One Word Wonder

It took you 2 minutes and 38 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 2nd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Nice one, I'm sure I'll look back on this one with fond memories...

It took you 4 minutes and 37 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 6th Tanga member to solve this puzzle

Can't give any salt, sorry

It took you 4 minutes and 50 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 8th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
Average solve time: 3 minutes and 52 seconds.
Median solve time: 4 minutes and 37 seconds .

My record!

Are you trying to say these are all backwards states? :)

OK, I got all the shapes... now what?

spelling got me on this one

(4) not all backwards (correction, yes, all backwards)

Ha!
Had the solve method right from the get-go, but just couldn't see it.

I'd love to know which one nrkii thinks isn't. Anyway, 18th; not bad.

[6] They are all backwards compared to my map. Which one isn't backwards?

I get what they all have in common, picture wise, but I have no clue where to go from there...

Sigh, yet another US centric puzzle.
I guess it is an American website but still......

[8] oh, of course they're all backwards

I kept putting the second one frontwards even after I solved it.

Ah...a very rarely stable pissant.

[12] For some reason that made something click for me. Then I misspelled it....

[11] I'm from the US, and I think I can speak for others when I say that most folks probably can't recognize the majority of the states right off from just their shapes, especially when they're backwards. So quit your bellyaching :)

Wow, I feel so enlightened now ... nice puzzle!

[15] True, most think a kiwi is a small green fruit as well.
I'm happy with a Python reference though...
:-)

[15] 50 states and many of them close in shape makes some of them difficult to memorize. You always hear how terrible Americans are at this, but I wonder how many countries could recognize every division of their own country by shape. I happen to teach US history, so these are more recognizable to me.

Got it with [13] & [17]. Now to backsolve...

Ok, I got based on [19] saying what he used to get it.

But looking back, I have no clue how you reached that answer. Frustrating.

And I even knew all the states without having to look up a map.

don't understand the answer

I know the states, I know the reference in 13 and 17, or I think I do. No clue what to do with it though

Here's a fun game to learn the shapes and locations.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html

I solved it out shear brute force, but I don't get it at all...

[22] Me neither...tried 4 different things so far and got squat.

[25] salted you at BGG. Hope it wasn't too much, but I sometimes don't salt well. And sometimes I think it is too salty and it makes no sense....

Could have sworn I tried that based on the salt...

Wow... how'd you brute force this one?
I thought this one was clever.

No anagramming for this one.

[25] Nope...got it thanks to that! Wouldn't have seen it otherwise. "That" didn't make sense to me, so I moved on originally.

It's imperative that everyone get this one.

[15] I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps.

/and the Iraq

[23] A_Beaverhausen

That's a great site! I've been visiting it for years!
Not just for the states, but for other countries too.

[28] Well, he couldn't have done it automatically without flooding the servers, so obviously he had to do it (ahem) manuelly.

[31] you forgot the most important phrase in that ridiculous attempt at answering a pageant question... the double "such as"... and I quote, "such as South Africa and The Iraq, such as."

It was staring at me right in my face.
Laid out in plain sight it was.

Really? I only had to look one of these up on a map. Oh well, neat puzzle.

hmmmm... well I was able to figure out the answer from the salt, but I have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how the states would ever lead me there. Guess I'll just have to wait and see.

[38] Let me go to the post office and mail you a letter with some salt. What's your address?

I hope that those among us that are frustrated by this one out do not FLIP out on us and go POSTAL.

My problem was not flipping out enough! And an intiial mistake in my postalness. I may know states but I've yet to have a penpal in each.

this one was much easier than the hard one

OK, I've gone over the states backwards and forwards and nothing is jumping out at me. I'm stumped.

Well, gee whiz, I made a big mistake in that I didn't flip out enough either.

But thanks to the salt here, got it finally.

[43] I wish I could help you but I still don't get it. I'm off to BGG to read the salt. Otherwise do what I did and check out [19]

[11] Does Tanga even ship internationally? Do they ship to Canada? I don't know; I'm just asking.

And as to this puzzle: uh, who?

[11] at least the answer in German :)

Okay Ive gone postal, Ive flipped, and I still cant read much into it. I got Land Made Tank, but every "land made tank" I can think of comes up empty.

[49] You didn't flip correctly. More precisely, you need to flip what you get from each state. Hope that's not too salty.

Wiki has all the answers...

[49] I think you're doing it backwards... or not.

Thanks, rather than flipping the letters to make words that looked familiar -- I ran them all together, then googled the unfamiliar stuff, imagine that -- I found something.

it appears to me that having so many states leads to confusion but less states would make it easier

Finally!
I, too, didn't flip enough!
(doh!)

(probably too confusing) Salt: You'll need to use Bruno Anthony's plan, as expressed to Guy Haines... or, if you like your references a little more modern, Owen Lift's plan, as expressed to Larry Donner.

Salt (less confusing): Who's the fairest of them all?

General salt: You recognize the shapes; you're halfway there, but you still don't know what to do? Don't critique this puzzle, it's pure reason.

Too bad we can't give a thumbs-up to clever salt here like we could on BGG.