Jul 06, 2010 Hypercross Puzzle

My children wanted to make a puzzle for Tanga. This is the fruit of their effort. All I did was construct the grid, request a few specific pics for crossings, and reject a few unworkable ideas (like "a dinosaur in a T-shirt" or "monsters attacking the whole world").

Beautiful! Great art, better than I can do!

That was great! (Kinda hard if you get stuck on one, but the crossing words were enough to nudge me back on track - well worth the pause for the art!).

That's just AWESOME! Unfair advantage to those of us with young kids that basically do this puzzle every day, but genius puzzle sonjahi!

Cute Puzzle :)

#6 - Help!

Great idea. I have kids, so it was relativly easy :)

[6] Is that fire?

Wow, that was so much fun!

That was cute!! How old are your children?

[6] teehee - that one's my favorite. Concentrate on the lower-left hand portion, near the face...

[10] 6 & 9

Cute! Nice work kids!

Very cute!! Thanks kids!

[8]no clue. dinosaur doesn't fit, and that's what it looks like to me...

[11]there's a FACE?
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OIC it now.
"60th Tanga member to solve "

Great idea sonjahi. Awesome artwork!

#12?

[14] i'm with you. i've tried stegosaurus a bunch of times...still doesn't fit

NM Post and solve!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Behold this is beautiful art.

[14][15] Yes, there's a smiley on it and everything! ;)

[8] should help you - dinosaur is close.

Great idea for a puzzle and a nice grid too.

[17]get #14 #1 #11 first. then it's clear. if not, lend me your ear.

help on what the heck 6, 12, and 14 are supposed to be?

Guess you have to have young kids to get this.

I was cruising along until #6 & #8.

I filled out everything and everything fits perfectly. I don't know why it's telling me I'm wrong.

[11] haha, got it. thanks.

That was FUN!! Tell the kids great work!!

[23] Thank you!

Very nice puzzle!

Thought I had them all correct, but answers not taking. Drat!

[26] You can TG me your answers if you want.

Any thoughts on twelve or fourteen?? I'm totally lost

salt for #8?

[32] stuck on those too.

Boo to the puzzle.

[33] the blue is jeans, the pink is sticking out the bottom.

Could someone please check my answers? Everything fits, but I obviously made a mistake.

(edit) Never mind. My first post & solve!

[32][34] Where are those people from? What do you call people from that place? A crossword solver would give it to you too.

And for #14, that's a bell on top of the building. Does that help?

[36] Send them to me.

thanks [35] makes perfect sense now!
the building in #14 is not a house or a home

Adorable!

[33] Those are not fingers.

Great puzzle!

[32]
#12 is a building of education
#14 are people that live in Italy's Capital

I'm sure it was fun for all the moms out there but not for me.

And if you think you have them all and it won't take, reconsider #3... That one is at an unusual perspective for the item drawn.

[43] ... and the dads!

113th...i was stuck on #6 forever :(

[44] Ahhh, I got it from the crossings, but didn't see it until you said that.

A very fun puzzle. A well deserved pat on the back to the talented artists.

That's beautiful, honey(s)! Thanks for sharing your artwork!

For those of you that liked this, here's the puzzle that triggered the idea. You'd probably like it too. If you didn't like this, then you should probably avoid this one... :)

http://www.tanga.com/crossword_puzzles/1102-2-21-2009

Cute, nice change of pace!

[50] I remember that puzzle!

3, 15, 19???

Got everything except 10, the dinosaur thingy. My youngest is 10 now so I'm not used to looking at very young drawings on the fridge anymore. Bet I would have got it 4 or 5 years ago :)

[53] #3 is looking down on the object from the top. But the usual perspective is from the side. Use the crossings to help

#15 It goes on the right

#19 His friends might be looking for him, honey.

[53] Look in your kitchen drawer for 15. Ask Christopher Robin about 19.

[54] As it was salted before....that's fire shooting out!

Nice. My two little artists are much better now, but I'm close enough to recognize these. :-)

some of these look like real kid drawings. But some of these look like adult-trying-to-do-kid drawings.

[44] thanks a bunch, I was thinking it was something edible until you said that.

[50] I thought of that one as soon as I started this one. I liked it as well.

And, tell your kids their artwork was great!!!

[50] Backsolved that one. I thought I would hate it, but it ended up being one of my favorite Hypers.

I am a preschool teacher and a mom. I loved it. Tell the artists to keep drawing!

[1] No kids here, but I really liked the puzzle. I got all but one of them with ease. As for those that are having a hard time, just call them Captain Hook...no imagination!! Please pass on my congrats and thanks to the kids.

Can I TG someone my answers? I think I have it, but I must be missing something as it won't go. Thanks!

You are a freaking genius!! You solved this puzzle.

You solved this puzzle in 0 seconds and were the 242nd Tanga member to solve it. You earned 20 points for solving this.

thanks 55

I applaud the idea for this puzzle, it was very cute and well put together, but I still don't think it should have been featured. If you get stuck on anything, you're basically screwed with no way of figuring it out.

Your kids are awesome.

that was awesome. way to go kids!! also, even though i needed salt to get #6 (i was thinking dino for too long) it is awesome. also, very good job on pooh!!

Very nice. Clever idea - I love that they are real drawings and not some adult "mocked-to-make-them-look-like-they-were-drawn-by-children" pictures.

I guess number 6 gave everybody, including me, a hang-up. Once I got the salt and from the creator and the clue from the other 2 letters, it came to me.

Nevermind about the TG, I got it. I thought that #3 was something you drink out of and was stuck on it for quite a while. Oh well, at least I solved it. It was kind of fun, even for someone who doesn't have kids. :)

I'm stumped. How big is #3? What is it made of? (I wish there was a button I could push and get a clue).

[72] it's smaller than a breadbox and has a button on top. but I can't tell you if it's actually related to a team as I don't recognize the colors for any teams I know about.

Even before I scrolled down to the comments I knew this art was created by children not by an adult trying to immitate "kids" art. There something almost impossible for an adult to capture about children's artwork. I simply adore #6 - what a great little drawing. My compliments to these wonderful artists.

[70][74] Thanks for recognizing this really was done by kids and not, as [59] hinted, done by adults to look like kids. I swear I did absolutely no touch-up on any of them. They were all done in Microsoft Paint. #6 was one of the first and done by the youngest. After he saw his sister using the paint-fill feature, he refused to do any more "line" drawings!

[67] You aren't quite screwed. I made sure there were so many crossings that a cross-word solver would give you a small sampling of choices for most of them.

Cute! Guess I'm really a parent, since I could identify at least most of them!

Very fun! Got them all almost too easily.

Great idea! I got them all without looking at the comments but I did have to get help from my wife. :)

Got them all relatively easily, as I live with a 5 year old. The only one I got stuck on was #12, because I was thinking of Zeus and not Jupiter.

thanks [57]! I was totally stuck on #6 just like everyone else.. I absolutely love all the pictures (#6 was probably my favorite actually). Tell your kids they did a fantastic job!
[EDIT] Spelling error...

haha 6 had me stuck

I get it now, first I thought it had a beak haha

haha 6 had me stuck

I get it now, first I thought it had a beak haha

You got it! But we're not going to save your answer.
Hmmm. Don't know what that means, but I guess I got it.
Very cute!

Dragon, aliens??? Who knows....who cares? Very self-indulgent puzzle IMHO.