One Word Wonder

And now the wait begins... :) (not salt)

bcdghjkpqvwz?

Bless you.

There is no I in team.

Also, I can't get "When I'm 64" out of my head.

Frame, Ray, Male
One, Sixty-Four
Ring, Team, Nine

Now what?

and "One is the Loneliest Number"

Trying leftmost stuff but nothing thus far

[2] ahecht
"bcdghjkpquvwz?" I got
"bcdghjkpqvxz?"

I've got "bcdhjkpqvwz"

[5] #2 could also be a manta, no?

1, 9 and 64 also have something else in common, but I'm not sure it's intentional.

//

"There is no I in team."

There's also no crying in baseball. What's your point? :u)

Yeah, but for the sneezers (me included) some of the words are redundant to get the list of letters....

[10] I have it as a sting ray...

I had to go look at Google images to figure out the ray; the matching one is labeled as a manta ray.

[12] ambiguity is tough when there's no discernable theme

# It took you 11 minutes and 14 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 1st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

I should have recognized the "1" sooner -- the others
are more general.

[10] It's a ray.

Nice puzzle!

"what's left"?
FRMOSFRTN
...
Frame and Ring

[15] Does the one belong to a specific player?

[15] Is there a second step? I've got something, but can't seem to do anything with it.

[17] Nope.

[17] It's not a "who", it's a "what".

Also, this puzzle isn't like yesterday's.

Argh, agh, I've recognized the one and things fell into place from there, but I'm stuck on one last bit. Gah!

Got it! Clever puzzle.

[18] i think i'm in the same place you are. i have a phrase, not sure what it means though

# It took you 26 minutes and 55 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 3rd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Whew! That one hurt. To save someone else a possible brain injury, let me just say that you'll have to answer that question twice on your way to the final answer.

[18] I think most folks have got a pretty good idea
of what the pictures are -- next step is to figure
out the common element.

The question at the bottom is helpful in two separate
steps.

It took you 9 minutes and 22 seconds to solve this puzzle.
* You were the 5th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
* Average solve time: 15 minutes and 0 seconds.
* Median solve time: 11 minutes and 14 seconds.
* 7.042% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

Clever.

Ninth. I liked this one!

* It took you 3 minutes and 32 seconds to solve this puzzle.
* You were the 8th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
* Average solve time: 13 minutes and 19 seconds.
* Median solve time: 11 minutes and 41 seconds.
* 11.268% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

GROAN!!!!

[24] That got it for me, thanks!

got it now. the others were right about using the clue twice. what they left out is that you use the clue differently the 2nd time.

It took you 27 minutes and 36 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 14th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

I fell for that one. Total salt solve Thanks BGG.

BTW, I also recognized the "1" immediately; for me, it was the key to the unifying theme of the clues. (I got a little stuck on a later step, though.)

For anyone who's stuck: Stare at the "1" and try to figure out where you've seen it before. It can be rare, but I like it that way.

[27]...my thoughts exactly! Nice one, though.

I believe that makes 10. I'll go ahead and answer now.

To those who've solved, thanks for the clever comments. To those who are stuck, things are pretty clear over at BGG. I could say that, if you're stuck, you're closer than you think... but that would only be amusing to those who have already solved. :)

Wow the floodgates opened after [30]. I was 52nd.

Nice one!

I was confused, bewildered, puzzled, AND frustrated.... and then I got it!

I know the 1 and the 64, but nothing else is making sense...

Is it a 3-2-3 format (like three words) or is it just 8 letters?

[31] - I could have stared at that "1" forever and not figured out what it referred to.

I'm amazed that a few people were able to key into that and solve this one. Well done solvers! I guess it was a good puzzle if you had the right sauce, but it needed a bit too much salt for my taste.

Nice. I was lazy and read the salt first. But I would not have gotten the 1. Been a looong time since I have used that stuff. Still, it's a good puzzle!

# It took you 13 minutes and 41 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 171st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

I wouldn't have gotten this without the salt on BGG. In fact I wouldn't even call that salt over there, it's more like the entire meal, condiments and all.

I was totally going in the wrong direction with this puzzle and would never had made the aha leap needed to solve it without the BGG salt.

[36] The 3-2-3 is intentional.

As to the importance of "1", it's a helpful nudge if you recognize it. However, the puzzle could have been presented in plain text as follows:

Start with mundane's comment in [5].
- change the numbers from words to numerals
- change one word to a homophone
- change "Now what?" back to "What's left?"

[40] still doesn't help me.

Step 1
Frame, Ray, Male
One, Sixty-Four
Ring, Team, Nine

Now what?

Step 2
Frame, Ray, Male
1, 64
Ring, Team, 9

Now what?

Step 3
Frame, Ray, Mail
1, 64
Ring, Team, 9

Now what?

Step 4
Frame, Ray, Mail
1, 64
Ring, Team, 9

What's left?

Am I missing something?

What you have after Step 4 is exactly what I was going for. You've got all the pieces. Now you just need to answer the question. (Actually, you'll need to answer it a number of times and, possibly, in a few different ways.)

Step 4 is:- What is the letter missing TO the left of the words you got in step 3.

What the hell is N-64?