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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).
TangaAl – Solves:
256
nocca – Solves:
293
jebediehard – Solves:
251
ethnosax – Solves:
289
nocca – Solves:
181
gameczar – Solves:
166
gameczar – Solves:
273
gameczar – Solves:
196
gameczar – Solves:
213
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Is there any anagramming involved?
easy!!!
[1] No. That took me way too long after I figured out the solve method. My math wasn't very good ...
[1] nope....pretty straightforward.
oh! i got it! haha, awesome puzzle! :D
[1] nope!
This needed better Examples; the solution requires doing things not demonstrated in the Examples. Surprised this made it through moderation as is.
cool. i like it.
very, very clever gameczar!
[6] Not really sure what you mean. Everything needed to figure out the solution appears in the examples. You just have to be careful and not skip.
[9] No, it doesn't. You have to do something that is not indicated by any of the Examples...specifically in Problems 1 & 4. It's logical, and fairly obvious, but not supported by the Examples.
It would have been trivial to redo one of the Examples to cover this...
[10] Wouldn't the single question marks make the intent clear?
[10] I agree with you.
[10], [12] I agree too, although it was easy enough to see that it wouldn't work out the other way
Yes, there is a rule applied in the actual puzzle that isn't given in the examples. I didn't apply it the first time, and had to redo things.
Nifty puzzle!
I must respectfully disagree with [10], [12] and [14]. I get the point that the examples could have clarified the issue, but I see this as a case of the puzzle maker leaving something for the solvers to sort out on their own. Isn't that why we're here? As [13] (and even [10]) point out, it's a simple matter to solve the ambiguity.
[15] The puzzle moderators typically catch and make constructors remove all ambiguities. I was surprised that wasn't done with this puzzle, nor with tonight's cryptopix (whose answer could have been the idiom or a book title and thus would have had a different spelling of the answer).
In both cases, the ambiguity could have been eliminated quite easily. This puzzle could have had an appropriate example. And the cryptopix could have had some indication (musical notes, perhaps) to indicate a song title.
[16] Occasionally stuff does slip by us. I didn't even notice the ambiguity when I nominated this puzzle, to be honest... in my mind, it worked just like it was supposed to, and I didn't see the possibility to interpret it another way until it was pointed out here.
As for the Cryptopix, I nominated that puzzle with a different answer, and it later got published with a change. Things like that occur every once in a while.
The moderation system isn't perfect, but I still think it does do a pretty good job of bubbling the best stuff to the top.
[11] Note that only one example reduces to a single letter
It's a minor flaw, but at least it didn't keep me spinning uselessly for hours, so I forgive it. In a harder puzzle, I'd be annoyed.
I thought the examples TOTALLY clarified what to do. I agree that leaving the rest up to the solver gives us an interesting puzzle to solve. However the maker made sure that we understood what to do three different ways.
[17] As the author I too didn't notice the ambiguity. I chose the examples to help in the solve without giving away the farm. I guess example 3 could have been: three minus eight = *.
*Answer omitted due to high sodium content.