one to believe that there's only one "direction" to follow, rather than the "redirection". That's what I thought at first, until the answers didn't fit at the crossings.
gst
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:22 PM |
[29] yes there is a method. It's just clunky and illogical. There are at least three other methods that could use the number and actually make sense.
I appreciate the effort, and the graphics look good...
but I'm surprised this was featured with the fun-killing placement method.
And another big problem is that a couple of the illustrations are quite poor. For example the tool picture is actually a different tool than the desired answer, and hard to decipher on top of that.
cyncat
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:03 PM |
Remember the letters that gave you the answers. That's one way to sort them.
And then, there's more...
racheal0101
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:03 PM |
it is becoming clear that I am just not going to get this.
CrazyKids
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:04 PM |
I finished this puzzle, but I still don't understand the numbering system.
nrkii
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:07 PM |
[21] ah, got it! thanks!
racheal0101
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:08 PM |
I am still completely lost.
nrkii
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:08 PM |
as a note, clue #3, the picture with J is not a sign, it is a tool
cyncat
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:12 PM |
Clues should never include pointers to clue numbers, because those may change when editing the puzzle.
racheal0101
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:13 PM |
you are all brilliant! I still have NO answers. I am aparantly missing EVERYTHING
CrazyKids
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:19 PM |
[44] tg sent.
must67
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:29 PM |
Brain and flag is ?
Got it but I still haven't figured out the numbering system. I used scoutmom's method
j15bell
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:23 PM |
this was NOT the puzzle to loose battery power with. dang. lost power halfway thru. don ya hate dat!!!!! =]
racheal0101
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:26 PM |
[45] THANKS!
rcrasackett
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:29 PM |
Definately different. After a long weekend, it hurt to sort it out.
mnemonica
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:34 PM |
I can't believe the "difficulty" rating is only four stars so far.
jmcintyre
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:36 PM |
This was challenging... but I'll take it over researching baubles, or celebrities' body parts, or just about anything for that matter. Nice job.
Tahnan
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:45 PM |
I'm with [36]--the extra sorting step was just frustrating. Especially since, as [43] noted, the ordering of clues can change unexpectedly during puzzle creation, I'm never inclined to pay them the least bit of attention.
So thanks to [21]. Without that, this would have been extraordinarily frustrating.
xanadudan
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 09:20 PM |
4+ difficulty, 1 fun - this is featured??
hwango
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 09:41 PM |
I don't understand the numbering system either. After staring at this for a while and then trying to work through the comments I finally figured out what the answers were, and then couldn't work out where to put them. Finally worked from the short one as suggested, but that doesn't seem like it's the intended solution method. If someone could TG me with an explanation of how we were supposed to figure out where each answer went, and what the numbers were for, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
yelowflower
Posted on Tue Sep 02, 2008 05:42 AM |
I am simply clueless and in order not to be frustrated or upset decided to forego the pleasure of a hyper and NOT do this one.
racheal0101
Posted on Tue Sep 02, 2008 08:45 AM |
Will wonders never cease. 12 hours later and with no small amount of help but rather gigantic amounts from CrazyKids I can finally put this one to bed.
QurqirishDragon
Posted on Tue Sep 02, 2008 02:08 PM |
[21] described how it works- and even so I had to work at it to get things to click.
Since it has been most of a day, I think I will make it a little more clear:
The letters above the pictures tell you which pieces form words.
The number below the pictures tells you where the answer for the reverse-tanga'ed clue word goes. (i.e. the number in the first clue's image indicates which clue word "A" answers.)
If it is decided I said too much here, I won't be annoyed if it gets flagged/removed, but I think this puzzle warrants it.
runart
Posted on Tue Sep 02, 2008 02:34 PM |
WOW - that was uber tough but really fun.
Vermont_Bob
Posted on Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:54 AM |
meh, not fun at all
hokie98
Posted on Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:10 PM |
[57]... even with that I think I'm still on overload. I have been looking at this a little each day and still going crosseyed! LOL
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