Jan 10, 2007 One Word Wonder Puzzle

Got the fifth one, finally. Hope it's a theme.

Shouldn't that be squalUs?

I have the third, and am also hoping it's a theme. Think we have the same theme in mind?

Wow, you so don't need to do any of the clues.

Sidenote, Night of the Lepus was an awesome movie.

Uethym, it is the same theme. 2 down...

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Still no idea what "Iron tongued" means. Urban Dictionary failed us.

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Finally! saltless again. I was starting to get discouraged!

Got second, third and fifth and now I have to back fill.

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Got it with just the 3rd, 5th, and 6th. There is a theme, but without giving too much away, the *form* of the answers are not the same throughout, which made getting one of them in particular somewhat of a stretch. The final answer is quite clever, though.

still trying to figure out the theme

Brilliant answer. You can lateral solve it from the little story up top. I didn't, got it the old fashioned way, but am kicking myself.

Bravo.

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think i finally got #3

[2] Fawkes
Squalis is correct

Totally got it laterally. Oi!

[12] Solved it without the squalis, so have no idea what it should be. This puzzle can drive you loony if you're not careful. I found the canis, felis and lepus to be the easiest.

I got it with only #3 and #5. I liked this!

Gotta figure out what the other 4 were though....

a Squalus is a dog-faced shark.
Squalis would be more than one.

I have the second half of all the phrases, but I can't figure out what to do with them. And I really can't figure out what the heck a Badger Bunny is!

[16] Jae, read what you wrote again. You'll kick yourself.

yeah, I already did
I have two of them now

Mike,
very punny, I liked it!

[16] bagherra
Hmmm - maybe it should be squalus - I don't know enough and I haven't delved enough into my google searches

Everytime I see the word badger, this always runs through my head.

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

me too

"mushroom mushroom"

Got it with three, five and a crossword solver. Still trying to get the other four. A thesaurus is your friend.

what is, and where can I find a crossword solver?

[20] [21] SNAAAAAKE! It's a SNNAAAAAKKEEE! Oooh it's a SNNNNAAAAAAAAAKKKKEEE!

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That may very well be my first top 20 finish.

Solved it with 3,4,and 5 only. Now to figure out the rest. Loved the answer!

23] bagherra
what is, and where can I find a crossword solver?

Google "crossword solver"
I usually use the one at allwords.com

Got it with 3 and 5. I think I'm going to pass on backsolving for the time being.

bagherra

I usually use www.unscramble.net

that took a lot longer than it should have. Got it with 3, 5 and 6 as well. it was Pun-a-Rific

okay
does
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
ever end? or does it just keep on going like the song that never ends???? badger badger badger badger badger badger badger....
arrrrrrrrrrrrrghghghggghhhh!
SNAKE!!!

EDIT: Okay - it never ends
Those badgers should really be flying by now!

Great puzzle - so glad I didn't have to figure out all these characters to get the answer. I can't wait until tomorrow to see the whole solution.

That is so very very wrong.

I kept seeing people say that you didn't have to solve the clues so I kept reading the story over and over.

SO wrong. :D

So, this puzzle sort of fills out the first batch of user-submitted entries. I was just looking over the past week and change and thinking about which ones I liked best.

Overall, the top three (in no particular order) I enjoyed most were

Mark's Airport puzzle
Nancy's Simile puzzle
Scott's Braile puzzle

They were all fun to complete, which for me is the point of doing these things. Without that, working my way through these starts to be an excercise in frustration or a job rather than entertainment.

4 and 5 were all I got. Even with the theme and the answer, I find the backsolving bizarre. There was a shark in there? Boy, did I miss out. And I don't at all get how the only rodentia I can think of was "Finn-ish", no matter how I pun it out. Ah well, I got the answer, so that's all folks!

Is BGG Tanga thread down?

Someone posted a test message on BGG in the last minute, so I think it's up

BGG is up

Okay, I told myself I was going to wait an hour before I posted. Fortunately, I haven't seen any requests for salt yet - so that makes me feel good.

Sorry about #4. I know it's a stretch, but I couldn't make the other choices I thought of fit a one-worded or dashed clue. #6 was the same way. Yeah, there's a sibilant actor's last name I could have used, but I thought it would give away the theme too easily.

Let me guess Mike: you thought up the punny answer, wrote the story, then made the clues. :D

That's great. When I read the story I actually muttered the answer to myself but didn't see any way it could fit. Too funny!

Actually, it was clues first, then answer, then story.

I've got #3,#4, #5 and #6. Enough to get the answer but am stuck trying to backsolve 1,& 2.

At 13:31, I'm still 8th fastest.

Average solve times are 27:30.

People are being very patient with the condiment requests today. In any case, it doesn't seem to be an *easy* puzzle.

Thosw, I'm dumb tonight. Sprinkle some brain salt this way.

3rd fastest, with the lateral solve. Now to really figure it out...

Any puzzle I can solve without salt is by definition an easy puzzle :P.

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A rare salt free puzzle for me.

I'm gonna let others salt this one.

[38] Thosw
I liked #4 best!

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Woo! Had to read the first 13 posts though.

Clue #4 is awesome. Nice clue-ing, there, Mr. puzzle author.

The only one I didn't backsolve was #2. Geekmail anyone?

[51] Gowan
Geekmail sent with some salt

Salt-free for me again tonight, and very nice puzzle. Bit of back-solving to do (I got it with only #s 3 and 6). Pretty sure I had the theme after #3, but it took me walking away from it for a bit and letting my mind wander before I figured out #6.

Big ups to you, Mike, and the other Tangans who contributed puzzles!

#2 is the only one stumping me too.

Got it with 3 answers. I wish I had the energy to back-solve the rest.

EXCELLENT answer, though!

#2 is contemporary while others are not

edit: maybe I should have said "others are much older (some much much older)"

Google Jim Toomey for some #2 salt.

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from just 3 and 5, which are happily unique-ish.

Thanks, John!

This was a good puzzle (salt-free, but it took me over 50 minutes because I went down the wrong track). Really only needed the text at the top to solve it.

Groan!!!!
I juse re-read the top again.

Shame on you Mike!

nice! Major aha/groan with the answer. Puntastic.

I couldn't get this one without a huge dose of salt, and even now, I've not been able to back-solve any of the three that I didn't have. This one...just isn't working for me.

dajagr
which ones are troubling you?

Ain't got a clue. Guess you gotta read the comics.

1, 4, and 6. Actually, 2, as well--I can't see how I was supposed to get the answer that someone salted from what was given.

Is the use of the word "salt" (to mean hints) just Tanga slang or is it traditional puzzle slang or what? Curious about this term.

[67] carol
I asked a similar question last night - see last night's posts

dajagr
I'm off to BGG

Wow,that was some puzzle. I'm not sure of 2 and 6 but I got the answer with the help of the text for context. The answers to the clues are in the same vein but not as much help guessing as the text. I didn't get the answer as a pun if it was one.

salt is unique to Tanga. In one of the first puzzles the answer was salt and it was typed in as a comment instead of an answer. The ultimate salt!

red the pun is in the answer to the text not in the clues.

[70] Red99
"the only answer from the hall was a muffled grumble that sounded like _______ "

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Got only 3 clues correct then used crosswords solver.
Never heard that answer word before. Not a college type of guy and don't read comics. Not my cup of tea. :P

I think I got 3 and 5 since it led me to the right answer, but I'll have to see if I can backsolve the rest. Tough!

I think I'll have to file this one under "clever, but not up my alley." I don't want to disparage the puzzlemaker (especially since I know mine caused some serious headaches out there), so I think my brain just wasn't willing to go the right direction tonight. Maybe it was the 0-dark-30 meeting at work this morning. :) Thanks for those who prodded me in the right direction so I can at least sleep tonight!

Good one. I got it without help, but only needed to get two of the clues before the answer hit me.

Oh, ouch. That answer hurt my punny bone.

[76] dajagr
you just couldn't help yourself with the "serious headache" statement, could you!

Great puzzle!!

Those who think the only pun is in the answer have apparently not yet solved #1, or else not thought about it enough. I was going to point out an error in the puzzle, since there are two inhabitants of the same habitat that fit the letter, but one of them is sticky and the other one is a marsupial. Until I realized HOW the marsupial is also "sticky"... and GROANED at the great pun.

(I could just leave it at that, but for SOME reason I feel the need to add...)

MUCH better than yesterday!

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Solved it, but didn't like it

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I read the story and remembered the word. I then came here to see how others were doing. I haven't even looked at the clues yet. I'm glad I paid attention in high school!

Was very sidetracked thinking the answer to #3 was Snoop Dogg! Spent too much time thinking of musicians, etc.

Cute puzzle - haven't gotten all 6 but enough to figure the answer.

[32] I didn't solve the clues, but I did use them. They're very helpful.

ha!

I got it with half the answers, although I should have had clue number 1 right away--it was my nickname when I was 3 years old!

Oh wow. Now that I backsolved all the clues, they make a lot more sense. I was thinking of several of them...just couldn't figure out how the clue fit exactly. They all work though.

Jeeze, how awful. I mean, utterly devoid of intelligence. Completely off track from the get-go.

Of course, I'm referring to myself and the struggles I suffer every time I click that big red question mark.

This puzzle, on the other hand, was great! Thanks for the enjoyable challenge. I was completely lost until something clicked on one of the clues while I was reading the morning paper (the only section I can regularly comprehend).

I still can't back-solve one of them so looking forward to the solution.

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5 made me more confident in my theory for 3, after that the crossword solver did it.

Saaaay, isn't there supposed to be a schedule showing who is up tonight and the next few nights?

raymulford - I bet they'll wait until the last second to do that.

I wonder if the Tanga Guys are on that Paris vacation...

[gets the answer, back-solves three of the clues, looks again -- then holds her nose and runs screaming into the night!]

Oh, that was *marvelous*! *Thank* you, Mike!

"Saaaay, isn't there supposed to be a schedule showing who is up tonight and the next few nights?"

I came here just to ask that same thing. Are we going to find out who tonight's puzzle is before it actually gets posted?

I'm putting some of this good karma away to use later when and if any of my other puzzles show up.

:u)

On another note, as of the time of this post, 12 other people have beaten 6 seconds to solve. You tell me there isn't some answer-sharing going on!

Hmmm, even after viewing the solution I realize that I haven't heard of the sticky marsupial. And I don't understand the clue for the rodentia, though I had backsolved it. Then, since I had squalis, lepus, and rodentia, I assumed that the species was an integral part of the solutions for the others.

I ended up using a crossword solver with 3 letters, only 2 of which I'd gotten from the clues. Rough.

>On another note, as of the time of this post, 12 other people have beaten 6 seconds to solve. You tell me there isn't some answer-sharing going on!

I think what's actually going on is that one person (or multiple single persons) have created multiple tanga accounts, so they can get more tanga points than anyone else is getting, and bid the rest of us out in auctions.

This is so clever - thank you Thosw :)

CUTE!