Sep 01, 2008 Hypercross Puzzle

Why bother when they are this easy.

easy?

[2] They haven't solved yet, so I don't know what they are talking about.

is anyone else staring blankly at the screen?

[4] Not staring blankly -- type, type, damn, clear....

Thanks!
You solved this puzzle in 6 minutes and 23 seconds and were the 7th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 97 points for solving this.

Figuring out the answers is easier than figuring out the placement. It took a few tries of different methods before stumbling on the right one.

[6] Nice try... but there haven't been 7 solves yet. And 7 solves wouldn't be worth 97 points.

my brains must have gone into hiding. I have no idea what to do with this.

[6] also hypercrosses are not timed

[6] Really? I see only one person has solved this - and you aren't it!

I want to "type, type, damn, clear"

I can't even get that far

LOL - it is salt, not a real solve - LOL

[13] Start by identifying what you can. Things should start to make sense when you apply the title to it.

[15] Yeah I am trying that and still the blank stare. You have stumped the heck out of me! :)

[16] Not there yet, but moving along. Start with the 8 letter word and build backwards.

[17] There are pointers to where things go... but it's not easy to follow the trail of redirection.

I've got the grid filled in, but it's not right. Aargh!

Edit: Finally found my error.

[19] Yes . . . everything fits, but "Sorry, that is not correct."

Wow, this won't work if you rearrange the clues. Would have been better if the answer just depended on the letter corresponding to number.

Clue #1 tells you that word corresponding to the letter corresponding to 1 is the answer to #8.

I'm in the same spot as you [19] [20]

I have exactly no square filled in. I am either completely obtuse or my meds are to strong

[21] Woah, that's salty...

I was just going to say "the clue numbers are important, too".

Just to make it harder still, some of the clues have more than one obvious word.

Ooops! I need to go to traffic school.

Brain cramp. 8)

[24] Her comment may have been salty, but I wouldn't have gotten the placement from that. I did what scoutmom did. Start with the shortest one and work backwards till they all fit.

[28] The placement of the words is not random... there is a "method to the madness". The short one is the best place to figure that out.

[29] Actually, the short one can throw you off track, because it lacks the "redirection" that the rest have.

[21] Sadly, that's not working for me. Frustrating!

I surrender

[21] I have no idea what that means!

[30] Sure it does... the only different between that one and the others is that it's shorter???

[34] Yes, but that might lead one to believe that there's only one "direction" to follow, rather than the "redirection". That's what I thought at first, until the answers didn't fit at the crossings.

[29] yes there is a method. It's just clunky and illogical. There are at least three other methods that could use the number and actually make sense.

I appreciate the effort, and the graphics look good...
but I'm surprised this was featured with the fun-killing placement method.

And another big problem is that a couple of the illustrations are quite poor. For example the tool picture is actually a different tool than the desired answer, and hard to decipher on top of that.

Remember the letters that gave you the answers. That's one way to sort them.

And then, there's more...

it is becoming clear that I am just not going to get this.

I finished this puzzle, but I still don't understand the numbering system.

[21] ah, got it! thanks!

I am still completely lost.

as a note, clue #3, the picture with J is not a sign, it is a tool

Clues should never include pointers to clue numbers, because those may change when editing the puzzle.

you are all brilliant! I still have NO answers. I am aparantly missing EVERYTHING

[44] tg sent.

Brain and flag is ?

Got it but I still haven't figured out the numbering system. I used scoutmom's method

this was NOT the puzzle to loose battery power with. dang. lost power halfway thru. don ya hate dat!!!!! =]

[45] THANKS!

Definately different. After a long weekend, it hurt to sort it out.

I can't believe the "difficulty" rating is only four stars so far.

This was challenging... but I'll take it over researching baubles, or celebrities' body parts, or just about anything for that matter. Nice job.

I'm with [36]--the extra sorting step was just frustrating. Especially since, as [43] noted, the ordering of clues can change unexpectedly during puzzle creation, I'm never inclined to pay them the least bit of attention.

So thanks to [21]. Without that, this would have been extraordinarily frustrating.

4+ difficulty, 1 fun - this is featured??

I don't understand the numbering system either. After staring at this for a while and then trying to work through the comments I finally figured out what the answers were, and then couldn't work out where to put them. Finally worked from the short one as suggested, but that doesn't seem like it's the intended solution method. If someone could TG me with an explanation of how we were supposed to figure out where each answer went, and what the numbers were for, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

I am simply clueless and in order not to be frustrated or upset decided to forego the pleasure of a hyper and NOT do this one.

Will wonders never cease. 12 hours later and with no small amount of help but rather gigantic amounts from CrazyKids I can finally put this one to bed.

[21] described how it works- and even so I had to work at it to get things to click.
Since it has been most of a day, I think I will make it a little more clear:

The letters above the pictures tell you which pieces form words.
The number below the pictures tells you where the answer for the reverse-tanga'ed clue word goes. (i.e. the number in the first clue's image indicates which clue word "A" answers.)

If it is decided I said too much here, I won't be annoyed if it gets flagged/removed, but I think this puzzle warrants it.

WOW - that was uber tough but really fun.

meh, not fun at all

[57]... even with that I think I'm still on overload. I have been looking at this a little each day and still going crosseyed! LOL

Nearly 5 months later and I'm #80....bonus points wheeeee!

This thing was terrible though.

I have compound words for all of the letter pairs, but I can't find any correlation to the clue numbers (probably because they've been re-ordered) Working backward from the 8-letter word doesn't yield a valid fit. Anyone still around?

[62] I'm here, but of no help, I'm afraid...I will be working on this one this week, so I'll TG you if I get it....(don't hold your breath)..90th, thanks to some BIG HELP!!!!