Cryptopix

Superfun!!! (poor patriots!)

Neat...went down a couple of false trails...I suppose fewer people could recognize Maine?

You are a freaking genius!!, you solved this puzzle.
You solved this puzzle in 58 seconds and were the 67th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 44 points for solving this.

little salt???

that map is killing me... no distinguishing marks. could be anywhere.

it's Michigan hope that's not too much

somebody has to have a speck of salt, c'mon.

don't think of the soda, but the item it is

so i get here 5 minutes after the puzzles are posted, and 20 minutes later, i still don't have a clue for ANY of the puzzles...

I need help. got first clue, maybe third, know what place of fourth is but WTF I'm lost

any salt on the last 2?

The state was easy; it's the plant that's hard.

word

If you figure out the top 3 you should get the rest without knowing the map....the plant is often used in landscaping

OUCH, that was a toughie

Ok. I have all the words, but they don't mean anything, even mashed together. Help?

can you hear Michigan in butt question is not right.... I was sure I had the answer too. Checked different spellings and grammer and everything

is there something about the state that we want or just the state?

what in the world is that plant.... I've looked everywhere but it's not in my yard or my neighbors

For those having trouble: YOU MUST INCLUDE THE PUNCTUATION IN THIS ONE!

I'll include the punctuation.... just tell me all the words and where the punctuation goes....

[21] check your tangagrams

there was some salt in the second post about the state. It is Michigan but that sent me in the wrong direction.

Arrgh! What is that cursed plant?!?!?

Wow... 38 minutes is a personal best...super duper. The punctuation thing actually helped a lot! the clues just weren't coming in clear enough I guess

bah...

"You solved this puzzle in 39 minutes and 8 seconds and were the 100th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 11 points for solving this."

Wow. 40 minutes and 13 seconds and I'm still only #99. That was rough.

You are a freaking genius!!, you solved this puzzle.

You solved this puzzle in 4 minutes and 58 seconds and were the 104th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 10 points for solving this.

wow and it's 10:44? where IS everybody?

holy !%$#^$^%^$ i had the answer like 30 minutes ago and typed it in but it was wrong cuz i left out the question mark.

the back clue through me off for a bit...

I loved playing with the plant's berries** when I was child, and of course, it's one of the great Celtic trees. :-)

**Salt: They're actually not berries, they're fully mature cones and they're not poisonous, though the rest of the tree is. Our parents had *grave* concerns about the tree.

...good.

coke you hear no evil Michigan N backache surprisingly does not work even with punctuation.

Ow that was painful!

33 is a bit salty.

OMG - thanks for the salt 33 - even if you didn't know you did it!

I'm not entirely sure how the state map works out to _that_.

where can i find this live journal you speak of?

You might want to substitute Maine for Michigan.

[37] think post office

Whew, that took a bit.

Yeah, I definitely think Maine would have been a better choice.

Fun one, though. :)

took me 3 minutes because I wasn't typing EVERYTHING in

Main wouldn't just be better, it would be correct. Michigan is a huge red herring. Boo.

Wouln't have gotten it without the salt! Thanks [33]. Might have gotten quicker if I wasn't rewatching SuperBowl COMMERCIALS!

Hmm.. reminds me that I need to pay my phone bill.

Solved it...still don't know what that plant is. :(

(47) I can't believe you don't. Are you telling me you have never seen anything like it? You must live somewhere were you don't have a lot of trees, or else you don't go out much. Or maybe you know, you are more the sort of person who doesn't pay attention to the things around you.

That was painfull

[48] i live in Md and there are woods all around the city I live in, and I've never seen that tree...

Ow! that was tough

[48] Only time I've ever seen that tree is on Tanga.

Wow, punctuation aside, it took the Maine reference for me to click. Maine, Michigan, Maryland, what's the difference? I was seeing "Nest Ache" and hearing "Mistake" for hours...silly me.

i know all the words, but i don't think i see it...

[48] I've never seen that tree or heard of a tree whose name sounds like what it appears to sound like based on the need it fills in the answer. It looks like a fern to me.

Big Bird has nothing to do with the picture he's in . . . thought I was really clever for pegging that word as "burden" (bird-n) -- but it's not.

The plant is a shrub, not a tree. I have seen them a hundred times and never new what they were called. Yoou will find it on wiki

I have a phrase that seems to fit the pictures, but it's not being accepted. What am I missing?

somewhere above it says not to forget the punctuation ..
but in hosed on the first pic on the bottom

[58] You might look at the salt from [39]

Wow. This took me forever. And I think it is a tree; I have read that bows (as in bow and arrow) used to be made from this kind of wood back in the day. It would be tough to obtain a piece of wood long enough to make a bow out of a shrub.

I have no idea how to figure out what the bottom three are trying to say....

[61] The last picture is more what the guy would say

For the first on the row check out [2] that would have been more appropriate...

thanks, that last bit of salt clicked the whole thing for me.

I am having problems with this, so i giving up for now...unsure of tree and bottom row. so no idea if others are right

(50,51,54) YOU aren't very good at recognizing salt, are YOU? If YOU were, YOU might have understood the comment YOU just read. *cough cough*

Duplicate!

By the way, I *promise* that the branch shown is a tree, though it's often seen as a hedge. They grow up to 10-20 m (exceptionally up to 28 m) tall, with a trunk up to 2 m (exceptionally 4 m) diameter. In the US, it's often seen as a decorative hedge, but in other parts of the world, it has very grave uses. (Again with the salt!)

As someone else mentioned, the branch's tree is also the archetypal wood of the English Longbow. This tree won Agincourt, people!

#You solved this puzzle in 44 seconds and were the 346th Tanga member to solve it.

ok I am not going to get this done prior to class tonight, I know the first and the second and fifth, not sure about the third fourth or last.

First: easy
Second: Actually know it
Third: not sure iffen I am needing both words or only the second one.
fourth: Ummm pizza?
Fifth: this plea for help was brought to you by the numbers 18 and 1, the words my and team and LOST and the letter....
sixth: was this what I screamed at the end of the game when my team lost, cause I didnt think you put those swear words up here.

(69) Sixth: Do you know any Schoolhouse Rock? *sings* "Interjections! Show excitement! Or emotions!"

I want 20 pts for that one! (no salt here, sorry)

[62] - thanks leadfoot, that did it for me. I thought for sure it was the body part that was important, not what the guy was saying. I thought the answer was what someone might say before giving a speech to find out if everyone could hear what they were saying.

ARGH!!!!!

I think I prefer Michigan to Maine here, since trying to use "main" might throw more people off. Plus, if you think in terms of songs from "The Sound of Music," then it works just fine.

[48] Never seen that tree before in my life, except Tanga, and thanks to [6], google

74: Interesting way of thinking of it, but Maine is much better. You only need to use english, as opposed to a Sound-of-Music-izer.

Had the first 2, and knew what a couple others meant, but couldn't put it together quickly - I was in a bad state from this one.

I definitely think Maine works better than Michigan.

(69) Third, forget religion; Fourth, be a little possesive in spanish; Sixth, no, but if you were the guy in the picture, this would be what you screamed just before you screamed -that-.

And if this is too salty, I don't give a -that-! I like salt dammit!

[65] I solved it long ago... but I still can't find that tree/bush/shrub on google or wiki. I just filled in that part after I knew the phrase. That vegetation was not helpful in my solve.

Ugh! Can't get the thing to take

This was one the worst puzzles I've seen on Tanga.

loved it!

loved it!

Nice one!

good...good...good. liked it!