Easy One Word Wonder

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One Word Wonders are puzzles where the answer to the puzzle is exactly one word. For a better idea on how to solve this puzzle see an example

Easy One Word Wonder

BigSlick

wants to try to stump you with this puzzle that was published on Tue May 13, 2008 07:00 PM

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BigSlick

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:08 PM |

[1] Uhhhh, that's pretty dang salty this early on!

spamwise

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:09 PM |

This seems familiar... :) (Not a dig. Not an accusation. Just an observation - near and dear to me.)

davey

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:10 PM |

Thanks davego ([1])!

slog

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:11 PM |

Yeah, [1] abounds with NaCl.

zyzzva

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:12 PM |

[1] too salty...

BigSlick

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:13 PM |

[1] You really need to edit that comment!

RANN96

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:16 PM |

[1] gave it away, very fun lil puz, not tanga num. like i was stuck on

bcgrote

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:22 PM |

??, [8] If not tanga #, then???? (having missed [1]'s salt....)

vandy

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:25 PM |

Since I couldn't get some of the super salt, can anyone leave a little bit more?

BigSlick

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:28 PM |

[9], [10] Not as you might normally think of Tanga Numbers

Philana

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:41 PM |

I missed the early salt too, and I'm lost.

gst

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 07:59 PM |

Nice puzzle.

[12] Chromium, Manganese and Iron would not work in this puzzle.

BigSlick

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 08:00 PM |

[13] Thanks!

captUSA

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 08:01 PM |

[1] what?

davego

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 08:10 PM |

I posted [1]. It was fresh out of the sea. Too salty.

monocle

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 08:20 PM |

[13] thanks for the brick of salt up side the the head. I am actually embarrassed that I didn't go there on my own.

Mysticalmelody

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 08:28 PM |

I think i need a bigger brick of salt smacked across my skull .. feel free to TG me

Morganza

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 08:39 PM |

D'oh!

You solved this puzzle in 6 minutes and 9 seconds and were the 85th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 26 points for solving this.

My 10th grade Chemistry teacher would be proud. Maybe. (I got the first one wrong but kept going, and then backsolved my error.)

Morganza

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 08:40 PM |

[11] is about the right molarity of saltiness.

Mysticalmelody

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 08:40 PM |

wow... staring me in the face the whole time

Philana

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 08:48 PM |

Too much noise in this puzzle for my taste. The entire periodic table is irrelevant, especially its variously colored cells and chemical symbols.

Kilgore

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 08:56 PM |

I'm blaming sitting in a dark hotel room with a laptop as my excuse for denseness tonight. Finally got this. Of course I went the right course last.....

nice puzzle.

BigSlick

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 09:05 PM |

[22] I just screen capped it off an Internet site. The colors mean something in the real world (for instance, the blue element symbols signify liquids) - they just don't mean anything to this puzzle. I don't know that it would have made sense to remove all the colors, as it wouldn't look like a real periodic table then (plus, it would have been a lot more work than I would have wanted to do).

Given that I specified all the elements you need to solve the puzzle, I didn't think the colors would be that distracting.

snork

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 09:30 PM |

Nice one, slightly sneaky.

hwango

Posted on Tue May 13, 2008 10:47 PM |

I could use a TG on this one, I guess. I don't seem to be getting anywhere.

hunibuns

Posted on Wed May 14, 2008 07:59 AM |

ok.....I'm new....what exactly are tanga numbers?

bosco312

Posted on Wed May 14, 2008 11:39 AM |

Um...at the risk of sounding like some lame AOL'er...Me too. I don't know what Tanga numbers are.

dlandon2000

Posted on Wed May 14, 2008 11:57 AM |

[27] & [28] tanga numbers are a way of using letters without just doing it and thus make a good puzzle mechanism. The two most common types are shown below

1=a, 2=b, 3=c, etc...

Hello
51 1233 = Oh hell (using the 5th letter from hello then the first etc...)

John

Posted on Wed May 14, 2008 12:02 PM |

"Tanga Numbers" just means you need to decode numbers into letters. The simplest substituion is A=1, B=2... Z=26

dlandon2000

Posted on Wed May 14, 2008 02:33 PM |

K I don't see it, can anybody sprinkle some salt or TG me a hint?

monocle

Posted on Wed May 14, 2008 03:07 PM |

[31] you have a list of elements... that has to be important. Find them. From [29]... clearly you know what to do with them when you do find them. [13] may be very helpful if you are unsure of where to use them.