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Hypercross Puzzles are crossword puzzles with a unique twist! Instead of having the standard, boring text clues, you will be given photo clues.
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Hypercross
Jan 28, 2008 Hypercross Puzzle
by Arnott the Puzzlemaker
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HUH?!
Okay, what the picture is...doesn't fit????
I think they're doing what I would like to do if I created a totally evil puzzle...give obvious clues that don't fit and have no common theme!
Nice puzzle...for some reason I made this way harder than it needed to be.
I get the theme, there's some I can't put together...
SHENANIGANS!
I'm missing the blimp one and the prisoner one. Help?
I'm confused too... From the title I have a feeling this might be all about the creator of the puzzle??
edit: ok that took awhile, but once I finally figured out the theme it was a fun one.
Nevermind
[7] You can Google them both, if you have the words.
I'm stuck on prisoner.
Help with the prisoner one?
3rd! That was fun. The picture with the strawberry gave me the theme.
[2] Correct.
[3] Incorrect, in re: theme.
[8] Nope. Was just the title I thought helped the most.
I get the theme now. Prisoner salt please?
The prisoner one is the last one for me too
Nevermind. I was a bit too Hastings.
OOOH! I get it now! Any salt on the prisoner one?
[11], [12] Stuck on the answer... or can't get the clue word?
[17] LOL.
Arnott, I can't figure out the clue word... I tried a few
[19] can't get the clue word.
Whoooo, that was fun!
okay, I got the answer by guessing what name fit those letters I had, but I still don't know what the clue word was for the prisoner
It took me until the sack before I got it. Great theme for an eponymous puzzle! :)
It turns out that the prisoner isn't a pro.
gah, still stuck on the prisoner and the blimp!
loved the puzzle. very cool.
I get the first part of the prisoner, just not the rest of it.....help!
For the blimp one- think more general for the 2nd part.
Awesome puzzle, Arnott! Still no idea about the sack, but I loved the rest of it.
Working on computers for over 20 years and with a GUI for almost as long and I still was stuck on that stupid prisoner/mouse pointer for waaay too long. Perhaps an I-beam would have made things go a bit quicker?
From the looks of it, I'm the only one having trouble on the first clue. I must be having a brain freeze. Any salt?
Great puzzle Arnott. Took a few to catch on.
Down to the Jolly One. Any salt for that?
I've always thought of the arrow in the prisoner clue as a pointer. @#$%!
thank you [35]
That prisoner isn't a pro. What's the opposite of pro?
Amateur!
Yeah, once again... the one clue I was on the fence about is the the troublemaker :) And it was even tough to fit it into the grid.
There's plenty of salt above, but you just need to think of the puzzley (shorter) word that means prisoner.
Great puzzle Arnott ... one of the best hypercross puzzles!
I got the prisoner one... I was just being a butthead. :) Any salt on the Big Veggie Guy?
Thx, davey. And blah, Mutombo et al.
[41] He only doggy paddles.
[41] I like salt on my veggies :) Do you know who he is? He usually goes by three words, and then you subtract two words.
[43] LOL, I don't get that at all :)
[41] Big being the operative word here.
[44] Inconceivable!
Best movie ever, if you can figure out what I'm referencing...Don't want to say much more 'cause it would give the answer away.
OHHHHH, the arrow wasn't just a pointer... now the prisoner makes sense
By the way, this puzzle was fantastic!
[44] you didn't get [43]? You have some movie watching to do!
Any salt on the sack??
Nice puzzle, Arnott!
[43] Best salt ever. Not for those that need the salt, but for those of us who saw the movie and get the quote.
Very nice concept. I loved the AHA moment!
How about some blimp salt? After 40 minutes I'm finally down to one clue.
[48], [51], [53] Thanks.
[54] He vants to suck your bloood.
[54] Do you have the clue word? If so, you can Google it (along with the other word you need). If not, you'll need to know what Bass is (it's not beer, for example).
[56] [57] Thanks...I used just about every other word but the right one for that last picture.
Great puzzle, Arnott...first challenge I've had for a while on a Hypercross.
Great puzzle Arnott...got 'em all except the friggin' prisoner...
[59] Read through the comments again. You'll find there is some really good salt.
DAMN THAT PRISONER!!!!
Also, seems I forgot to put a plus sign in front of the "arrow thingie." Not that I needed to, but it certainly would have helped a few people :)
[26] has some GREAT salt for the prisoner!
I liked this one a lot. My initial bafflement was pretty complete, so the aha moment was sweet.
[59] If you prevent that clue from turning you into a VICTim, you will be VICTorious.
That was indeed a fine, fine hypercross. Didn't get the AHA moment until the second to last clue. Not sure what that says about me...
[64]Finally got it. Good one!
Very nice puzzle, Dave. I was betting on a different guy for #2 at first, and wanted to use the other, more obscure, word for the musical note.
[65] Hee hee. Maybe you like a sunny day? Sweeping the clouds away? Friendly neighbors there, thatâs where we meet?
Great puzzle! Felt good to work them all out.
[67] Yeah, I made sure to cross that one at the beginning and end so there'd be no doubt. It doesn't help that the other guy has the same number of letters (and I almost used them both, just for the hell of it :)
[69] Yea! Awesome. That *exactly* what I was going for. Thanks.
akkk will try in the morning
Okay, thanks all. I'm out for the rest of the night.
Was stuck on the prisoner as well, but [17] salted that one perfectly.
[46] Chu keep using dat word. I do not tink it means whatchu tink it means.
Yep, one of the all-time greatest movies!
Thanks, Arnott. Fun puzzle! With, as has been said, just enough WTF? before the Aha! moment.
clever indeed. I love the "ah ha" moment when the theme kicked in. from there is was mostly fill in the blanks... but a few stumped me for a bit. I did it salt free so I'm always happy with that.
jimminy christmas I finally got the aha moment...I am way slow tonight!
I'm breaking my "no hypercross" policy, just because it's Arnott.
EDIT: And happy I did so. Excellent puzzle!
If anyone needs the help, that isn't really the correct use of the word on "the arrow thing".
Instead, imagine a slowly blinking vertical line (horizontal, if you're old school)
OK, I got the prisioner with a guess. Can someone pm me with the way it was supposed to be figured out.
btw [43] best salt ever. loved it!
[77] Wow. Thanks, John.
[78] Actually it is *also* correct... and looked better to me than the other thing. But LOL, that one damn clue will continue to haunt me :)
Okay, call me a little nuts... I redid the prisoner picture :)
Hey Dave!!
I'd say this puzzle was nice, fine, excellent, fantastic, wonderful and had a great "Aha!" moment (after I tried fitting the "answers" into different places in the puzzle) - but It's all been said before, and I wouldn't want your head to get too large to fit through the door... :-)
-Pb
(And I guess I got here after you redid the prisoner puzzle, 'cause I had no problem with it)
Man, I couldn't get Toad the Wet Sprocket out of my head for the frog clue! It's not easy being the green giant!
Any salt on the first one, for some reason that is the one giving me the hardest time.
[80] perhaps instead of a pointer, using a person with a word bubble containing "#$!@!" would have been better?
On second thought, that might have been even worse.
As others said, a great puzzle. Once I figured out the theme (which took me forever - actually the 'suck your blood' salt finally let me get one), the rest was pretty quick.
Okay got the first one now...
Now something is mispelled and I have no idea how the sack fits the answer I came up with but then again maybe that is my problem.
I have no idea how the doggy paddle salt fits but I went the route of the movie that was mentioned to answer the one below it. "My name is Enigo Montoya, you killed my father..."
Very enjoyable puzzle! The title threw me off, so far for the longest time. I thought the answers had something to do with the letters in "arnott". When I got the clue with the strawberry, and removed "ar" twice, my answer fitted the given spaces. I removed "n" from the cutting utensil and I was still good. But removing "r", "o", and "ar" from grouch marx yielded too many letters.
Solvers were getting their "AHA" moments left and right, and I was still taking the letters apart.
Finally, I read [31], got the right word, and realized that Arnott wouldn't have squeezed in that syllable there just so we could take off another "r".
Great fun! Thanks, Arnott. And thanks, Bearcat89 [31].
Nothing clicking for the frog/toad/amphibian/whatever it is. Any salt would be gladly tasted.
Had lots of fun on this one Arnott
[88] Go with your first impression
thanks for the help, John. I was looking at a T for the first letter. Letting go of that helped out tremendously.
going to have to say Uncle on this one, no idea at all on what I'm trying to do here. oh well, can't get them all, I'll have better luck on the next one. Thanks for the puzzle and for making me think
I almost never comment on a puzzle, but this is my favorite in a very long time. Outstanding theme, outstanding mix of answer words, outstanding job of cluing those words. Heck, it even had a great title.
Frankly, I got lucky and stumbled on the theme very early (it was the blimp one, and I just happened to look at that one 2nd. Then everything clicked into place.
Very cool. Thanks to Arnott for the fun.
[91] Yelowflower - check your tangagrams
[81] Oh sure - go and fix the prisoner picture *after* I try about 1066 different answers...
Oh - did I mention this was a great puzzle? Thanks Arnott!
[78][80] Technically, the arrow was correct. This term is what Microsoft uses in their documentation, for instance.
[83], [85] LOL to both.
And I'm almost embarrassed to ask (but not quite)... can someone please TG *me* and explain the whole "doggy paddle" thing?
[96] done
[87] "I thought the answers had something to do with the letters in 'arnott'."
LOL to that, and to your initial solve method :) I'm not sure I *could* post a puzzle like that, let alone bring myself to write one. I think I'd be far too self-conscious.
Glad you eventually came around :) And thanks, yourself.
[92] Gosh, WhiteKnight... thank *you*.
No matter how confident I may feel about a puzzle beforehand, the whole thing is always, essentially, up in the air until people start trying to solve it. So, believe me, your kind words - and you, too, rkgtanga, dingo, and everyone else - they are truly appreciated.
[94] 1066 different answers - I LOVE it! Subtlest salt ever.
All I really did was add a plus before the "arrow" and add an arrow to the "prisoner." It wasn't so much a fix as it was fine tuning :)