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renfurdson

Tanga Times June 11 2007

Tanga Times June 11 2007

Rebus brainstorm!

who can think up rebuses for the titles of tv shows?

You don’t have to make a graphic file just tell us how to construct the rebus.

Use quotes to indicate any actual letters that appear in the rebus.

Don’t post the answers and we’ll be able to determine relative difficulty.

Examples:
“Ch” plus a picture of ears

Picture of a stop sign and picture of a pool tab

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renfurdson

Tanga Times June 8 2007

Tanga Times June 8 2007

If you’ve been thinking about sending in an item for the Jigsaw project, you need to do it soon! We’ll be taking the photograph on July first. There’s still time!


Would it be a stretch to try to write a limerick about Tanga?

We promise not to lock your account, no matter how bad your limerick is…


Nice results on

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renfurdson

Tanga Times June 7 2007

Tanga Times June 7 2007

Doing trivia online is kind of tough since people can just use Google, imdb or whatever.

Who can think up some search proof trivia?

Here’s a try: _Name two-word movie titles with both words starting with the same letter. _

I’ll start: Fantastic Four

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renfurdson

Tanga Times June 6 2007

Tanga Times June 6 2007

A water heater malfunction prevented our staff from reporting today.

Anyone know any Light bulb jokes?

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TangaJoe

RSS Feed Question

RSS Feed Question

Right now, we have two RSS feeds, one for blog/news, and one for products. We don’t have one yet for Daily Fun activities.

Would you guys want one? Any other feeds that you’d like to have?

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renfurdson

Tanga Times June 5 2007

Tanga Times June 5 2007

If you’ve been enjoying the new Hypercross puzzles, get ready to help make them! Soon we’ll be accepting hypercross entry submissions. Think of them a simplified One Word Wonder puzzles. Quicktime videos, mp3 sound files and image files will all work.

We’re working on making all the Hypercross puzzles available in the archive.

Thanks to the several people who contacted Aaron about puzzle

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renfurdson

Tanga Times June 4 2007

Tanga Times June 4 2007

Thanks everyone for your patience as we keep monkeying with Tanga. We’re trying to have as much fun as we can here.

If you get a Dodge, a Telletubby and a portable shelter, what do you become? FTP5

The current state of our software makes it hard for Aaron to browse through submitted puzzles. Also, for the moment Aaron is not notified about each submission. This means you should be in touch w

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TangaMonkey

Wanted: Tanganites with Photoshop Skills!

Wanted: Tanganites with Photoshop Skills!

Hello everyone,

We are looking for Tanga users who have good photoshop skills that can help us with a few little graphics/photo manipulation projects that we have come up every once in a while. We will pay with Tanga Credit! If you are interested, please contact me at jeremy at tanga dot com.

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TangaJoe

Rewards Program Update

Rewards Program Update

Tanga rewards now expire in 180 days, up from 60.

Got questions about the Tanga Reward program? Post here. We’ll get them answered.

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renfurdson

Tanga Times June 1, 2007

Tanga Times June 1, 2007

Here’s something you can only try once. Well, you can try it again but it will be different.

If you want to try this, DO NOT SCROLL DOWN VERY FAR.

Find a crossword puzzle to do. Before you solve the puzzle, write down the dimensions of the grid that contains it (15 by 15 for example.) Don’t write it on the puzzle. Use a separate piece of paper.

IMPORTANT! Don’t do this alone. Have a hel

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TangaMonkey

Leaderboard! Oh my!

Leaderboard! Oh my!

Hello everyone,

Tonight we are announcing our newest way to reward those people who are our most frequent users and purchasers on Tanga. Your fearless TangaJoe has created a leader board system where you will be able to see the top 10 leaders in certain categories (with more categories coming soon) as well as where you rank against those leaders.

Each and ev

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renfurdson

Tanga Times May 31 2007

Tanga Times May 31 2007

Yesterday answer: A heliCOPter always has a policeman inside.


Today challenge.

Join A and B! We haven’t managed yet…

Post your solution. Fewest moves wins!

Time to slide


Survey:
Who has the following in your house?

Ant farm with live ants
Working lava lamp
Pomegranite
Rockem Sockem Robots game

Does

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renfurdson

Tanga Times May 30 2007

Tanga Times May 30 2007

Honor System Origami Contest!!!

Go to Google and search for “origami jumping frog.”

You will find a variety of links to different designs.

The goals are maximum height and maximum lateral distance.

Feel free to modify the designs but your frog must be folded from one piece of paper.

Aaron had been working on jumping frogs and his record height is 16 inches, and his record lateral dis

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renfurdson

Tanga Times May 29 2007

Tanga Times May 29 2007

Here’s a little picture puzzle.

Which of these animals is not at its home?

If you figure it out, make a two word post.

Word one should be the answer animal. Word two should be something that is at its home.

This way you won’t totally give it away but we’ll know that you know. And you’ll get the points.

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renfurdson

Tanga Times May 28 2007

Tanga Times May 28 2007

Here’s a really cool maze puzzle that’s been around for a long time. We played a version of it years ago and still had lots of fun playing it again this morning.

Nifty maze


Boggle challenge!

I just shook my Boggle game and here are the letters that I got:

CEUT
VONE
IURI
TITN

Points for the longest word! If you’re not fa

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renfurdson

Tanga Times May 25 2007

Tanga Times May 25 2007

OK, it’s Friday Night.

Help!

Aaron is stuck trying to solve a really silly game.

Silly Game

So far he has managed to get a pet cat that does nothing (kick the statue to get) a key that makes everything shake but doesn’t seem to open anything, a laser gun that makes cool sounds only and a blue stone from the hamburger room. The laser gun does n

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renfurdson

Tanga Times May 24 2007

Tanga Times May 24 2007

Hello Tangans

Here’s a question. Has a term emerged to represent a member of the Tanga community? Are we Tangans? Tanganites? Tangaites? I’ve seen at least these three in use.

What are we?


No winners in fantasy baseball. Everyone chose the Red Sox…


Find the missing final element in each sequence. This will give you nine letters. Make three three-letter words. Discard

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renfurdson

Tanga Times May 23 2007

Tanga Times May 23 2007

Hey, puzzle makers! We need some really easy puzzles. As you might have noticed we’re trying to keep the One Word Warm ups super easy.

The idea is to give people with no clue what’s going on here a chance to get started.

Aaron will be making quite a few of the easy puzzles to try to demonstrate the easiness factor we’re looking for.

If you submit an easy puzzle let Aaron know with an em

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renfurdson

Tanga Times May 22 2007

Tanga Times May 22 2007

Might not have mentioned that the Tanga Times is Mon thru Fri.

Tanga Times anagramming contest!

Who can find the funnest anagram of the letters TANGATIMES?

Any number of words but just those 10 letters exactly

The judges will be my neighbors Thomas, 11 and Benjabin, 9.

Here are some terms from games. Can you name the games?

Shuttlecock
Defensive indifference
En Passant
Queen

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renfurdson

Tanga Times May 21 2007

Tanga Times May 21 2007

Well, if you’re still here after all the confusion associated with our software changes, thanks for your patience.

We recently learned a game and we were amazed we hadn’t run into it before. If you’ve never played it, give it a try. If you know it, give it a whirl for old times sake.

The game is called French Toast. It’s a 20 question variant. No winner or loser, just fun.

Player A thinks

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TangaJoe

Some new things...

Some new things...

Hi all,

If you’ve looked at the Daily Fun page, you’ll notice that it looks a little different. Hopefully better different. Maybe not. Let me know if it’s not.

We are now doing two puzzles a day. And, in fact, they are not “puzzles” any more. They are One Word Wonders! We haven’t yet updated all the text to say One Word Wonder yet, let me know if you still see “puzzle” mentioned in a

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renfurdson

Tanga Times May 18 2007

Tanga Times May 18 2007

If you think solving Tanga puzzles is tough, try finding a googlewhack.

try here

First person to get on their list with a user name that includes tanga will get a gift in the mail from Aaron.


Here’s a game for two to try:

Let’s call it Props.com.

Players alternate between two roles.

The roles are Prop and Pick.

The Prop layer pr

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TangaMonkey

Where in the World is TangaMonkey?

Where in the World is TangaMonkey?

Tonight at 6:00 p.m. PST, TangaMonkey has reservations at a Wolfgang Puck cafe restaurant in the same hotel where there is a place to see Lions and a Rain Forest… I hear that gambling is common place there as well.

I’ll be wearing a black short sleeved shirt and jeans. I’ll be with a hot blond woman. The first one to find me and say hello receives $25 in Tanga Credit.

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renfurdson

Tanga Times May 17 2007

Tanga Times May 17 2007

Hi everyone!

Time for another contest! To win this contest, be the first person to listen to the song, find the missing verb (it’s near the end,) switch the last two letters, add a B in the middle, and post what they make.

Song

Here are the results from yesterday’s thought experiment!

We have 16 pieces of data, which should give us a result with

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TangaJoe

Where in the World is TangaJoe?

Where in the World is TangaJoe?

Answer: Portland, OR aka Beertown.

Why? RailsConf 2007.

First person to find him gets $25 in Tanga Credit.

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