Feb 08, 2007 One Word Wonder Puzzle

No one else here?

Can anyone make out the picture?
Is it an eggroll?

I wasn't sure if it was an eggroll or a wrap

I think it's a wrap.

Nothing for me so far. Have tried a few things using the picture as the clue with no success.

it's a chicken wrap.

Could this be a cryptogram of sorts?

[6] dsmeyer
is that known or a guess?

link to the pic, it's a jamaican chicken wrap.....? http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/images/jamaicanchicwrap.jpg

[8] It is known.

The background -- is it a speaker? More importantly, is it significant?

It took you 21 minutes and 8 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 2nd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
Average solve time: 11 minutes and 16 seconds.
Median solve time: 21 minutes and 8 seconds.
1.980% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

It took a while to figure out the first step, then the second step had two possible ways to go. I don't think the background helps but the picture sure does.

Whew! I didn't create the unsolvable puzzle...

[14] dajagr
no, I'm working on it :-)

For clarification, those are U's on the right side... not Q's. Correct?

(we're going to need some halite in here)

up up down down left right left right B A start?

[16] Yes, they are U's

Does it help to print or rearrange anything?

Not sure where to start...

Oh my, I have no clue.

I used a spread sheet with one letter per cell.

[19]I thought so...I wrote it down. Not like you origami geniuses that can do it all in your noggins.

I've done some re-arranging with some interesting results. A couple of words/partial words stick out, so I may be on the right track, or making something out of nothing.

Think Hungarian puzzlist. Wait, is that a word?

It took you 13 minutes and 41 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 5th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Awesome puzzle, David!

(I'd salt, but I'm afraid to give too hard a nudge.)

Well, crud. I've brute-forced the instructions the hard way, and I know to what they refer, but what they refer to isn't where it oughta be.

[27] Apply them to the results of your first step.

It took you 44 minutes and 30 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 8th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Meh, no comment.
Another one of those puzzles that relies on making the jump to the proper solution method without any real clue how to get there.

Can't see what a spreadsheet could do that I can't do on the pic.

[Edit] Now I do.

It took you 57 minutes and 35 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 24th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Finally got it, but I had to brute-force my way through it. I'm still pretty sure I don't know how to solve it the correct way.

I used Paint by the way.

finally! nice puzzle, but I don't know if I solved it the right way... putting it in a spreadsheet definitely helped.

Okay, I solved it... but I don't know how the answer connects to the puzzle. Any insight from other solvers?

It took you 21 minutes and 13 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 22nd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Very clever puzzle! Using a spreadsheet was helpful and don't forget the wraps!

[33] Answer word doesn't seem to be on-theme. Just happens to work with the letters that make up the clue.

Personally, I like it better when the word can't be randomly guessed from the theme. You may lose the nice "Ahhh!" but people have to actually solve.

the background picture actually led me astray here -- the food picture is helpful in retrospect, but not the way I thought it would be

[35] It was hard enough to make the puzzle so that _any_ answer word came out of it. Trying to get one that was on-theme would have been murder! :-)

Phew! Now to get back to work on the unsolvable puzzle!

[38] What is the unsolvable puzzle?

EDIT: Oh [15]

Very neat puzzle. I like the idea of it all. The puzzle is better when the answer can't be obtained as the theme of it because a puzzle solution should only be attainable by solving it.

Scratched my head awhile until I realized that the instructions refer to the resulting array, not the initial one.

Cool, dajagr! Went down the wrong path again tonight at first, and it took me a while to turn around even though I was certain I was lost.

Clever puzzle - really liked it. Excel definitely helped - and there's a lot of salt in this discussion.

That was a really neat puzzle. This was one that we didn't need much salt for, just enough to get started. There's some really useful stuff of BGG if you're stuck, and using a spreadsheet really helps.

Speaking of, wraps are tasty. I really wanted one for lunch today and didn't get it.

I am being instructed to inform poster [17] that you forgot 'select.' It goes between 'A' and 'start'.

This is not working. Arghhh.

If you don't have excel, graph paper works too.

I am using excel, but other than t** s**t*, i got nothing.

Cool puzzle

anyone want to help me so i don't lose my mind?

Aaron,
I entered the answer for the puzzle and got credit for it and then went to look for an old solution and saw there was a question mark for today's puzzle(which I had solved only minutes previously) and entered the answer again in the event that it didn't take the first time. Then, I checked my account balance and saw that I got credit for answering the puzzle twice. You might want to check on that and make a correction if necessary as I didn't mean to double dip on Tanga points.(Not that I don't want the points but I'd like my total to be on the up and up) I just wanted to get the points for the solve that I earned.
Thanks

Great idea! I liked it alot! It just clicked for me, thanks to the picture.

It is so quiet in here, was hoping for a nudge...I have part of it.

[49] hld1970
what's your bgg handle?

[53] leadfoot

It is my name: I just posted on there.

24th to solve, and 60.000% have solved out of those attempting it...

Are there really only 40 people doing the puzzles?

[55] dlp
I solved at 8:01pm Tanga time
"...You were the 26th Tanga member to solve this puzzle...."
This morning the statistic:
"53.203% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it."
Is based on the total number of tangans who have attempted at this snapshot in time.

So, if you got that statistic right after solving and right before you posted, then "sumthin' aint right!"

Ok, I went back to Septemeber of last year, and blew right through 20 puzzles, including cleopatra, like they were nothing.

I think the puzzles have just gotten too abstract, and you need to get back to the basics. IMHO

Did I get this one? yes. but I needed much help.

If you can blow through 20 like they are nothing, then I'd say a little variety is a good thing. Keeps you on your toes. For me, I have found the opposite to be true. Many of these I am able to solve far faster than before the member submissions began being posted. It all comes down to how your brain works. Diferent things click for different people.

Awesome! Great puzzle idea!

It only took 15 hours, but I got it... Okay, I didn't really work for all 15 hours, but it sure felt like it.

[17] Gave me the salt I needed to interpret the instructions, the pucture clue was hint enough as to how to preceede.
It took me longer than I care to admit to realize that the instructions could only really be applied in 2 different ways. Fortunately I started with the correct method.
I guess having the background for the grid colored as white, orange, red, green, yellow, and blue would have been too much of a hint...

Cool puzzle -- but now I'm hungry... :-)

Wonder what kind of rating you get by eating this?