Feb 27, 2008 Hypercross Puzzle

First 1st!

Why did this come up early tonight?

Yep. I was going to give last night's one more try and got #5 at 9:17 (GMT-5).

Very nice, scarver!

Great puzzle, no idea why it was up so early though. Sucks for most people...

can't figure out the meta clue - it's gobbledy gook for me

[5] it's not like the others!

Nothing better than competing with people who don't realize that you're competing against them.

[5] I hope you don't expect me to talk.

[8] LOL!

[8] That's some killer salt. It actually took me five letters to figure it out myself.

Awsome puzzle

You solved this puzzle in 0 seconds and were the 25th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 96 points for solving this.

Awesome theme. Not too difficult, but quite fun! I'm glad I happened to show up early too!

and I cant figure out what the image for the 11,12 letters is...

[13] Check your Tangagrams.

[13] It's a Microsoft product. Recently replaced.

[13] Not sure... but I think it's supposed to be the logo from a version of Windows. I filled in the rest, and it was obvious.

I don't understand 11,12 on the last metaclue

thanks for your help!

It's not often I get to play with you guys on a weeknight!

I liked the fact that the puzzle came up early 'cause I could participate without breaking my New Years resolution.

It's been nice

FUN! Nice theme. Good Job scarver!

Grrr Would have been done 10 minutes ago but the spelling on #7 is wrong.

[20] It took you 10 minutes to correct the spelling for one answer?

No it's not.

Man, I knew all of these and the quote is one of my favorite all-time movie quotes!!! Why so early!!

68th...would have been sooner, but work called

So why was it early, anyway? Totally missed out...

[17] everybody has their own version...

:-o I was wondering how in 11 minutes I could be 107th.. And to think I stayed up until 3am to do these. Fun puzzle anyway, just a shame it was up early.

[20]: Yep, second down is misspelled. Bah.

Nice and enjoyable puzzle otherwise.

came up early, mis spelled #7 thanks [20] but it was spelled that way on the site I used as reference and I didn't even think I was typing way to fast lol....got 114

[27] yeah... I'm 111th!

[20][28] Maybe it depends on your side of the pond.

[31]: Actually, it doesn't, since it's a movie title.

[deleted due to lag]

[32] I guess it was released overseas first. But anything in our jurisdiction is subject to our cultural dominance.

so frustrating i must have a spelling error and it's not 2 down

Gah, had this earlier and had the second one mispelled as well. oh well, I still get my 20. Great puzzle scarver!

[22] Yes, it is.
Removed link - too salty

nm got it

Regarding the "Kill Bill" answer: While your spelling is considered an acceptable spelling of the word, according to IMDB the alternate spelling is used.

6th letter should be a "C" but is "S" in this puzzle.

Heh. Amusing. I actually had that as the shut-down sound for my computer for a while.

[39] Yeah.. I was noticing that. IMDB shows the british spelling, while the puzzle uses the american.

I must have used the same database as scarver, as all the spellings I found matched the puzzle. Up early = 124th.

I got four letters into the metaclue and guessed it. Whee!

This was a fun one.

ok.. the misspelling really burns me. I had this. over ah hour ago but couldn't resolve it before I had to leave. I get back home to find out it was a misspelling not of my own.

Luckily, being from this "side of the pond", I naturally spelled it the way it was in the puzzle, rather than what the correct answer should have been. But the misspelling is actually given in the clue, anyway.

I am actually in the middle of watching the series now. Got the entire lexicon for the holidays. And the answer to the 7th clue is definitely misspelled. The title of the movie is officially spelled the other way.
[8] is great salt, by the way.

Count me as one more bitten by the spelling error, it would be nice if it could be corrected. Fun and quick puzzle otherwise, though.

no matter which side of the pond you reside, as [47] said, the only correct spelling is that of the actual title. But as [48] said, it was a nice fun puzzle.

It's too bad that this answer requires happening to know whether this title was renamed or not. It's not like "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" vs. "Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone" where the difference is obvious, either. It's almost impossible to include it in the puzzle without frustrating a large group of people.

If you pick the official spelling, then you please the people who happened to know that the spelling is not the one you're used to or who found it on a list, but annoy the others who hadn't noticed that the British spelling was retained. If you adopt the other spelling, it's not quite the name of the movie, and you frustrate those who knew the real name.

If you are the creator of a Hypercross and you spell a word incorrectly, you must go to your room and stare at a wall. The amount of time you will spend staring at that wall will be equal to the amount of time everyone spent trying to figure out why on Gods green earth won't it just tell me I'm a freaking genius already because I have read and re-read every single answer at least fifteen times and I carefully inputted each letter of every word over and over again. It only took me 5 minutes to figure out every answer for this easy puzzle. Unfortunately for you I spent 30 nightmarish minutes racking my brain on a spelling error. You can start with that.

lol figured the theme out by just the 2nd clue

[5] super salty

[53] ? [5]?
?

Maybe it's not misspelled, but just translated.

I liked the puzzle, though somehow I put in the wrong spelling anyway, even though I was copying from a list on Wiki. :)

What was a pain was transcribing all the meta spots into the last answer. With the big puzzle sitting right on top of the grid, it is hard to transcribe without saving that image and opening it separately (which is what I ended up doing).

not sure how the last mirror image crossword pic works, but thanks [8] for the salt

Since I hate Bond movies, I had no idea of the misspelled one and it worked fine for me!

I thought the Windows clue in the meta-answer was pretty weak, though.

(Commence Bond-hater flaming)

[58] Try to find an x in any of the Bond titles!

I waited over twelve hours to make a comment because I wanted to see if I changed or revised my opinion about the spelling in #7. I haven't. The title is mispelled in this puzzle, period.

The fact that there is a different film that has the same name, but with the S makes the spelling problem even nastier.

Doing a google image search, the title WAS spelled both ways. I saw two movie posters in adjacent images that were identical except for the one letter.

Oh come on already, let the spelling go. I knew as soon as I saw that answer that the puzzle author would be spelling it one of two ways. Yes, it was incorrect, but was it hard to figure out...no. This was more fun than the past 2 hypercrosses. I didn't have to google every answer or solve a bunch of cryptopixes.

[60] WAH!

[60] According to my Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, College Edition (Copyright 1966), the spelling LICENSE is correct. It has no listing for any other spelling.

Assuming that Scarver is an American, it is perfectly legitimate for him/her to use this spelling in the hypercross.

I do not have any opinion whatsoever on the spelling on the poster.

Wiktionary has both spellings listed.

[62] How Americans spell the word is completely irrelevant. What matters is the actual movie title. Check Wikipedia, check IMDB.com, check the film's own website...

I'm new to this, and i don't see a submit button. Am I supposed to just hit check answers at the end and that counts as submission? appreciate the help.

[66] Yes.

[64] what the dictionary says is irrelevant. This is a title of a movie. Just like a title of a book. The titel is the title. It doesnt change spelling based on where it is located. "The Color Purple" is still "The Color Purple" in England.

If you check out the official MGM website (or at least the only link provided by the IMDB.com on the "official sites" page for the movie), the page for this movie gives the 'S'-spelling as the primary heading. However, it shows an image of a movie poster which has the 'C'-spelling. Also, there seems to be no page available for the 'C'-spelling on the MGM website. Yet, the movie itself, as listed as part of box sets, has the 'C'-spelling.

I like to think of it like this. The movie has a foreign language (or foreign dialect) title, which is in Standard British English, which was translated here into Standard American English. It's somewhat like translating "Voyna i mir" into "War and Peace," except less drastic because we already knew the meaning of the title when it featured the 'C'-spelling.

I guess it is a good thing that "The Pursuit of Happyness" did not fit the theme. ;) No telling how it would have been spelled. Its all good. I enjoyed the puzzle. I won't let the needless frustration take away from that.

[65] Its spelled both ways on the DvD's The LTD edition I have spells it with an S and not a C.

[71] my special edition and ultimate edition dvds both spell it with a "c". This includes the packaging as well as the actual title in the movie itself.

done!

Very fun Hyper!!