Aug 10, 2007 One Word Wonder Puzzle

Enjoy.

I don't see it. At least not yet- not a chess afficiando.

hmm this is sure to be tricky, as i know the way the creator thinks.

This one is actually somewhat difficult IMO.

Nice one...

It took you 11 minutes and 20 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 1st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Not seeing it at all. Brain just cut out.

Ok, Verve. Any sodium is better than none. I play chess recreationally, know who Fischer is, but I have ....nothing.

Yeah, same here, not seeing the route to follow at all.

I'd like to buy a vowel

/feeling pwned

I asked my local bishop. He's a pretty square guy, but I can always count on him.

lostlostlost.

thanks [10]!!
that actually helps quite a bit

Anyone want to salt it for us non-chess players?

I haven't played chess in years. How much chess knowledge is required for this?

I haven't solved it, so I don't know if any of this is useful:

Pieces are identified by a single letter: P for Pawn, N for Knight, R for Rook, B for Bishop, Q for Queen, and K for King

Pictured are a black pawn, white rook (castle) and white bishop. No horsies.

Michael Jackson sings a song called Bad, and another one called Black or White.

Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players played on a square checkered chessboard. White makes the first move.

Chess is also "a musical with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, formerly of ABBA. The story involves a romantic triangle between two players in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other."

"Searching for Bobby Fischer" is an acclaimed 1993 film based on the life of prodigy chess player Joshua Waitzkin

Bangkok baby, yeah!

Still lost.

[15] Thanks for all the info. At least you are trying to salt while those that have solved have not offered much of anything. Sniff.

I wish I had solved it, sorry... that's all probably irrelevant.

Bishop 341-B is a fictional character from the Alien series of films, an android created by the Weyland-Yutani corporation. He, his creator and a character known as Bishop II are portrayed by actor Lance Henriksen.

A rook is the name for a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear. The rook piercing tends to be much more painful due to the large amounts of cartilage tissue which the needle passes through.

Knowing what is a fair exchange of pieces is crucial. The following table is a must for all chess players. It shows the value of all pieces relative to the Pawn and is useful for judging the value of a trade of pieces.

9 : Queen
5 : Rook
3 : Bishop
3 : Knight
1 : Pawn

I love to play chess
Bobby Fischer is nutty
Iceland can have him

[18] It's ok. You are like the Tanga version of Norm.

hmm i'm halfway to somewhere that is too perfect to be coincidental.

I'm more than halfway to a point of saying "to hell with it" and giving up since I've been trying for nearly an hour now to no avail.

http://chess.about.com/od/beginners/ss/ble23pvl_3.htm

A Rook and a Pawn are approximately equal to any two minor pieces. A player who loses a Rook for a minor piece needs to win two Pawns to compensate for the 'loss of the exchange'

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So, he's apparently down a horse (or more).

"My kingdom for a horse?"

# It took you 29 minutes and 38 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 2nd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

[10] is good salt.

Got it.
# It took you 33 minutes and 27 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 3rd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

First step: Count.

[27] Well, it's been an hour and only three people have solved, so salt seemed called for. But I've edited.

[24] Wish I knew why...I used to play chess when younger and I have no idea why that's helpful.

[25] True, but combining your salt with [10] pretty much solves it ;)

[27] After an hour, I'd say the push was warranted. It's still not coming to me, even after a hint that counts for a lot.

I got it but one of the letters didn't seem to work. Even with a trade. 7th after all this time means that there is something wrong. There is a salty word in several of the posts above that led me to it. I don't know how long it would have taken me to try that without the salt.

[29] I can't figure out why the one letter doesn't seem to work either. I'm thinking it has something to do with 'Bad'

I've got it now as well: 10th

A Bishop can move any number of squares diagonally if its path is not blocked

Will you still need me?

Not so much a hard puzzle, as a difficult guess on where to begin.

8th.

D'oh! I need to proofread better. Puzzle has been fixed. Thanks to [29] for pointing it out. Sorry all.

[33] Didn't notice anything wrong myself. Must have proofread as I went.

That being said, I'm still clueless...

[33] Ohhhhh! There it is!

* It took you 59 minutes and 0 seconds to solve this puzzle.
* You were the 11th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Ugh...my limited knowledge of the game worked against me...Kept searching the wrong places...

i know the game, the person, and where the answer should be, but i still don't have it.

edit:# It took you 1 hour, 26 minutes and 11 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 15th Tanga member to solve this puzzle. it's been staring me in the face for the past half hour and i didn't see part of it while i was focusing on something else.

Don't make me get cross with you, DrParty06.

Try not to overthink this. Most of the information above is completely irrevelant. In fact, Mr. Fischer could be a Checkers Champion and the puzzle could still be solved the same way.

# It took you 1 hour, 14 minutes and 34 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 16th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Oh, wow, just got it after rereading [10]! VRoscioli gives a very concise, comprehensive grain of salt.

What does "ADCSHNFD" mean?...

[41] Gezundheit/ God bless you

[41] You're pointing the wrong way.

[41] DC? I have RD.

[44]: See [33]. Then see [43].

Sonuva... I saw that over an hour ago but the bad letter thing didn't click...

I'm just going to vote "no" and hope someone buys up all of this puzzle so we can get the next one... oh, wait. This isn't Tangathon.

[47] LOL That was a good one.

wow... wonderfully constructed puzzle.

Maybe this will help some people, as I stumped a long time on this. It is not where the bishop starts, it is a move it can make.

So that...wasn't bad. But it was awfully wide-open; there were many, many things you could do in addition to the right thing. (cf "smoke and mirrors")

[49] Most browsers should force a reload of the page content if you shift+refresh

Took me way too long. Very elegant.
I like the hard ones that stump you and make you want to give up, but when you get it you hear a resounding "Duh" in your head, because it was your fault that it took you so long. Not like those other hard ones that you hate just the same after you finally solve them.

[50] Not sure if I like it that way, it doesn't need to be obvious, but then it shouldn't be a complete leap of faith trying every thing to get it right.

# It took you 10 minutes and 44 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 30th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Excellent puzzle. Two and a half hours into the puzzle and I'm 30th.

To add a grain of salt - It reminds me of the joke a about the math teacher with constipation. He worked it out with a pencil.

Well I got the answer from the excel comment, but I looked at it for a few more minuted and still don't know how to solve.

{54} I tryed that too, but having trouble where to start..

A bishop a rook and a pawn walked into a bar....

(not salt, but it could be the start of a beautiful joke...)

[56] LOL
I'm pretty sure I know what you meant but in the context of the joke your statement could be taken the wrong way.

This is just bloody frustrating.

I'm in the Dead Sea.
Like swimming in my bathtub.
No solution here.

LOL yes.........[54]

did anyone know that tanga is another word for thong? I just learned this off wikipedia.

Boy, I come home from a hard day's dalmatianing and the Tanga puzzle has the discourtesy to stomp on my brain. What a world! At least the easy one didn't take me an hour this time.

[61] Why do you think they call them tangathongs? :)

Agh... I think my brain is crying...

# It took you 4 hours, 10 minutes and 51 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 54th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Sweet Zombie Jesus, was I way way off-base. This was definitely another case of trying to make things far too complicated. At least now I can get to bed in peace!

Don't play chess, don't really like chess, and I especially don't like puzzles that need specialized knowledge to solve.

[66] I bet you know all the specialized knowledge of chess this puzzle requires. There are some pretty mild hints (look at the white bishop carefully) that might make the second step easier, but that step is pretty obvious once you get the first one.

I see a white Bishop, white Rook, and Black Pawn. I've numbered the board, looked at the squares and still have nothing!

What have you counted?

I didn't have excel, but thankfully I was listening to some avant-garde Beatles while I was looking at the puzzles.

Yum...salty Beatles!

Yay! I'm bringing up the average!

Nice puzzle. Good job putting it together.

It took you 21 hours, 20 minutes and 49 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 113th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
Average solve time: 3 hours, 55 minutes and 19 seconds.
Median solve time: 36 minutes and 32 seconds.
34.451% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

YOWSER!! 113th this late in the game!

Finally- used heavy duty salt from bgg

# It took you 23 hours, 20 minutes and 44 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 127th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

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nm

133rd. Last? :)

* It took you 22 hours, 55 minutes and 45 seconds to solve this puzzle.
* You were the 136th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
* Average solve time: 5 hours, 3 minutes and 0 seconds.
* Median solve time: 54 minutes and 47 seconds.
* 38.527% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

Last!

...Where are tonight's puzzles?

Try out the jigsaw puzzle link at Tanga Times until the Tanga guys figure out they haven't posted the puzzles...

http://tanga.com/blogs/966

I've posted a hard puzzle at
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/1658640#1658640

Sorry, I can't offer points - but it's a challenging one (for most Americans I think)

No new puzzles tonight?

And I missed yesterday, too.

Oh well, time for bed I guess.

Ok, I got it thanks entirely to the salt here, but how in the world was anyone supposed to know what to do from the puzzle itself taken alone? What did I miss? A chess theme alone is not enough, in my opinion...

I hated this puzzle.....the only way I could solve it at all was NOT the hints here at tanga, but the heavy salt late in the BGG discussion.

There are exactly 64 letters in the puzzle text, now place them on the chess board and look at them. (Using Microsoft's excel is an excellent way to do this.)

The BGG link is:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/131250/master-tanga-puzzle-thread/page/379

There was subtle hints at the number 64 here at tanga, and the left sides of the game pieces in the puzzle show a reflection of a chess board, however, the picture is so grainy that it was hard to make out.

IMHO, not enough hints to solve this puzzle.