Jun 22, 2008 Hypercross Puzzle

You've got to be kidding.

Probably fun if you know all the games in question, but it's rather tough and topical if you don't.

As it turns out though, there's a short list that all the answers are taken from.

Yeah, sorry if this is too hard. I made it many many months ago, and at the time, it was the top 10 games on Board Game Geek. I really just made it to check out how making hypercrosses work, I never really expected it to be published.

I think I have all but one... other than a BGG list that no longer exists is there somewhere else we can go?

[4] If they were the top 10 games from BGG months ago...

Yikes! Most of the images are really bleary! For future reference to hyper makers, heed this advice from leadfoot's puzzle making guidelines discussion thread:

"All Hypercross images are displayed at 400 (wide) x 300 (tall) pixels, so do yourself a favor and MAKE YOUR IMAGES EXACTLY THIS SIZE. Tanga will WARP/DISTORT/STRETCH all Hyper clues to be exactly 400 × 300." (original emphasis)

Even if you have a smaller image, it's much better to have whitespace around it than to have it get distorted.

Anyway, I actually got 3 of these on the first pass and a couple others look familiar, so hopefully this one won't be too bad to complete.

[5] I have been using the BGG lists, but I'm stuck on #9

[7] I just played 9 a couple of weeks ago; I will trade you that one for 6 - send me a TG if you wish.

Edit: Phew, just got #6 (missed that one many times going through the BGG list).

[7] You can still TG me for help w/ #9 if you would like.

Or I can just give a bit of a hint (to narrow down the searching) for #9: if you look through Tanga's past deals, it's within the first 2 pages.

Edit: caveat: at least it is right now - to those of you that solve this later on, it might not be.

Hey jlub - I liked this puzzle! It was fairly easy to find these on BGG (especially once I started getting crossing letters) and I learned some stuff about some new games (which is always a good thing!).

For those struggling on this one, 7 of the 10 answers would still work if the puzzle was made today; the other 3 are not far away.

[7] Yeah, that is quite the big challenge to figure out.

If anyone out there is still checking this...

A clue for #9 is: it is "A BIG" game. 2nd hint: The board is a map of Spain. Hopefully that gives it away :)

ugh, I absolutely hate these boardgame "find the picture" puzzles......