How to Play
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).















How is this a sudoku if there are 10 characters? I must be missing something.
[1] I only saw 9: ABDEHINP2
Ha-ha! That was awesome! I knew I was on the right track before I solved the bottom yellow squares but had to get a bit of them to know where I needed to go. Gotta admit, ryanker, I'm really tired and thought to myself, "oh just forget it tonight - this will be too much work." But then, "why's the center square highlighted in yellow and... 10 yellow squares? Well, maybe I'll just try a little bit..." 7 minutes later, I was 12th! Yippee!
that was fantastic awesome for a 37 year old
great puzzle!
i got something out of the sudoku that makes sense but i can't turn it into a OWW!
[6] Think carefully of what it says. You only want part of the thing that it references.
Oh wow... you made Sudoku... fantastic... :P
geez....another suduku....yuck.
luckily there are suduku solvers on the web, or else I'd be stuck with you.
Actually the answer should have the word "THE" in it...that's the official name of them....the leader always used the definite article when referring to them.
Nice.
I am with [6] - I solved the sudoku but don't know how to get an answer out of the phrase.
Whoops - I never saw the big highlighted square - bad angle on my screen washed it out :(
I promise, this is my last sudoku-based OWW.
...unless I come up with yet another idea. :-P
Now if I can just think of a way to use a sudoku in a Crypto.
[9] A fair cop -- and one that was pointed out by the moderators. However, given that this is a _one_ word wonder, I figured that the answer would be more-or-less obvious once you got down to two words.
Nice puzzle, ryanker. I can tell you put your heart and soul into this one.
Took me awhile, but I got it. Thanks for the puzzle!
I solved the sudoku, but can't figure out what it means...
[12] - I never saw it either but now that I see it it still does not help.
both [9] and [14] have given subtle hints if you have an ear.
@[4] testify 1973 FTW!
nvm, got it :D
Another sudoku. I think I'll pass this time and wait for the solution.
I spent way too much time trying to make sense of the 9 characters in the middle.
Nice puzzle ryanker
[21] just read about it tomorrow...or watch it on TV...
[22] - that was the salt I needed. Clever clueing - nice to see someone get off the beaten path occasionally.
Very nice.
[2] Yes, I must have miscounted. Now to solve this puzzle.
I got this one from the salt, I didn't feel like printing it out. I wouldn't say I cheated, but sometimes bad is bad.
I think there may be too much salt. I got the solve without even doing the puzzle.
Took me 17 minutes to solve this thing. Was here on time but had to do something else first.
Fun one. Well done.
[13] Nice one - I love sudoku puzzles, and when you add tanga - they just get better.
ah, i got a different answer for the 2-letter word that threw me off the trail!
[23] was waayy too salty
For a puzzle that is not too hard to figure out, it sure is hard. What the beans does those letters stand for? Google went all over the place with them! Anybody can give me a TG hint, please! The salt must be salty when you figure out the answer, not before. How you can solve this from the supposed salt only is beyond me. (at this point)
There's a very subtle part of the hint that I was missing and took me too long to find. But I got it.
got it just off of [23]
[34] TG me what you have and I'll see what I can do. If you read the letters in yellow plus factor in one additional part, then the letters should give you something very googleable - IF you even need google at that point. If you have the yellow letters but are stumped, then I'm guessing you are still missing that one extra part. You need to do something about that center highlighted section.
duh