Nov 28, 2007 One Word Wonder Puzzle

We've had a string of very good puzzles today, haven't we? Nicely put together, Murdoctor.

I really appreciate well-clued puzzles. Nice work.

Hmmm, I have all the words but I'm not sure what to do with them now...

[3] Right with you....

got the numbers, but what next?

Grrr, I got complacent and wasn't thorough...

Any salt for the second word? It is eluding me...

[5] Typical Tanga

[7] Multi-city TV stations are also sometimes known as...

[8] Princess
Typical tanga gets me a lot of "j"s
Doesn't anagram to anything

[9] Make sure you are applying the TNs to the right thing.

[10] Thanks...that did it for me :)

[9] tried another 'thing' got more vowels than Wheel of Fortune

[10]
I've tried the alphabet
I've tried each individual line
I've tried the words at the bottom of the picture...

:-(

edit
When you have eliminated everything else...
Got it

Got it, brute force and a guess. Time to backsolve.

There are things you have you haven't tried.

As others have said, nicely done... and thank you, thank you, thank you for using a background that didn't give the answer away. Several otherwise well-constructed puzzlethon entries were ruined, in my opinion, by being too guessable at a glance.

In the interest of disclosure, however... I gladly accepted the Tanga points for solving them :)

[13] Dammit - what am I not applying this to!!!!!! lol

When all else fails, a little introspection might help.

Would have been tough if we hadn't seen puzzles like this before. Nicely crafted though.

I figured out how to get the numbers. Still not sure what to do with them. Heh.

very nice puzzle.

+1 for the good clues. we've suffered through a lot of bad ones lately...

So I somehow got a phone number to a Canadian business...I'm way off...

[22] At least you got that far! I can't even find a place that exists with the number I got!

[8] Guess I haven't solved enough of these puzzles to have a clue what "typical Tanga" means.

The number I got certainly isn't producing a word. Any suggestions?

See [10] that helped me earlier

[24] number corresponds to a letter

1 hour 9 minutes
Geez...all those 10s make sense now...great puzzle
PS - the international code for Canada starts 100 - no salt there

[27] Yeah, I got that, I just don't know what is the "typical" way to apply those numbers. I tried a few things and nothing made sense at all.

the 'aha' moment was pretty good this time... at least for me.

Sometimes, one must search within oneself to find the answer.

Damn, Murdoctor, this was ANOTHER idea for a puzzle method I had come up with but hadn't done yet! Well done.

I'm still stuck like [3].

I've gotten multiple sets of numbers with different methods, but none seem to reveal anything.

Well crap, thanks for the Psycho spoiler.

Anybody still having trouble with the numbers is going to recurse this puzzle when they get it.

I think I've tried everything I'm going to think of. If anyone is willing to toss some help on the BGG thread or shoot me some Geekmail I'm on the same name over there.

Let me be the next to add to the "I have the numbers, but can't make them do anything for me" crowd. Tried using them on the bottom line, on their individual lines, on the plain alphabet, and nothing. Guess I'm just havin a dumb day.

ok relatively new to puzzles. Got all the words (the easy part i'm sure). So these somehow correspond to numbers which lead to a phone number which leads to one word. Hmmm

I got it, but I don't understand the numbering on lines 2 and 10. Guess I'll learn more tomorrow.

[36] See my earlier comments for some hints ([18] and [31]).

is there a red herring answer because i got one that fits the clue too perfectly to be a coincidence and im sure i did the right steps but it aint workin.

I finally got this one thanks to the thread on the Geek (if you really want the answer, it is pretty much spelled out how to get there on the thread). Turns out I wasn't applying the telephone reference at all correctly (cough, cough - red herring! - cough, cough).

Murdoc - I do like this puzzle (now that I get it!) it's just that the phone reference threw me for a complete loop and I totally missed the way you are supposed to solve it - even with your clues, I was looking "inside" something completely wrong using the numbers I came up with.

[41] and [42] agreed on both points. I'm sad to say I had to eat a salt brick to get the lousy 10 points. Then the next salt suggested applying your findings to the clues' answers. I went about it all wrong. Only 4 and a half hours later, I finally understand what [8] meant by typical tanga.

how do i find this bgg thread. I looked.

[41] Since you've solved it, you must realize that the telephone reference wasn't really a red herring... but seeing as it isn't used to solve the puzzle, I can certainly see how it threw many people off track. Luckily for anyone still tenaciously trying, the BGG thread has a lot of hints for this puzzle, as you mentioned.

EDIT:
[44] Unfortunately, it's difficult to find without the link.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/131250/page/436

Wow, that puzzle is amazing. How long did it take you to figure that out? I can't imagine this was easy to create. Or maybe my brain just doesn't work that way.

Regardless, thanks for sucha masochistic puzzle. It hurt for about 20 minutes while I suffered figuring out where I went wrong.

[46] Once I get in the "zone" with creating a puzzle, time becomes a blur... so I'm not sure how long it took, but I do remember spending quite a bit of time gathering a longer list of possible words and narrowing that list down to find a final answer word they could spell out. Then it was just a matter of coming up with the puzzle clues and graphics. I've done several more technically complicated puzzles in the past, which took considerably more time to complete.

[45] OK, not really a red herring in that it is applicable to the puzzle, but it did steer me (and many others apparently) down the wrong path, which is well, what I would call a red herring! :-)

Okay, I'm pretty new to this puzzle stuff. I've had about all the salt a person can without dying. Finally was sure I figured it out, got the numbers and was sure I was applying them right... type in the answer and nope.... my answer is 9 words so I realized it must be wrong, tried adding an s that didn't work. What in the world am I missing...

[49] The answer should be one word.

Here's some more help for you... these are other words that might have been used as clue answers in the puzzle:

someone
anyone
tenaciously
telephone

I hope that's enough SALT.

[49] I assumed the rest of the word once I had several of the letters, and I too had it ending in s (which doesn't work). Pay careful attention to the next-to-last letter...it might not be what you think it is.

WOW a) thanks for the help... finally got it... b) awesome puzzle interesting, fun, and not stupid once you've got the answer. Thanks all for the help and the NaCl

I feel uber dumb.....finally got it. Only took 6 hours.

Ohhhh! <hand-to-forehead>

You solved this puzzle in 20 hours, 34 minutes and 29 seconds and were the 326th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 10 points for solving this.

Holy crap.

Wow, how times change. I solved this in just over 5 minutes with no trouble at all. Most of the time was spent looking up answers I didn't know to the clues. Knew immediately where to get the numbers and then when accessing the alphabet didn't work, went right to the correct way and solved it.

Just goes to show how young the community as a whole was nearly 4 years ago. I think more Tanganites than not would be able to solve this one now. :)