One Word Wonder

is that a hurdy gurdy?
edit:
hmmm no I don't think so...

I think it's a cotton gin

Any idea what that cross thing is supposed to be?

I see a couple of gins, but that doesn't help yet.

# It took you 1 minute and 2 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 2nd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
# Average solve time: 45 seconds.
# Median solve time: 1 minute and 2 seconds.

Took a guess based on the top line, which was the only one I figured out all the way. Some of these are not what you think they are.

Cute puzzle, by the way.

Edit: Backsolved the bottom line. Not sure of the intent, but I think the top and bottom lines should be reversed.

Tell me this isn't a drink recipe...

[6]

"Can you make a bullshot?"
"Can you make a shoe smell?"

Edit: Not salt.

# You were the 9th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
# Average solve time: 58 seconds.
# Median solve time: 45 seconds.

[5] I agree. Answer obvious from the clues, but not technically correct as written.

* It took you 6 minutes and 36 seconds to solve this puzzle.
* You were the 14th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
* Average solve time: 2 minutes and 21 seconds.
* Median solve time: 1 minute and 9 seconds.
* 26.923% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

Yup, technically incorrect, but solution is obvious once solved.

[3] It's a cross thing

[5] I just think the two middle pictures should be exchanged. But it still made sense the way it was. Other than that one small change It was a good puzzle.

Haaaa. Very cute puzzle.

[7] I could really go for a brain hemorrhage right about now. Oh wait, I seem to have that covered.

Edit: Got it. I'm ashamed that I just got home from an entire day of relevant classes and it still took me this long...

I'm not getting it.

[13] The bottom left image is of an ox. That might help you.

[14] That did it. Thanks for rescuing me!

[14] Thanks, that did it for me.

Ugh. The puzzle doesn't work unless you exchange the middle two images.

Just got it. Once I figured out what the Ostrich was doing it was obvious.

"... but solution is obvious once solved."

Hmm-hmm

THAT was helpful!

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"Ox" did it for me too! Thanks!

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(Sure does look like a bull though)

Wow! I just learned that
"An ox is nothing more than a mature bovine with an 'education', "

Cool
I guess it was one smart bull!

What is that crazy bird doing with his head?

After I solved this I couldn't figure out how the last picture fit into the puzzle. I then figured out that I solved it incorrectly. I had the wrong word for the middle right picture. If you change the last picture to the letter "D" and solve incorrectly like I did, the answer actually makes better sense (in my opinion).

In fact, I probably would have ordered it as follows:

[die] [ostrich] [rower] [cotton gin]
[cubes]
[ox] [eye] [bottle of gin]

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Ox? OX??? Seems like a lot of bull to me!

No way I would have thought "ox" when I was so sure it was a bull. Thanks for the salt!

Checking my high school learnin' I find that I was actually incorrect in my analysis of the puzzle in comment [21] even though it did get me to the correct answer.

eh, read it from bottom to top. Somedays, I wonder why I bother getting out of bed... Regardless, I've sent a corrected puzzle to Aaron - hopefully, he'll check his email.

# It took you 2 minutes and 39 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 88th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Yeah! Fast and salt free! I almost NEVER get them this fast - I just happen to be enough of a geek to spot the pattern. Actually, I didn't even solve the whole thing (what is that boxy thing anyway?)

Mmmph. Not a bad concept, but it does become a lot easier to get when you know that that thing isn't a bull. The middle-left image is a little...weird, for what I gather it's supposed to be; and of course, the fact that the whole thing is, you know, upside down doesn't help.

what is up with the first line?

First line is three parts that when said together quickly, make up one word.

ostrich kayac cotton gin
Cubes Dice
Ox Eye Gin

how am I?

any salt please....

last line is good, think a little more abstractly for the top and simpler for the middle.

i get the last line and probably the middle line but the first line is killin me

It took you 12 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 144th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

I don't think any idea has ever gotten into my head that fast. If I hadn't gone to that Little League game.

> 1 minute and 27 seconds

Woo! Of course, now I have to go buy some Bombay Sapphire. Thanks a lot, Tanga.

woo hoo! two puzzles in a row!... took me a while though;

It took you 50 minutes and 29 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 213th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

edit: some misleading salt @ bgg

Middle row salt:

Don't think so much about what the pictures are of as much as what they're showing you.

I got the solution after reading the salt here. The trick is figuring out what the pictures are showing you. In some cases, the clue is not literally what is pictured, but rather the idea behind it.

Here's some salt... all the clues are one syllable.

Om my, I finally got it, no idea why it took me so long but I was stuck on the middle and top rows. It so much make sense to me now.

Okay, I've looked at the solution to this one now. Since when is the answer the first thing plus two of the second thing?

[40] i just checked too. It should be the other way around, which I think [26] stated. Ah well.

I loved this puzzle.....4 1/2 years later.