hrs mins secs
$16.99
$39.99 Retail
One Word Wonders are word puzzles where the answer is exactly one word. Decipher the image below to come up with the answer. For a better idea on how to solve this puzzle view an example. If you get stuck you can ask for help in the comments section. Hints are posted 24 hours after puzzle's publish date (if provided by author).
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Anyone have any salt for this?
I'm stuck too. I was certain it was "silo", but alas it wasn't.
$(mn+m-n-1)??? lol
Usually these would be Matrix components but I don't know what that has to do with the dollar sign or baseball
Ok, I'm off in the weeds on this one.
The symbol is also used for "peso", so that gets me pesolo, or "pay so low", which seems to connect back to the money thing. I'm sure I'm so far off the track now that it's ridiculous.
Heck, I was even thinking that the $ might have something to do with spreadsheet cell references or PHP programming. LOL I think I need to step away for a while.
I've tried applying it to baseball terms and statistics, but haven't found anything.
And it's not one of the San Luis Obispo teams-college or semi-professional.
Doesn't seem to have anything to do with Roger Clemens, either.
i hope the background isn't a red herring..
After the fractal one, this may have nothing to do with baseball.
[9] ditto!!
is this one just mn?
Not as in manganese or minnesota...
still 1 solve...
Personally, I think sawbuck ($l0) would be a great answer...ignoring the background...
m-1 = l
n+1 = o
[15] or 12 and 15
could the $ be a string variable?
yea i was thinking it was slow beacuse $LO is close to slow... still nothing
Tried that and everything close to it. Tried going the easy route. I must not be trying easy enough.
nevermind
Dang, I thought I had it. :)
In ASCII:
$ = 36
m = 109
n = 110
So we've got:
36(109-1)(110+1)
which is:
431568
Counting those letters into the alphabet yields:
DCAEFH
which anagrams to:
CHAFED
which is exactly how I'm felling about this puzzle at this point. :)
this is probably full of salt but noone has solved it so here goes:
$ (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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$ is the dollar sign, is primarily used to represent currencies.
$ may also refer to:
$ (film), also known as Dollars
, the Cifrão
$ may also be used for:
Peso
Brazilian real, the Brazilian real
Nicaraguan córdoba
Tongan pa'anga
Cape Verdean escudo
Portuguese escudo (defunct)
On some computer operating system such as RSTS/E and VS/9, a dollar sign prefixed to a file name indicates a file located in the System Manager's library.
$, a sigil in computer programming
[20] No one knows what is salty right now. Doesn't seem to be.
"workerbee
wants to try to stump you with this puzzle that was published about 9 hours ago"
well he is doing a damn good job....
anyone know anything that costs $1215 or $180??
[25] Huh. I even went so far as to try "straight" (180 degrees--straight angle) and "magnacarta" (signed in 1215) off of that. Still nope. :)
180 could be a double...90 feet between bases.
ok time for lunch break - hopefully it will come to me with some food...
I think my brain is melting
$(LxO)?
I've tried using the $ as a 4 and the ( as a 9, etc, but can't get anywhere.
[27] ...also 180 degrees from home plate... you must be on to something. :)
Taking that dollar sign into account, who's on the "double dollar bill"... none other than - Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd president... and who's on 3rd?
I DON'T KNOW
(which is the current answer to the puzzle)
I tried the typical
$=4=D
(=9=I
M OR m-1=L
)=0=NOTHING; IGNORE
(=9=D
N OR N+1=0
)=0=NOTHING; IGNORE
=DIMDN
OR
close to Diamond, but no jewels here
Omigod, I just solved it! Something that [27] said led me to try some random quesses, and one of them was right.
Edit: Sorry, my mistake. It was something in [32], not [27].
I've been going about this all wrong. The background is suppose to tell us that there are 3 bases (we don't count "home" as it's a "plate")... we need to convert everything to tertiary/base 3... :)
[34] So, you've seen the solution then. From "the other side", does it make sense?
[34] So, salt? :)
someone got it!
please help!
Something I said? I tried a bunch of baseball terms...
Yes, it does make sense. And the background isn't completely irrelevant.
My initial thought on how to interpret (m-1) and (n+1) was correct. And, as I meant to say earlier, something in [32] sent me in the right direction.
It isn't a baseball term.
What was your initial thought?
Yay, I got it too!
[41] see [2]
[41] See my comment in [2].
Something with lo?
[45] Yes.
can i get a TG with a bit more in depth?
Awesome! How many words can possibly end with "lo"?
[48] It might help to say the letters out loud.
List all words ending with lo
71 words found.
Wow. That was just a guess for me. Makes sense after, but hard to get to.
[50] Does that include proper nouns :(
[48] It's not a word you'll find in a dictionary.
Seriously, telling you to read the [32] comment is intended to be really helpful. What is spamwise talking about?
You are a freaking genius!! You solved this puzzle.
You solved this puzzle in 1 hour, 1 minute and 34 seconds and were the 4th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 3 points for solving this.
Wow...
He he, I like it!
That works, but most won't associate the sign with what it is being used for. It's not really what it means, so you have to get that out of your head.
Sure, everyone likes it on 'this' side of the puzzle...
You are a freaking genius!! You solved this puzzle.
You solved this puzzle in 21 minutes and 52 seconds and were the 15th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 3 points for solving this.
Thank you [53]
OMG!
[53] You're right! Thanks to you and [49] I got it!
You are a freaking genius!! You solved this puzzle.
You solved this puzzle in 1 hour, 39 minutes and 27 seconds and were the 17th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 3 points for solving this.
bahh thanks for killing all of my brain cells....
Still not seeing it. What does $LO have to do with anything?
$50 bill has U.S. Grant on it. Does that have anything to do with it?
[62] Keep the "LO" an figure out a word for "$".
And lol at the unintentional salt in [32]. But I suspect that's how a LOT of these Unfeatured puzzles are gonna be solved... by accident.
[63] No.
You know, they give a lot of these OWW funny names, pet names, nicknames...
Who would have thought?
What are the odds?
Why was my tangential rambling [32] salt?
Because it sparked someone else's thinking.
Tomorrow there will be hints.
Today, you're on your own.
I don't know what else to say, but frankly, my dear...
Another UGH!
Two thoughts:
(1) No offense to the authors, but I can see why some of these are "unfeatured".
(2) There needs to be a distinct between "easy" and "hard" amongst these "unfeatured" puzzles.
brain hurt :-(
$10 bill is also known as a sawbuck...
oh for the days of collaboration on BGG
[67] Yeah...
1) It kinda makes sense. I mean, for better or for worse, Featured/Unfeatured is a value judgement, right? I thinking that "YouTube for Puzzles" metaphor might be spot on :)
And I'm torn. I think, in the long run, I'd rather have a bunch of these show up somewhere, rather than vanish into the ether. Partly because users spent time on them, but also because getting response here - especially negative response (regardless of how painful it may be) - is one of the ways you learn what may or may not "work," right?
Also, one man's trash is blah blah blah...
2) Hmm... that could be tricky based on how "elegant" the puzzle is in the first place, though it'd certainly be simple to err on the side of caution and just label most of them Hard. I think I'd rather see the Easy/Hard distinction removed in this section.
What I WOULD like to see, though, is the ability to self-label a OWW Easy/Hard when *submitting* a puzzle.
[67] [70]
Perhaps the designation easy/hard might also be evaluated/set by the moderation team...
Two down, and this one to go...
Pb, get it yet?
Well I ttied all the money terms I could think of but thats not it. There are three ideas in [32] Try them all
34th. but only with the salt. It was a bit pricey timewise.
34th. but only with the salt. It was a bit pricey timewise.
[66] lol. I'm so tempted to complete your last sentence. And give the next line, too. :)
Your [32] comment was crazy funny, as well.
OMG! I got it with considerable salt (Thanks, Pb!). Wayyyyyy too obscure/hard/strange.
That was great comedy :)
Still clueless.... even with all the salt in [64] and all the other help, still no idea.
Groan. The formula appearance is a red herring. It might help to know that each parenthetical is a syllable.
I did not like this one...the $ does not equate to me with that term - so a random guess or hints or just plain luck - no skill needed.
I have never made a puzzle, not sure I could do this good, so this is not a slam, just an observation.
[81] I agree with you. The $ only made sense to me after I solved it.
[77] Send some salt my way!