Sep 28, 2007 One Word Wonder Puzzle

First! ... and it's not "clamato".

I don't get it!!

please!!

I need salt!!

Well, it doesn't seem to be the obvious word....

hmmmmm...

Well, I got it, but I can't say I understand the logic exactly...
* It took you 10 minutes and 8 seconds to solve this puzzle.
* You were the 1st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
* Average solve time: 10 minutes and 8 seconds.
* Median solve time: 10 minutes and 8 seconds.
* 1.408% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

Wow, looks like this puzzle is really easy but zero fun.

You say paakistan and I say packistan

Gee is the "easy" the hard one again?

[7] conanfan how about some salt.

I think it should be plato or fruitfly, but nada.

Still lost, here.

The tomato is now grown worldwide for its edible fruits, with thousands of cultivars having been selected with varying fruit types, and for optimum growth in differing growing conditions. Cultivated tomatoes vary in size from cherry tomatoes, about the same 1–2 cm size as the wild tomato, up to beefsteak tomatoes 10 cm or more in diameter

2 completions after 45 minutes?

Actually, that was clever....I was kinda stuck at first, but then, bang! It came to me! Before that, it kept flying over my head -- whoosh!

(Woohoo! #2!)

Tomatoes were at one time called "love apples" because of a superstition that people eating them would fall in love.

John either likes Wikipedia or REALLY knows a lot about tomatoes!

I've read both sides of the argument now:

http://www.tomatoland.com/
http://www.tomatoesareevil.com/

Nightshades, such as Tomatoes contain trace elements of nicotine which can re-trigger cigarette addiction.

I admire your devotion!

(Pssst. [14] = salt.)

Thanks phurball... it's just not happening. I'm going to go drown my misery in some salsa

I'm drowning my misery in this!

http://www.beerfaqs.com/2007/August/Budweiser--Clamato-Chelada.htm

I thought pia REYES from rotten tomatoes....not that either. :/

Third.

[14] really *is* salt. But I'm still not sure how the puzzle should be parsed. And I needed help spelling the answer!

[23] Glad I could help out. :) Yeah, it's not a common (or easy!) word to spell.

[24] Well, your comment really helped things click! When I realized the answer, my heart went pitapat!

[25] Better check that heart for a murmur....

Really, before you helped out, all I wanted to do was throw that tomato against a wall -- thunk! -- and listen to the juice go drip, drip, drip.

OK, I'm going to stop now.

4th after the help from [25]

I actually use this word a lot at work. Not sure how it goes together in the puzzle....

slap-----hit my head after that one.

smack! ....now I get the salt...with some help from my girlfriend....darn me for being a math minded person...

Yes, I suppose we should bring the salt truck to a screeching halt.

*snicker*

... I can't believe I actually spelled that right on the first try.

Sorry, 'sphygmomanometer' is not correct. Please try again.

Still only 12 completions. I think we can rev up the salt truck again...

Vroom Vroom

Let's recap what we know...

1) It's hard to spell (fairly useless without knowing the word)
2) The puzzle clues its answer very poorly (obviously after 1.5 hours)

"Maybe a bowl of fresh fruit off to the side?" (sorry, that's not helpful - I'm just annoyed now)

It took you 28 minutes and 15 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 13th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

wow, only 13 after 90 minutes

so I'm getting the clues, but I can't figure out how to connect them to this puzzle...

Actually, I think the clue would be fine for a regular puzzle (and I'm pretty sure the puzzle creators don't designate a puzzle hard or easy). Once I treated it as a puzzle that really should take some time to get, I enjoyed it.

That said, I never, ever spell this one correctly.

3) Salt in [14], [19], [24], [27], [28], [29], [31], [35]

[39] finally got it for me... by the 4th time I saw how hard it was to spell, I realized that I was actually thinking of the word for the last 30 minutes without realizing THAT WAS the answer!

BGG salt did it for me.

Backsolving: But, apparently my rambling in [9] was on the right track.

Also, talk like Yoda, you must.

[40] I'm pretty sure there's salt in [30] and [34], too.

Wow, I never expected that to be the answer to a puzzle.
The penny finally dropped - it went "thunk".

you would think after all the salt I would get it...

[45] Did you check the Tanga puzzle link on BGG? The salt there did it for me.

I'm disappointed. I was sure the answer would have something to do with Shaun White (aka The Flying Tomato)

46, I have been. It's just not clicking.

Whee, go high school English class...

That was not a very well done puzzle, I don't think.

I'm putting some more direct salt at BGG...what's there isn't even what helped us (much).

I'm so sorry for the stress this is causing everyone! I'll confess that the only person I showed it to prior to submitting was an English graduate student and she guessed it in ten seconds.

solved it with salt - not with actual puzzle. Hopefully it'll click later

49 finally made me think of it. I was asking everyone in the house what that term was... then I had to spell it! Grrrrr

This just be one of those words I've never heard of. Even with the salt, I haven't got a clue.

Say what you see, but talk like Yoda when you do it.

Feh.

OK, I got the answer from the hint on BGG, but I don't see how the puzzle really works.

I see the name of the airline (or abbreviation) is used, but the rest is the garbled. Even if I had put the right words in the right order, I don't think I would have heard the right word; it's just too big of a stretch.

The answer is actually from Greek. I knew the word, the clues just wound never have taken me there.

I think a better puzzle would have been to simple give several examples of ____________, like the hint at the top.

Sorry, that's a dud.
Like the recent "mutant" clue, this doesn't lead to the answer word, merely to something that approximates it. That's just clumsy.

Googled comic buzz words and got it but don't know how. Very difficult.

This must be one of the worst rebus-type puzzles I've seen here. I got the answer using the generous amounts of salt provided (especially at BGG), but I still don't see how this really works. Oh well, maybe it's just me.

Wow, the google search in [58] is the only way I got it. Thanks. Like others, I have no idea how you are supposed to get that given that:

1. It's a very obscure word
2. Very difficult to spell
3. The rebus does not even begin to sound like it

Future note to puzzle designers: Do not make the answer word something so obscure that only half of the people even know what it is.

Also a rebus should come very close to sounding like the answer word. If not then a clue must be given to drive the solver in the right direction. For example: the mutant-E one from the other day should have either had a "-T" or some sort of pirate theme or statement to drive the solver in the right direction.

BOOOO!!!!!!

People have said it more eloquently, but this puzzle sucks. Even after having to have someone give me the answer, I still can't see what you were thinking.

It'd be like me making a puzzle with the word "win" on the top of a sedan, and the answer would be "Win an Oscar".

Please never make a puzzler again.

Any word that has 4 vowels in a row is not a real word in my book (and yes that includes SEQUOIA)

Oh my God, that was awful. And you can't Google for it, because even if you spelled it wrong, you'll get hits for the misspellings that other people have typed. Even Google suggested a different way to spell it that was incorrect.

[60] ..Wow, the google search in [58] is the only way I got it...

Me too. Googled and found it, but if you don't use Google (hubby used Alta Vista) you are probably still clueless. Have no idea how the clues should have been spoken to get the word.

I taught English for five years and still spelled it wrong about 10 times. Ugh.

lamelamelame this puzzle is.
[50] if u'r so sorry you should post hints in here...

please don't submit any more puzzles passed past that particular english student.

Warped mind.

Poor, poor example of puzzle-making.

I knew the word, but I only solved it by googling "comic buzz words".

The right answer will begin with the letter O and end with the letter A.

This is like the eighth time this word has been a one word wonder answer. That is waaaaaaay too many times, especially for a word with multiple "correct" spellings. Grrrr. And this was the worst...

And for anyone else coming along late, the tomato should have had a -T1 (meaning subtract the first T). Then it might have been acceptable.

I will say that I got here by following a link to "other puzzles" by this author from a puzzle that was really exceptionally great. So don't knock the guy (or gal) too hard! I think this was before the days of the moderators. :)

Go figure, this was easy for me and I spelled it right the first time. But just wait until tonight....I will probably be pulling my hair out.