Jul 09, 2007 One Word Wonder Puzzle

It took you 3 minutes and 8 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 1st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
Average solve time: 3 minutes and 8 seconds.
Median solve time: 3 minutes and 8 seconds.

Maybe those 'Pirate Master' episodes are rubbing off. :)

# It took you 5 minutes and 29 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 2nd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

D'oh! I probably would have gotten this faster if I'd scrolled all the way down to see the caption. :)

I am thinking based on the theme, that I am not uspposed to use all of the pictures/words. Only SOME of them have something in common? Is that accurate?

# It took you 4 minutes and 54 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 3rd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

I only got a bit over half the words but it was enough to get the answer.

[3] All the words and pictures are used. The pictures have one purpose, the words another. Hope that's not too salty.

[3] One set have something in common with each other, the other set doesn't.

I have 6 of the seven. Can't figure out another word that fits for 'clothesline'

[7] That's not a clothesline. It's a particular board game, and those are the pieces in the foreground and background.

I've got the commonality for all of the word clues, and I'm trying to "apply" that to the picture clues, but getting nothing.

[7] How am I supposed to tell that it IS a boardgame...jeez. I cannot make out anything from that picture. David-- can you shed some light on that picture in the upper left?

EDIT: Nevermind, I got it.

# It took you 28 minutes and 31 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 10th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

A very rare top 10. Clever puzzle, David.

[9] hld1970
my question exactly! - so what IS it?

We have an extremely convincing, appropriate, 7-letter answer that is never the less wrong. Had to make a wild guess for "none the richer" which may be wrong - is it supposed to be obvious?

Well, all I can say is that there are 7 pictures and 7 words and that's no coincidence. After sorting through the other six, I guessed at the board game based on the length of the word needed for the picture.

[12] There is a band with that in their name and Google was my friend also.

[12] Google on the phrase.
[11] I'm trying to figure out how to salt this without being too blatant.

OK, got it. We came up with some convincing alternative words which led us to a "better" (though wrong) answer.

[11] Think capture the flag.

oh, I think I recognize the picture
hmmm now what to do with it?

Boardgame? I thought it was a bathtub with towels hanging from a bar. LOL!

[16] Dan999
I'm curious about the alternatives you came up with. If you're on BGG, can you GM me (name's the same) there?

[19] I know! For about 15 minutes, I thought it was a clothesline.

I thought the upper left picture was a doorway in the Forbidden City in Beijing, slightly open so we could see the courtyard beyond. Wow, completely wrong.

Okay, looks like I need to apologize for that picture in particular. Guess I'm familiar enough with that board game to figure it from that shot, but those who are less familiar with it are having a lot of trouble.

Sorry, terrible representation abruptly turns experience glaringly odd. (At first.)

(13) was enough salt for me; thanks. (I still don't know the name of the Clothesline Game.)

I think the top left picture's lack of clarity is miner, I mean minor.

[25] hahahahahaha

* It took you 27 minutes and 57 seconds to solve this puzzle.
* You were the 32nd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Tough one, but alot like some of the older tanga puzzles. Too bad the boardgame picture wasn't a bit clearer.

Well done dajagr!

Wow, way to post incomprehensible images in the upper left.

Is the picture of the game a Major problem for everyone?

OK-it was lame ... i know

No, 29, I'm sure everyone can Scout out the answer now. It's a well Engineered puzzle, it's true, but nothing that can't be overcome.

The game really Bombed with our group.

Obscure! Flawed! Ridiculously impossible! I kid.

Could use some sodium chloride here, though.

[32] Geekmail me what you have and I will help.

I really enjoyed this one. I misidentified a couple of the photos wrong, but I managed to figure out where it was going.

@#^*$ ambiguous pictures... horned owl or owl? Cobra or snake? Core or apple? Recipe or index card? Dragonfly or ¿

[35] 2, 1, 1, 1, 1

[28] How much more of an apology do you want?

Posted before read that.

Took a little NaCl to get the pic, but then managed to work it out, after a couple of wrong turns.

I have 13 of the 14 words I need and I know how to obtain the information I need from each word, but I'm not sure what order things go in... Numeric?? or as they appear on the puzzle?

[40] GM me and I'll try to give you a nudge

[40] GM sent...hopefully, it puts you on track. :)

I think I have all the words, and the ordering- but nothing is clicking

NM- it clicked

I noticed the number of words vs. photos thing right away. I kept trying to use spatial relationships (words to pictures to the left, right, above, below). There was no (obvious for me) clue to point to the proper relationship. Still, it was a nice puzzle.

Genius puzzle. Loved it.

Clever puzzle.

[23] I don't think that the picture itself is bad, but rather the size of it. If the picture was bigger/clearer, I'm sure more people would've been able to figure out what game it was.

It finally hit me. Excellent puzzle. Very clever indeed!

(So, did anyone even notice the salt I put in #23?)

[50] I did. That's what got it for me.