Funny Farm

yeah the error messages are FAR too frustrating. thanks JAY for reviewing this game, causing 1000's of people to go view the (very awesome) game and then overloading the site's server! :-p

what the heck is an 11 letter word that goes with dragons? or a 4 letter word that goes with windows?

i cant think of cow words except:

mad cow

mel im not at dragons yet but perhaps you could try

dragonflies

allie, you were right on the money, thank you.

a 4-letter word that relates to windows:

bugs

did anyone got any luck with the meta-puzzle?
the last hint says:

To solve the meta-puzzle, put the two left ones together and get something red. Add the top-right and get into the right state. Then add the last clue and you will win.

I'm not sure what any of this means, except that the state associated with that 70's show is most likely wisconsin?

I can't play this game at all. Whenever I try to type in something and press enter, or click on Save Game or hints, it just says Cheating Attempt Logged, etc etc.

well, i have two words left...

a 7 letter word connected to viagra and an 8-5 phrase between murder and alternitive

Ruka, I have one of those two words:

Think of something that rhymes with Viagra. Big waterfall.

There are lots of XF episodes about religious cults, but one of them is called "Red Museum," so I was thinking that was probably the one being referred to. Especially since it takes place in Wisconsin. Can't figure out how to tie that to the last clue, though.

thanks! hmmm...

this about the red museum "In a remote Wisconsin town, a vegetarian religious group who call themselves the Church of the Red Museum are making pets out of cows." so the red museum and that 70's show both releat to wisconsin... so how does that relate to a hospital?

this game is really *really* addictive-- my roommate and i spent multiple hours and stayed up till the wee hours of the night yesterday working on this and hardly got anywhere, but that makes it that much more satisfying when you find an answer.

my only issue is that this guy SERIOUSLY needs to find a new server because every other entry exceeds the bandwidth or whatever of the site. and it's REALLY annoying, especially just when you think you've foudn the correct anser.

Agreed, Allegra. A bunch of us were all glued to it for hours the other night in the chat room, it is a great puzzle game (though the meta puzzle still remains unsolved.)

I'd also add that besides a new server, I'd like to see a different technology used for the game as well, since waiting for the browser to refresh only to find out a word was wrong was terribly frustrating.

But I'm guessing the design of the game and the technology used for it was purposeful for the ad revenue, but that still leaves little excuse for the "CPU" overages other than maybe he didn't expect the game would become so popular.

lol. i wanted to play this game but it seems like it has been shashdotted but this isnt slashdot so then it has been jiged :D

what is the link between

murder
and
alternative

cause after that i finish it puzzle.

(still rambling about the metapuzzle)

hmm, I also thought of that Red Museum episode. Not that I know much about x-files, but what else do you get when you google for x-files religious cult red :) ? So I was looking for a museum in Wisconsin related to hospitals. Hmm. Considering that I know even less about wisconsin that about x-files ...

The last remaining missing word that several of us were missing:

Between murder and alternative is Counting Crows. (As in a murder of crows, presumably. Shouldn't there have maybe been an extra link in between "murder" and "CC" with just "crows"? Seems like a larger leap than most of the associations.)

The name of the puzzle! The answer is the name of a psychiatric hospital in Wisconsin.

urg... what's the word between people and purple again? my browser decided to lose the last few words i've entered

found it!

soylent green

only if you want the answer to the meta puzzle!

Aurora

can you tell me another site to find these kind of games? i'm frustrated with the lack of CPU usage this one has, and i think this game is so awesome.
thanks! :)

what is connected to

karma other than buddhism and hinduism???

The bandwith and it booting me off due to the site not having adequate CPU space or whatever is very frustrating.................

Good game... Really hard though, some of them anyway

I still can't find the difference between

murder & alternative

people farmer AND cowboy

any help would be appreciated thanks!

the finished game!

http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai&style=sdxuzrdtyvvtpmsswevdafnutucidtbxardzyutbeqxuczcxunxsqxsgsphsvqgcazwdciec&i=0&j=4&cmd=guess&guess=+

anyone know if they fixed the issue with the server yet? I usually can enter one or two words before I get a message that the page is exceeding its traffic for the day.

I hate this game. I can't stop playing. I'm also stubborn as a mule and hate getting help on things like this.

Ouch... Jay slashdotted the game! Actually, that's a good thing. I have a job after all, though my boss wouldn't know it.

This account has been suspended?

popper - the site has been very popular since the game first went up, so I am sure the author of the game has been fighting hosting issues constantly.

My guess is the domain is probably being moved to a more reliable host with a more generous (and likely more expensive) plan.

Check back in a while.

Hmmmm. I clicked out of the game without saving it {I wasn't very far} and now when I try to go back it thinks I'm cheating... and there is nothing on my back button to go to! Is there a way to reset the game?

Monica - delete your cookie for shygypsy.com. That happened to me once and I had to delete the cookie to play again.

Oh darn... it worked for a few days and now, when I click on the link to continue the game, it tells me not to cheat. So much for that. *sigh*

Oh well... I just clicked on the main link from here to get to the game and start again, but I get the same message: Cheating attempt logged.

As much as I like the game, there are still an awful lot of bugs that need taken out before the game is really playable. *sigh*

Right now Im studying about islam ect. and if your wondering what the temple is called its a

Qur'an

Im sorry that is the holy book

HELP!!

I am having trouble connecting:

Harry S. Truman, Dana Scully, Fox Mulder, and Pink Panther

Can someone give me a hint...I don't want the answer...

You know...I really love this game...it is driving me insane...like a gigantic puzzle...

But as I keep playing...more and more ideas on how he could expand this come to mind...

How many more connections, main themes, and such could be created...how massive this could become if one was so inclined.

I feel as though he should do it...if he feels up to the challenge, push the envelope and along with fixing the four or five errors that keep popping up all over the game, he could make a funny farm ver 2.0

Please help. I am trying to find the two letter words in this game... At first I tried thinking,when that didn't work, I guessed a lot of 2 letter words. I am sure that I will hit my head whn I eventually find it, but HELP!!

ive finished all of the brown squares, but i have no clue what the answer to the meta-puxxle is....

I've been playing Funny Farm non-stop for several days (thanks, cousin Lucy, aka "the pusher," for getting me well and truly addicted!). I've gotten into all but three of the boxes and have two of the yellow entries, but I've got a long way to go yet. I have a computer program, TEA, that helps -- it's an electronic alveary that searches for words and word combinations by letter structure, so some of the longer entries in the puzzle are easier to search for. I own the program (it's used by crossword puzzle freaks), but there are free downloads around. www.bryson.ltd.uk

Well I quite liked this game, even though I am not a native speaker, until I hit the "Poker Stars" window.

I mean, come on. American Poker Stars? How in the hell should I know who those guys are and worse yet, what are they related too?? Magicians were hard enough, but this? Cooled me right off the game...

i can't find anything for "cow"

I would really love to play this game...but it seems that I can't...when I click the link, all I get is this message, "Cheating attempt logged.
There is no need to read the HTML source code in this puzzle. It can be solved by looking at the screen and typing into the text box.
If you think you got this page by mistake, press the 'Back' button in your browser and try entering your guess again. "

...? this is when I click directly on the link...does anyone else have this problem?

">Complete!

Missing:

"------ ---" between "Penn and Teller" and "Las Vegas"

"--- ------ ----" connected to "drugs" and "zombie dust"

"---- --- ----" connected to "bomb" and the above missing link

Can anyone help?

on 'religions' page, what is connected to pig? if you dont give me the answer could you please give me a hint! thanking you muchly! (:

As to religion - think about religions that might deal with pigs, have rules about pigs, etc.

i am stuck on the farm (among other parts) the one from chicken 3 letters also the very botom one fran farmer its also joined to cowboy
thx for the help

As to the complaint about Texas hold'em poker stars, I felt the same way, but to be fair to the puzzle writer, I found I could answer the entire box with about thirty minutes of research on "poker stars" on the internet. It was in fact one of the quickest boxes for me to solve, because I could look up almost all of the answers.

Completed Funny Farm answers. Thanks for few tips from here.
http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=aafbcpxxhzursluxownbycsqutcxzszctbxavtzeyvdyzyearycwqsoesqapvxfyakscefca&i=4&j=0&cmd=guess&guess=+

pooks123... the three letter off of Chicken is KFC. My husband was sitting there eating it while I was playing and I tried it. Imagine my surprise when it worked.

guys uh if u need help with the cows think of mad, cash, and holy, and for the 2 letter word think of a cussword relating to a bull :p i finished this puzzle

The connection between murder and alternative has to do with what alternative meanings there is for the word murder. The alternative meaning is also a movie title.

what is between horse and cow?
Please help... thanks!

Hint for the relation between horse and cow:

rides horses and herds cows

I wrote to the author, basically asking for the source code of the game.

He wrote:

I haven't posted the source code because I'm working on an online
editor, where anyone would be able to make a puzzle like mine and have
it run on my website. Stay tuned...

I wonder what the server (over)load will be like then??

What is after

barney

baseball

There's a Danish work of poetry by the author Dan Turèll called

Karma Cowboy

Barney

Dino

mads:

Barney and Dino are both fictional dinosaurs, purple even.

Thanks. Gotta get this out of the way so I can get some work done.

You probably all cheated one way or another by now (I did for a bit), but there were still blanks to fill.

For those who just hate loose ends, the five-letter fictional dinosaur going to the right is Yoshi from the

Mario

I did like this a lot, but I have to say I found a lot of the connections to be either A) rather abstract or B) EXTREMELY specific.
It was enjoyable but I wound up cheating a lot to get it done.

Does anyone know what the rules, or point, to his other word game "From A to craZy" are? You get there, there's an empty box to type in, and the letter A. No instructions or anything. I find myself at a bit of a loss. Must be why it's called from a to crazy...

that's as far as I got

http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=fdobaaiaaaaaabacaaaaiaabaaabiaaaaeabiaaidaafaabaabaeadilaccaaaeaaojiaaaiibijeaaaaaaaaidoaaabhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=aaysbszvhaxaseqsnxqtsbusquyiivatstwgsscfetasuqxfrpycrvoespgtyxmavzvjbclc&i=0&j=2&cmd=guess&guess=+

Here is the completed puzzle.

Completed Puzzle

I remember doing this the first time and not wanting to a) get too much help and b) think too hard. Which meant I never finished it. I'm back on it now that Riddle 100 is done. I have to say, my main dislike is not being able to "guess" when given a square's topic unless you have a direct link. (ie magazines)

Unless my guesses have been severely wrong.

mads, you say that

the fictional dinosaur to the right of "Yoshi" is "Mario". This is the correct word, but Mario is not a dinosaur. Mario refers to the Nintendo character, and Yoshi is a dinosaur in one of the Mario games.

http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=aafbcpxxhzursluxownbycsqutcxzszctbxavtzeyvdyzyearycwqsoesqapvxfyakscefca&i=1&j=2&cmd=guess&guess=+

Check here for completed puzzle

http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=njpbkbiaabaibdacbbibcbkacckbccadandfiaeclaabaafiadaeacakacgcfaeaaopiaaaiibcceaaaaaaicaaobaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=vdgaxtcxzyatufsztwwuaesvtqygczavzsuwtwenzvgputhewozwynyextdpxwggajwfcydw&i=2&j=2&cmd=guess&guess=+

check it out, some of you will need it i believe

hmm, not sure if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know of any other games like this one? We played this back when it was first posted and had a blast, but haven't found anything quite like it since.

what is a 2 letter word for bull and please tell me.

Joe, try OX.

so this one is almost finished, just missing a few.

http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=ppppphppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppnpppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppopppppppppppppplpppppppppppppppaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=vzfaeaxrwtzspexvycyvtetrrsfwbxazqvvapzcfhsirutccxparqrsfpqfxvrkcvlzdjjai&i=4&j=2&cm

finished it

http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=aafbcpxxhzursluxownbycsqutcxzszctbxavtzeyvdyzyearycwqsoesqapvxfyakscefca&i=1&j=1&cmd=guess&guess=+

I can't figure out for the life of me what the other two letter word (Not

ox

@Kellzaba

Here are some hints! (Hopefully you're talking about the word I think you are) :x

It's an abbreviation (ie. SOF = shoes on fire)

It's not too kind

It can be used as an exclamation, XX!

The full words are: xxxx xxxx

I'd tell you the answer full out but then this comment would get auto deleted

COMPLETED here

http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=aafbcpxxhzursluxownbycsqutcxzszctbxavtzeyvdyzyearycwqsoesqapvxfyakscefca&i=4&j=4&cmd=guess&guess=+

Need hints on Magazine page
between Forest and Magazines
between Money and Mad
between Time and Mad hatter

I only just found this game i am sooo addicted. And may i add LMAO at KFC!!

how do you answer the Meta-Puzzle/

I am forced to say LOL at the religion section.

Sceintology and Holy Cow in particular. It's usually called sacred cow though I thought

Truly addictive, been playing it for a good while now... Alone, which makes it a bit... harder :)
OK, I'm lying, im not doing it alone, Mr. Google and Mr. Wiki help me out sometimes :)

I'm not American (the guy who made this game certainly is), so some of the connections between things might not be clear to me - could anyone tell me, for example why the words

"New York" and "minute"

"Diamonds are forever" and "Neil Diamond"

are not connected no matter how evident the connection is...

Also, the number of the letters of each word/phrase could be written there - having to count those atom-sized (and spaced) dots is waaaaaay toooo annnooooooying!!!

All in all, I love it, although I'm more than sure that the fact that I'm not American and am not THAT familiar with American culture makes it impossible for me - but, hey, that's a way of lerning things, right? :) I already learned more about baseball (still a distant provincial game from our European point of view :))) than I knew before - not to mention poker stars :D

In a New York minute refers to a very short period of time. =)

Perhaps because everything moves so fast there?

It's a common saying here (in the US), but I can understand how confusing it must be if you're unfamiliar with that.

Aha! Thx, Jay, I've learnt something today :)

I am really stuck for the word between forest and magazine!

help!

Oh, snap, I don't know any poker stars! I don't even know how to PLAY poker! WIKI TIME!!!

Hint: TIME

who had the watch in Wonderland

I forgot about this one for quite some time. Came back to it a few days ago and made huge progress.

Anyone else still playing? Or that enjoyed it enough that after finishing it last year have tried it a second time?

I need help after rodeo clowns on the magicians page. can someone give me a hint?

Why isn't Hinduism connected to cow?

I'm still playing!

After Rodeo Clown,

you're looking for one of those 2 words, either rodeo or clown, depending which way you're going!

Spending time on this game is like playing charades in a chatroom with a shrooming newscaster. It would be a whole lot better if the connections were more logically related, instead of veering off on ridiculously meaningless, soon to be outdated current event-type tangents. I fail to see what is so interesting or rewarding about finding out where one individual's brainstorming session is going to lead. Whatever floats your boat, I guess. This sure didn't float mine.

Every time I try and click on a different section it tells me that there's an error. It's starting to piss me off because i am pretty much done with the farm section.

What connects to the right of barn?

to the right of barn is

Barney

I just found this game, so I am just a newbie! I`m trying to stay away from temptation and not look at all the spoilers! :P

Kzspot

SO addictive. Thanks for some of the hints. I'm about 1/2 way done and loving it!

These are all of the words I could find that relate to "On the Farm";

Cow, sheep, chicken, rooster, bull, horse, pig, goat, and ofcourse...farmer.

If you have any questions, let me know.

hi,
this is fascinating and very frustrating.

Please, what are you supposed to do on the page that comes to the left of RELIGIONS. I have "book"... and then some empty boxes. ?????????????????? I've tried everything and nothing. Not even the theme of the page.

Here is where I am at. Hope it help some of you!

Funny Farm

this game is SO cool. it shows how stupid i am.

Here you go everyone-i've FINALLY finished the entire game-so here's all the answers you'll need! (note, OBVIOUS big spoiler):

http://shygypsy.com/farm/p.cgi?state=pppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa&style=aafbcpxxhzursluxownbycsqutcxzszctbxavtzeyvdyzyearycwqsoesqapvxfyakscefca&i=1&j=1&cmd=guess&guess=+