Any love for last night's puzzles? I actually got the hard one pretty quickly, but I'm stumped on the easy one.

It's not belt.

It's



Also the first one should rhyme with



Finally,



Hope that helps,

Dustin

HALLOWEEN

ALL SAINTS DAY

Any salt for last night's hard puzzle? I can't figure that thing out to save my life.

What have you gotten so far?

Hard one for tonight. Need help ...

Thanks! Looks like my source had incorrect data:

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/history/2005hurricanes...

I'm embarrassed to ask, but I need help with the easy one tonight.

I see an ice cold pitcher of lemonade-tires, and it's just not clicking. I'm getting upset. ;-)

Having fun with the Hypercross.

I am usually really bad, but I think I have them except for the ice skater... Am I just that blind?

Got the hint from the One Word Wonder... Just need help with it now.

NOV 2nd 2007

Did I miss something?

It used to be that there was a lot of activity here at BGG as people helped each other solving the puzzles.

It seems there has been a mass exodus.

?

Speaking just for myself, I was tired of doing my best to help people and getting really rude emails in response. Sometimes you try to help but without getting too salty and people would get angry with you for not giving them enough. Sometimes you thought you weren't being very salty and people would get mad that you said too much. It was impossible to tell what would help people and you would often get responses that made you not want to post. I wish I had kept some of those emails cursing at me. I ldon't even look here anymore. Someone pointed your post out to me and I came to look. It really has dried up, hasn't it?

I think that the existence of two Livejournal communities devoted to spoilers has pulled people away from the BGG thread. I suspect that a lot of folks, in spite of their claims of just wanting salt, would rather just get the answers and points (which would explain some of the rude emails another poster mentions).

I still check the thread regularly, but requests for salt seem to have died down. Then again, I don't think there's been a killer-hard puzzle in a while, either.

The last few times I came here for salt, there really wasn't any, despite many requests. THere were some posts that I took as people who HAD solved that day's puzzle, but weren't going to offer any assistance. Seems almost teasing in retrospect, but my 20/20 isn't good coming or going any more....

If you look at the end of page 417 / beginning of 418, that's when Faith and I pretty much stopped posting here. PB, you know that Faith and I have done everything we could to help when we could. We just couldn't handle the rudeness. That, and I agree that the puzzles haven't been anything that the 2 of us haven't been able to figure out together. We got tired of attitude and created our own LiveJournal. I still check here every night for a limited time, but no one seems to be here.

OH! And it seems that anyone that wants salt is actually getting it from the Tanga puzzle posts!

NOV 3rd 2007

NOV 4th 2007

Help on the hard?

I could use some help today too. This puzzle has way too much going on, I don't know where to start.

As for the "controversy" going on right now, I'm not as diehard as a lot of people on the puzzles, but I check them every day at work and try to do a quick solve. My office blocks livejournal, so bgg is the only place I can go for salt! I've tried to help others when I can solve it, though I think most people have already done their puzzling by the time I get around to it. Anyway, I think it would be a shame for this thread to die out, it does help a lot of people. I understand that it's hard when you offer help and get hell for it, but also realize there are plenty of people who check the forum for help and don't post afterward to avoid adding a dozen "thanks!" messages clogging up the board. I usually only post when I have a real contribution to the thread.

Embarrassingly, I never got the hard by deduction, but by recognizing an unfinished and common phrase in the text. Backtracking, though, I can tell you that will give you the word. Not sure if there's a pointer to that elsewhere, though.

Looking at the Hard Puzzle:



On this one, it may help narrow things down to know that there is absolutely nothing needed that is not shown in the puzzle.