i think I have the first two pictures, if the phone is the one I think it is... ,but the stone/rock... maybe it is because im not a fan of the movie the lower lighter symbols are from
I honestly don't see how anyone solved this one, especially in 30 seconds. The last pic is certainly NOT a fair representation of what the author intended. Many possibilities for both the first and second pics. And only one of the watermarks is clear enough to make out.
[30] No special knowledge here, I just guessed correctly on the 1st and 3rd pic and then the answer popped into my head. I had no idea what the 2nd pic was until after I saw the solution.
[29] its another famous line from the movie, and the other watermark is not prince's symbol but the symbol of a famous english writer circa 1954-55 (Think about Bag End), He favored the answer quite a bit
Got it - but the Tolkien knowledge didn't help (in fact, I didn't think it fit until I read the solution explanation).
There is a 2nd watermark, but I can't really see it.
hatemachine -- I've lived in Texas for 47 years (albeit, in the city), and none of the 3 houses my parents have owned, nor the 3 houses that my 2 sisters have owned have the solution.
Not sure if it is a rural thing, a coastal thing, or something more common in Middle America.
That's called "specialized knowledge".... I've never seen the movie, so how the heck would I EVER get the answer? God bless IMDb quotes and a search function.
And I live in a second floor apartment. No, I don't have one, nor does anyone else in the complex.
[23] In response to all who were not fans of this puzzle, I apologize for the obscurity of the reference. To address soccer_ref's comment, the third picture has been used to represent the same sound in previous puzzles so I was banking on it's familiarity. Hope the next one (crossing my fingers) goes over better.
[60] don't apologize for the obscurity of the reference just give us a few more clues to find it. i think the puzzle was fine other than the third pic which as you pointed out has been used incorrectly by others as well.
there are always going to be people on here who are going to complain if the puzzle takes any longer than 2.5 seconds and the intellect of an average third grader.
keep at it.
besides 62 comments in two hours... at this rate you'll be knocking jewelia off of her throne in the most discussed category.
beyond the somewhat vague images, my only criticism is that the slurred pronunciation is a bit toooo slurred. A very hard pronounced consonant must be dropped in order to even get close.
those BG images are WAYYY to faint. I had to seriously adjust my monitor to see the left one and the right never showed.
"1955 essay "English and Welsh""
MOderators, STOP posting tanga puzzles with too-faint clues. That's not clever. That's not tricky puzzle-craft. That's just l-a-m-e.
Yeah...if not for the salt, would've never got this one. Can't see one watermark (only could make out SOMETHING was there thanks to comments), the other required a lot of specialized knowledge. And I agree that the third pic just doesn't work. Maybe if it was shown in a cart or hopper.
And for [50], I live in New England too and still do. Those aren't as prevalent as you make them out to be. Certainly, none of the houses near me have them.
The watermarks were completely invisible for me, but they wouldn't have helped me anyway. On the other hand, after an hour an a half of letting the puzzle swirl in the back of my mind, I figured it out. I agree that the last picture wasn't a good choice, but it was nice in a way to have a Cryptopix that took me some time to solve. So many seem way too easy.
Ore??? That's ore???? I thought rock, stone, granite, etc. but it doesn't look like ore. It's actually a pretty easy puzzle once you find out it's ORE.
Even now that I can actually see the watermarks that were not visible to me last night and knowing that it's ore, I have no freaking clue what this one is...
I have enough salt here to keep Green Bay snow free in January. Yet I still have no idea. I've got a guess for 4 of the pics, but nothing is coming together. Can someone TG me?
[64] You say a hard pronounced consonant is dropped, but the only consonant I had to drop is one that is commonly dropped by people with a French background when speaking English. It would be one of the easier consonants to drop because it is almost more breathed than vocalized.
I agree that the last image was poorly chosen -- though the sound wanted was one that I had one my list of possibilities without looking at the salt.
Oh, for the Texas people, these are probably more common in areas where the ground will freeze in the winter.
81 Comments
soccer_ref
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:03 PM |
Huh?
BigKahuna
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:06 PM |
not cellulite or cellular
riseoverrun
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:08 PM |
[1] me too
i wonder if we're supposed to know the actual model name of the phone
jami1kenob
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:06 PM |
[1] what you said...
cllumley
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:07 PM |
not found a rock....
dragon66
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:08 PM |
The third one's throwing me...
sneihoff
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:08 PM |
salt?
jami1kenob
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:14 PM |
are we focused on the group of animals, what kind they are, or what they are doing?
Also, is that a Prince emblem in the lower left??
hatemachine
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:11 PM |
[8] one of those 3 things you said
jfro
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:11 PM |
i think I have the first two pictures, if the phone is the one I think it is... ,but the stone/rock... maybe it is because im not a fan of the movie the lower lighter symbols are from
RANN96
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:13 PM |
got it from the water mark, what a beautiful answer...
cllumley
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:14 PM |
my monitor never shows the water marks..........
hellgar
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:14 PM |
salt pls?
RANN96
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:16 PM |
the last pic, think very very general
slbaxter
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:16 PM |
Never even noticed the water marks. The question in [8] is what helped me answer it.
hatemachine
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:16 PM |
[12] Yeah, I can barely see them...but I was 1st without seeing them....1st in 30 seconds...30 seconds on the Crypto is an eternity! Unbelievable.
jfro
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:19 PM |
darn it i got nothing!
riseoverrun
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:21 PM |
[8] it looks like a skull on fire wearing glasses, i don't think it has anything to do with prince
hellgar
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:21 PM |
Still at a loss....nothing coming to mind even though i am a fan of the left watermark
jfro
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:22 PM |
[8] [16] It is from a movie poster from a movie that was very popular among the college movie pseudo philosophical types around 02
BigSlick
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:22 PM |
Ah yes, it's the ever popular "phone caribou rock"
RANN96
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:23 PM |
[18] why are you wearing that stupid rabbit suit?
why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
soccer_ref
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:23 PM |
I honestly don't see how anyone solved this one, especially in 30 seconds. The last pic is certainly NOT a fair representation of what the author intended. Many possibilities for both the first and second pics. And only one of the watermarks is clear enough to make out.
Thumbs down to this puzzle.
hatemachine
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:23 PM |
[22] awesome.
jami1kenob
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:23 PM |
is the phone a specific KIND of phone?? Maybe...THIS ONE: http://www.motorola.com/consumers/v/item.jsp?vg...
RANN96
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:24 PM |
[25] no, its not the model, make or carrier
hatemachine
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:25 PM |
[23] Sorry, but I did it in 30 seconds. Guess I'm dumb enough to solve the crappy cryptos quickly. :)
perihelion
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:28 PM |
any hints? I'm not getting anything.
jami1kenob
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:28 PM |
Can someone TG me? I've looked up the Jake Gyllenhal (sp?) movie that [22] eludes to, but I'm just not getting it... :(
soccer_ref
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:28 PM |
[27] I guess it required a specialized knowledge to solve it quickly. Which means it really shouldn't have been a featured puzzle.
hatemachine
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:31 PM |
[30] No special knowledge here, I just guessed correctly on the 1st and 3rd pic and then the answer popped into my head. I had no idea what the 2nd pic was until after I saw the solution.
BigSlick
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:32 PM |
For those struggling with the last pic, thinking logical might help
RANN96
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:33 PM |
[29] its another famous line from the movie, and the other watermark is not prince's symbol but the symbol of a famous english writer circa 1954-55 (Think about Bag End), He favored the answer quite a bit
ninjoo
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:33 PM |
wow...I got it from the watermarks after some searching...never would have ever guessed that as the answer otherwise
steph_frolin
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:33 PM |
Thank goodness for the google. This was rather obscure, I think the watermarks needed to be more pronounced. 65th at 33 minutes
hatemachine
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:35 PM |
[30] Also, what is the specialized knowledge anyway? I'm not saying this is a good crypto. I only got it by guessing correctly my first try.
I am a huge fan of Donnie Darko though...
stevegamer
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:36 PM |
The watermark is barely visible even blowing the picture up in paint after saving it.
Puzzles tonight aren't so good.
Edit: there are multiple watermarks? Ugh.
GordonKane
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:36 PM |
To me, the watermark looks like a stylized monogram - a J, a T, and 2 Rs (one forward, one backward)
The only J.R.R.T. I know is Tolkien
barbed_oracle
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:37 PM |
That rock doesn't much look like ore to me.
Tahnan
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:37 PM |
Wow. I have to agree that the pictures here are too vague, and the phrase to specialized, for this to have been a good cryptopix.
hatemachine
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:39 PM |
I still don't see this phrase as specialized...I bet just about everyone has one in their house...
cllumley
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:40 PM |
it's not sell me a rock.....
stevegamer
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:42 PM |
[39} It's not an ore. It's not even close, but it is "nice".
cllumley
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:42 PM |
You are a freaking genius!! You solved this puzzle.
You solved this puzzle in 41 minutes and 40 seconds and were the 68th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 43 points for solving this.
ballistic
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:44 PM |
Without knowing what the last pic was, even getting the first two words wasn't leading me to the answer. That was an obscure one for me.
cllumley
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:45 PM |
[41] I don't have one of these in my house.....but I do have one outside. congrats on your #1 fastest solving of this.....puzzle :-)
Sidebordz
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:46 PM |
worst crypto ever
perihelion
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:50 PM |
Wow. No wonder I couldn't figure it out.
GordonKane
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:54 PM |
Got it - but the Tolkien knowledge didn't help (in fact, I didn't think it fit until I read the solution explanation).
There is a 2nd watermark, but I can't really see it.
hatemachine -- I've lived in Texas for 47 years (albeit, in the city), and none of the 3 houses my parents have owned, nor the 3 houses that my 2 sisters have owned have the solution.
Not sure if it is a rural thing, a coastal thing, or something more common in Middle America.
[47] - I've witnessed worse.
RANN96
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:52 PM |
I live (or used to) in New England, and every house has one
GamesX4
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:52 PM |
[41] I live in New Orleans. No one here would have a clue what that was. We don't even have basements.
Ilta
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:53 PM |
slide down my rainbow...
terribly obscure and difficult. boo.
leadfoot
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:54 PM |
[47] No, not the worst crypto ever...
check out...
http://tanga.com/forum/blogs/1408-Contest_Worst...
martinp13
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:57 PM |
[36] "I am a huge fan of Donnie Darko though..."
That's called "specialized knowledge".... I've never seen the movie, so how the heck would I EVER get the answer? God bless IMDb quotes and a search function.
And I live in a second floor apartment. No, I don't have one, nor does anyone else in the complex.
bcgrote
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:57 PM |
Most modern houses don't have those. The phone, animal group that I have is full of salt, like any good Anglophile has. And it has a lid.
comishcraig
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:57 PM |
I was 96th after 57 minutes...Definitly not too clear to all.
GamesX4
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 07:59 PM |
But leadfoot, those were INTENTIONALLY bad.
slog
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 08:01 PM |
99th
Tonight's Easy OWW made a much better Cryptopix.
riseoverrun
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 08:06 PM |
not all rock is ore.
the watermarks were virtually invisible.
the solution is meaningless without a fairly substantial knowledge of a seven year old movie.
i enjoy having to work for the solution (which you can see in most of my puzzles), but this one was a bit rough.
big ups to hatemachine for nailing this one
AveOscuro
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 08:28 PM |
[23] In response to all who were not fans of this puzzle, I apologize for the obscurity of the reference. To address soccer_ref's comment, the third picture has been used to represent the same sound in previous puzzles so I was banking on it's familiarity. Hope the next one (crossing my fingers) goes over better.
Player
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 08:47 PM |
[60] Don't take it to hard, if it's to easy then what fun is that? :o)
riseoverrun
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 09:13 PM |
[60] don't apologize for the obscurity of the reference just give us a few more clues to find it. i think the puzzle was fine other than the third pic which as you pointed out has been used incorrectly by others as well.
there are always going to be people on here who are going to complain if the puzzle takes any longer than 2.5 seconds and the intellect of an average third grader.
keep at it.
besides 62 comments in two hours... at this rate you'll be knocking jewelia off of her throne in the most discussed category.
escKey
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 09:19 PM |
[60] I recognized it. And at least it got picked as a feature. The moderators liked it.
I still don't get it though :-)
monocle
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 09:32 PM |
beyond the somewhat vague images, my only criticism is that the slurred pronunciation is a bit toooo slurred. A very hard pronounced consonant must be dropped in order to even get close.
JohnQ118
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:37 PM |
those BG images are WAYYY to faint. I had to seriously adjust my monitor to see the left one and the right never showed.
"1955 essay "English and Welsh""
MOderators, STOP posting tanga puzzles with too-faint clues. That's not clever. That's not tricky puzzle-craft. That's just l-a-m-e.
Rickj4029
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:35 PM |
Sorry but the naysayers are correct!
This doesn't even rise to the obscure level since it is completely meaningless by itself.
Even if one were a literary scholar it would still be obscure.
gilby123
Posted on Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:55 PM |
Yeah...if not for the salt, would've never got this one. Can't see one watermark (only could make out SOMETHING was there thanks to comments), the other required a lot of specialized knowledge. And I agree that the third pic just doesn't work. Maybe if it was shown in a cart or hopper.
And for [50], I live in New England too and still do. Those aren't as prevalent as you make them out to be. Certainly, none of the houses near me have them.
John
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2008 01:03 AM |
Watermarks are completely useless. Thanks for the playmate hint, (someone).
yelowflower
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2008 02:35 AM |
hhmm I don't think you will find many of these in Florida either lol....
without the salt, no solve, with the salt, solve....thanks to all
snork
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2008 04:10 AM |
The watermarks were completely invisible for me, but they wouldn't have helped me anyway. On the other hand, after an hour an a half of letting the puzzle swirl in the back of my mind, I figured it out. I agree that the last picture wasn't a good choice, but it was nice in a way to have a Cryptopix that took me some time to solve. So many seem way too easy.
rikkif
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2008 04:13 AM |
wow, tough one, but well done! thanks AveOscuro.. now I gotta go downstairs
davey
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2008 05:47 AM |
I'm with [47].
Ore??? That's ore???? I thought rock, stone, granite, etc. but it doesn't look like ore. It's actually a pretty easy puzzle once you find out it's ORE.
Irrenarzt
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2008 06:06 AM |
Even now that I can actually see the watermarks that were not visible to me last night and knowing that it's ore, I have no freaking clue what this one is...
hatemachine
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2008 06:52 AM |
I apologize for assuming that everyone knows what a basement is.
Seriously though, where do all of you people keep your dead hitchhikers?
slightlyslapdash
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2008 06:54 AM |
I'm with [69] we don't have those in FL.
Wait, no, I did see one once at Hemingway's house down in Key West.
Twench
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2008 09:22 AM |
I have enough salt here to keep Green Bay snow free in January. Yet I still have no idea. I've got a guess for 4 of the pics, but nothing is coming together. Can someone TG me?
dagibbs
Posted on Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:49 AM |
[64] You say a hard pronounced consonant is dropped, but the only consonant I had to drop is one that is commonly dropped by people with a French background when speaking English. It would be one of the easier consonants to drop because it is almost more breathed than vocalized.
I agree that the last image was poorly chosen -- though the sound wanted was one that I had one my list of possibilities without looking at the salt.
Oh, for the Texas people, these are probably more common in areas where the ground will freeze in the winter.