How to Play
One Word Wonders are word puzzles where the answer is exactly one word. Decipher the image below to come up with the answer. For a better idea on how to solve this puzzle view an example. If you get stuck you can ask for help in the comments section. Hints are posted 24 hours after puzzle's publish date (if provided by author).















Bed time for me.
We're going to start having "non featured" puzzles regularly. we've got way too many puzzles to use just one a day.
So, if you submit a puzzle, it'll either quickly be 'approved', which means that it goes into the archive and anyone can solve it, or it will be nominated for featuring as a 'featured puzzle' -- solving these once-a-day featured puzzles will get people bonus points. Regular non-featured puzzles will get 3 TP per solve. And puzzle authors will receive a small amount of points for every small amount of solves, I forget the exact numbers. We'll write up a more complete document later.
(or, if it's a terrible puzzle, it'll be rejected with a reason why and you can resubmit it if you want)
That picture is HUGE!!!!
[2] That's a great idea!
It would be really great if puzzle makers and admin would remember that some of us are still on dialup (through no fault of our own). Taking 5 minutes to download a puzzle because the media file is HUGE kind of detracts from the fun of solving the puzzles.
Ok...I'm at the 10 minute mark here and this is STILL downloading. This is ridiculous!!! Use some common sense when publishing puzzles. File size DOES matter!
Could have been featured, IMO...
Man, I made this WAY hard. D'oh!!
Cute, Arnott!
Shoulda netted more than three points, though.
Any salt? This isn't clicking at all for me.
[10] Well, you could put together two words that mean "fight" that would name the bird...
Sigh.
(Thanks [11].)
OK, how stupid do I feel? I was even looking for college fight songs that would be from a college with a bird name. D'oh!
[13] I think I have a pretty good idea.
Ugh....finally got it 7 hours later...sheesh
[7] [8] Thanks.
I had no idea this would be here, but I guess they didn't want start this new area off with a total clunker :)
To be honest, I submitted this almost a year ago and always felt it *looked* better than it solved :) So this isn't necessarily a bad place for it to show up.
And hey, if you like this puzzle, that should only bode well for what's gonna get Featured, right?
*groan* Very cute. :)
Congratulations on the new baby TangaJoe. I hear he's a cutie!
It said that I was the 88th Tanga member to solve this puzzle, still only got 3 points.
I can't see that image at all. Plus, Tanga 3.0 annoys me
[19] Unfeatured puzzles have no bonus points.
When do we get to see the next "unfeatured" puzzle?
When are the other puzzles going to start? I would love to have some closure or suggestions on some puzzles, too. I really want to make more, but it hardly seems worth the time. I've already deleted most of the ones I made.
strange... even though this went up earlier this week... it now says this:
Completions: 1
Published: 10 minutes ago
Looks like one of the moderators was playing around with the system, sorry about losing the existing solves.
I got it again!
[26] Yes :) I wish others would come back and do the same.
Man... I solved this before, then saw that it cleared out.
Gotta keep your eye on this one, that's for sure.
I got to solve it again. Did it help your completion count?
Weeeeee, thx all. Was just hoping to get that 25 TP :)
just a lucky guess....cute
If anyone's having trouble, there's some pretty heavy salt over here - http://www.tanga.com/puzzles/1948-3-20-2008
(While you're there, you may as well solve that one, too.)