One Word Wonder

Wow. For the first time I got the solve method completely wrong, but got the right answer on my first guess.

10th. Would have had it faster, but I used a suspected number rather than the intended method- and so had the last letter wrong.

Huh - used a different method and got the right answer.

Got the answer with a different solve method.

does this have anything to do with geometry?

[1][3][4] Then, maybe the solution is wrong!

[2] The parallel to that "suspected number" was by design... since the puzzle has a lot of "round" things in it.

[1][3][4][6] The solution stated looks okay to me, however I solved it a different way as well by not using the "clue" in the puzzle.

ah yes....the gratuitous anagramming final step rears its ugly head again!

[6] Nope - I understand the solution, and the real solve method is clever (esp in light of what [7] points out).

The other solve method is a coincidence - and involves the highly unpopular A word (anagr*m).

[9] I solved the same way.

The hint in the puzzle seems a bit too weak to warrant that step in logic, in my opinion. But still a fun one. Thanks!

Once I get it, maybe I'll understand all the comments....can't wait for my "aha"....taking too long...

Like [5] asked, geometry related?

update: aha---now the comments make sense---don't think I would EVER have gotten it the solve way. Thanks for the anagram [9] [10]clue.

[12] Yes....use your geometry knowledge

[12] geometry to get the words. I solved it but still don't understand the comments about "suspected number"

nm: I understand how the suspected number got the solution too. And it works all the way through if you round appropriately. That's awesome!

I agree, I didn't use the puzzlemaker's method and got it also.

Finally got it on a guess, I never learned what that first word was. Some salt, it's not "angle."

[16] yup...had problems with the first word also.... it's a word used in a lot of SciFi shows.

[16] ... and it wasn't a piece of pi either!

[18] that could be debatable depending on how you solve the puzzle..

wow, very lucky coincidence.

The puzzlemaker's solution was a bit convoluted. Thankfully there was another way...Thanks [13] and [9]

had to look up geometry circles to get a round to the answer

yep, I got it with the accidental ann*gr*m method to. It took me a couple of reads to understand the 'real' method.

But really, what are the odds that the other solution was just a coincidence? It seems really improbable to me.

I'd never heard that particular mnemonic before.

I couldn't help but thinking about this old saw:

Sir, I know a rhyme excelling in mystic force and magic spelling. Celestial spirits elucidate, all my own striving can't relate.

Of course I can never remember it when I need it.

How I want a drink--alcoholic, of course--after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!

oh its really difficult