One Word Wonder

Welcome newcomers –
For all the newbies here tonight:
There is another website that the Tangans use to share questions and answers about the Tanga puzzles and to post more blatant hints than you will find on this blog.
This has a separate Ze puzzle discussion (see the Ze discussion for that link)
The first post for tonight's Regular Tanga puzzle starts at:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/1357357#1357357
You need to be a registered user to post questions and send and receive geekmail (or GM)
Don’t forget to go check to see if there is a “next” page.
Also, if you are interested in the definition of some tangaisms you may encounter here (e.g. the use of the word “salt”) please check out the first post of
https://secure.tanga.com/blogs/461-Ze-Frank-Puzzle-2-17-2007-Blog
Enjoy!

It took you 8 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 1st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
Average solve time: 8 seconds.
Median solve time: 8 seconds.
11.111% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it

woo-hoo. a nice easy one.

Well that was easy!

It took you 19 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 3rd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Cute.

I'm glad people are getting it.

I was way over thinking that one.

It took you 1 minute and 0 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 21st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

It immediately reminded me of The Gashlycrumb Tinies.

Not getting it at all... butter puzzles suck.

this isn't a butter puzzle. It's a rhebus.

Sigh...it has been about a month since I stopped coming here every night with my wife. One thing is for sure, doing tanga puzzles is NOT like riding a bicycle. I am really feeling stupid right now!

8 seconds someone took, and im drawing a blank
salt?

Requires 9th grade vocabulary.

If you've never heard of the answer, much less how to pronounce it, forget it.

it helps to know another language

im 99% sure i know the words for each picture but i with the salt im reading, it seems like a dumb puzzle if i need to know a 9th grade vocab or be able to pronounce it.

Unfortunately, I happen to pride myself on my vocabulary. Still lost. My wife is just laughing at me. :(

If you don't get it right away, don't fall into listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from a lack of interest. Keep trying.

It also helps to say them out loud.

Ignore the remote control

is there a different spelling? i feel like i should have it but it's not taking it and i checked the dictionary. maybe i'm completely wrong?

nevermind i had it wrong.

woo hoo! 22 seconds.. a record solve for me... it just took me a few seconds to come up with the right first half. yay!

I spelled that about a dozen times before hitting it.

This reminds me of the 4/28/2006 Penny Arcade podcast, hehe.

It took awhile and some salt [17] but I learned a new word today.

# It took you 16 minutes and 32 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 60th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Any help? I have an appropriate sounding word (in another language) but have no idea how to spell it, let alone seek out a translation for it.

[16][19]On a sultry summer day, when there's nothing to do, it can kill you.

Somewhere in Europe, someone with a lisp is calling Henry...

[24] We used the Thesaurus at Dictionary.com along with some salt and found an appropriate sounding word.

LOL

I had to google to check spelling because I kept spelling it wrong. Very straightfoward.

I would have been a lot faster had I just typed in the answer instead of trying to translate it!!!!!

If you're on BGG, send me a GM (TamiWhitsett) with what you think it is, and I can help you with spelling.

NOTE: I'll only correct spelling if you are correct with what you have, pronounciation-wise.

Ugh. I got the answer very quickly, but had no idea (especially how to spell it). If it wasn't for some of the salt earlier, I'd still have no idea. Sorry, but the answer to this was way obscure. I guess I'm just not well read enough for this sort of puzzle. Luckily, there wasn't much to walk through to solve it.

Salt helped... it's annoying that this puzzle doesn't work very well if you have an East Coast (US) accent, apart from New England. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Cot-caught_merger.png

I can't believe it was only one point. Not that I am being greedy or anything, but I don't remember a puzzle ever being less than two points before. Obviously excluding the ZeFrank puzzles.

For those of us who still live in the stone ages... can someone please clarify the pronunciation of "wii"?

Is it "we" or "why"?

we

Pronounced "We" as in "We the people"

Thanks TWhitsett!

[17] was the right salt for me, with a look up on the web.

I much prefer answers in english, but at least this answer accurately described my feelings for it.

Gah. I'm bored with this one already.

It took you 2 minutes and 59 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 134th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

[38] dajagr-- you beat me to the punch(line).

Point of clarification:

This IS an English word... with a foreign origin. Just like you'd say "rodeo" is an English word with a Spanish origin. You DON'T need to know any language other than English to get this.

Wow. I got this one without salt. But only one Tanga Point? Seems unhappy.

Thank goodness my wife speaks french.

[40] thanks, maluba... I thought it was, but was too lazy tonight to verify.

"It took you 5 seconds to solve this puzzle."

Had my solvin' shoes on tonight!

And note that you don't need a translation (like I originally thought). The word you get is the word you get... It seems to be a bit of a crap shoot whether you've come across it before.

Got it without looking here, but couldn't spell it. Fortunately, I knew the first two letters, and the last as well as how long it was. crossword solver to the rescue.

I love this word! People should use it a lot more.

Finally got it. I've seen this word for years, but never pronounced it right. It certainly is English, but hard to look up if you've never actually heard it before.

OH MY GOD.

that was the WORST puzzle ever.

and yes, it is english. I'm pretty sure that it's never spelled like that in French anyway... in all of the conjugations I can think of it always has an "e" at the end.

[17] I must have read that 3 or 4 times before I got it. >.<

I can hear the word in my head, but just couldn't spell it.

this is killing me, i can't for the life of me think of the answer.

Got it. Thanks to [17] and BGG. I have, however, never heard that word before. Not much of a puzzle really. Either you know the word, or you don't. Rhebus' are not really my cup of tea.

Everyone who has not "heard" of this word before needs to stop net-surfing and start reading.

Sorry to get snobby on y'all, but America looks dumb enough as it is.

[38] was the salt for me. can't believe i didn't get it immediately.

It took you 4 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 249th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Very easy puzzle, but I will admit was probably a lot easier for me because I do a lot of crosswords. I was hoping for one that would need a little more work, now I'll go back to the "in you I" that is life at 12:49 CST.

I will say that I agree with [53] to an extent, but Trojan did use the word "y'all." Which I'm sure was for effect. :-D

Add another to the the group that's never come accross the word before. Don't kill yourself overthinking this one. If you know the word, it's straight forward and trivial. If putting the two images together doesn't do it for you, start googling phonetic spellings until you get a French page.

Boo!
For those (like me) who haven't seen the word before:

Word History: Were they alive today, users of Classical Latin might be surprised to find that centuries later a phrase of theirs still survives, although as a single word. The phrase mihi in odiō est (literally translated as "to me in a condition of dislike or hatred is"), meaning "I hate or dislike," gave rise to the Vulgar Latin verb *inodiāre, "to make odious," the source of the Old French verb ennuyer or anoier, "to annoy, bore." This was borrowed into English by around 1275 as anoien, our annoy. From the Old French verb a noun meaning "worry, boredom" was derived, which became xxxxx in modern French. This noun, with the sense "boredom," was borrowed into English in the 18th century, perhaps filling a need in polite, cultivated society.

ugh silly me, thinking the wrong thing about the left picture at first. doesnt help that ive never used this word in my life...or know french :(

[57] did it for me, definately

this is pretty bad. I would have never gotten it without all the salt

Same here [58]. I can't believe how annoying this puzzle was.

1 point?!?!?!?!?! I can't believe this!

Funny puzzle!

Too fast though ... took me 20 seconds ... now I'm bored.

[61] It's probably only one point because it's just a rebus. No actual puzzle to solve, unfortunately.

[17] [62] Great comments! More amusing than the puzzle... (though I appreciate the authors effort (?))

Worst puzzle ever.

That was not the worst puzzle ever. That's not fair at all.

It was easy. I could have nailed it in about ten seconds, if I had remembered how to spell the word. Instead it took me 30 seconds, because I misspelled the dang word three times.

Easy does not necessarily mean bad. Neither does hard mean bad. Bad puzzles have mistakes, or sloppy assembly, or massive unintentional red herrings. This had none of that. It was just really easy.

"It also helps to say them out loud."

I guess it also helps to have any idea at all what the one on the right is. On second thought, after reading the comments here, knowing what it is is just a distraction.

I had it in a matter of seconds, but I was not familiar with the word so of course I didn't know how to spell it. With a little salt (thanks [17] maluba) and a little help from one of my favorite web sites, I was able to get it. And by the way, I know I've been out of school a long time and I don't have kids, but I am an English major and I went to one of the best school systems at the time (late 70's early 80's and I have never heard of the word.)

[25] vaevictus (Joined Dec 13 2006, 64 posts)

Somewhere in Europe, someone with a lisp is calling Henry.

That was my first guess! :)

I don't necessarily think it was a bad puzzle. I was trying to figure out if my first hunch (after Henry that is) was correct, which it was, but I had no idea how to verify it until I got some salt from here. I am not so internet savvy and Trojan I DO read...a lot! It's an obscure word that you (or at least I) don't come across every day. Having said all this...

I live in Northern Virginia, and like the people in upstate New York (only not nearly as bad!), I am really getting BORED and APATHETIC with all this snow and ice we are getting. It reminds me of my sophmore year in high school (1979) here in Northern Virginia!

Too easy!

BAD PUZZLE. word is obscure. tanga puzzles, the answers need to be simple but the process needs to be clever.