Cryptopix

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AWESOME puzzle! I loved it!

WOOOT!

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Fun. :)

shoot, I don't recognize the car

I have no clue.

never mind, DUH

Woot! 51st! Go me!

Nice one, and not just the usual rebus puzzle.

[5][6] You can solve this without the car.

Way too many possibilities for the right answer. Would have been better if we knew how many words.

[9] I was trying to, got nothing.

Anybody have any actual salt? A tiny push? Is it possible?

Ya what kind of car is that?

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W00T My first top 100!

I've got two dead on solutions and neither works! No books or jazz?

Yeah, way too many possibilities
101st as I played elimination

ok found the car but still can't get it.

I know what the pix are, but that doesn't seem to lead to an answer....

Julie Andrews

so point me in a direction for the car

Maria would know how to tell you this better...

[19] that did it for me. Still don't get the first one.

never mind

[19] Thanks. But now I've got that song in my head.

You solved this puzzle in 33 seconds and were the 9th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 102 points for solving this. Best finish ever!

all those with the same question -- they are all the same...

thanks [19] i was thinking Coltrane

ok, I've followed all the salt so far but it leads me to an endless source of potential answers with no apparant way of narrowing it down!

Help?

26 Nice pull! That works too!

Bah! I had it ages ago but the US spelling threw me. Should have checked.

oy....

first i put just the last 2 words.
then the last 3.
then the last 6.
then finally the whole thing

>.<

Thanks 30, needed that to get the right combination of words.

More of a multi-word wonder than a Cryptopix.

hmmm got it... just kept guessing

19 and 22 plus the comment in the bubble helped me the most... I have no idea what the pictures are for!

Every little thing is a help, musically at least

[32] yeah. the pictures don't lead directly to the answer the way a regular cryptopix does.

As I put in the Notes field with my submission of this puzzle: "I realize this steps out of the usual "rebus" style of Cryptopix, but still somewhat fits the definition of having multiple pictures and cluing a phrase. And it certainly couldn't be a One Word Wonder..."

Sometimes, you have to break from the norm and look for some new things to try.

Thanks for all the salt everyone, I doubt I would have got it otherwise.

oy vay

[30] thanks

had the right idea right away, but this phrase was more than I expected

ugh... that was very frustrating... at least it was over after five minutes or so. But, I can appreciate the "out of the box" thinking. "Getting the puzzle" and "getting the answer" can be different sides of the same road apple.

Nice Puzzle...

Wow... I'm so so lost.... I always solve the cryptopix but never the 1WW and it sounds like this is sort of a mixture and I can't get it for the life of me... if there isn't anymore good salt could someone TG me the answer???? Please!

Got the puzzle. Still don't see how the car fits.

Great, great puzzle.

[43] obviously you've never rented one while visiting a caribbean port. It's a particular model of VW.

wow, I don't know how I didn't get that the first time

STU... STU... STU.... (on a classic puzzle too!)

Loved it! As noted before not the typical rebus.

I was counting those - uh... items
didn't need to count

I was counting the items too. This was pretty annoying with so many possible answers.

[37] I agree. And loved the puzzle - I didn't know the vehicle, but knew the others were all the same. Stared at the little phrase...

AHA!!

[46] Congrats!

I waited to comment on this puzzle until I'd had time to mull it over. It is certainly a clever puzzle. But it is NOT a cryptopix -- it doesn't match Tanga's description of a cryptopix, and it doesn't work the way all previous cryptopixes have worked. Please understand, I'm not against innovation. But innovation can encounter problems.

The major problem with this puzzle is that it does not have an absolute, unique answer. As others have pointed out, there were 2-word, 3-word, and 6-word answers to the puzzle that were equally as good and legitimate as the composer's answer. That ambiguity is a serious flaw.

Perhaps we need a new puzzle type -- a multiword wonder. And to prevent solver frustration, the number of words in the answer should be given.

[52] I agree with your first paragraph. See my comment [37] above.

Since it certainly couldn't be a One Word Wonder, I took at shot with it as a Cryptopix. I was actually surprised it was chosen, and I'm glad it was. It caused a bit of a stir, but it made people think and seemed to satisfy a large percentage of the solvers with the "aha" value.

[53] Or this could have been used as a hard one-word-wonder. There would still be a few possible answers, like Rodgers, Hammerstein, Coltrane, etc. But if you add the symbol for female (the way you added the male symbol to Mars in a past cryptopix), that would narrow it down to Andrews, Julie, Maria.

And still, the solver would have experienced the "Aha!" moment.

(tongue in cheek)

[52] I like that idea. (Multiword answer with given number of words.)

You are a freaking genius!!, you solved this puzzle.
You solved this puzzle in 2 minutes and 10 seconds and were the 597th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 10 points for solving this.

SALT : Whiskers on Kittens

Wow. Took me forever even with all the salt. I couldn't get the right combination of words. If anyone else is as dense as I am, the answer is 8 words.