One Word Wonder

I'm dizzy...

the world is spinning....

[1] apparently so are most of us - awfully quiet in here

I don't get it, LOL!

Nicely crafted.

Thanks tsmaster ... hope you enjoyed it

t took you 5 minutes and 27 seconds.
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Well done Dave :) Subtleties I didn't get until hindsight.

Sorry, 'zen' is not correct. Please try again.

After long long pause between postings...

phew! I thought the rest of the world had disappeared while I was turning turning turning...

well, I tried contemplating my navel, but all I wound up with was belly button lint

Well, it's not an upside-down snowglobe...

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Can't say I liked your description of "Not as hard as it looks" Didn't find that to be the case.

transcend...above...above meaning...rotating. meaning..

I dunno, I'm stretching it.

how do you spell "koan"

[14] K..O..A..N

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Just guessed...I rule, I think....

it can't be, it didn't work.

or maybe I just need a one word phrase for "punch the puzzlemaker in the throat"

I've got nothing, and I don't know even where to begin...

Damn, it's not "circumnavigate". I was so sure.

At "Now I [...]"

re [12]:

He didn't say it wasn't hard. He said it was easy.

[21] which is a bald faced lie

Tanga Koan:

"one does not solve the puzzle, the puzzle solves you."

"Disestablishmentarianism" also fails. Dangit.

Anybody else with Firefox having issues?

"Weird, some error happened. Don't worry, our code monkey's on it.
Go to the front page."

[25] I'm having plenty of issues even without Firefox, thanks :(

I found that picking up my computer and rotating it helped.

my only guess is that it is a decoder ring of some sort, and you have to use the word "meaning" as the cipher key.

[25] Thosw
Firefox 2.0 okay

[27] Does your computer have a monitor built into it? ;)

Is this the same David Green as
1/20 4am - 1/20 2am - David Green
?

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Hahaha. Oh man. I stared at it and stared at it and suddenly it just clicked. Nice.

okay, I got it.

I'm too smart to solve this puzzle, I need to find some way to make myself dumber.

Maybe alcohol.
Maybe several back to back episodes of Absolutely Fabulous...

re [30]:

No, I didn't try rotating the monitor. That might've helped too.

[34] TangaJoe
aha!

nope - answer is not "easier" as advertised

re [37]:

it is so! it's a piece of cake!

Okay. Rebooted and everything appears to be okay now. Strange. Oh, and [38] is a little too salty for my tastes.

[38] - LOL

I'm not sure what kind of clue to give that doesn't just solve it.

I got the answer now, but I have no idea why that's the answer. Can someone bgg me please?

Just solved it, but don't know how. Apparently it has something to do with circles, or the rendering thereof...

"Spirograph" failed. The real answer had better be cooler than that.

"Stargate" no good.

don't know how from the puzzle but got the answer from [42]

don't know why
but I have it

got it after [42] also

Took a wild guess and got it. Not sure I see how it's supposed to be solved.

mmm... salty cake.

now to backsolve!

That will keep me spinning in circles!

This cake isn't salty enough for me yet. Can someone pass the shaker?

Ye gods. My wife got it *instantly*. And I see the answer now. I'll BGG a reasonable hint.

I'm so dizzy I could...I dunno...fall off a log or something.

Now that I see where the biggest hint was for how to solve this, I really love this puzzle. The subtlety went right by me, but it was very nice.

Comment #20 was right.

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Now that's just silly. How the heck did that work?

Wish I could take credit for this one, but it was the salt here that broke it for me. Still doesn't make sense.

Zebraboy, looking back over your hints...what the heck? Only the cake one is even remotely connected!

I got it...I'm not sure how I can make it make sense for anyone without giving it away...but it has to do with some numbers...

very cute

Oh, duh... [56] led me to the answer immediately. I even thought of doing that, but for some reason decided it was wrong...

Every word counts.

[59] - well put!

Ah, perfect wording :D

Uethym helped over on BGG, but only if you know enough to recognize what's going on. Nice puzzle.

Well, I just kept plugging in words for 44 minutes until I stumbled across the right one. Now that I have it I can see where intelligent book-learned folks might get it from the clues, but us poor foggy-headed "haven't seen no schoolin' for a passel of years" folk didn't have a chance, even if it were covered in salt. Eee-haw!

Yes, I know a salty layercake is rarely tasty. But. Often frosting (chocolate? vanilla? raspberry?) has an odd saltiness. Even sodium (in minute bits) has its downside. See?

re [55]:

Not every comment I've made has been a hint. Is that a rule in here or something? If so, I fail to see how "disestablishmentarianism" is on point...

[64] - Nice blog entry ... I couldn't have said it better myself!

Wow, an ingenious puzzle that works on a few other levels too.
That's something to sing about.
Just ask Kate Bush.

Ohhh. I see it now. Evil, very evil. Some of the salt here helped, along with a little nudge from the Simpsons...

no bueno! me no likey.

'Now' should be a sentence by itself. Period.

jeez. i am completely stumped...

"I found rotating my computer helpful" sent me off-track for quite a while. And how could I be giving a hint before I solved it?

Some great hints on BGG now; ignore my first one if you still want some fun. I particularly like "this puzzle could go on forever."

[71] hld1970, look at [70]

never mind

re: [72]

I apologize if my sarcasm was so scalpel-fine as to be invisible.

Cool.

[74] AMeisler
Ignore the word meanings - but the words have meaning.

[74]:

1) You're right about the meaning of the words as instructions.
2) The words aren't completely useless. They can be used to solve the puzzle.
3) I wouldn't ignore the title.

[77] You can count on that.

This puzzle is about 6 weeks too early.

[80] - Perhaps, but it may have worked well last week on 1/23 as well.

I finally got it. I feel so stupid. Well designed, congrats to the puzzlemaker. I agree that Now should have been its own sentence. That would have made the light shine on my dim-witted brain sooner.

[82] hld1970

My dim-witted brain got it because of the dessert ref's.

Solved at last. Unlike some other puzzles, this one starts with the directions.

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Such an easy puzzle. The clues are all over, Just open your eyes.

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OK I got this puzzle, but unlike the oh-so-arrogant puzzle snobs who think they are "masters of the realm" I don't think the answer just jumps out at you and I refuse to try to make others seem stupid for missing it. I am sure many of them are figuring these puzzles out at age 40 in their mother's basement. They are called social skills, people. Look into them.

And to those of you sending people on wild goose chases here and on BGG...shame on you!

[86] I don't think anyone is trying to be snobbish. There's an oblique clue in saying "This puzzle is easy". Consider discovering it to be another puzzle.

we could start a theme set with this puzzle and 1/27/07...

Very clever, tsmaster!

finally got it.

Clever idea, but poor execution of the puzzle.
Too many distractors and red herrings.

Well, I guess I expected the mixed reaction. I'm glad some people appreciated the puzzle and it sounds like most of you found it interesting once you got the answer. It's certainly interesting being on the other side of one of these for once.

Cheers everyone!

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! My fastest Salt-free solve yet, but then again, I am a nerd. Guess this puzzle confirmed that fact...

[90] davey

Clever puzzle, but I wish "Now" had a period after it.
It seems like I cheated because of the heavy salt here. It was cool though to see the design afterwards.

Great job!

[Aaron here]
I liked your period idea so much I added it, tada. Hope you don't mind Dave.

I'm not sure if the puzzle was changed or not, but my "Now" DOES have a period after it. If I could just figure out what it means..

edit* Nevermind, It WAS changed.

Clever. I think I had the clue and the puzzle reversed.

[92]

That's OK Aaron, but I was thinking maybe a different word like "Hey" or "Wow" might have worked better since it can be followed by an exclamation "point" instead of a period.

Aaron,
Nice change, but the punctuation is still off unless you also remove the periods after meaning and happened (altho leave the ellipses at the end)

re [89]:

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I'm honestly curious what about this puzzle you thought was a red herring. Given some of the puzzles which have included deliberately misleading or superfluous elements, I thought this one was very compact, with everything in it pointing at the solution.

I realize we shouldn't get into specifics until the solution is posted, but I am curious.