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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
Wants to stump you with this puzzle:
How to play: Answer this puzzle with exactly one word.
Wants to stump you with this puzzle:
How to play: Answer this puzzle with exactly one word.
Wants to stump you with this puzzle:
How to play: Answer this puzzle with exactly one word.
Wants to stump you with this puzzle:
How to play: Answer this puzzle with exactly one word.
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31 Comments
pandapal
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:17 PM |
????????? Murdoctor, you kill me! How do you come up with these????
(don't have a clue on this one)
774
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:11 PM |
Well it's not EFTPS...
RANN96
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:15 PM |
uh......wut?
splat169
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:22 PM |
Can someone please post the definition of EASY.
hatemachine
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:24 PM |
25 minutes in and only 10 solves? Yup, this is an EOWW.
RANN96
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:23 PM |
Salt plz
hatemachine
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:23 PM |
Maybe easy and hard were swapped tonight?
jmcintyre
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:23 PM |
[4] Well, I don't know the definition, but I know it when I see it. (And I'm not seeing it.)
warrenzevon
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:26 PM |
Easy for Murdoctor and easy for mere mortals are two different measures.
Smijin
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:29 PM |
i can't believe there's 11 immortals on this site
Murdoctor
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:31 PM |
Note that the authors don't get to set whether a puzzle is "easy" or "hard". That's done by whomever publishes it.
Personally, I think this one is borderline... but more towards the easy side. It's likely that most people are overthinking it... and overlooking an important part of the puzzle (not the background).
contrerasjoe
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:36 PM |
I solved the hard with little problem but I am not even sure where to begin with this one.
osmium
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:55 PM |
[11] I'm sure there's some wisdom in your words, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what the green numbers or purple boxes are supposed to tell me.
[12] I'm in the same boat...
Murdoctor
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:43 PM |
[13] The colors don't matter.
Tankerbay
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:55 PM |
So, this mythical "important" part we're overlooking, which isn't:
- The background
- The colors of the boxes
That pretty much leaves the numbers.. which we could hardly be overlooking, or the fact that there seem to be 5 squares of some size or (unimportant) color on the screen.
martinp13
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:56 PM |
Ok, the colors don't matter, the background doesn't matter (then why is it there?), so: we have four numbered squares, numbered in some order. I'm just not seeing it.
Murdoctor
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:58 PM |
[15] There are 4, actually... a square for each number.
[16] Once you solve the puzzle, you'll understand why the background is there.
Tankerbay
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 07:59 PM |
[17] the 5th is the square containing the background, no?
Murdoctor
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:02 PM |
[18] Ah, well that's the whole square puzzle image... I wasn't counting that.
All you need to solve it are the numbers and their squares.
j15bell
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:04 PM |
nice puzzle
very nice
Harmonica
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:20 PM |
Edit: Like the solve method...my original thought process led to an interesting solution, but much harder than the actual solution.
nrkii
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:11 PM |
[19] that was a lot of sodium, like Ramen noodles, but it saved me... thank you
(no, Ramen noodles will not help you solve this puzzle)
osmium
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:26 PM |
I've tanga'd my way into every possible corner of those squares...but nothing!
Edit: I apparently wasn't factoring in one of the corners. Post & Solve. Nice puzzle...
rcrasackett
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:13 PM |
It was a lucky guess for me.
soccer_ref
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 08:16 PM |
[23] But you'ver said the solution method right in your comment.
ninjoo
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 09:47 PM |
Everything in that puzzle was misleading. The added and unnecessary colors and background completely hid the real solve method. If it wasn't for the creator telling me where to look, I never would have solved it. A red herring does not a good puzzle make (and multiple red herrings make it even worse). I actually had an elegant solve method that resulted in the word "job", but alas, it wasn't right. It was wrong because it made use of US currency.
Tahnan
Posted on Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:33 PM |
Murdoctor's puzzles are usually great. Not in this case. As Ninjoo notes, everything here was misleading, and there was just plain nothing to indicate the right thing to do.
Murdoctor
Posted on Tue Sep 02, 2008 06:00 AM |
[26][27] Well, I originally just had the numbers in the boxes... but thought that was too plain, so I added in the background to tie in with the answer. Sorry if that turned out to be misleading...
aurnivi
Posted on Tue Sep 02, 2008 07:08 AM |
I liked it. Thought solve method was clever.
ninjoo
Posted on Tue Sep 02, 2008 07:38 AM |
[28] what [29] said. It still is a clever puzzle, but it sent me down so many wrong paths...but I still appreciate it and your puzzles.
AveOscuro
Posted on Tue Sep 02, 2008 10:32 AM |
I figured this one out lying in bed last night... not nearly as difficult as I made it out to be. And while it may not be the gem that we've come to expect from Murdoctor, it was still an interesting puzzle and had me thinking about it long after I had given up online.
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