Aug 03, 2011 Cryptopix Puzzle

OK...so it isn't the obvious????

Nice! You got me there for a few seconds, but not for too long! : )

Hmmm... I'm with [1] - I have it (and liked it) but... ?

Huh? I see the similarities of the groups of words, but I don't know how to make a phrase out of them.

woohoo 7th! very nice puzzle, too.

I am with [1] and [3] - I thought the solution was obvious and elegant but it obviously is not so.

Not taking the answer (at least the obvious one)

[6] that's what I thought it was too; tried so many different ways to spell it too!

lol.. you thought the same I did [1] i guess... hmmm.. now i gotta rethink it, cause the obvious ain't it..

You need to describe what those are in each of the boxes, not just what they refer to.

#25 tonight...took awhile to figure this one out. Nice puzzle.

TY [11]

I tried every variation and spelling of the obvious >.<

7 mins and 47th. Guess I'm NOT the only one! LOL

[11] Um, that's what we think we are doing...

edit: ah... nice little p&s action there... Ok, Rocketeer. I guess the added twist was worth the frustration! :)

[11] - thanks. Great puzzle. What made is harder was that the wrong solution made sense too.
[14] - you might not be doing it as much as you need to. Try harder.

d'oh... I didn't even think about that phrase .. thanks [11]. I even wrote it down once (incorrectly of course, so I threw it out and never came back to it).

those of you using the obvious answer are about halfway there..

Thanks [11] that's just what I needed.

Ooh, thanks [11]

Thanks [11], that got me where I needed to be! :)

[11] Thank you that helped a great deal.

[14] If you're entering the obvious answer, then you're not. You're taking what they all MEAN, not what they ARE.

Thanks for the salt 11

[15] Except in all fairness, the 'wrong' solution doesn't quite work. It bothered me that *my* answer was not plural when obviously there were multiples up there. The real answer is much better...

Almost 8 minutes, solved the OWW first, and still got 56th. Tough night!

Intentional or unintentional red herring? Forget "quarter" and "square". Try "quadruple" and maybe "cuatro".

[23] - well at least you got the OWW, I am still stuck there.

[11] Nice salt. I was busy whipping my hair... around.

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

You solved this puzzle in 10 minutes and 30 seconds and were the 97th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 14 points for solving this.
First time in top 100!!!!!!!!!!

[23] thank you... plural!

Rocketeer, this is one of the most interesting Crypto's I've seen in a long time -- finally one with some meat! Thank you.

For a crypto, I'd give that 3 Difficulty stars and 5 for fun.

Kinda like a jawbreaker -- a little bit of work but worth it. :-)

Lesse.....

The obvious solutions never seem to work. I feel like I'm maddeningly close to a solution. It makes me want to bang my head against a wall. There's a lot of redundancy. It just goes back and forth with no end.

How is the answer NOT "The US congress"?

FYI - I got it eventually. Insert obvious joke here.

[24] The solution says "related to" (as opposed to "synonym"), and that's exactly how I took it while I was solving it -- IMO those words are fine.

Not the first Rocketeer puzzle that has stumped me. Great minds don't all think alike. Ha.

[11] Ah - got it now. Thanks!

Is anyone still out there? If so, please salt.

not a clue

[35] [36] All those items inside the boxes....what are they? Insert that into the obvious (that you already had). Now say it out loud.

Thanks....that did it.

Fun, fun, fun! You have to analyze it as a picture, instead of a word puzzle like one word wonder.

wow, was really over-thinking it.

Very nice.

d'oh!! nice aha moment! thanks [11]

Holy crap! LOL! You solved this puzzle in 16 minutes and 30 seconds

I was getting frustrated and the salt was making it worse and the finally......eureka!

(( I'd like to thank soccer_ref.....with out you, I would never have gotten this. And, of course, thank you to God for making me smart enough to get it......BARELY ))

[37] Did it for me! Thanks!

Thanks soccer_ref!

bah~! I finally got it..... duuuuuuuuh! :/

[46] Ditto!

Nice one, good job.

would someone check my answer? I'm pretty sure I'm on the right track but I'm stuck

I went back and forth on this one several times before finally realizing the word I was missing.

[49] You can send it to me. Although you might want to study [50] - there's a lot of salt there.

It would help if I could spell! Had the first and second but kept misspelling the second.... dumb!

I must be incredibly dense as none of the hints got me further than where I started.

NM... Without fail I always solve it no more than 10 seconds after I decide to post.

You solved this puzzle in 3 minutes and 52 seconds and were the 327th Tanga member to solve it.

You solved this puzzle in 3 minutes and 52 seconds and were the 327th Tanga member to solve it.

Thanks [37] that was the push that I needed.

Wow, that was a good one.

im so lost?

[58] what kind of words are they? Say it.

Wonderful puzzle!

What a pain. The words were there all along.

You solved this puzzle in 15 hours, 22 minutes and 23 seconds and were the 361st Tanga member to solve it. You earned 10 points for solving this.

Only took 4 minutes and 5 seconds to solve...too bad I didn't get here sooner tho...