Jan 24, 2007 One Word Wonder Puzzle

Awwwhhh...thought it would be VJECT

Bah!!!!! Though I was going to have a psychic moment tonight, and get it right away!

Sorry, guys. V-JECTed! ;-)

haha they have the VJECT solution up for the smoke and mirrors.

too funny!

I think I have all 5 answers here, but I don't see what to do next, sadly.

Entered in the obvious answers....both with the arrows and opposite...nothing understandable yet...hmmmmm

I have the answers and put them in the grid but I am lost

There's some stuff in the grid, but I think I'm feeling gun shy after last night! I'm scared to go down any one path ...

Pulling myself together to try door number one ...

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It took you 13 minutes and 8 seconds.
You are the 1st fastest Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
You were the 1st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Gah, can't believe I missed that!

There's a huge AHA in this one, guys and gals!

Same here. Five answers nothing makes sense in the grid. Not certain of answer for #4. The obvious one is the same length as #3 but there are no two words the same length.

[11] #3 is plural so if you add an 's' to it it fits

I used the plural for #3 to make it a different length

DOH!

I see the trick, but I don't yet see how to use the trick.

Does the solution they posted for last night's puzzle make sense to anyone? Even with all the blog and BGG, I never got it.

Thosw...

is the grey box a red herring?

Doesn't look red to me!

Oh, feels so good to get one without salt for a change. Nice puzzle, the a-ha felt great.

@[16] The solution is for the wrong puzzle. Disregard it. I am sure they will correct it soon.

The posted solution is for the VJECT puzzle they originally had up then replaced. The correct answer is O***C.

[16] Annie
the solution posted is for the puzzle that was up originally, but then replaced with the right one.

It took you 19 minutes and 18 seconds.
You are the 4th fastest Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
You were the 4th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Ah. That's how to use it.

To those putting words in the grid: You are not wrong. You are just not done.

Thanks 20 and 21

Uethym is back! Did he get last night's?

How to meander....

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It took you 21 minutes and 22 seconds.
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Is a Hamiltonian path necessary?

I rearranged the various shapes to make a 5x5 square. Put in the answers but I'm not seeing anything right now.

[25]:
I started an hour late last night. I tried pairs that went through "smoke" and got gibberish. I tried pairs that *didn't* go through "smoke" and got gibberish.

At that point, a sixth sense warned me that something wasn't right. So I stopped. First time ever; usually I can't live with myself if something is incomplete like that. But glancing over the blog now, man, was THAT ever the right call.

I understand the directions....

But I dont' see how to apply it to the grid yet

I'm beginning to wonder if I have the right words....

As is often true, it helps to be as literal as possible with the instructions.

That puzzle was down right awesome!

Are there any singing beverages involved?

Very nice, matthan. Thumbs up.

Step one is to fill the grid.

Then worry about the directions.

t took you 36 minutes and 7 seconds.
You are the 9th fastest Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
You were the 9th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

I wondered why when I first looked at it, and didn't think about it again for a while

hmm - filled the grid different ways - looking at the scrambled directions hmmm...

Grid filled....Directions, Scrambled?...

reposition words? read backwards? Start from Grey square? I am having flashbacks of yesterday....

I can taste a lot of salt here, but could still use pinch more. Don't have much patience after last night.

Not sure if I have #4 right I am thinking plural of the most common word for that answer.

i have tried a Hamiltonian path and rearranging the pieces to make a square and all I have is garbage.

Can anyone recommend some good teas?
I'm really looking for one that wets my whistle.

No rearrangement of the pieces is necessary - whatever Hamiltonian means.

Personally, SCTrueGent, I prefer ones made by companies that use archaic words, like thees and thous. It makes them seem more authentic.

Can it be solved without all the words? Not sure I have the short one.

A Hamiltonian path would be a path going through each square exactly once.

The solution is definitely non-Hamiltonian.

Maybe even go back to the Greek, find some with those funky letters like alphas betas and etas

My favorite part of the blog - cryptic banter between two people who have solved the puzzle that should give me some sort of clue, but usually fails to register until after I have solved the puzzle... Why do I put myself through this every night? I think I'm going prematurely gray as a result of Tanga.

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It took you 43 minutes and 20 seconds.
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You were the 10th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

don't forget about that lonely grey square someone mentioned so long ago...

That lonely grey square has been STARING at me for a very very long time!

[42] cokeman, stay away from the plural... take only enough to sate yourself

It took you 48 minutes and 9 seconds.
You are the 11th fastest Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
You were the 11th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

...turns out i *didn't* have the grid filled in correctly until just now...

non-Hamiltonian

Leadfoot, perhaps you need to read the directions again?

my gray square isn't lonely.... what's up with that?

[47] If Shakespeare heard you say that, he would definitely shed a tear...

[54] Thanks so I swapped my plural word for #4 now I have a plural word for #3....

I think 3 should be plural because the clue is plural

[47]...yes, it's possible. more difficult of course, but definitely still possible.

[58] kswitz, maybe some of its neighbors are keeping it company?

ok, so I have all these words and cut out all these pieces, been rearranging for 40 minutes and I got nothing! What up with the lonely square? Mine has a letter in it.

Thanks for the short one, but no solution yet.

[57] Thosw
I've headed over to the anagram solver, but phew what a lot to go through!

nah - one gadzillion and three point seven eight combinations.... too many

No anagram solver needed, Leadfoot.

Well, almost.

An hour in, and I still can't see it. Pretty sure my words are right. Just can't make sense of the grid.

[66] leadfoot, you probably don't need to go there

[61] kswitz, I think #3 might have been better with a hyphen in the clue

Are there still only 11 solvers? If so, not much better than last night.

Much harder than last night. I was a lot closer than I am now.

[70] glsonn
oooh MUCH MUCH Better than last night!!!!!!

Quote from last night:
It took you 2 hours, 12 minutes and 17 seconds.
You are the 5th fastest Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
You were the 6th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
Unquote:

I am taking a break to watch American Idol. Sad, but true. I need some mindless entertainment.

and yet... it doesn't feel better to me yet

Try not to second guess your grid. But it is worth taking a second look at those clues.

[70] I can see percentages, but not actual numbers. Just over 6% have solved, which would put things at around 180 seekers, which sounds about right.

At this point, I may make the observation that directions can be things other than instructions.

[76]
"directions can be things other than instructions."

I never even thought of them as instructions in the first place... maybe THAT's where I've been going wrong

Would it help to boggle the grid? Since I am mind-boggled anyway...

[78] It might. Depends on where you start and which way you go...

I'm totally blocked, after filling out the grid. Someone salt me on geekmail, please please please?

nevermind. *rolls eyes*

It took you 56 minutes and 46 seconds.
You are the 15th fastest Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
You were the 17th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Sigh. Yes, the salt all makes sense after solving.

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It took you 1 hour, 8 minutes and 12 seconds.
You are the 16th fastest Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
You were the 16th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Man, that was hard. We filled in the grid in about 5 mins. We spent about 45 mins trying to fill in the grid some other way - no luck. We finally found the "other directions" and it took about 15 minutes to figure out how to apply them.

Excellent puzzle!

[26] leadfoot:

I don't know what puzzle you were looking at, but the wrong solution is still up for yesterday's puzzle.

Techgirl, check your geekmail :)

[83] The solution for yesterday's puzzle is up in the puzzle blog, for those who want it.

thx, jmcintyre

Glad to see I'm not the only one that forgot to pluralize #3. I'd have finished much faster if I'd gotten that right.

As with many Tanga puzzles, the directions you need are right there in the text.

An hour and 15 minutes and I was 22nd. Wow.

But after all that, it was a very clever puzzle.

Clue 75 did it for me -- thanks!

Nice puzzle. Clue 3 could use a small edit (which caught me for a minute or so): "Thorn bearing flowers" (no hyphen) means a thorn that has flowers. "Thorn-bearing flowers" (hyphen) means flowers that have thorns.

Unless I missed something, the second one is intended.

It took you 1 hour, 20 minutes and 1 second.
You are the 39th fastest Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
You were the 39th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Man, never would have gotten that without salt! How do you guys do it? I am still amazed. Some valuable salt on BGG helped me with the last step.

It took you 1 hour, 20 minutes and 46 seconds.
You are the 42nd fastest Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
You were the 36th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

we're still WAAAAY ahead of last nights solve rate! (And I get to go to bed Much Much earlier!)

Good Show David!

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It took you 48 minutes and 45 seconds.
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Darn direction scramblers...scrambled my brain too!

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It took you 1 hour, 18 minutes and 21 seconds.
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Very clever. I have to remember to take things much much more literally around here. :)

It took you 21 minutes and 33 seconds.
You are the 8th fastest Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
You were the 48th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Very nice puzzle. Glad I brought my compass.

Working last nights puzzle and this one, I'm starting to see a pattern, who can design a puzzle that no one can solve. I started working these puzzles because they were fun and challenging. Pain and humility are not what I'm here for. I already have plenty of that in my life!!

Hmm. You got a BGG account, Dodger?

[83] davidwpa

hmm don't understand your comment, I was talking about tonight's puzzle and meandering through looking for the answer...

[95] I don't think this puzzle was as hard as we made it to be. Everything was there and it was well designed. We just didn't catch things we should have all caught as soon as we could have. Maybe we are all just a little burned out from last night.

phew

[99] r0xjo0
You said it!!