Dec 12, 2007 Hypercross Puzzle

ack! I'm allergic

are you kidding me???? I don't know, nor do I ever care to know, that much about cats.

A dog person here. Pass. (at least it's not us-centric.... :-) )

bah... passing on this as well

I hate cats - they make me sneeze. Right there with you Steeple!

Wikipedia is absolutely no help on this one..unless i'm looking at the wrong part.

booooo......I like cats...but this is tough! UGH. I think I might pass too.

Strangely "ugly-a##-cat" doesn't fit in all of these.

How is this a puzzle?

Apparently its a puzzle after you fill in all the answers but one, and no cat breed fits for the first picture. (The grey cat with green eyes)

I can only figure out a couple of the cats..I think I'm giving up on this one. Way to much work.

[10] That's the one I'm stuck on. I think it's supposed to be "Korat", but there are too many letters in the answer box.

yeah, gray cat has me stumped as well..... Korat was the only thing that I found that might match, but it doesnt fit

I don't know any of these cats ... not a category for me!

[12] That's the closest I can find as well.

[12] Yeah, that's what I thought... and just confirmed... (found the exact image on Google)

Great... so this puzzle is not only ridiculously obscure, but also broken. Yay Tanga.

[15] If you type "Korat" into google images, that exact picture comes up as the 8th entry... I've been trying other misspellings of "korat" but haven't found any that work yet.

Agreed. Looks like Korat to me too, doesn't fit. Bah!

Same problem I'm having.

Pretty sure the third across is a Sphynx, but that doesn't fit at all...

I don't even like cats.

Wow!
35 minutes in and not a solve yet!

[21] Me either, with the exception of lolcats.

Has anyone successfully solved this one yet? I too have them all except for what should be "korat".

Tried a bunch of various spellings on Korat, no luck

[22] I looked up grey cat breeds and I looked up blue cat breeds, and absolutely none of them fit. I also tried Korats, korrat, koraat, and koratt... nothing fits.

Any hints on the 2nd across -- white oriental looking cat with blue eyes?

Dupe.

[25] Same here, am sure it is Korat, but no clue how it is misspelled.

[26] Likes to drink coffee?

I think I have them all too....but it's not accepting it.

any salt on the 4th-to-last, the big-eared one with a a pinkish background?

Oh man, I accidentally clicked on an ad, went back and lost all the answers I'd entered so far. That sucked.

[32] that was the first one I got....cute song about that breed in lady and the tramp

(11:44 EST) No completions yet, according to the puzzle archive page.

[32] Loud crybaby.

[30] are you asking me or giving salt?
if you're asking, no - just got some time on my hands :)

[30] Huh. I'd dismissed that one because the wiki page said they were longhaired, but a google image search shows you're right.

[33] It's ok, it's broken anyway.

Well, I just tried korat?, kora?t, and kor?at (where ? is any given letter of the alphabet), and none of them worked.

So, is CBDroege around?

This is a great site, except it doesn't help make #1 fit:
http://www.cfa.org/breeds.html

[41] Last activity was 12 hours ago.

I can haz fountain-mountain–hairy-guy?

thanks! haha, I can't believe THAT's the one I couldn't get, but I had the horizontal one wrong. umm, so now I'm done, except stuck with the same Korat problem as everyone else.

CBDroege

1) Have you checked your spellings in the puzzle?
2) Picture identification is one of the hardest things to do, even when it's a topic as specific as "breed of cats". This puzzle puts me in mind of a dinosaur identification puzzle that was pretty impossible last year.

Is there one site where you got all the pics from?

I haz a answer. Wut i do wif it?

Even more telling, typing "korat cat" into google web search pulls up that pic as the ideal pic for that phrase. Heh.

It must have been typo'd somehow, but I wonder as what. Could there be a control/non-visible character in there or something?

[46] Some, but not all, pictures seem to come from http://www.fanciers.com/breeds.html

Does ANYONE have an answer different than KORAT for that one? Did anyone get this puzzle completed yet?

Oh, that's right! "Korat" is spelled with a silent "Q". My bad.

[48] Tried it with just a space following Korat, also with a . and ,
None of them worked.

re: silent Q... there isn't one. I just realized that might have made desperate people get annoyed at me.

[53] No... we're saving all that love for someone else tonight :)

lol...I thought it was funny! [53]

[52] I also tried a 255 character at the end to no avail.

no more time to waste on a broken puzzle.
g'nite

[53] I tried the Q. I knew you were joking and I'd already tried the silent Q anyway, but that didn't stop me, gosh dang it. This may not be worth the points... Goodnight, all!

No one expects the silent Q!

Scroll down on this page, it sure looks EXACTLY like that cat:
http://www.catfacts.org/korat-cat-facts.htm

[60] That's the exact same image :(

[60] Also pretty similar looking to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Veda%2Cchat-adulte-m%C3%A2le-race-korat.JPG

I think we've pretty undeniably established what breed the cat is. Now all we need is an admin or the puzzle creator to fix the puzzle.

It's not even Si-Sawat, as it's known in Thailand.

I've tried doubling letters and creative capitalization, too.

How do puzzles like this get approved? I know there are tons of good Hypercrosses that haven't been published...

Hmmmm, maybe cat is visiting US to make movie! Change his name to Borat?
(just kidding!)

[66], believe it or not, I tried that already. :-)

I just tried korat? where ? is each of the control characters, and none worked either.

This sucks. I really like cats and wanted to do the puzzle.

[69] Instead, the puzzle seems to be doing us.

I hate cats. I refuse to have anything to do with this puzzle (except for posting this comment).

[71] Smart, the rest of us are wasting our time trying to guess a mistake

Did anyone Tangagram Aaron about this yet?

[73] I didn't.

Thats a korat with alternate name Sa Sawat Nothing works

Is there any way to save my answers in case this puzzle gets fixed? I can't sit here anymore!

I can't find the very first one... I see a few cats that look like him, but not six letters.

EDIT: WOW... what a mega-smeek that was. Sorry guys.

Tarindel, your salt in [30] looks wrong to me. I have a different answer for that one, and a picture to back it up.

Can anyone confirm the far right down was featured in song (in the plural)?

[78] http://www.cfa.org/breeds/profiles/jpgs-bob/siamese.gif

Same image.

[78] They looked the same to me...I figured once they get the puzzle fixed I would be able to figure that one out.

[78], you're wrong, [30] is right. The one featured in the song is fourth from the bottom

(comment nixed due to not knowing what I'm talking about)

I tangagrammed Aaron, so hopefully he'll be able to come fix it if he gets the message.

[78]if we're talking about the same one...."we are _ _ _ _ _ _ _ if you please....meeeeeeooooowwww....."

Anyone know the next line?!! lol

oh, and there are a few breeds that look similar to the one you're thinking of:
this link might help you
http://www.cfa.org/breeds/slideshow/index.html

[85] is regarding the song

I found the puzzle creator's home number. Should I call it? :P

Well nobody has got this and we all have found the korat cat problem Help!

[87] i say go for it. if you wake him up, even better - punishment for driving us crazy! ;)

[87] Yes, and meow loudly

[90] lol

I didn't hate cats until I tried to solve this.

Gah, it was a fax line :(

Too bad we can't give posts "thumbs up" -- [90] would have earned one. :-)

fax him

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[93] fax him a picture of a kitty with a gun pointed at its head and the words "if you don't fix the problem on your hypercross, the cat gets it!"

[95] I don't have a fax machine :( Anybody who does want to send him a fax? Assuming it actually is the right number...

[84] "We are __________ if you don't please.
We are former resident of ___________....."

[98] If he can mis-type a cat breed, he can mis-type his phone number.