May 16, 2007 One Word Wonder Puzzle

It took you 5 minutes and 34 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 2nd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Who beat me?! Why I oughtta... :-)

Almost straightforward. About three small twists.

# It took you 5 minutes and 15 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 1st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Bwah! They don't seem to be in quite the right order, unless I missed something.

I get all the ideas except the NYSE ones and can't figure out how the awnser for 9 could ever be tied to anything

Don't forget to read the captions!

theres no caption for 5 and 8 :(

I got all the abbreviations (I'm not sure what the clue on 7 means though), but I still got nothing. I see words, but don't know what to do with them.

Is #7 backwards?

EDIT: pay no mind to one who ought to know which way that state faces.

[2] You did miss something. They are in a specific order. Though I suppose you can rearrange a certain way to get the same effect.

Does #7 have anything to do with "I hate snakes" ?

It took you 20 minutes and 39 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 5th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
Average solve time: 9 minutes and 55 seconds.
Median solve time: 8 minutes and 8 seconds.
8.197% of Tanga members that have attempted this puzzle have solved it.

Argh, it took me more than 20 minutes and I still made 5th?!?!

Michael

I got all of them except 9 but still can't make sense of it.

Yeah, I got 6th, agree, clues are in a different order, I see no clue to their ordering, but the answer is visible...

# It took you 6 minutes and 44 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 7th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

I solved it using 1, 2, 6, 7, but I don't really know how the other clues fit in ... I'll try backsolving it.

* It took you 27 minutes and 39 seconds to solve this puzzle.
* You were the 9th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

The first seven clues make sense... but not sure how 8 and 9 fit in...

# It took you 26 minutes and 14 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 10th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

First Tanga puzzle in over a month, pretty psyched to crack top ten. The clues aren't in the wrong order, in case people were wondering.

I'm frustrated. I've got the sentence but can't figure out the word

[9] Yup.

[12] Yes, that does make the clues fit together... but I would have thought there should be some hint about that... maybe I just missed it.

Got all the clues, know they're right, and putting them in numerical order isn't making a damned bit of sense.

Unless I'm missing something, number 8 is incorrect. The stock symbol for AT&T is "T" not "AT" (but the solution seems to require it to be "AT").

(19) you're not missing anything important (keep an "A" on the "T")-- the order in the puzzle is not the order you need for the clue.

(11) think back to high school math class

It took you 42 minutes and 14 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 25th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

I got the answer and I still don't get the Indiana one

# It took you 14 minutes and 39 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 13th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

But even after looking at lots of the new salt I have no idea how to get, or how I got, the answer.

Edit

AHA!! I get it now! I even get #7. Not sure how I would rate the puzzle though.

[20] But if there is an A in front of the T, why does it say NYSE?

Shouldn't it be AllTel instead of AT&T?

(19) Number 8 is not incorrect. The solution does not require "AT".

The order the clues are presented is correct as well. If you are familiar with a certain puzzle type, you do not need to rearrange.

[19], [20], [23] - Now that I backsolved it, I'd say that the T is correct for the AT&T ticker symbol. You have to get the A somewhere else.

Good puzzle after all!

The order of the clue answers is a twist to the puzzle. You don't need to re-order them, just read them properly. When you *do* get the answer, this funny ordering confirms it.

It's starting to take shape for me, but I'm not quite getting the caption to #7. How, exactly, was it lost?!

I liked this puzzle pretty well - it was clever, and sometimes frustrating, but definitely doable. And all the clues make sense, and they make sense in the order they're given.

While not incorrect/typo, using AllTel as the clue for #8 would have been a better choice than AT&T for the following reasons:

1) While AT&T's symbol is "T", it is *also* "ATT".
(Not knowing the symbol I went to www.nyse.com and did a search. While "AT&T" didn't come up with anything (no idea why), "ATT" and "T" both bring up "AT&T Inc" when doing a symbol search. Alltel is unique with only the one symbol, so no ambiguity.

2) It reads better with the extra letter (at least in my opinion.)

While grammar is pretty low on what I consider in clues like this, better wording *and* less ambiguity would make an otherwise elegant puzzle that much cleaner.

(PS: The order the clues are given is a major part of the humor and elegance of this puzzle. So don't rearrange them, just interpret them.)

(30) FWIW, the stock symbol for AT&T is 'T'. 'ATT' is the symbol for some debt instruments issued by the company. Similar methodology/reasoning would exclude Alltel because of the symbol ATPR.

Nevermind on the AT&T stuff. Once I got why the order makes sense, I also understand why AT&T is correct (and Alltel isn't). Sorry for the confusion.

OK, in retrospect, I can make sense of the ordering (note: strictly speaking, there's no way to reorder the clues to get anything sensible). I'll admit I'm not particularly fond of the way one interprets the results one gets, but there you go. (I also think that showing the GE logo, with a big "GE" in it, and asking for the stock symbol, is a little silly; and having to resort to "ascii 80" shows a little desperation.)

This puzzle was good in concept, but having to break up the answers to solve it really is not the best way to finish this. Nice try though.

EDIT: I realize why the author did it this way, considering the answer and the way it is located, but still it is not the smoothest flow and solve of a puzzle on here.

lol... tooke me 3 seconds to solve.

ok.. ok... took me like 30 minutes, but I forgot I wasn't signed in.

Big thanks to my daughter who has more braincells functioning this late than I could ever hope to.

The structure of #9 helped me realize how to read the final clue.

Please help. The phrase means nothing....Arrggghhh!!!

Edit, ok, got it, but sheesh, too many logic leaps. Thanks for the puzzle as always.

Finally put it together. All props. That was really clever.

Everytime I try one of these I feel like a bigger idiot than the last time.

I got the puzzle but I don't understand the ordering of the clues. I just kept playing around until something made sense. But I also see where one of you said don't rearrange them, just interpret them. If I hadn't rearranged them, I'd never come up with the answer.

clever puzzle, i really liked it. I like puzzles that require work and this one met that. good job, Jason

# It took you 11 minutes and 59 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 191st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

I guess the numbering was just a red herring? Why bother putting the numbers there at all?

This puzzle is absolutely awesome. I had to backsolve #7, but a puzzle should be doable without getting EVERY clue, in my opinion.

I got it salt-free in 16 minutes using lots of Wikipedia. :)

The clues are all correct, the order is correct (and quite clever), and the logic leaps are really more like hops.

[42] The numbers are correct. When you see the solve method posted later, it'll hopefully make more sense.

Sometimes you just have to |R|E|A|D|. That's supposed to be mild salt. Not sure how clever it is.

I still couldn't figure out #9, but was able to mash it all together. I really liked #7 - made me laugh.

For #9, think back to trig class. At first, I also thought the clues were out of order. Then I saw the clever twist. Nice puzzle.

I liked the puzzle. The final step was great