One Word Wonder

Wha??!

No clue, but the question mark is in the wrong place ;)

That'll teach me to listen better in class!

I thought "Somersault" was a reasonable answer but not to be...

[4] That's all I keep coming up with....

[4] That was my first guess as well

[4] Mine, too.

[4] Yeah - me too...

[4] me also

lol, if we get enough they should change the answer!

Hey mine too...otherwise, this is waaaay too vague...

[puzzle] Yes. Yes, I did say that.

Saltire isn't it either...

Perhaps you shouldn't add the ear into the answer.

My first thought was "saltier" (salt ear). Then I took the ear out of the equation and just listened.

kind of a reverse tanga thingy.

good one nocca!

running out of dictionary entries to check.....sigh

words like "somatical" aren't taking.

[17] No dictionary necessary, that wouldn't add up at all.

Is too much salt bad for your hearing? "Aid" is not it...

[19] No, they didn't teach us anything like that in Chemistry class.

[16] I would not have tried that -- thanks!

Thanks for the help, scoutmom & ref...but this one isn't adding up for me. All I can think of is summoning seals....don't ask...

[22] TG sent

[22] i'm with you - can't put it together - hoping for some excellent post-n-solve action....

[24] TG sent

[22, 24] I'm with you - can't seem to put it all together right. More NaCL out there?

[2] No it isn't

[27] I think [2] means it should be INSIDE the quotation marks.

[28] You're right. I didn't realize at first that what's in the quotes is a question. To solve the puzzle, you must NOT treat it as a question!

I'm still lost. A little help, please?
Sorry. I guess I just needed it spelled out for me.

wtf - that was just brutal...

[30] you don't know how right you are.

Man, I had known what to do for a while, I was just really bad at it. :)

The answer to the question is "No".

That is not what I said.

However, that is what you heard.

crap. can't go to bed til i solve it. Stuck!

WOW! 2 1/2 hours in, and I made 79th. That was sum puzzle nocca.

Arrived late & still made top 100.

Disappointed that none of the following worked:

fish
clap
bark

as answers to how one would 'summon a seal'. :-)

Wow. I made NUMBER 82! Good one nocca!

[37] Very clever. I like that.

[38] I'm glad you solved it so that you can go to bed.

wow three hours late and still top 100.

I have worked on this for 2 hours now... I have many different phrases worked out. trying to 'tanga' them (whatever that means, I'm still new to this) or did I 'tanga' already to get them in the first place? I am so stuck! help?

[37] I got that one too

Still missing this one... anyone got a good link on what applying "tanga" to a problem is defined as?

i have no idea... everything i thought of i noticed are in the comments as wrong answers

[45] ditto

I think it's time to give up on this one. I've tried every wrong thing I have later read in the comments as well as so many occult words I have probably disturbed all kinds of internet demons. I guess I'm too new to Tanga to understand this.

Lost... I guess "whodat" isn't one word? My latest guess...

I was almost certain it was epsom.

You solved this puzzle in 8 minutes and 17 seconds and were the 108th Tanga member to solve it.

Wow! Over twelve hours after it was posted and I still got 108th? Sumbody must really like me!

HEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP ME!

[42], [44], [51]

My understanding is that 'to Tanga' is to use the code where numbers are assigned to letters (a=1, b=2, c=3,...), or vice versa, in order to solve the puzzle.

tried googling the phonetic phrase and got a bunch of witchcraft articles. And no the answers are not witchcraft, demonic, or satan.

[53] There's just one homophone in the clue you need to key on. Keep the Tanga thing in mind while trying to identify which word it is.

"Summon a seal"? Close? No?

10 hours, 36 minutes and 0 seconds and were the 120th Tanga

Tough one...

Man, this one is driving me nuts, been kicking it around all morning and coming up with nothing. Would've given up hours ago if the solution was posted. Aaargh!

EDIT: Finally got it, thanks to a TG from jebediehard. Didn't stand a chance on my own as I was unfamiliar with the whole 'tanga' code thing. Wish I hadn't wasted so much time on this, much prefer puzzles that don't require an obscure trick to solve.

Thanks [54]! That did it for me.

Only got it with help from the author. Has nothing to do with summoning a seal. It's far more basic than you'd think. In fact, your 1st inclination will be to keep going after the first step but in reallity there is only one step needed.

[2] No it isn't.

[59] Seriously. I've had the answer since last night, but I thought there were more steps, so I didn't try putting it in until just now.

So the answer is numeric?

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

uh! I must have missed spelled it when i tired 4 hours ago.

7 hrs, 7 mintues , #150 to solve

Zinc would have been a much better answer.

After I summoned a seal (Ninpo Kuchiyose) I added up my options, took stock of the total, spelt out my solution and answered directly.

Thanks to all the "salt", I finally solved this puzzle a day late. But I have to say that it left a sour taste in this horse's mouth. Naaaaaayyyyy!!!!

[63] Yes, and it's solved via the technique of this website's name (although info appears to be scarce, I had no luck finding info about it on Google).

Interesting.... if I tanga the Na (#11 element) into 11th letter, = K. And with Cl (#17 element) = Q.

Then i tried the REVERSE method with SOME..... letters 19, 15, 13, 5 of the alphabet give me the Element letters P (first letter) Potassium), H (second letter Phosphorus) U (third letter Aluminum) and O (fourth letter Boron).

Which, put together, "some NaCl" would = PHUOKQ
Surely this is a coincidence of unfortunate phonetics and my erroneous solve method..... but funny, nonetheless. ;)