Jan 07, 2007 One Word Wonder Puzzle

Important note: The NUMBER in row 3, picture 2 (ghost) is incorrect. It should be 2.

The number in row 3, picture 4 (bat) is a 4. Some people had trouble seeing that one.

Also, for anyone having trouble seeing the images, you can save the picture to your desktop and blow it up there.

Errr, sorta looks like a calender

Better buy tonight's microscope so I can see these clues...

I wish the images were a bit bigger...

Do we have to be able to see what these pictures are? Because some of them are very hard to make out...

Sorry, the pictures were bigger in what I sent in, but got shrunk.

so what IS the third item on the top line?

looks like the Mad Hatter to me.

Hunchback manolin player?

I'm unable to make out some of the photos ... oh well. The upper right and lower left corner may as well be the bottom line on an eye test.

these pics r way to hard to make out...and i got no clue

Here's what I have:

Pie Chocolate Mad Hatter (Tea Party) Lamppost (Lightpost)
Bell Mountains Violin Chessboard
Ladybug Ghost Puppy Bat
Nails Bee Feather Medal

chocolate?...I was thinking soup or broth...

I don't think you drip soup off a wooden spoon....

Or gravy...

Or syrup...

It looks like a ladle in my picture.

Yeah, we were thinking syrup

It looks like soup to me...

I was thinking it was melted dark chocolate as well.

i think i know wat game it looks like but i still dont know what to do

This reminds me of a line in Oh Brother:

"That don't make NO sense!"

I can't even see what most of these are supposed to be. Of course, I don't think that would help anyway, because there's no fourth letter in bat.

I'm sorry the pictures are so hard to see! I'd tell you what they are, but a couple of them would really give away the puzzle.

[12] is pretty close though

I'm not getting anything. My first instinct on the second one is gravy.

Why the heck did they say to submit 500x500 images when they're rescaling them?

With apologies to the submitter - illegibility is about to make this puzzle the first one I haven't bothered to do.

There's a "theme" to the pictures, then?

you can find the pic of the pot in google images...but it's none of the guesses that have been made so far...

any idea on the fourth image on the top?
column?

The image as shown is 480x480 - so wonder if the puzzle was originally submitted w/out the text. The vertical compression seems worse than the horizontal compression.

I was thinking "melt" for the second one on the top row.

for the fourth image on top see [12]... the answer is in there somewhere

arrgh, i know what these all are and what the theme is, but can't make anything of the letters...

there's something weird about that bat.

So...this puzzle is deliberately going with being difficult not because there's any logic or anything, but because it's hard to read?

Nice to see such, erm, quality from Tanga.

probably my fault... I probably didn't send the right size image... sigh

Maybe the microscope they are selling will help

I think I have the general idea ... be back soon.

If Tanga was going to resize - they should have "tested" the reduced image, or sent it back to you for comment. Not entirely your fault.

Here is what is right from [12]:

Pie xxxxxxxx Hatter Lamppost (xxxx)
Bell xxxxx xxxxxx Chessboard (xxxxx)
Bug Ghost Dog Bat
Nails Bee Feather xxxx

who knows if it has to do with it, but is the number of the bat a 4?

Yes, it's the only 4.

so that's not a violin????

grr, is it a fiddle then?

stew

is it molasses?

Oops. Sorry about the "stew" comment...
I meant to type it in Google image search in my other tab.
Trying to figure out what pic #2 is...

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I love it. Pity about the pictures being so small, though.

Oooh. The thought plickens!

Okay, my mom just found a mistake in my puzzle. So before I crawl under a rock, let me let you all know that for GHOST, the number should be 2, not 3.

google images + [44]

Save the puzzle as a picture and blow it up. It helps a bit.

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Not bad. Ambiguous here and there (Row 2, Col 2 could be a few things), but the ladybug's brilliant. :)

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[50] I blew it up and printed - still couldn't determine 4 without the salt

I suspect that the important part about (4,4) is not what's being held, but what it's made of. That's just a guess, though. I'm still trying to figure out what it all *means*.

I now get the theme. Now to figure it out.

The numbers, after you edit my mistake, are

2 1 1 3
2 2 1 3
1 2 2 4
2 1 2 1

I hope I can solve this without knowing what the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 10th, and 16th images are, since they're too small to make out.

So much for that idea, there's a 4 on "bat".

I have the pics. Now what the crap am I supposed to do with them?

lol dlp

I'll be over on bgg if you want help

"What is this puzzle like?"

It's like raaaiiin... on your wedding day.

Now if I could just get that song out of my head, I could work on it.

What resolution is everyone's monitors set at? If you crank it down to 800x600, maybe it will be clearer. Just a thought.

Okay, I'm pretty sure I have the theme (especially given the ladybug), but with my missing answers and a couple of ambiguities, I'm still working out the answer. (If I'm reading the theme properly, some of the clues could work out to two different things--I've got a couple for [4,4], for example.)

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Good job Philana. Any salt for us?

>Okay, I'm pretty sure I have the theme (especially given >the ladybug),

Especially given the ladybug? The ladybug (and the landcape photo) are the only things I have absolutely no idea how to tie into the theme!

I think I have the theme as well, but can't figure out the next step

[65] That was the one that really cinched it for me. I get the feeling I haven't heard some of the other connections, though. Or maybe I just have the wrong picture identifications.

Don't forget the words above the pictures!

If the theme is what I think it is, it's a little bit cliche, in my opinion.

wait, so there are now more 2s than 1s? that totally screws up how i was trying to arrange things. guess i'm way off

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Whew. Great puzzle. It's too bad about the pictures. I've been discovering that 500x500 is a pretty tiny medium to work in when you're trying to get a lot of images in. Good work, despite the problem running into those space limitations, Nancy!

Thanks! At least the people who are solving it seem to think it's okay, so I'm relieved. My mother had a few choice words for me though, because I made her suffer through it too.

I think I have the theme, and connected it with every picture, but can't seem to use the numbers right!

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Figured out the key but needed nrkii's spoilers to get some of the clues.

Too bad about the size. This one has a clever concept. :(

ARRRGGGGGHHHH... if only I COULD sleep on it. Tanga is no good for insomnia!

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I didn't get the answer for ghost, but the others were enough.

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Not a *bad* puzzle, but next time they should ensure the images are clearer so that legibility doesn't hamper the puzzle.

Ah, if I got the theme... I'd bet that ladybug is in a small carpet.

dlp, yes!

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Finally...only took me since the puzzle was posted!
I never got the answer for ghost either...or bell...oh well!
Not a bad puzzle, to bad they didn't look at it before posting it to make sure it was more legible.

Wow, that seemed tough. Even still have some letters wrong. But with some salt I pulled something out

it took awhile, but I finally got it, with some salt.

Thanks! I really liked this one, once I knew what the pictures were.

I've had the theme for awhile, and presumably know how it relates to each picture (except the ghost). Still, applying the numbers they way I think I should leads to nonsense. It makes me wonder if some of the rest is wrong.

Wow. That was, like, tough.

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Well if you can get the theme, then the answer should come out like a normal tanga puzzle. But be careful, a few of the pictures have multiple possibilities.

[83] Suspect "rest is wrong" has to do with the fact that some of the images might have two (or three) possible associations.

I can think of 2 for (2,4) / (3,3) / (4,1) etc. Just trying to get the right combinations.

Really, really like this one! Seems like it must have been tough to bring together all the elements.

I still haven't figured out the (2,2) picture.

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the fact that a few of these had multiple possibilities made it a little tricky. But a fun puzzle nonetheless!

Great puzzle Nancy! Even though a couple of the phrases were a bit different from what I knew as a kid.

One of our saltiest solves

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Whoo Nancy! That was tough tough tough

Got it, but I had four answers wrong and I couldn't see the forest for the trees.

Philana
think of Julie Andrews

OK, Nancy, this is STILL tough tough tough for some of us. I am on the brink - just need an itsy bitsy grain of salt to grab a victory (and some sleep)!

Wow. I finally got it. I had wrong (but reasonably valid) answers for (1,2), (1,3), (1,4), (2,3), and (3,3). I still don't know all of them, but I was able to decipher it from there.

Nice puzzle! The small images weren't a problem, at least for me. Once I got the theme, things started to fall into place -- it is just that some of them fell in the wrong direction.

[93] I don't think you mean Mary Martin...
Maybe Julie Andrews instead?

And now you fixed your comment! So this comment is now useless...doobie doobie doo....

right

Tough. A little too hard for me. Had to resort to BGG and do some searching. I never would have even thought of some of those as I've never used a lot in my life.

Good concept. But for people like me, if there are any others, it seems a little too dependant on a person's upbringing and cultural exposure? (For lack of a better way to describe my struggle)

Too many possible answers for each picture. This was frustrating. Once I figured out how to solve it, I still had problems with too many answers that would work.

I had no trouble with picture clarity. 2 could be a lot of things no matter how big the picture was.

Since the number on 10 was a flat out mistake, it's the only flaw I count.

8 tricked me. I back-solved it. I think I had to back-solve 2 as well. I got the answer without 2, 8, or 10.