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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 try to stump you with this puzzle that was published on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:00 PM
Wants to stump you with this puzzle:
How to play: Put pictures together to form a word or phrase.
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: Crossword puzzles with a multimedia twist!
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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45 Comments
QurqirishDragon
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:05 PM |
Nice one! I found one wrong way first, and still got 4th for the right way.
heatherlouwho
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:16 PM |
Ummm?
pgoracke
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:20 PM |
Don't know how many dead ends there are to this puzzle, but glad I only had to climb one of them.
Hope2002
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:18 PM |
I have run into a whole bunch of dead ends.
jewelia
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:18 PM |
Clever!
scoutmom
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:20 PM |
Too clever by half, I think!
Hope2002
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:22 PM |
Nothing directs you to the answer. You kind of have to stumble onto it. Not a clue, just an observation. Ignore almost everything you see.
blahmcblah
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:23 PM |
[7] Agreed. Sorry, I don't enjoy running around in circles for no good reason. I would've solved this faster if it were listed as an Easy OWW.
dajagr
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:24 PM |
[7] [8] Me, too. I wouldn't have gotten the answer without [7], probably. There was a whole school of herrings in this one, enough that they sort of obscured the puzzle.
willco
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:25 PM |
uch
suigeneris
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:26 PM |
Whuh?!? luck guess!
Bobcat
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:27 PM |
AHA! That is a *sneaky* one.
Crap.. now I've got the song stuck in my head.
BladeMasterTX
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:28 PM |
*edited* After the previous comment, mine made this too easy ;)
heatherlouwho
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:27 PM |
75th! After 27 minutes! This is a HARD one to get!
heatherlouwho
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:28 PM |
[13] OOOH! Good reference!
Thosw
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:29 PM |
Guessed in 1:10. Helped that it was my major in college when I started.
blahmcblah
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:29 PM |
A deer! A female deer!
steph_frolin
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:31 PM |
[17] Try to relax with some jam and bread and a warm cup of...Am I giving too much away?
threehojos
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:32 PM |
Very nice steph!
dagibbs
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:35 PM |
Got it from the salt, no idea at all how to get to the solution from the puzzle. (Though I did find the obvious red herring.)
blahmcblah
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:42 PM |
[8] I should note that the fact that this was classified as a hard is of course no fault at all of the puzzle creator, and is the responsibility of Tanga management. If it had been published as Easy, I wouldn't have looked for a complicated, multi-step answer, and just tried to find the obvious. Just sayin'. Overall a fine puzzle.
BigSlick
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:42 PM |
100th! Yeah! 1 extra point! Woo Hoo! Should have been quicker, but there's this odd thing happening to the moon right now that drew my attention. I think it has something to do with aliens. Not sure though; I could be wrong.
Skittlebrau
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:46 PM |
made easier by my wife the Music major....
blahmcblah
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:46 PM |
[22] I waited till after I finished all the puzzles to go look at the eclipse, though I was sorely tempted :)
dajagr
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:49 PM |
[21] Hm. I respectfully disagree. Although I understand the solution mechanism of the puzzle, I noticed it early on and dismissed it as cleverness or artistry rather than the solution, because there was nothing obvious pointing that out as the solution. Ideally, when you get the solution, it should be clear that you've got it and not just something that's part of the theme. (I did try a couple of more exact terms for the answer as per the mechanism, when I got desperate, but they failed to go through.) Which isn't to say that the puzzle was particularly bad, necessarily, but that...well, too many red herrings can go beyond mere distraction into actively preventing you from being able to see the answer.
cmg528
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:57 PM |
You are a freaking genius!!, you solved this puzzle.
You solved this puzzle in 14 minutes and 25 seconds and were the 116th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 10 points for solving this.
still not seeing how the answer fits :o(
the answer popped into my head,just don't know why
Philana
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 08:03 PM |
There was way too much extraneous stuff in this puzzle.
Tahnan
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 08:11 PM |
I'm with [25]. I'm really not sure if there was an actual path to the answer; I just sort of free-associated from an observation, which isn't a path.
jeep
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 08:31 PM |
Wow, there are a LOT of red herrings in here... I almost wish the salt from 13 was still around. ;)
wmshub
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 09:31 PM |
Crazy puzzle!
Once you see the info you need, it becomes incredibly easy. If you look at other things...well, you're sunk.
dingo262
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 09:56 PM |
Hmmm - was too focussed on the actual term rather than what it represented.
Bobcat
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 02:10 AM |
For those who get the solution via salt or wild guessing... the information *is* there... you're just looking too hard in the wrong places.
runart
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 05:30 AM |
(24), for once in Syracuse we had a clear night to see the eclipse. Fortunately I don't Tanga until the morning. It was SO beautiful with Saturn and Regulus forming a triangle with the amber moon.
jewelia
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 06:32 AM |
[25] and [27] I might agree--IF we hadn't been clearly warned by the puzzle's artful, clever title to beware of "extraneous stuff." Perhaps I just enjoy fishing, but I liked this one!
trevelyan
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 07:45 AM |
im lost
hokie98
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 07:54 AM |
Success! You solved this puzzle in 4 minutes and 41 seconds and were the 200th Tanga member to solve it. Took me a little bit... did run down a couple red herrings in the process, it was a tough climb, but a lucky guess for me did it!
trevelyan
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 08:30 AM |
still cant get it
yelowflower
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 09:38 AM |
three minutes and a guess later, I'm a genius...can't solve the EASY one, but this one fell right in.
shugyosha
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 10:56 AM |
[28] I did the same thing. Is there a formal way to solve it or are we actually supposed to get it via that song?
The_Professor
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:00 AM |
Trying to navigate through this one, I actually had "lamioalafasoa" written down at some point.
Twench
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 01:21 PM |
[39] TG you
Mensa
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 02:59 PM |
There are more red herrings in the comments than in the puzzle, but 39 was the one that led me to the answer - thanks
softball80
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 03:25 PM |
You solved this puzzle in 2 minutes and 6 seconds and were the 250th Tanga member to solve it.
dagibbs
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 04:45 PM |
Ah, now I see where the answer could be found.
joginsberg
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 05:52 PM |
This was a weird wonder. 17 was most useful. But who is Dr. Herring? Ohhhhhhhh! NOW I get it. Pretty fishy...
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