Sep 28, 2008 Cryptopix Puzzle

This is current.

no clue on the motel logo...google images no help at all

I just checked this out the other day!

[2] Same here

Never heard of it. k1w1 is not very up to date!
:-)

any salt on the motel? I can't be the only person who doesn't travel enough!!

[6] what does that picture look like?

[2] AND [4] They sit at a round table.

like a blue shield...and i googled that too!

not in white satin

ok, got that part, must not be my night cuz it makes no sense to me aarrgghh no wait, that was last week lol

Background picture helped. Glad there's IMDB and Netflix.
:D

Thanks [12] that was the only thing that got me close enough to find the answer.

there;s a background picture? I HATE when my monitor is this rotten!!

thank you [12] guessed with what I had at IMDB and found it

Need to get rid of the T-looking shape in the motel logo.

Solved - but I do not consider this a good puzzle at all - least of all a featured one. Guaranteed that less than 10% of all the people in the world have even heard of this movie. Just my opinion.

It's not a challenge if you have to look it up on google and IMDB. Besides, the last picture is not a very cool way of coming up with the last part of the answer. - Think about it.

Thanks a lot Google!

[14] and [17], seconded.

That isn't in August.

[17] I'm sorry you didn't like this puzzle.

Kept looking for a motel chain that started with "T". No wonder I couldn't get it =P

never heard of the answer before now .. media challenged :P

[21] That's what I like to see; creators getting snotty about being called on a weak puzzle. Classy!

It's a brand new movie that they have been advertising on TV for a month! I don't go to first run movies and I don't watch much TV but I got it in a little over a minute.

Give her a break. There have been far worse cryptopi (plural for cryptopix?) than this.

Trivia (salty, but not by much): The model for the statue is Dante Alligheri of "Divine Comedy" fame.

Criticism isn't bad. Who *doesn't* need it? We can all improve.

Having said that, criticism isn't a license to be a classless turd. It is possible to objectively offer a little negative feedback without getting personal.

Philana, I can't say this was my favorite puzzle of yours, but I thought it was fairly clued. The "T" might have been a bit of a red herring (perhaps "blue" it out rather than use white).

[22] [27] I apologize for what appears to be a "T" in that motel logo. My intention was to provide an additional hint by showing that the motel chain has a two-word name with the first word considerably longer than the second.

EDIT: I have changed the picture to block out individual letters, to eliminate the apparent "T".

I personally got the puzzle quickly, and felt it was entertaining. The subject matter has been advertised heavily of late, and I don't understand why people who have themselves published _0_ puzzles feel they have the right to vaguely state that they have a better way of doing things than the puzzle creator, who in this case has published 45 puzzles here to date.

Pfaugh. Either share your "better" idea, which at least gives us the chance to validate whether there's anything other than rudeness and hot air behind your vague boast, or save our time and pixels- maybe go catch a movie, since you apparently don't get out much.

I didn't like it. [29] quit whining. Either we will like a puzzle or not. Your pseudo intellectualizing will not make it so. I see a movie every weekend and have solved many puzzles and I have never heard of this movie. So give the puzzle solvers the benefit of the doubt to either like it or not.

My first one - and I got it!!!

[24] I didn't see the puzzle poster as being rude at all, they simply stated they were sorry the others didn't like the puzzle.

I agree with the others that were saying the movie has been HIGHLY advertised as late.

Nice puzzle, Philana, keep 'em coming.

Oh, and WTG, Joodles!! Welcome to the fun.

dude....it's a puzzle....relax....just cause you don't know the answer quickly doesn't mean it's a good/bad puzzle...good heavens...a bunch of whiners...

Woo, got it.

And with enough time left over to go horseback riding on the beach.

[21] Even more classy! You silently edit out the snottiness. S'okay, we saw it. Good to know you can't be trusted to leave the record or truth intact.

(Normal netiquette is to leave your faux pas in place, to acknowledge it, and to *apologize*, rather than to simply try to sweep it under the rug by deleting it and hoping no one notices.)

You solved this puzzle in 3 minutes and 15 seconds and were the 399th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 3 points for solving this.

Thanks google! Never heard of it!