Oct 01, 2007 One Word Wonder Puzzle

# It took you 3 minutes and 37 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 2nd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

D'oh! If only I hadn't gotten hung up on the first one!

# It took you 3 minutes and 53 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 3rd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Heh. Clever one.

4th at 1:34. Shoulda gotten here s(p)ooner.

It took you 2 minutes and 51 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 6th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Easy one tonight.

man, I feel megastupid now, I helped test this one and I still dont know the answer after a week

10th - cool. Had a couple of the four words and figgered out the rest.

Very nice idea and well put together.

I apologize if salty, but you must understand my frustration of having this puzzle for so long and not knowing the answer

is the last clue bye bye?

I'm certain I have the other three now

[8] Nope. "Everyone" is important (even you :).

[9] thanks

Now I just need to know how to spoonerize the first and third

an insect helmet just doesn't sound right.

So who solved first? I was surprised because it seemed they did it in under a minute. It wasn't me. Maybe Tanga staff as a test?

and yay for an answer without two of the clues!

Wow. I spent way too long trying to use those numbers on the side as tanga numbers rather than the indicators they are. Once I stopped doing that, it was a lot easier to see the answer.

I got the answer (with slight salt from the comments), but couldn't get the first clue.

I have all the words but am missing how to get to the next step.
Scratch that, got it now. Was looking for a word too long.

Nice puzzles tonight D...

For more puzzles and riddles, check out both of tonight's Tanga Times:

http://tanga.com/forum/blogs/1054-Tanga-Times-September-29th-2007-by-Verve640

http://tanga.com/forum/blogs/1053-Tanga-Times-October-1st-2007-by-pyrok

Got the words, can't figure out the numbers.. any help? EDIT: Weird... I got it just by spoonering the words and using the bottom row of numbers. Can someone tell me what the numbers next to each clue mean? As far as I can tell, you don't need them...

[18] Letter counts (6, 6)

Can anyone clue the 1st one? I tried RUMBLE, but that didn't match the flavor of the others.

Guessed using the last 3. I got one answer for the first one, but it wouldn't match Tanga numberwise, so I'm not sure what it is.

Since at least one person asked, I solved first:

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

I'm a fan of the late Reverend Spooner.

Ahh... the first one just came to me. I must have been trying to stick it in my ear.

sigh, spoons... I suck at spoons. Couldn't get the hypercross last time either... any more salt for one who is not a fan of the late reverend spooner?

edit: there we go, thx leadfoot, your BGG salt was very useful.

And those still stuck on the first word, its very similar to the 3rd word after all the work.

[23] If it helps, a couple of these have a syllable that lacks a leading consonant sound. I think they're still valid spoonies, just harder to uncover.

An example (not from this puzzle) would be:
_ear-Ring to
Rear-_ing

Keep in mind that you're exchanging syllable sounds, not strict spelling, such as (again, not in this puzzle):

Wee-Curd to
Key-Word

You'd probably have a hard time making sense out of Cee Wurd, so it may help to stick with phonetic spelling.

And I always find it necessary to say them out loud :)

what is a spooner?

[19] I got the same as you, however solved it with the last three and an educated guess

[25] BetaPrime
not "what" but "who" and "what" is he famous for?

UHG! I got it by guessing but back trying to backsolve is proving to be useless and it's frustrating me still even though I got the points already. Other than that the spoonerisms were fun and the puzzle was greatly enjoyed. (except for the first word)

[28] Maybe you need a little more room to figure it out...

[13] Me, too! Wow. Some numbers just aren't tanga numbers.

[28], The first word threw me off too.

*Grrr* I've got the last three answers, and I know what to do with them, but the 3-2-2-2 is throwing me off, and I can't figure out what to do with it.

Gonna be one of those days, I can tell.

**Never mind** Figured out the answer to the first one by doing a Theasaurus check on Roar. Then it made sense.

Well done Don, I didn't know what a spoonerism was.

Can't get the 3-2-2-2....