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One Word Wonders are word puzzles where the answer is exactly one word. Decipher the image below to come up with the answer. For a better idea on how to solve this puzzle view an example. If you get stuck you can ask for help in the comments section. Hints are posted 24 hours after puzzle's publish date (if provided by author).
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Murdoctor – Solves:
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You solved this puzzle in 5 minutes and 14 seconds and were the 3rd Tanga member to solve it. You earned 108 points for solving this.
My best ever position! I like these puzzles (and not just because I did it fast) :-)
14th. Would've been in the top 10, but after filling in the grid on paper I was looking at the wrong square for the answer.
15th. I feel like such an idiot. I was doing it crossword style (using the words as clues) rather than using the words I was given. BTW I've never heard the answer word before.
First time attempting a puzzle in a while. Nifty puzzle! I love the little extra clue that I can't talk about without over-salting. :-)
I likey.
Oh fun! I think everyone is over on the easy...70 pts at 41st
Nice.. straight forward, but makes you think.
99th! Just under the wire! I wish I would have started this one sooner. I had no clue how to get going at first, but once you stare at it a bit, it all falls into place eventually. Nice puzzle as always Doc!
Um.... I got the pink box letters, but they don't mean anything to me. Any salt?
NM. That WAS the answer.
Now I have to look up what it means! LOL!
56th... I'd have been higher but my router decided to shut down while I was doing the puzzle. took me a few minutes to get that sorted out before I could enter the answer. Fun puzzle... thanks.
Shoot... started 30 min late and ended up as 116.
Great puzzle as always Murdoctor.
Fun, but tricky for those with no working printer. :p
Very clever puzzle!
Neverending Cornucopia of Puzzle Goodness, thy name is Murdoctor.
so I filled every square and got the right answer, but instead of "cry" I got the model of a mid-size SUV made by honda. Anyone else get the same?
NM I got it
Very well crafted Murdoctor, odd answer, but nice puzzle :)
Yeah! What [15] said!!!
I started out frustrated, doing the same as [3] - once I figured out that was wrong, all else fell into place nicely!
:-)
never heard that word, must go look it up, fun puzzle. thanks
learned a new word. yea, Tanga and Murdoctor.
Did you invent this type of puzzle? I haven't seen it before, and I thought it was very clever and fun. Not too easy, not too hard.
[18] Yeah, I wasn't too thrilled with the answer word myself. Sometimes, I craft a puzzle around a particular answer word that I want to end up with... other times, I have a particular theme or mechanism, and choose an answer word from within that scope (like I did with my last published puzzle)... and still other times -- like in this case -- I have a way I want the puzzle to work, and somehow try to extract an answer word at the end. I did the puzzle grid first, choosing the words as I filled it in... and only at the very end did I go through to determine what the answer word might be. In cases like that, the answer word tends to be more "clunky", though there are the wonderful occasions that it all falls together with a nice answer word that fits the theme of the puzzle.
[22] Nope. My sweetie MedCheryl bought me a puzzle book recently, and I saw this type of puzzle in it... so I decided to create my own to use here on Tanga. The one in the book was a 17x17 grid -- more words and more challenging to fill in. That book has actually inspired a few of my recent puzzles, all of which have been well-received... so you have her to thank as well.
First timer, here. I thought the pink boxes were "stoppers" like in a standard crossword.
Figured it out. Yay.
Fun puzzle...AND I learned a new word today...even better!
[23] Ooooo, Murdoctor, don't get mad at me or anything...
... but I found SPECTRUM.
It did take a while, though, if that's any consolation :) And FWIW, two of those letters are "starting" letters, so I wouldn't have used it anyway.
-Dave, who had a perfectly good time with the answer as written.
[24] I had the same problem starting out, but figured it out quickly. Simple and fun puzzle! Five stars, though I almost docked it one for the answer word.
enjoyed this one. Had fun filling it in, heh.
[26] Exactly... I found several other words (using either a top-down or a left-right approach), but I didn't want to use any of the letters in the numbered boxes, so that limited my options. I settled on the one I used because I was able to think of a somewhat capricious clue to include in the puzzle text.
For anyone struggling, it may help to start with the numbered corner boxes, since the directions the words can go are limited, and you can narrow down possibilities based on the overlapping words/letters from the other starting points.
nice liked it
Wow ... really nice puzzle! I was almost scared off cause it looked complex, but thought I'd give it a try when I saw the author's name. Well done Murdoctor!
Oy. I made this _much_ harder than it should have been by not realizing that the words all went in a straight line.