Tanga Times - September 10, 2007 by pyrok

Tanga Times - September 10, 2007 by pyrok

Tonight’s Tanga Times is all about sliding puzzles. One the most famous is “The 15 Puzzle,” which was like the Rubik’s Cube (during the 1980s) of the late 1870s. The 15 square tiles were numbered 1 to 15 and the goal was to arrange them in the correct order inside a four-by-four grid. Another popular one, called Dad’s Puzzle (here’s an image),

Tanga Times - September 9th, 2007

Tanga Times - September 9th, 2007

Hi all!

I think we had a pretty neat turnout for the origin of our member usernames discussion (http://tanga.com/forum/blogs/967 – I keep going back to see if anyone else has shared their thoughts – so, thosw and renfurdson, and all you tangans – enquiring minds want to know!).

Now I find I’m curious about the hobbies and pastimes of y’all. Over

Tanga Times - September 8th, 2007 by pb

Tanga Times - September 8th, 2007 by pb

I’ve been looking around Tanga’s site, and one of the cool things is being able to upload an image for your user profile. As I perused, I was surprised that of the the images I found, most were not a picture of the user, but another neat image.

Just poking around I’ve found these users have uploaded images (this is not inclusive by any means, as I couldn’t check out all 17,000 users – please d

Tanga Times - September 7th, 2007 by V

Tanga Times - September 7th, 2007 by V

Welcome to your weekly installment of V’s Riddle Corner. Each Friday evening I’ll provide you with a few riddles to earn you some Tanga Points, and perhaps even a few links to waste some time. The links will tend to be to interesting facts or fun videos, while the puzzles will frequently be based in logic or maths (gasp!). So, without further adieu…

Wastes of Time:

This is neat!:

Tanga Times - September 5th, 2007 by Verve640

Tanga Times - September 5th, 2007 by Verve640

Salutations, loyal Tanganites.

The focus today will be images. Since most puzzle solvers that visit Tanga regularly have experienced the ‘bliss’ of random picture identification, I thought I’d give everyone an opportunity to help teach our computers how to identify objects in images. This is optional, of course, and isn’t necessary for solving the puzzle. If this is your first trip

Tanga Times - September 4th, 2007 by Robrizob

Tanga Times - September 4th, 2007 by Robrizob

Pyrok mentioned laziness in his or her (straighten me out, pyrok) Tanga Times last night, and it’s perfect timing because I’m too lazy to create any puzzles this week. Instead, y’all get to create puzzles! Submit your best rebuses for classic works of literature. Actual images, please, not just “a rampaging elephant + a mutant banana + two children playing a game of tiddlywinks” etc. Here

Tanga Times - September 3rd, 2007 by pyrok

Tanga Times - September 3rd, 2007 by pyrok

Happy Labor Day, everyone!

I hope you were able to enjoy the holiday that celebrates the American worker and the nice, long weekend that customarily marks the end of summer. It’s also time to lament over what you wanted accomplish over the summer but didn’t and maybe make that last-ditch effort to try and accomplish something. Or it’s a day to just be lazy and have a federally mandated excuse f

Tanga Times - August 31, 2007 by VRoscioli

Tanga Times - August 31, 2007 by VRoscioli

Welcome to your weekly installment of V’s Riddle Corner. Each Friday evening I’ll provide you with a few riddles to earn you some Tanga Points, and perhaps even a few links to waste some time. The links will tend to be to interesting facts or fun videos, while the puzzles will frequently be based in logic or maths (gasp!). So, without further adieu…

Wastes of Time:

Waste of Time:

Tanga Times, August 29, 2007 by Verve640

Tanga Times, August 29, 2007 by Verve640

Salutations, loyal Tanganites. While you’re waiting for the next Tangathon deal, feel free to explore the links below. If you are feeling especially motivated, then use your newfound knowledge to tackle the puzzle as well. If this is your first trip to my Tanga Times, click here for previous issues. In order to obtain y

Tanga Times, August 28, 2007 by Robrizob

Tanga Times, August 28, 2007 by Robrizob

Tanganites:

The “escape the room” game is apparently a vibrant genre unto itself. I have since discovered many others:

Escape the island!
Escape the bathroom!
Escape the creepy basement!
“Escape

Tanga Times - August 27, 2007 by Pyrok

Tanga Times - August 27, 2007 by Pyrok

Another weekend over and another work week beginning. At least this weekend will be a long one. School begins soon too. I’m sure the teachers on our site are really glad about that (sarcasm)! In the spirit of a new school year and a hectic week beginning, here are some classic diversions you can entertain yourself with or you can use to keep students busy for a while when

Combined Shipping Program

Combined Shipping Program

Tanga is about to start work on a long-awaited Combined Shipping Program.

Synopsis:

Certain products will be eligible for combined shipping. When purchasing these products, you’ll see a Combined Shipping checkbox on the checkout page. If the Combined Shipping checkbox is selected, we won’t ship the product to you immediately. Instead, we’ll hold on to it for up to a week. Any other produc

Tanga Times - August 25th, 2007 by leadfoot

Tanga Times - August 25th, 2007 by leadfoot

WATCH CAREFULLY! HIS FINGERS NEVER LEAVE HIS HANDS!
A friend shared this with me, and I thought you might enjoy it too. It’s about 5 minutes long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C96Hc1m7pRU

And to make watching it worth your while, 4 TPs to the first to send me the answer to the puzzle below, 3 TPs to the second, 2 to the next six, and 1 to the ni

Tanga Times - August 24, 2007 - V

Tanga Times - August 24, 2007 - V

Welcome to your weekly installment of V’s Riddle Corner. Each Friday evening I’ll provide you with a few riddles to earn you some Tanga Points, and perhaps even a few links to waste some time. The links will tend to be to interesting facts or fun videos, while the puzzles will frequently be based in logic or maths (gasp!). So, without further adieu…

Wastes of Time:

“This is pretty neat”

Tanga Times - August 22, 2006 by Verve640

Tanga Times - August 22, 2006 by Verve640

Salutations, loyal Tanganites. I hope everyone is enjoying all of the new Tanga features as much as I am. If this is your first trip to my Tanga Times, click here for previous issues. This week, as usual, I will attempt to stimulate every nook and cranny inside of your respective crania. As I only have about a page or so to

Tanga Times - August 21, 2007 by Robrizob

Tanga Times - August 21, 2007 by Robrizob

Y’all are going to hate me for this week. Time sinks galore!

Rush hour: move the cars and trucks around to get your car out of the traffic jam. There’s an original meatspace version too. Very fun!

I stumbled across a few little adventure/puzzle games. In Swan’s Room, you’re trapped in a room and have

Tanga Times - August 20th, 2007 by Shannyn

Tanga Times - August 20th, 2007 by Shannyn

Happy Monday, everyone! Reading the stories about how people’s user names came to be was interesting (see leadfoot’s 8/18/07 newsletter )! Check it out and add your story if you missed it over the weekend.

Tonight I just have this link (but I think it’s enough for today) to this ye

Express Yourself

Express Yourself

Come on girls
Do you believe in Tanga?
’Cause I got something to say about it
And it goes something like this

Express Yourself Today! (or View Other Expressions)

Tanga Times - August 18th, 2007 by leadfoot

Tanga Times - August 18th, 2007 by leadfoot

As I’ve perused the blogs over the months, I have come to wonder at the cool screen names people have chosen for themselves….

My name “leadfoot”, well, I don’t remember why I chose it – I think subconsciously I was playing off my initials “PB”, but I don’t remember it being a conscious decision. I did get a question about whether I get a lot of speeding tickets….

Anyway, why did you choo

Daily Fun Improvements

Daily Fun Improvements

You’ve probably noticed some changes to the Daily Fun area. Hopefully you think they are improvements!

New things

• Better pagination through the archive
• Rating system. You can rate puzzles based on “Fun” and “Difficulty”.
• You can see the Most and Least solved puzzles.

Upcoming things

• A better search mechanism. You’ll be able to search through the Dail

Tanga Times - August 17th, 2007 by VRoscioli

Tanga Times - August 17th, 2007 by VRoscioli

Welcome to your weekly installment of V’s Riddle Corner. Each Friday evening I’ll provide you with a few riddles to earn you some Tanga Points, and perhaps even a few links to waste some time. The links will tend to be to interesting facts or fun videos, while the puzzles will frequently be based in logic or maths (gasp!). So, without further adieu…

Wastes of Time:

“Video to waste some

Tanga Times - August 16th, 2007 by TangaMonkey

Tanga Times - August 16th, 2007 by TangaMonkey

Hey all you Tanganites!

Just a few fun things to check out today. But first, I want you to post what you would like to see us sell on Tanga BESIDES games and gaming products. We know that already! So let us know what else you would like to see – you can be as specific or as broad as you want…

We also need TWO (2) MORE TANGA TIMES EDITORS! – Your public awaits you and your beautiful w

Tanga Times - August 15, 2007 by Verve640

Tanga Times - August 15, 2007 by Verve640

Salutations, loyal Tanganites. I hope that anyone who attempted last weeks puzzle found it to be stimulating on many levels. If you missed it, feel free to tackle the challenge at your leisure (Last Week). Now, to those hungry for more, a new puzzle is beckoning. The first to E-mail me (Verve640@AOL.com) the final answer will ge

Tanga Times - August 14th, 2007 by Robrizob

Tanga Times - August 14th, 2007 by Robrizob

Today, it’s fun with spoonerisms, named after the right Reverend William Archibald Spooner. Here are a few examples:

The lord is a shoving leopard (the lord is a loving shepherd).

The reverend to a lady says, “you’ll soon be had as a matter of course” (you’ll soon be mad as a hatter of course).

And a spectacularly clever one: “I’d rat

Tanga Times - August 13th, 2007 by pyrok

Tanga Times - August 13th, 2007 by pyrok

Okay, Tanganites: Here’s my first go at a Monday Tanga Times (the pressure!) – please be kind.

Do you like mazes of the online variety? Here is a link I came across for a variety of mazes by a maze designer named Robert Abbott whose mazes have appeared on the cover of Games Magazine (in fact, there is a new one on the October issue which actually hits the stands in August, according to the w