One Word Wonder

I really really want this to be one of those magic eye puzzles.

Um, eek?

Ooooh, inspiration dawns....

EDIT: Or not. :/

I was sooooo tempted to say "I guessed the answer, and now I have to backsolve"... but I won't :-)

# It took you 11 minutes and 53 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 1st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Turns out that was inspiration dawning after all. Woo!

Um...wha?

# It took you 14 minutes and 47 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 2nd Tanga member to solve this puzzle

I would of had it faster but for a few false starts

OK, got the homophone...now what?

[8] I'm with you.

I don't even know what a homophone is--even after looking it up in the dictionary... LOL.

[9] Same.

Finished third.

I enjoyed this one. :)

How about some salt.

It took you 27 minutes and 59 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 4th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive"

Do any of our finishers have any helpful salt to add to this dish?

It took you 5 minutes and 9 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 5th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
Average solve time: 17 minutes and 31 seconds.
Median solve time: 14 minutes and 47 seconds.
6.098% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

Shoot! I'll never get here late again.

GAH! I follow the instructions and wind up in an endless loop. Now I feel loopy...

EDIT: Now I am doing the "Roborally Dance" in my chair and still getting dizzy.

[8] has an important clue. It's pretty straightforward from there, at least at first.

I went straight forward off the bottom of the page!

[17] I'm in the same loop!

The plot thickens.

* It took you 26 minutes and 9 seconds to solve this puzzle.
* You were the 8th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
* Average solve time: 19 minutes and 57 seconds.
* Median solve time: 26 minutes and 9 seconds.
* 8.791% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

Well now I see why ther is very little salt. Hard to come up with much more than is here.

The grid is not a simple gradient field.

Does that help?

[22] Someone could hint at how to get the homophone...

before = b4

10th!
Very important homophone...

[23] No.

Read the clue, princessproton. Out loud.

It took you 46 minutes and 48 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 12th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Hmm... you'll probably either have to print this one out or use Paint or something to solve it. At least I did.

[27] If it was a simple gradient, all the arrows would
be straight. Since they are not straight...

Ooh! A sailboat!

[23] Are you saying the grid is Euclidean?

[28] Thx....it's one of those brain-fried days over here...

[31] Its not a sailboat, its a schooner.

[32] I'm not sure if it is Euclidean, actually. In a
simple gradient, each grid element is a simple vector.
This grid contains elements that are composed of more
than one vector. You need to decide what to do with
the extra information.

Sorry for not being here sooner with salt, but life intervened.

For those that are stuck (and got the homophone), make sure that you know not only where you are going, but where you are coming from. Not everything applies to you. Paying attention to what makes the starting point different might help.

For those that didn't get the homophone, I'll give you a hint: "homophone" means "pun."

Got it. Nice one! [2] was my initial reaction too (or something like it).

That was a lot of wasted space.

35th in 34 minutes

(Thanks mundane. I wouldn't ever have gotten the starting square without your push.)

Got it without hints. This must of been a b**** to create.

[36] took a while to make sense to me. Perhaps "go until you're caught" might make sense to someone.

[39] I made this puzzle while trying to teach myself how to write photoshop macros, so after I planned out the puzzle, the image generation was automatic.

[41] ahecht, that was the salt I needed. Thanks. I'm still stuck as to how to get that last leg of the last letter though, but got more than enough to guess. Neat!

Got it thanks to BGG. This would have been difficult even if the title was "Start in square B4!"

Very difficult to see how things line up. Good concept but visually challenging (especially at my age!)

Next time I won't skim through the clue- I will read the whole thing!

At first I thought this looks like no fun. Even with the start in B4 I thought I would have to cut and paste. It only needs a pencil! It was fun although I got lost along the way twice. Whats the bottom half make? I can't see any way to get to L1 and L2 but what the heck. I still got the answer

I like the presentation =) It took a little bgg salt to get me to see past my first misconception, but then it all lined up.

Holy Moly! I about had a heart attack when I first saw this one, but after I settled down and printed it out I got it, with a time of 16 minutes 24 seconds.

That was pretty innovative. Bravo!

I got the homophone easy enough, but I failed to see the connection with what [36] ahecht was saying.

I was trying to go square by square and it just wasn't working. A hint (more of a starting guideline really) over on BGG was what got me actually going in the "write" direction [I know, bad pun].

Even then I had to be careful with my pencil. I still had to erase a couple of times.

Good puzzle. I liked the methodology a lot. Very clever.

[45] L1 and L2 were sort of an easter egg, and not really part of the solution.

[49] When I had people test solved, I handed them a print-out and a pencil. I didn't realize how much paint would obscure things.

Use paint, but instead of using a pencil, fill each cell with a color. I used the light cyan color.

I'm pretty sure I know what to do, but I don't have a working printer. )=

Edit: BGG was overly salty, so I guess I'll take my 3 pts and go home & wait until tonight/tomorrow to see it sketched out.

This puzzle makes me want to play Ace of Aces.

"For those that didn't get the homophone, I'll give you a hint: "homophone" means "pun.""

Actually, that's not what it means at all:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophone

I like this puzzle.
Put the image in Paint, the flood fill the grid with white. Now watch it dance!
Obviously, this isn't the way to solve it, but it's stil fun.

[55] fitzal77
Hmmm when I do that and squint I can almost see a chrysanthemum -or is it a rose - or a cartoon face...
must drink more...

[54] Well, technically no, but it's close enough. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings, while puns are figures of speech that use homonyms.

Had to peek at the solution....just too hard on these old eyes