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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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Feb 28, 2008 Hypercross Puzzle
The Hidden Zoo
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Arnott
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Remember, each picture represents a SINGLE WORD, and the hidden animal will be
spelled out IN CORRECT ORDER inside that word.
Also, in case this wasn't clear, no letter is used twice. DAGGER, for example, does *not* hide the animal DEER, even though D E R does appear in the correct order.
Have fun!
**** EDIT: TYPO FIXED! ****
(this has also rearranged the grid a LOT - about 7 answers had to move... man, talk about a typo :))
EXTRA EDIT: Two Years Later :)
I came back to this puzzle to convert all the old PNG images into JPEGs, and I just couldn't resist "fixing" this one. So I deleted a clue. You'll read a LOT about it in the comments below, as it was the main troublemaker clue (which is why I've removed it years later).
The Clue was for the word PENULTIMATE. And what I did was reuse (with permission) a OWW that renfurdson wrote the year before: picture of a PEN + picture of a FRISBEE with the words "game played with this" undeneath it. I framed that in a square, and below that I added, "Remember this old puzzle from renfurdson? I think it was the next-to-last puzzle in a puzzlethon."
In addition to throwing some people, finding the animal name was tough, even after "solving" the image. And for kind of a good reason: it's not really an animal name you commonly think of... though it's completely fair, IMO.
Fair... but not fun. So it's gone now :)
(The animal was puma)
Wow... this is tough. I'm about halfway done, but these are a challenge.
:)
A good challenge, I hope.
Does the 7-letter down answer towards the left side have a double-letter by mistake?
Awesome puzzle! Best Hypercross ever!
I think number two is misspelled.
Got 6th. Was a lot of fun... difficult, but not frustratingly so.
[4] ARGH!!!!! yes, it does.
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(this has also rearranged the grid a LOT - about 7 answers had to move... man, talk about a typo :))
Is one of the answers a mythological creature?
Damn, I can fix it, but it's gonna mess people up maybe.
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(this has also rearranged the grid a LOT - about 7 answers had to move... man, talk about a typo :))
This was really, really fun! But yes, there's a problem with the second answer.
8th. Fun puzzle!
[4] and [5] are correct. Otherwise, this was quite interesting, certainly innovative.
[8] I thought so at first too, but these are all real
[4] Yes, yes it does.
#15!
Lots of fun. I enjoyed it a lot.
Boom! 19th. Great puzzle.
LOL... crap. Too involved to fix it now, without really messing things up. Have to move, like, 7 different clues :)
Sorry, all.
**** EDIT: TYPO FIXED! ****
(this has also rearranged the grid a LOT - in fact, it WAS 7 answers that had to move... man, talk about a typo :))
Loving this. Have all but AKA Don Corleone. Are we looking for the actor?
Well, fortunately, it seem to be an easy, very gettable typo thingie, since people seem to be solving it okay.
Will fix later in the archives, I guess.
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(did it at midnight::)
Problem getting the products. Thought I had an animal that fit the other letters I had, but that doesn't work. Or something else is wrong...
[17] Wasn't that hard to figure out. I don't think it hurts anything, especially with the note of the error above.
[18] No. I would always say "actor" or some such if that were the case.
I've got them all filled in, but it still says something's wrong. Ack!
[5] Thanks, by the way :)
The first animal is misspelled. It uses one more letter from the main word than it ought to.
Jello?
Also, one of the answers is spelled incorrectly.
But, yeah, you guys saw that already.
Wow ... great puzzle Arnott (even with the slight mess-up on the wintry scene).
I thought i had every answer including the misspelled one. Don't know where i'm wrong.
Help!!!
[26] Not Jello, Jell-O
[25], [27] Yes :) Been noted several times now, thanks (rub it in, why doncha?)
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Any salt on the renfurdson puzzle? It's not like that's the only one I can't get, but without help, I will never get that one 'cause I don't remember the puzzle and can't put anything together that makes sense for it.
[29], [30] TG me your answers if you want.
Ugh, I finally got it. The yellow arrow one was messing me up. I'm embarrassed to say what my answer was.
The really nice thing about this puzzle is, once you get a couple of answers, the others fall into place. It would be impossible to do every answer on its own. So this puzzle really takes advantage of the crossword format.
[32] If you don't know the game/sport people play with the Frisbee, it's gonna be tough. That said, there's actually some salt in the clue itself, too.
[34] LOL. Now I really wanna know :)
[22] Thanks. Funny how obvious the answer is after I got the actor's name out my head. That one was all fun.
[33] sent
[31] THANKS! That's the salt I needed!
42nd!
I've got all but the renfurdson. Any salt on that?
NM, I got it by looking up frisbee on WP, to see what games are played with it, went with the only one that seemed to fit, and it worked.
Sweet! 45th. This is the first time in a long time I have gotten extra points. Great puzzle!
Two top 100s tonight - glad I stopped by instead of waiting til the following afternoon, which I usually do
anyone else think it's unfair to use a clue from a puzzlethon? I came after those.. don't think there has been one since I joined, and I don't get the clue... salt? puh-lease? :)
[40] This is the next to last time I'm gonna say that you need to know what the sport/game is people play with Frisbees. They have organized leagues for it and stuff.
[8], I know what you mean, that was the first answer I had, but look again and you'll find a real animal in there.
Well, other than the mizztake, I really liked it. ;)
[35] yeah it gets tough when you get too specific for folks who are not as well informed as you are...cant get that one or the 16th one...
[35] Ah, that sport, now to find the animal.
[44] please tell me you are not referring to the Nerd Frisbee League? :)
[43] LOL, Banana... you didn't have to be around then, you just need to solve it now :) I'd guess most people weren't around for that puzzle, but if you were, that doesn't necessarly help you or give you any advantage.
It was, I thought, a cool way to clue the word I needed. But no extra knowledge is needed to solve this one. Other than having to know what the Frisbee sport is, but, really... that's the next to last time I'm gonna say it.
OK, I only need the two 3-letter ones up in the upper right-hand corner. For the detective, unless I have it totally wrong, there is only 1 combo that works, and that ain't no animal. I need to use his *first* name right?
[51] Right. First name. Like it says in the clue :)
Sheesh, you let one typo slip by...
[51] His hat is also a clue, just not a very big one.
any salt on the "Who ya gonna call"?
Got'em all! Fun puzzle! The perfect amount of challenge! Thanks!
please?
[54] Did you not see that movie with Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Sigourney Weaver..? Or the sequel..?
yes as a matter of fact I did, I know the name of the movie, cannot for the life of me work it into an animal
[52] Argh! I was looking at the 3-letter one down for the detective not across! IDIOT!
Edit: I wasn't trying to give you grief Arnott! Really! I was just being stupid! Got 'em all now. Great puzzle!
You solved this puzzle in 0 seconds and were the 79th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 42 points for solving this.
Whoo hoo! First time in top 100! Much thanks to assistance from my wife.
I hate getting hung up on ONE word and having to leave it unsolved
ggrr
oh well, that's life
good night
[58] I believe that one is the hardest one.
[50] :) I get it now, thanks to #44
I was trying to work with "calligraphy"...
[61] I'm with you - Have the answer to the frisbee one, but can't get a conversion to an animal
[62] no, that #$&*^@ frisbee one is...
[65] Oh. Sorry.
[66] LOL...I got the others quickly and I've been stuck on that one for so long...
Still lost on the frisbee :( Am I the biggest idiot on the site or something?
[68]no, I'm with ya....
Started the hard way and came to the answer right off - 96th!
97th :(
[67] [68] That sport is like the best ever! There's nothing better!
You solved this puzzle in 0 seconds and were the 99th Tanga member to solve it.
Just in the nick of time...I finally guessed the frisbee correctly. Still don't know what the clue is.
[72] I knew what sport it was and I still don't get how it works.
[74] The animal goes by at least 3 different names here in North America. The one you are looking for is (to me) the least common of the three.
[75] I know what it is and I still don't see how it fits into "penextreme."
dude! this is fun but a tad hard, but my computer keeps locking up
so argh on points for me
but a nice and different puzzle
[76] Or I COULD be the biggest idiot who ever came to this site. :( Wow. I need to eat. Or sleep. Or bang my head against the wall until I've got a pulpy mess sitting atop my neck.
[76] "Extreme" is incorrect. But, really, that's the next to last time I'm gonna say it.
[78] LOFL! Thanks, blah. I needed that.
[79] The most ridiculous thing about that one is that I just remembered that not only did I solve Aaron's puzzle, I got it very quickly. I really feel like eating a gun. :(
[75] Yeah, but Mountain Lion and Cougar are clearly not hidden in that word :)
Stuck only on the winter scene... even knowing there's a typo isn't clearing the mental logjam.
EDIT: That ol' posting magic worked again. Got it just after I hit the button.
Beautiful!
And very well-executed, except did you realize one of the clues...
kidding.
That was fun. A little work, but worth it.
[34] Did you get 'EMU' for that one like I did?
This was alot of fun, but now I can't stop looking for animal names hidden in words... Arnott = ant, blahmcblah = lamb, jmcintyre = mite
[87] LOL, great!
Stuck on the Who you gonna call clue...which means I might also be stuck on the 2 three letter clues that connect to it
I think I have the orchestra wrong. Any salt?
[89]I have the who ya gonna with the same last 3 letters as the host. Hope that helps.
When I loaded the puzzle, there was the misspelling, when I 'finished' the puzzle, there wasn't. It took forever to figure out that I had to reload the puzzle and enter all the answer again... Still an awesome puzzle. Very enjoyable!
[90] Think opposite of authentic.
Thanks for a great puzzle, Arnot! (Glad I was late and missed the miss-take).
so, if anyone is still up, i've got all but that wintery pic. Not sure what my starting word should be. Salt?
[94] not exactly a gecko
There are two animals in the detective's name...one is proven wrong by the way the grid works out, but it can be misleading for a bit...
Ah, thanks [95]! That also fixes my twister going across, which i was really only guessing at.
too tired. i give up.
I ahd all the answers (I'm a freaking genius!)
but the full 10 letter adjective eluded me.
Thanks Arnott for setting me straight!
Pb
[96] Hmm... I couldn't find one, Chris. You're not (mis)counting ROE as an animal, right? And you're only using the first name, right?
I thought I was pretty thorough, making sure there weren't two animals in any of these words... but, then again, I also managed to spell one of them with two frickin' Z's for, like, five different drafts :)