Hypercross: Wiggle a Pointy Stick

Tricky... easier once you get the theme.

Guildenstern, is that you?

very nice puzzle

Funny, when I started out, my mistakes were laughable.

I did this earlier, but now that I've come back to look again, my answers don't show up.

Also, is anyone besides me ready to give up on these hypercrosses now that the scrolling is SO AWFUL?

Wow, that's one I actually figured out myself. Once you get the central theme it gets easy.

Awesome awesome puzzle!! I totally love this one, as I love any Hypercross with a literature theme. A great a-ha moment, and then fun fun fun til the end. Newsradio clues make me smile.

Thanks much, llta, and may you favo(u)r us with many more.

Great hypercross ... surprising that this theme hasn't been used before - it's a good one!

neat puzzle. Just wish there woule be some protocol for numbers in these puzzles.

Where does the system tell you what place you got and your time under the new regime? I've been looking...

ETA: Doh. I forgot. No stats for hypercross.

I can't figure out the leftmost across, and I've looked through lists of these...

Of course, posting is the way to figure it out. Always 2 seconds too late.

I like it

hey all. glad youre enjoying it! more to come.... someday!

Thank you Doctor Who for helping me get the theme! :)

Very easy. Nice.

[5] Tanga Monkey. Scrolling down to see the clues is bad. It discourages me from wanting to work on the puzzle.

too obscure and annoying

loved it

[19] Uncultured brute.

I love puzzles that let me rely on my theatre background. :) Although it took me a while to get two of them.

The answer to the one with the "Tone & Sweat" guy made me crack up. Thanks for that. :-)

[19] I agree. Why not use a writer people have HEARD of.

the news radio one is hilarious

It would be better to have the clues showing up on the side like they used to. Having to scroll down constantly is getting old fast.

To the people talking about scrolling, I agree, as does TangaJoe, who said they're working on fixing that a few puzzle threads ago.

Good one!

Great puzzle. I can't figure out the left most across either.

[29] wiki helps

I like this one, despite the fact that I NEVER spell the longest across right.

Wikipedia's giving me no help for the left most across, either.

Whew, finally got it. The only entry that, while fitting the theme, doesn't exactly match the others in execution.

Love the theme, though. Finally some use for that information I've been storing around for a while.

Great, great puzzle.

Some excellent clues in this one.

ugh. I think I have it solved but I have something misspelled.

haha, I think this is the first time i've gotten the theme from the title alone

Had the 'about' ones mixed up for a while. Good puzzle.

Excellent puzzle!

Why did it take me 19 hours to figure out the title of the puzzle? I thought it was a theater term. Sheesh!

I thought this puzzle was actually pretty crappy... it was simple, but that doesn't make it good. The bathroom guys one, there is no way in hell you could get it without the theme. And the Cheerios box? please...

[39] "there is no way in hell you could get it without the theme"

So figure out the theme and use the theme to solve it.

I have no clue on the bathroom guys.

[31] [39] [41] Fair point on the bathroom guys not being *exactly* consistent and therefore generating confusion. That was the first clue I made and the puzzle topic drifted slightly as I continued; it was posted before I had time to go back and change it. I hope it didn't throw you too much -- as a bit of salt, perhaps "of" would have been better than "from."

As for the other complaint (many are too hard to get without the theme) the goal was to make a few clues that were possible regardless of theme-getting, and a few that wouldn't rely on image ID, and have that be enough to generate an "aha" that would lead to the rest, with a bit of wiki-searching if necessary. I think the consensus is that this is what happened for many, so I stand by the puzzle as a whole.

I'm interested to hear peoples' opinions about the "1 of 2" (etc) clues -- was that clear enough? Without proper numbering it's a bit tough to link two clues. I could have made them into big mega-clues but I dislike those, both aesthetically and from a solver's perspective (ie not enough to go on if you only get one part). I always crossed them with each other to help avoid excessive click-searching; did that help?