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Frequently Asked Questions

General Tanga Questions

  1. Tanga is the place to come to get the best deals on the Internet in a variety of categories. Currently we are offering daily deals in electronics/gadgets, magazines, t-shirts, and games/toys. We also have a large section of user-contributed puzzles that you can solve every day. Come back every evening at 7:00 p.m. PST to see all the new deals and play the newest puzzles!

    What are some of the features of Tanga that I should know about?:

    1. Bottom Feeder Game Every 24 hours, starting at 7:00 p.m. PST, we will have unique and fun contest that anyone can play! How easy is it? All you need to do is pick three random numbers and input them into the form. After 24 hours, we check to see who picked the lowest unique number and that person receives the product for free! Wahoo!
    2. New Puzzles Tanganites everywhere have been asking for a new puzzle to play and new puzzles to create! Today, we have a whole new category of puzzle called the Cryptopix. Guess the word or phrase by deciphering the pictures in the puzzle. Of course we still have our One Word Wonder, where the answer is just one word and our Hypercross multi-media crossword puzzles that you can enjoy.
    3. Contribute Fun! We want to make it as easy as possible for you to contribute your own puzzles and Random Questions to our web site. We’ve found that our users create better content than we can do ourselves!
    4. Friends Tanga has evolved from a place where you buy cool deals to a place where you come, play, contribute content and puzzles and have fun! Now you have an easy way to talk to your friends and play together by using the social entertainment network we have created. Over the coming months, we will tightly integrate your friends with you so you can play together, compete with one another and most of all - have fun!
    5. Profile Page Let everyone know who you are, what you like to do and just how smart you are! This is your time to shine…
    6. Random Questions People have been asking to be able to contribute their own questions to Tanga. Now you can! Ask a question and see what the Tanga community thinks.
    7. Tanga Point Bonuses Because we building in more and more fun into Tanga, we wanted to be able to reward people for doing pretty much anything on the site. So now, there are “first to solve bonuses – first 100 people” on the Featured Puzzles. You also get a point for participating in the Bottom Feeder Contest. You will also receive points for contributing puzzles and questions.
    8. Super Tanga Users To become a Super Tanga User you need to accumulate 50 purchases OR 5000 Tanga Points. You will receive a cute little STU icon that will show everyone just how cool you are, and how much time you’ve wasted on this site.
    9. Tanga Points You will receive Tanga Points for purchasing, solving puzzles and participating on the web site. For those who are at the top of the leaderboards for the month, you will be getting some free Tanga Cash!
  2. In the red-rock mountains of beautiful St. George, Utah!

  3. If the usual way of smoke signaling doesn’t work, then you can send us a Tangagram via your Tangagrams page (preferred method), or check out our contact page .

  4. Well the easiest way is to bookmark the web site in your favorite web browser, subscribe to our RSS feeds or have us email or text you nightly with our newest deals. If that doesn’t work, most cities and even the smallest towns, have tattoo parlors so feel free to tattoo our name on your forehead. Make sure to spell it backwards so when you look in the mirror it doesn’t say “Agnat”.

  5. Well, from the sound of your dream, it looks like you are just too tense. Buy more Tanga products and loosen up baby!

Account Questions

  1. Sorry youngster's, according to the law we can't allow anyone 13 years old or younger to join Tanga. Take a look at our Terms Page for more information.

  2. Tanga Points are accumulated by participating in all the activities on Tanga including solving puzzles, contributing puzzles, questions and content, participating in games and more. Tanga Points are used as a way to keep score on the web site and every so often we reward those winners with special prizes! You can view the Leaderboard to get a bird’s eye view of where you rank among other Tanganites on a daily, monthly or yearly scale.

  3. STU (Super Tanga Users) are people who grab the bull by the horns and buy lots of Tanga products all the time. In feeding their shopping habits, they purchase 50 products brings them to the coveted Super Tanga User status. You can also become an STU by accumulating 5000 Tanga Points. Every once in a while, we do special things for our STU members like giving them free Tanga Cash.

Daily Fun Questions

  1. We want internet users everywhere to have a place to go to waste their employer’s time, get away from the chaos, and find a release from the drudgery of everyday life playing Stratego. So we have invented the Daily Fun area of Tanga which will be plum full of challenging and entertaining puzzles, games, contests and anything else that we find fun! You will receive more Tanga Points by solving puzzles and playing games the moment they go live on the web site. Our goal is to continue to build up Tanga to be THE place for user-contributed fun and games on the Internet!

  2. Our web site works because of cool people like you who love to contribute their creative genius to Tanga! Just go to the contribute page and you will find instructions on how to upload your content for others to enjoy.

  3. One Word Wonders are puzzles where the answer to the puzzle is exactly one word. Take this One Word Wonder as an example:

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    This puzzle has everything you need in it to find the answer. Can you guess what it is? The answer is IVORY. The way you get the answer is to come to the realization that only 21 of the 26 letters of the alphabet are represented by the 1st letter of the pictured products. The unrepresented letters are I, V, O, R and Y! Some of the puzzles take a little bit of work to figure out. Luckily you will have the help of the Tanga community to figure out the more difficult puzzles as well as hints provided by the puzzle maker (on some puzzles only).

  4. Cryptopix puzzles are created by having pictures put together to form a word or phrase. As an example, check out this Cryptopix puzzle created by one of our users:

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    Can you guess the answer? It is ripvanwinkle! You get that answer by figuring out what the pictures represent. R.I.P + Van + Wink + L = RIPVANWINKLE.

  5. Hypercross Multimedia Puzzles are crossword puzzles with a unique twist! Instead of having the standard, boring text clues, you will be given clues that are pictures, video or sound. Click the beginning box of an answer field to see the clue on the right hand side of the screen. (If an answer field’s first box is for both the vertical and horizontal answer, then click it again to switch between the two clues.) Fill out all the answers and hit submit to see if you are correct!

  6. Are you ready to win some cool products? Every night at 7:00 p.m. PST, you have 24 hours to come and play Bottom Feeder to try to win the prize of the day. All you need to do is bid 3 positive, whole numbers. After 24 hours we check all the bids and if you are the lowest unique number, you win! If there doesn’t happen to be a unique number, the product will be given away on a different day. Come back every night to see how close you were to winning!

Tanga Deal Questions

  1. We feel that life is way too full of choices: What am I going to eat in the morning? Should I exercise after breakfast? Do I need to shave my nose hairs before heading to work? Boxers or briefs? So to make life simpler for you, we have decided to just offer one product for sale at any given time in a variety of categories. The good thing about it is that the products we offer will be the best deals you can find on the Internet! Check back every evening at 7:00 p.m. PST to see what’s new.

  2. Once you create an account, you can go into your settings area and sign up to be notified for any, or all, of our Daily Deals. If you just want to know about Magazines and Games, that’s perfect – just sign up and we’ll send you an email every time a new product comes up.

  3. Our business model is to offer the best prices on everything we sell, every day. We don’t make large profits, so we can’t offer refunds for reasons other than manufacturer defects or shipping damage that is evident when you receive your product. If your product is defective, or damaged in shipment, you can return it to us for a full refund, or a replacement if one is available.

  4. The first thing you should do with these types of issues is contact the manufacturer for any support related questions or warranty issues. You can also visit the blog and ask questions to other users regarding your product. If all else fails, you can contact us to receive a Return Authorization Number. Because we sell out of most of our products, we may not have a replacement product for you so please expect to receive a refund.

  5. The best way to do this is to cancel your order on the "My Account" page, and place a new order. Do it quickly though! Once your order is processed for shipping or is sold out, it will not be possible to accept cancellations.

  6. When you make a purchase, we get an authorization from your bank to charge your card. We charge your card only when we print your shipping labels or submit your order to a manufacturer to be processed.

  7. Sorry, see the section What is Tanga above – with the emphasis on the "If you snooze, you lose"" part. And then bookmark us and visit us every day to see what we have to offer.

  8. First of all, life’s hard and sometimes it just isn’t fair! Second, if you sign up for a Tanga account, you can have all of your information stored into our system so all you need to do is click a couple of times to order, which greatly increases your chances to score.

  9. Well this all depends on what the product is, how good of a deal we are offering and how many we are able to secure. Sometimes we will only let you buy one product, other times it may be ten! We’re crazy like that.

  10. Shipping works because large companies have big trucks and airplanes and lots of people to deliver packages. Right now, we currently use UPS Ground to ship a majority of our packages but we also use the USPS and Fedex as well. It just depends on the situation. Shipping generally occurs 7-10 business days after we get your order but a lot of times it happens much sooner! Tracking information on other items can be found in your settings page and by clicking on the link to your past orders.

    Magazine orders take 8-12 weeks for your first issue to arrive. If you haven’t received your first issue in 10 weeks, please contact us so we can call the publisher on your behalf. Note that magazine orders do not have tracking numbers.

    T-Shirt orders typically take between 5-7 days for your items to ship. Please note that these are shipped out USPS and you will not receive a tracking number for your order.

  11. We only ship our products within the continental United States. The exception to this rule are magazines and t-shirts where we ship in all 50 states. We do not ship outside the country unfortunately for our friends up north and our amigos down south.

  12. We are always looking for unique, cool and exciting products to sell on Tanga. The best way to contact us is through email at sales@tanga.com. Please remember, it is our sworn duty to provide the best pricing available anywhere on the planet, so before you email us, make sure you can provide that!

  13. Every evening at 7:00 p.m. PST, Tanga will sell a new magazine subscription for 24 hours. As these deals won’t sell out, you will have a full 24 hours to make up your mind about purchasing the subscription. Once a magazine has sold for 24 hours, it may or may not be for sale again in the future.

    Make sure to look for a coupon code on the product page as that will give you a discount from the published price. Just take the coupon code and plug it into the checkout page in order to see your discount.

    Please allow up to 10-12 weeks to receive your first issue before contacting Tanga about the status of your order.