Where In The World Is TangaMonkey and TangaJen?!

Where In The World Is TangaMonkey and TangaJen?!

Hello all you Tanganites! TangaMonkey and TangaJen will be at the Starbucks in the middle of the MGM Grand in Vegas (not the one at the end by Studio 54) at 9:00 p.m. PST on Sunday August 12th. If you come up and say hello and give us the secret Tanga handshake, you will get 100 Tanga Points. We’ll be there for 15 minutes.

Hope to see some Tanganites there!

Tanga Times - August 8, 2007 by Verve640

Tanga Times - August 8, 2007 by Verve640

Salutations, loyal Tanganites. As your Wednesday editor, I hope to provide you with a gasp, a laugh, a challenge, and a few Tanga Points (TP) to those who are worthy. In an effort to open up the Tanga Times to a larger audience, I will gladly take suggestions (in regard to content) from anyone left in the comment section below. As for today, a small journey on the information superhighway is all

Tanga Times - August 7th, 2007

Tanga Times - August 7th, 2007

Hi, folks. It looks like I’ll be doing the Tanga Times on Tuesdays for the time being. I haven’t read all of the archives, so if I rehash a link or something renfurdson posted before, just smack me upside the head.

This web puzzle takes you through 138 separate web pages/mini-riddles. You’ll have to scour everything from the page’s source code to Google t

User Created Jigsaw is Saturday Product!

User Created Jigsaw is Saturday Product!

At long last, the jigsaw puzzle will be available as our Saturday product. The image for this jigsaw is a montage of objects sent in by Tanga users. It’s a wacky and wonderful collection of stuff. We can’t promise super-fast delivery because the puzzles will be custom manufactured based on the number that we sell. If you want an extra

Anyone Want To Write The Tanga Times?

Anyone Want To Write The Tanga Times?

Hello everyone,

We are looking for Tanganites who would like to write our daily (M-F) Tanga Times. If you are witty, smart, love to spend time looking around the Internet for new and interesting things that will keep our users happy, then we want you! If you can come up with little puzzles involving the use of the internet, that is a plus. Please send an email to jeremy at Tanga.com and let me

Hypercross tonight

Hypercross tonight

There is a hypercross tonight!

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STU Only Product on August 4th!

STU Only Product on August 4th!

Hey all you STUs! Tomorrow (August 4th) is your lucky day… We’ll be launching an STU only product tomorrow at around 4:00 p.m. MST that only STUs will be able to participate in. For those of you who don’t know what an STU is, it is a “Super Tanga User” and these are the folks who have bought way too much stuff on Tanga and have solved way too many puzzles! You too can become an STU be throwin

Hypercrosslessness explained

Hypercrosslessness explained

There are some organizational changes taking place at Tanga that affect Daily Fun. One of the short term casualties is the daily Hypercross puzzle. There are lots of Hypercross puzzles in the archives if you haven’t done them all.

The Tanga Times will also not run every day.

The One Word Warmup and One Word Wonder puzzles will continue to appear daily.

Sorry for the chaos!

Tanga Times July 28 2007

Tanga Times July 28 2007

Sorry for things being late/absent tonight.

Aaron was temporarily transported to a parallel universe.

The parallel universe is named for a cartoon character.

First to name this character gets 15

The name starts with a T

Tanga Times July 26 2007

Tanga Times July 26 2007

How about some clues for words using the following format:

Clue – Word Length – Scrabble Value (tile total)

For example

Family destination – 3 – 12

ftp 15 for the answer to this one

Speedy Tanga!

Speedy Tanga!

You might’ve noticed the occasional odd glitch today while using Tanga. But, I think I’m done tinkering with the hamsters that type up each page on this website and send it to you guys.

So, is the site loading snappily for everyone?

Tanga Times July 25 2007

Tanga Times July 25 2007

What’s the most interesting word that can be spelled using letters in order in which they appear in the alphabet?

Like ACE for example.

Tanga Times July 24 2007

Tanga Times July 24 2007

Have you ever searched for puzzle on YouTube?

this one is more of an actual puzzle.

and this is just outrageous

Tanga Times July 23 2007

Tanga Times July 23 2007

here is a collection of rebuses with charming art.

And speaking of art, let’s have an art contest. 40 points to the winner and 20 points to the runner up.

Do a piece of art on an ace. That’s right. Draw on the ace from a deck of cards. Leave the card back alone and it won’t make the deck unusable. The judge will be Norm, the dealer at the poker clu

Tanga Times July 20 2007

Tanga Times July 20 2007

Images can be uploaded to this blog.

To upload an image, create and submit a post, then click on the upload link on that post.

Let’s play “what it is?”

Upload images of things that are a bit tricky to identify either because they are a bit esoteric or because the view is up close and incomplete.

Tanga Times July 19 2007

Tanga Times July 19 2007

clue: bird home

answer: nest

notice anything?

all three words have the same length.

who can think of some?

the two word clue needs to be pretty definitive.

how about some with longer words?

Tanga Times July 18 2007

Tanga Times July 18 2007

here are clues for things that fit a category.

can you figure out the category and create some more?

points for the first 3 good ones posted (according to aaron)

two irrational numbers
before monster or cutter
sounds like how you spell what you are doing with the club you barely swing
shoe store alternative

Tanga Times July 17 2007

Tanga Times July 17 2007

OK, why did I have to finish this?

Thanks KoolKow

Here are some city clues emailed to me rather than posted yesterday.

1. Claus Iron
2. Tooled around
3. Drowning in butter
4. Crowd confused lei
5. Egyptian god in poops
6. Three base hit east
7. Los Angeles, move south
8. Male Spanish water
9. Wealthy nut

Tanga Times July 16 2007

Tanga Times July 16 2007

How about clues for the names of U.S. cities?

For example “Hidden in Hidden Version” ftp15

or “Bo’s not confused” ftp 15

Also, if you have ideas for fun places to point Tanga Times readers to, email Aaron at aaron@tanga.com. If your idea is used in the Tanga Times you won’t be sorry.

Tanga Times July 13 2007

Tanga Times July 13 2007

Happy friday the 13th!

Doctor Dugan has chosen a winner of yesterday’s coloring contest.

And here’s the runner up

What beverage is improved by the addition of the crusts of toast? ftp 15

Tanga Times July 12 2007

Tanga Times July 12 2007

Here’s yesterday’s winner

which is also the basis for our second coloring contest!

(It was Kete’s immediate favorite and she didn’t even see the puzzle in it)

Color this image in and post your colored version on this blog before tomorrow’s Tanga Times goes to print.

40 tp to the winner, who will be chosen this time by Aaron’s neighbor, Doctor Dug

Tanga Times July 11 2007

Tanga Times July 11 2007

Pre-Second-Coloring-Contest-Contest.

Please submit line drawings. Black on white only.

Kate will choose her favorite and a runner up.

The winner will get 40 TP and the privilege of watching the rest of us chromatically mangle your ouevre.

The runner up will get 20 TP.

To upload an image, first write and submit a post to this blog, then click the upload link on the post you just made

Tanga Times July 10 2007

Tanga Times July 10 2007

check this out.
Not a puzzle but slightly puzzling.

who is backwards in red?

ftp 15

Site Redesign

Site Redesign

In preparation for our super secret project, we’re spending some time on redesigning this little website.

Here’s your chance to give us feedback on stuff you think we could improve. What’s not clear? What’s hard to use? What is butt ugly?

Tanga Times July 9 2007

Tanga Times July 9 2007

Thanks for your patience with our recent difficulties.

The words FLOW and LOWER can intersect to make the word FLOWER

So you could clue the word FLOWER as follows:

Move as a liquid – Closer to the ground – [overlap 3]

Can people find more overlappers?