Cryptic canvas

Not much time this week for challenges and conundrums, at least not for home-made ones. Well, I do have quite a nice collection already, both picture and other puzzles BUT I will save them for the proper occasion. All you need to know for now is that I've been grinning wickedly for a few days now. Expect evil things :)
In the meantime, my usual thorough research has led me to a great movie quiz which you could try. You'll find it here. Unfortunately, you'd have to know the English film titles as most clues only work in English. Good thing is, you can save your score and come back later, after a bit of choogling (which is a cheat-google hybrid :)

(I got 30 so far, but obsession and pride dictate that I return and finish the task.)

Update: 46/50... the last 4 probably never made my list of must-see movies.

Don't look now Dirk

Not much time this week for puzzles, especially if the latest rumours from oop north turn out to be true.
Anyroad, here's a slightly tricky one (for some o' yis it should be easy tho :).


And here's 6 clues - name the movie.

POTD - week 4 - ansas

Answers to last week's puzzles, from bottom to top.

1. Hugh Jackman/Mel Gibson & Ronaldinho/Robin Williams (that was a bit good, that was )
2. waffle iron/Waffeleisen
3. emergency whistle/Notsignalpfeife
4. springform & trumpet/Trompete
5. shuttlecock/Federball & waffle/Waffel
6. from top left anticlockwise/von links oben gegen Uhrzeigersinn: Pulp Fiction, The Godfather/Der Pate, Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Buffy – Der Vampir-Killer, Brazil, Blade Runner, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure/Bill und Teds verrückte Reise durch die Zeit
   

Stills from moving pictures

Here's the penultimate of this week's riddles. Easy enough. Name the 6 movies. No connection whatsoever apart from them being some of my favourites.


Oh and if anyone intends to go to the Celtic Cottage quiz on Monday let me know. It's too far out for me to just chance it.

Up close and .. mysterious

Just in case you have all the answers already.. here's some more fun with picture puzzles. 4 macros and 2 mystery objects.




Ridddle me these.

The island of Dr More...oh.

Here's two I'm particularly fond of.

POTD - week 3 - ansas

From bottom to top:

• paint brush/Malerpinsel & egg slicer/Eierschneider
• from left to right: Stripperella, Elektra, Hawkgirl, Livewire, Vixen
• Cuba Gooding Jr./Jürgen Klinsmann & Silvester Stallone/Keanu Reeves
• zipper/Reißverschluß& plastik fork/Plastikgabel
• pencil/Bleistift & mobile phone/Handy (methinx it’s a Samsung)
• English Premier League (crown/Krone), Maltese cross/Malteserkreuz (eyes/Augen), Qantas (hair/Haare), EURO 2008 (“face/Gesicht”), FDJ (shirt/Hemd)
• can opener/Dosenöffner & eggwhisk/Schneebesen
• Lindsay Lohan/Pamela Anderson & Vin Diesel/John Waters & Pierce Brosnan/Viggo Mortensen

POTD - week 3, weekend gifts

Here are the last 3 genetic experiments, 1 vertical, 2 horizontal. Mostly easy. Enjoy.
And since it's weekend, here are 2 more macros, and a new 5-1 logo. Good luck, and good night.

POTD - week 3

As mentioned before, this is purely for entertainment puposes. No more competition. Since I still intend to spend Friday night at the Happy Pigs Quiz, here are enough picture puzzles to tide you over till Sunday or so. 4 macros, 2 horizontal genetic experiments and last but no least lesser known comic heroines. Heros for the girls in the next issue :)




Have a good one, happy quizzing if you go and let me know how it went if you went.

Up close..

Not much spare time this week for puzzles. Proper work to be done, rent to be paid, Germans to be taught. End-of-the-month stuff, like. Here's a little something for the time being, maybe I'll put up some more pics & riddles for the weekend. No more competition tho, you can send your answers if you like, I'll put up the correct ones next week.

Feid Club (or members thereof) - good quizzing and better luck this time at Murray's! One of them days you're gonna get it right. Right?
I'll let you know if the quiz at the Happy Pigs is anything to shout about.

POTD - week 2 - points & answers

Here are last week's correct answers. Both of you were doing much better than last week (spent much time googling?!)

potd7: connection: unicorn / Einhorn
potd8: Steve Buscemi & Uma Thurman
potd9: ashtray / Aschenbecher & top of can / Dosendeckel
potd10: Steven Spielberg & Dan Aykroyd
potd11: from top left clockwise/von links oben im Uhrzeigersinn: Peter Falk, Renee Zellweger, Francesco Totti; Ben Affleck, Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Demi Moore
potd12: horse bit / Pferdezaum (Trense)
potd 6: Mark Harmon & Tony Blair

Points: Jon 9, LN 9
Points after 2 weeks: Jon 14,5, LN 13

There will be new puzzles here but the whole "competition thingie" is rather pointless, seeing as you can "cheat" and there are only 2 players anyroad.

POTD - week 2, parts 6 & 7

Before I head off into the sunset and the well-deserved and much-needed weekend, here are the last two missing puzzle pieces for week 2 (1 horizontal genetic experiment and the mystery object of the week). I've decided to stick to pictures as they're not as easy to cheat on as questions. Might have to re-think the format. Or the idea in general.
Anyroad, the correct answers and points will be up here on Monday, till then - have a good one.


PS - I'd appreciate a wee report from Feid Club (who were slightly below par at Murray's)

POTD - week 2, part 5

Here's Friday's, younguns we haven't had yet (I think). The weekend puzzles should be up later today. So far Jon is in the lead...

POTD - week 2, parts 3 & 4

Don't know if I'll have the time tomorrow, so here are 2 new Puzzles of the Week.


PS: LN, don't rush it, you have time till Sunday:)

POTD - week 2, part 2

And since it's a new day, here's a new puzzle. You know the drill (it's horizontal)

POTD - week 2, part 1

I've been thinking... (insert your own jokes here).

Since summer is a loooooong time, and some of yis seem to be missing the quizzing (bad puns included) I've decided to continue the "online quiky". You'll get 7 tasks/pictures/riddles per week, and in order to win some virtual vodka (or at least some 'net nuts) you will have to send in your answers. Deadline every week is Sunday, 23:00. You can either take your time and send all your answers in one batch or - if you think you've got it right in one - send them in every day. Those of you who are into that whole social networking-I've-got-17-new-friends-who-don't-agree-that-I'm-Kreuzberg-but-would-gladly-support-me-in-the-Mafia-wars facebook thingie can message me their answers (that's my English going down the toilet). The generous ones amongst you can leave their answers in the blog comments if they don't mind others "borrowing" ideas. You can only leave 1 answer per POTD so make sure it's your final one. No second thoughts. You can also e-mail your answers to quiz_miz(at)hotmail.com...
No teams, this is an individual effort, i.e. every man, woman, child, android, ghoul and Boy George for themselves.
Obviously I can't prevent you from googling your answers but if you cheat, you only cheat yourself. You might get points for funny/creative answers as I'm judge, jury, and executioner :)

Week 1 was a dry run. Week 2 counts. Here is your first question/riddle (bit of a scavenger hunt so you'd be allowed use of t'internet . you never know, you might learn somting :).

What is the connection between Tyrannosaurus Rex, Blade Runner, Tintin, Scotland, America, Narwhal, Fairy Chess, Iron Man, and Legend (answer is one word)?
Oder for ze Germans: Was ist die Verbindung zwischen Tyrannosaurus Rex, Blade Runner, Tintin (Tim & Struppi), Schottland, America, Narwal, Feenschach, Iron Man und Legende (Antwort ist ein Wort)?

Get cracking, there's more to come.

And here is ze deutsche Version:
"Online Quiky" - damit ihr während der Kreativ-/Sommer-/Denk...whatever Pause nicht ganz aus der Übung kommt, gibt's eine wöchentliche Quiky-Kurzfassung. Pro Tag erscheint auf diesen Seiten ein POTD (puzzle of the day), in Bild- oder Fragenform. Diejenigen unter euch die weiterhin ihre geistigen Kräfte mit anderen messen wollen können ihre Antworten einsenden und Punkte sammeln, die im Siegesfall zu virtuellem Wodka führen, Verlierern werden weiterhin Nüsse nachgeschmissen. Einsendeschluß ist jeweils Sonntag 23.00 Uhr. Wer mag darf seine Antworten hier im blog als comments hinterlassen, auf die Gefahr hin daß andere sich inspirieren lassen. Ansonsten zählen Zuschriften per email an quiz_miz(affenschwanz)hotmail.com oder Nachrichten im facebook (für die networker). Dies ist kein Teamsport, jeder kämpft für sich allein. Es zählt pro POTD pro Spieler nur 1 Antwort, ihr solltet also vor Einsendung nochmal überlegen ob das euer letztes Wort ist. Lustige/kreative Antworten führen ggf. auch zum Ziel da ich Richter, Geschworener und Henker in Personalunion bin. Online-Meckern führt zu online bunten Karten :)

Puzzle 1 in Woche 2 findet ihr obenstehend. Mehr morgen an dieser Stelle.

POTD - week 1 - points & answers

See, all it took was some gentle persuasion and thinly veiled threats to get you to participate :)

Here are the correct answers and the points for week 1:

potd1: sticky tape dispenser/Tesafilmabroller & battery/Batterie (ou pile, pour Hélène)
potd2: Mel Gibson & Brendan Fraser
potd2a: Joaquin Phoenix & Nicole Kidman
potd3: Charlie Sheen & David Hasselhoff
potd4: pistol (hammer)/Pistole (Hammer) & hammers in a piano/Hämmer in einem Klavier
potd5: tennis racket/Tennisschläger & tea bag/Teebeutel
potd 6: piano tuner/Klavierstimmer

Points for week 1. Easy since Jon & Hélène were the only two to "properly" compete.

Jon: 5,5 points
Hélène: 4 points

And here are your prizes:

More on POTW (puzzles of the week) up here later. Methinx we should "competitise" this thing a bit :)

POTD - weekend gifts

Before I head off into the sunset and (almost work-free, definitely smoke-free and hopefully deluge-free weekend) here are the promised Puzzles of the Day #4-6.
Since no one ever requested answers for the previous ones I'm guessing you got them all right and don't need any help or hints.
Have fun figuring these out (1 horizontal genetic experiment, 2x2 macros and mystery tools). I'm back on Monday, with hopefully more riddles..




(in what profession would you have these thingies in your toolbox? In welchem Beruf würde man dieses Zeugs in seiner Werk"zeugs"kiste haben?)

And in the spirit of fairness, and equality, and level playing fields, here's the native bit.
Ehe ich mich in den Sonnenuntergang und das arbeits-, rauch- und regenfreie Wochenende aufmache hier die versprochenen Rätsel des Tages #4-6. Da niemand um Hinweise oder Hilfe bei den ersten 3 gebeten hat gehe ich mal stark davon aus daß alle alles herausbekommen haben.
Viel Spaß mit den neuen (1 x horizontale Genetik, 2x2 Macros und 1 mysteriöser Werkzeugs"koffer"). Bis Montag, selbe Stelle, selbe Welle, mit neuen Rätseln & Bildern.

POTD, the sequel

I said ALL your greens... alreet, I'll let it slip this one time.
Here's number 2, a vertical one. Bit ... weeeeird. I can't look at it for more than 30sec.

POTD - puzzle of the day

As promised, here's your daily fix. Admittedly an easy one but you haven't had much practice lately, have ye?

If you don't get it (and your colleagues aren't much help either), the answer will be in the comments at some stage. And if you're good, and eat all your greens, and tidy your room you might even get a second one today.