Tanga Times July 10 2007

Tanga Times July 10 2007

check this out.
Not a puzzle but slightly puzzling.

who is backwards in red?

ftp 15

Site Redesign

Site Redesign

In preparation for our super secret project, we’re spending some time on redesigning this little website.

Here’s your chance to give us feedback on stuff you think we could improve. What’s not clear? What’s hard to use? What is butt ugly?

Tanga Times July 9 2007

Tanga Times July 9 2007

Thanks for your patience with our recent difficulties.

The words FLOW and LOWER can intersect to make the word FLOWER

So you could clue the word FLOWER as follows:

Move as a liquid – Closer to the ground – [overlap 3]

Can people find more overlappers?

Tanga Times July 6 2007

Tanga Times July 6 2007

Newsflash!
The reward for a published puzzle just went up from 20 to 50 points.

Coloring contest winners as chosen by Kate:

1st place goes to spamwise

The runner up is kswitz

Kate says it was a tough choice, especially considering the high quality pandering

Tanga Facebook Application Now Online!

Tanga Facebook Application Now Online!

TangaMonkey and Scott Alden are pleased to announce the newest and coolest Facebook application for all of you who love to solve our Daily Fun One Word Wonders!

If you have a Facebook account, just web to this address and sign up for the application. It was just approved by Facebook and we already have over 100 users signed up for it!

As always, pl

Tanga Times July 5 2007

Tanga Times July 5 2007

This is a coloring contest. The winner will get 40 TP and the runner up will get 20 TP.
The first post is by Aaron and it features a track pad sketch of a Halibut. Color this picture in and post your result in this blog. You can print it and color it in the real world, or color it digitally. Make sure image is a png or jpeg file.

To post an image on this blog, first make a post and submit it.

Tanga Times July 4 2007

Tanga Times July 4 2007

Who can think of common two word expressions where both words start with the same two letters?

Like French Fries, for example.

I can think of one that’s a football play. FTP 15

Tanga Times July 3 2007

Tanga Times July 3 2007

Gotta use the Times to plug the Tanga Tee Shirt Design Contest

Between now and July 14 we hope one of you comes up with something awesome for our first shirt. Otherwise we’ll have to use Jeremy’s family Christmas photo…

Oh and what material has the inside of a Shakespeare protagonist? FTP 15

Tanga Tee Design Contest!

Tanga Tee Design Contest!

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR ONE WEEK until July 21!

Contract issues with the URSG (you know how those unions are!)
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Hey, isn’t it about time for a Tanga tee shirt? In our time honored tradition of extracting every trace of creativity from the brains of our users, we’re having a tee shirt design contest.

Post designs right here on this blog. We’ll all be able to comment on

Tanga Times July 2 2007

Tanga Times July 2 2007

Let’s play a little game inspired by Montage

1 = A, B, C, D, or E
2 = F, G, H, I or J
3 = K, L, M, N, or O
4 = P, Q, R, S, or T
5 = U, V, W, X, Y or Z

Here are some examples of clues:

2432 (it hops)
314 (encountered an opera house)
221312 (little 4-eyed peace dude)
235 (animal channel?)

who can think of some?

New Tanga Point Program

New Tanga Point Program

The Monkeys at Tanga have decided that we need to figure out a way to reward all of our great Tanganites who have been collecting Tanga Points for the past several months. We have listened to your feedback, received valuable insight from our top users and have come up with a great program that we think you will enjoy.

The Leaderboard that we launched last month works well for those who are in th

Tanga Times June 30, 2007

Tanga Times June 30, 2007

You can pet your pet.

You can drink your drink.

What else?

Also, if you get an idea for a puzzle (visually nice) the answer to which is a season’s greeting (Christmas or other winter holiday) jot it down and wait. We will be launching a greeting card design contest soon…

Tanga Times June 29, 2007

Tanga Times June 29, 2007

A
STATE OF MATTER
YES IN BARCELONA

WHAT DOES HE CALL ZERO?

FTP10

Tanga Times June 28, 2007

Tanga Times June 28, 2007

A famous actor gives you his autograph. He writes his first initial and his full last name. You read his autograph aloud to him and walk away.

Who is he?

ftp5

And hey, those points are worth a little something now…

Tanga Times June 27, 2007

Tanga Times June 27, 2007

These get pretty tricky. Do the “mind” ones.

Tanga Times June 26, 2007

Tanga Times June 26, 2007

Try This little bugger

red white blue red white blue…

Aaron hasn’t solved it yet but he’s fairly dim.

Tanga Times June 25 2007

Tanga Times June 25 2007

OK,

Here’s another website finding challenge but not as ridiculously hard as the last one.

Find a website that has one obvious thing on it of a particular color.

For example the Kellogs home page along with RED encodes the word TOMATO.

If we can find a bunch of these we can make something out of it. So post the url and the color, but not the word.

Tanga Times June 23 2007

Tanga Times June 23 2007

How about famous people whose last names can be turned into other words by simply removing some letters (not rearranging the remaining letters.)

Tanga Times June 22 2007

Tanga Times June 22 2007

Ok let’s go one level higher.

How about some ideas for Hypercross themes/structures etc.

At some point users will be able to submit Hypercross words/clues but in the mean time this is a way to get more minds in on the making of the puzzles.

Tanga Times June 21 2007

Tanga Times June 21 2007

how about three words that make one?

the three things have to be representable using an image

For example CAR PEN TREE

Tanga on Facebook

Tanga on Facebook

Tanga is now on Facebook!

This Facebook stuff is pretty new to me, let me know if you have ideas on how we can do more things like that. Or how we could improve our facebook application.

Here’s my Facebook profile.

Tanga Times June 20 2007

Tanga Times June 20 2007

These are new and pretty fun. You don’t have to subscribe to try them.

Nerd Stuff

Nerd Stuff

You can ignore this if you aren’t a computer nerd.

I’ve created a way for external programs/websites to load our puzzles and submit answers.

• http://tanga.com/puzzles/current_one_word_wonder.xml
• http://tanga.com/puzzles/current_one_word_warmup.xml
• http://tanga.com/puzzles/32.xml
• http://tanga.com/puzzles/32/puzzle_answers/check?answer=wrong
• http://tanga.com/puzzles/32/puzzle_answe

Tanga Times June 19 2007

Tanga Times June 19 2007

Great news! Aaron is getting emails again every time a new puzzle is uploaded. Joe is merciful.

We had several successful coin stackers yesterday

Today’s challenge:
create a riddle that you can solve if you are looking at a U.S. one dollar bill (back or front or both.)

Tanga Times June 18 2007

Tanga Times June 18 2007

5 points to anyone who sends an email to aaron@tanga.com with a picture attached of an arrangement such as the one in this picture, but situated on a playing card…

OK! Verve640 was equal to the task. Note this is worth 5 points to anyone, not just the first to pull it off…

!http://tanga.bingodisk.com/public/images/justinsmith.p