One Word Wonder

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One Word Wonders are puzzles where the answer to the puzzle is exactly one word. For a better idea on how to solve this puzzle see an example

One Word Wonder

henwy

wants to try to stump you with this puzzle that was published on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:00 PM

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steve

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:04 PM |

Woo! 1st! Cute, simple, well done.

soccer_ref

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:08 PM |

huh?

lilpele22

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:08 PM |

huh...?

davey

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:09 PM |

15th! Nice puzzle!

claymandan

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:10 PM |

You solved this puzzle in 1 minute and 57 seconds and were the 17th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 94 points for solving this.

nice that was fun!

soccer_ref

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:11 PM |

salt?

QurqirishDragon

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:11 PM |

Think of a puzzle that might look like this.

2 top 10s today! Yippie!

Murdoctor

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:15 PM |

[6] Just reflect on it for a while.

scoutmom

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:16 PM |

I think my eyes are crossing looking at this one!

Verve640

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:18 PM |

[8] - Merci beaucoup...

QurqirishDragon

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:18 PM |

Imagine the numbers are light sources....

slog

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:20 PM |

Pretty slick. Thanks [8].

gst

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:23 PM |

Nice puzzle.

And way too much salt this early in, IMO.

zyzzva

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:27 PM |

i still dont get it...
wat am i suppose to be looking for?

suigeneris

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:28 PM |

[11] Thanks, just what I needed.

BigSlick

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:35 PM |

[9] It's not one of those kinda puzzles, is it? I am sitting here with my eyes crossed and the puzzle turns all 3D-like, but I don't see an answer in there anywhere - and now I am all dizzy.

BetaPrime

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:39 PM |

If you having problem with this puzzle, maybe you would like to play a game of Khet

lilpele22

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:39 PM |

You solved this puzzle in 31 minutes and 18 seconds and were the 80th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 31 points for solving this.

woow.. i can't believe i figured out a method. This is super fun. [11] that helped a ton... too much in my opinion.

steve

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:39 PM |

[16] No. That would be cruel. No one should ever post a stereogram as a puzzle. They are evil, and painful, and pretty migraine-y (they're also awfully easy to defeat by just loading them into the right computer program, so that's pretty weak).

monocle

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:42 PM |

nice puzzle.

escKey

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:42 PM |

Nice! That must have taken a while to develop.

zyzzva

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 07:48 PM |

thanks [17]. definitely a good and fun puzzle.

nrkii

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 08:01 PM |

number 7 doesn't seem to lead me anywhere, and 1 seems to lead to two

steve

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 08:28 PM |

[23] it might be easier to print it out, then. I could trace it out on my monitor, but ymmv on your computer.

nrkii

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 08:50 PM |

wow, even with pasting it into paint I can't make it work... is it one letter per number?

mrdehate

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 09:10 PM |

This reminds me of a really old Mac game that I used to play, the name of which escapes me. Entertaining puzzle though, I like it.

steve

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 09:12 PM |

[25] each number does only end up with one letter in the end, yes.

Dullorb

Posted on Tue Mar 11, 2008 09:24 PM |

beaut

totalcult

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 02:41 AM |

[26] It wasn't The Fool's Errand, was it?

fachanlahd

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 06:04 AM |

fun puzzle.

QurqirishDragon

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 06:12 AM |

[26] there is a similar game often called "black box", where all you get are the outside bits, and you need to figure out what's inside.

BigRob

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 08:35 AM |

that was a very fun puzzle. good job, henwy

dlandon2000

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:48 AM |

a truly unique puzzle that was fun to solve, after [11]'s salt that is.

John

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:22 PM |

[26] Oxyd?

This is a cool clone:
http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/index.html

nrkii

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 01:23 PM |

could someone TG me a hint on this one? I keep trying, and I get letters that don't make a word...

pahool

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 01:28 PM |

Thanks [26]. I burned so much time playing Oxyd back in the day.

I'm doomed...

nrkii

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 01:57 PM |

ugh, is it a picture I should be looking for rather than letters?

Twench

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 02:26 PM |

There is no image to look for in the picture. 8 and 11 are good salt, but imagine a laser instead of a simple light bulb

nrkii

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 02:41 PM |

[38] The laser and mirror method is what I tried, but I got letters that didn't make a word. I am being too dense about this!

WhiteKnight85

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 02:59 PM |

[39] I originally saw the letter I as the digit 1, which really gave me some strange answers. Is it possible that you're doing the same? The digit 1 is on the left side of the box.

Twench

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 03:05 PM |

Try 3 or 4 first to get a feel for it. 1 was the hardest for me to follow.

nrkii

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 03:14 PM |

Thanks for the hints. I now have the word, thanks to a very welcome Tangagram, but I still have no idea how to get it.

This is why I always struggle with any spatial relations questions in IQ tests. My brain won't go there.

For me and the way my brain works, the number 3 should get me an "S" in this puzzle.

nrkii

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 03:25 PM |

NOW I see it. Right angles! Aaaaaargh!!!!!

RPMiller

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 03:30 PM |

The secret is in the "right angle". It only took the first 4 letters to get the whole puzzle, but that was fun!

mrdehate

Posted on Wed Mar 12, 2008 04:30 PM |

[29], [34], [36] I don't think it was Oxyd, but I definitely remember that game and it was awesome as well. I still don't remember what the game was, but I found a posting on another site with a guy looking for the same thing (and not finding it)! [31] Black Box was close, but I remember seeing the slashes in the maze. Good times, good times!