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Solve the clues to fill in the grid! Type in the answers to the clues on the right side of the Hypercross puzzle below. Clicking a thumbnail image will enlarge it. You can Tab through the clues while the image is enlarged. You can also click on the first space of a word in the grid to view the clue for that word. If two words begin in the first cell, click the cell again to view the downward word. Be sure to check your spelling! Click on the "Check your Answers" button when you think you’ve got them all.
49 Comments
Arnott
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 06:59 PM |
Hey, Gang,
I was looking over some of renfurdson's old Hypercrosses, when I came across this one:
http://web.tanga.com/crossword_puzzles/46-7-14-...
Since the idea is more of a puzzle type than a theme, I thought I'd try to do my version of it. Something new for now, while we're figuring out how Hypers are gonna be scheduled.
Mine's a little harder (of course), but I'm pretty sure it's logically solvable without having to use trial-and-error.
Murdoctor
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:06 PM |
Tough one... got it 1st!
QurqirishDragon
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:07 PM |
Not bad. Took a little thought. I was mistaken on the theme for the first clue, but the theme I though of led me to the correct entry there- that helped when fixing the others.
GamesX4
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:09 PM |
Darn, got it so everything fit, but not right.
hokie98
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:14 PM |
Sweeet! Got 8th!! Nice one... had start over, but got it without too much trouble once I got going
GamesX4
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:14 PM |
lots of solutions to this
swkowk
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:17 PM |
Having trouble with the image for #6, not that I think it'd be much help anyways, since I'm already super lost but FYI..
gchild469
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:19 PM |
Cool puzzle Arnott. Made you think a little bit
Arnott
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 04:20 AM |
[6] Damn, was worried about that. Would you TG me them?
EDIT - Whew (for now). So far all the alternate "solutions" involve translating the pictures into words that are different from what I intended them to be.
I may change a few of them, because of that... but it's looking like my "solution" is, in fact, the only "correct" one.
GamesX4
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:20 PM |
[9] sure let me go back and redo them. I had at least three so far.
davey
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:20 PM |
Difficult, but fun. Really tough when you come up with a combination that fits but it's the wrong answer.
gst
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:22 PM |
Pretty interesting. I thought it would be frustrating, but was actually fun.
dajagr
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:23 PM |
It took me working through #s 3, 4, 5, and 6 before I got my first solid answer. After that, they started falling into place.
Arnott
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:26 PM |
[13] Yeah, I think #8 is actually the place to start. It was, in fact, gonna be the only place... but then I took it down a notch, difficulty-wise... something I do now, out of experience :)
So I think you can also start at the 6/11 intersection.
nrkii
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:24 PM |
I got it, but only by trial and error. I don't "get it."
swkowk
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:27 PM |
[15] I'm still not getting it either. I feel like I'm stuck in a Rene Magritte painting ;)
QurqirishDragon
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:31 PM |
I think #8 is the best start point, since it forces one of the crossing letters (all pictures have the same letter in that position). This limits the choices for #7, and this causes about half the entries to solve quickly.
edit: of course, I started with #1, but 20/20 hindhsight works wonders (and not just one-word ones :-)
edit 2: [14] I think 6/11 is relatively easy, but still has several possibilities more than 8/7/9 does.
zyzzva
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:30 PM |
phew....lucky me. i got the correct entry. that was a tough one.
nrkii
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:31 PM |
[14] now that I've solved, would you mind TG'ing me with an explanation of why the answer at #8 is the answer? I'm really anxious to solve this correctly.
Donimo
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:36 PM |
[19] If you solved, it's right!
Tahnan
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:36 PM |
I'm a little confused--is there an internal logic as to which word is right, as opposed to using the crossing letters? (In the first one, there was an "odd one out" method, but I'm not seeing one here.)
Arnott
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:39 PM |
Ah, okay. As I suspected, the "wrong" answers are coming from misreading the images :(
I need to change one to make it clearer, but I'll wait until 8pm so as not to mess anyone up right now.
Suffice to say, that's not FLAME in #12.
nrkii
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:39 PM |
[20] I know it's right, but I'd like to know why... :)
Arnott
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 04:22 AM |
[21] No, this was never intended to be a one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other puzzle. It's just an interlocking-word puzzle... but with pictures - so that there can be some misunderstandings!
But I can see how I might have misled you that way with #1, since those answers seem to have a "theme." I prolly shouldn't have done that.
mnemonica
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:42 PM |
It's also not "flame" in 11 ... just in case anyone (like me) thought it might be.
swkowk
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:44 PM |
I don't think #1 is meteorite or comet, but I can't think of anything else that fits...
P.S. I got the image to work if I right-clicked, copied the URL and looked at it in another browser window, then refreshed the window, weird...
snork
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 07:45 PM |
[25] That did if for me, finally! Thanks!
nrkii
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 08:01 PM |
[26] round, red cinnamon flavored hard candy
Arnott
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 08:06 PM |
Okay, all... editing/changing a few images now.
EDIT: done.
hwango
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 08:42 PM |
Crap, I thought I had the only pair that would work for 6/11, but it fell apart on me when I went to fill in other clues. I must have one of the pictures misidentified and there's another option, or I've got one of the answers in 3 wrong and there's one that would fit with my current arrangement.
hwango
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 08:48 PM |
Okay, Looks like I misidentified one of the clues in #2, and the replacement works. 84th.
jeaton
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:00 PM |
I just started at #1 and worked my way through it. It actually wasn't bad and I finished in 0 seconds! Can't complain.
mikalye
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 02:12 AM |
SUPERB. Lots of fun, a bit different. Liked it a lot.
Arnott
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 04:28 AM |
[33] [wipes brow] Thanks.
Also to [8], [11], and especially to [12] for maybe giving us a new slogan...
Tanga: You think it'll be frustrating, but it's actually fun.
tempus42
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 08:54 AM |
Very fair and just the right amount of challenge to be fun (at least with the current pictures - I never saw the earlier versions). Thanks! :)
spamwise
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:36 AM |
Tricky, but fair. Fun.
steph_frolin
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:07 PM |
[34] How about Tanga: You weren't going anywhere tonight anyways.
escKey
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 02:25 PM |
VERY nice
must67
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 03:29 PM |
until[24] I was still looking for the common theme
Ravis13
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 05:53 PM |
I understood what was going on from the beginning and I got it pretty quickly even though I started from #1. Not too bad and it was pretty fun actually. For some reason I could NOT figure out what kind of crackers that was though lol!
pepperhead
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 05:54 PM |
I liked it
Arnott
Posted on Mon Jun 23, 2008 07:24 PM |
[37] :)
doogxela
Posted on Tue Jun 24, 2008 04:16 AM |
I feel kind of stupid; this one is making no sense to me at all. I have no idea what to do.
trevelyan
Posted on Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:00 AM |
All these posts and no salt on how to solve?
Twench
Posted on Tue Jun 24, 2008 12:15 PM |
[43] [44] The title pretty much says it all. Each clue has multiple images. Pick one.
skitty
Posted on Wed Jun 25, 2008 06:46 AM |
[14] Without that bit of salt, I probably would have abandoned the puzzle in frustration. Starting at 6/11 allowed all the other clues to fall into place.
Thanks! It was fun.
Twench
Posted on Wed Jun 25, 2008 09:08 AM |
It's funny seeing the comments about the optimal starting place. I actually got going with the 3-4 connection.
Arnott
Posted on Wed Jun 25, 2008 07:16 PM |
[47] Yeah, but you could still have GEISHA or ARMADA + LEAF. Granted, 3/4 rules some stuff out, but it doesn't give you a guaranteed start like a few other places do.
megagore
Posted on Wed Jun 25, 2008 07:48 PM |
fun
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