May 01, 2011 Hypercross Puzzle

Thoroughly Excellent.

That was a lot of fun. Thank you Jeb!

A lot to wike there.

Very nice, jebediehard

The was weawy twicky to figuw out the theme.

This is tough----stuck on like half of them..

all but 4 now...

nm p&s

Whoo! I definitely earned my points for that one. I thought I was never going to get #2. But I had so much fun puzzling out each one of them!

#2 and #4 have me stumped.
edit: Got #4, still staring at #2

I was putting in the wong woods a wong time!

I can't get 8 and 10 to cwoss wight....

Huh. I think the puzzle would have been MUCH more challenging if we had to type in the words IN HIS LISP! Twicks, tweats, etc....

That was fun! And under 50 in all 3 for me, a happy night in all. :)

WOOHOO! First time to get all 3 in the top 100! In fact, it might be the first time for me to get all 3, period - I'm AWFUL at one word wonders.

I particularly enjoyed this hypercross; two thumbs up!

Spelling is a killer. I thought I had them all, but not accepting it.

P&S nevermind. I was spelling what I thought he would say, not the answer.

[10] Me too. Roops.

What a fun puzzle. Number 2 stumped me for a little while as I wanted the answer to start with a different word. It was so clever Jeb.

I lost some time because I thought the answers were how Elmer would say them. There really wasn't anything definite in the puzzle that would make me think it should have been otherwise.

[17] I did the same thing at first. Backtracked once I realized it just didn't work that way :-).

#2 took me a while . . .

This OWW was fweeking bwilliant!

[16] "Bwut it dwoes stawt wif wake!" (as Elmer would say)

[20] Ha ha, yeah, you're right. I changed my comment. I actually meant to type another word that starts with "m."

Not a huge fan--spewwing and undestwanding was tough...

Just stuck on 8 and 9.

I don't have many of these figured out yet, but I don't see how the ends of #3 and #7 can match up.

spend minutes staring at clue with no idea...then the head slap and the answer...

Good puzzle

Oh, thanks [17]. That should help!

I liked it.... but it was more fun typing in Fuddish.

Of course, P&S.

Anyone care to TG me about #2?

[17,18] I was baffled for a long time as to what I was doing wong and then your posts sunk in.
Fun puzzle!

Just stuck on #1 and #4 now.

#4 ????? is giving me trouble.

Any salt for #4?

[32],[33] At first I thought I needed to know who he is, but just focus on what he has.

I still can't figure out #4. Salt please!

there's no excuse for the answers not being in Elmerspeak. Defeated the point of an otherwise cool puzzle.

[35] Ironically, his wrong hand his painted

[36] yes...I hate the way this is done.....no clue as to weather to use Elmer's spelling or the correct one is hinted in the puzzle.

BTW....use the correct, spelling.

Okay, I've figured everything out, but it's telling me it's not correct. Hate when that happens.

vewy vewy twicky

[36] I agree with your pwefewence but I think it was an awesome puzzle nonetheless

i'd be indebted fow some sawt on #5

Anybody willing to check my list? I'm not seeing any errors on my own.

Edit: Never mind. I still had #9 in Elmer-speak!

Not taking-will someone check my answers?

FINALLY!!!

[42] The performer's name matters.

[43],[44] see [38] - are your answers all real words in non-Elmer speak?

Got it. This one hurt my head! Thanks!

[46] OHHHHHH!!!

Personally, I think having the answers NOT in Elmer-speak made the puzzle even better.

As far as the puzzle not cluing which way it should be, I think you guys ([17][38] in particular) must have missed half the cluing. This is just like the stickman puzzles. Elmer is cluing the *real* answer while the pictures clue how he'd say it. If I just typed in how he would have said it, I would have been describing the picture and completely ignoring what he said.

What a great puzzle to earn my apple on - thanks!

[49] Disagree completely with you.....if both ways are being clued in the picture as you say....there is no indication which of the 2 methods is the right one to use in the puzzle.

At least I knew to use WAIN instead of WAYNE since it wouldn't fit in the blanks.

And yes, I knew it was a stickman derivative puzzle from the start.

Nobody had trouble with the red and blue boat on a leash?

Finally figured it out.

Okay, I'm going to try to put them in one more time.................................

Jeb- are you originally from someplace that's known to have a particular accent, like say, Boston or NY City? That's a guess based on the fact that all of the clues and answers rhyme except for #1. Only way I can get that to rhyme is with an accent : ).

Edit: [52] I posted before I refreshed & saw your comment : ).

[52] I did. It was the second-to-last one I solved. You need to come up with a phrase that describes what the woman is doing. Saying it without Elmer's lisp gives you the real phrase that means to "cause trouble".

[11] Thanks, because that's exactly what I did, and I was wondering why it wasn't taking.... grr...

I am quite surprised to see so many gripes here ... this is easily one of my top 5 favorite HCs so far this year. I completely agree with [49]; I think it would have detracted greatly from the puzzle if the answers were in Elmer-speak (not only that, but it's not like there is only one way to interpret how to convert & spell a word to Elmer-speak ... Jeb definitely made the right choice).

[11] [52] Me too, had to go back & 'correct' each answer. I thought the twist was to use the 'correct' spelling but with 'W's replacing 'R's.

[58] I'm not going to argue that 'Elmer speak' is the 'correct' way, but I will point out that a 'rule' such as I pointed out in [59] makes the solve method a bit ambiguous if seen from that perspective.

Edit: and I should have mentioned that I don't have major problems with the solution, just pointing out how I originally processed the puzzle.

Edit 2: on second thought, the 'W /R' rule wouldn't make sense with all of the clues.

Can someone check my list? I'm 99% sure I have the right answers but they will not go through.

They are the real words and not Fuddisms.

the 148th Tanga member to solve it. Not without help though.........These are pretty difficult if you can't identify the wanted words first....my head hurts!

[61] TG sent.

Thanks again [63]!! I appreciate your help!!

This puzzle reminds me of Robin Williams old routine of Elmer Fudd singing. It is hilarious!! I need to look that up an You Tube and watch it again

done except for 2 little salt please

I really like the puzzle but #s 1 and 2 are still stumping me.

#2 what did the guy on the white thing just do?

Hilarious - very entertaining!!

#1 don't do what to start trouble?
Hues Corporation mad a song out of that phrase.

I'm stuck like [61], pretty sure I have them all correct but not taking. A TG, please?

[Edit] NM, got it.

[67] being thick crusted tonight for #2 Get what the guy is is doing ; get what the white stuff is but still not clear
is it a yard tool?

[71] if Elmer is saying it the guy is ? ing up IN THE ?

Very Very Fun! :D Thanks!

[65] [66] tg's sent.

[71] Remember that the answers are being clued by Elmer's quote (that is very helpful in #2). Yard tool is on the right track, yes.

Great puzzle, but I think the answers should have been Elmer's. That's how I had them at first - had to go change all of them. Several are very, very clever! :)

[38] I disagree. There ARE clues as to which way to go. At least #3 and #8 (and probably others) wouldn't fit the other way.

Looking for salt on #5 - I'm missing out on the first word...

EDIT: Got it, thanks [80] - but I have obviously misspelled something else... ugh

[79] Pay close attention to the artist!

Brilliant

[77] Thank you!!! I wanted to say some of that but as a lowly puzzle maker/solver didn't figure I could get away with spoiling any answers. :)

I'm always amazed what gets dogged here and what passes through. This was perhaps one of my favorite hypercrosses ever!

Wondering if I can TG my answers to someone for a spell check... I am missing it somewhere...

Got it now - had to fix one of my fudds....

[69] is the only reason I could get number 1. Thank you for not letting it bug me all day.I agree that it might have been slightly stretching but it makes sense

[83] You can send them to me - I might not answer right away but should be back at my computer sometime in the next 2-3 hours.

[77] [82] I guess it boils down to a matter of preference. I really enjoyed doing the puzzle, and thought it was a cool twist having the answers in Elmerspeak - specificallybecause they weren't real words! Translating them back into normal English made the phrases more pedestrian and boring. I did like the puzzle and thought it was very well envisioned and constructed, but thought the final translation fell flat. But as all puzzlemakers know, you can't please everyone all of the time - especially on Tanga!

Great puzzle jebediehawd. One of the most fun Hypercrosses I've done. And I agree with [77] whole-heartedly.

i was going to say something about all these crazy comments, but i think [77] summed it up perfectly. gweat job jeb!!

[77] - Sounds like someone needs to take a chill pill.

I tawt I taw a puddytat! I did! I did taw a puddytat!

Stuck on #9. Salt please.
got it

finally got them all, think I need to go take some tywenol now. (good puzzle, by the way!)

[86] got to disagree... i've seen a few (admittedly VERY few) tanga hypercross puzzles that used 'non-sense' words to make a theme... that just defy the purposes of being a crossWORD puzzle.

I completely agree with Arnott's arugment that it just doesn't make sense to throw combinations of words that just don't make up legitimate phrases/words.

[93] But it makes sense to use those illegitimate phrases/words as clues?

It's not taking it...I think I'm hung up on #10 & #11. I know the answer, just not how to spell it if Fudd can't pronounce the 2nd R in the word.

Ok, I tried everything and it wasn't working. #9 ended up being the tricky one (I had Tweety)
Also, I understand the controversy now...I thought they were SUPPOSED to be Fudd speak,
not translated back to real words.

[77] Nobody says wags to witches. ~ ELMER FUDD DOES!!!

I'm fairly sure you don't know anyone out there who walks a boat.
~ No, but Elmer WOCKS THE BOAT.

I had great fun with this one. A little challenging here and there, but that made it all the more fun when I hit on an answer.