Jan 11, 2011 One Word Wonder Puzzle

Nice and different!

Very clever.

You solved this puzzle in 2 minutes and 31 seconds and were the 18th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 93 points for solving this.

And 69th on Crypto...........Sweet...................

Any salt?

Neato!

Fun... so how many just worked it out on screen?

[4]Looks to me like those shapes are the same height and width as something else.

Fun!

Thanks much!

You solved this puzzle in 1 minute and 17 seconds and were the 68th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 43 points for solving this.

Sweet!

[6] I tried but came out with just enough false positives that the correct answer was still hidden.

(There does that explain it to the people who get it without giving away too much to those that don't?)

I think I'm using the right method, but I must keep messing it up. It's hard cuz I kind of just have to guess where things are located at. Only have paint and can't print anything.

Took me way too long, but I did like it. Thanks!

[6] I'm guilty of using photoshop to assist.

I liked this puzzle. Very well thought out and executed.

nice puzzle

i got the first 2 letters and then started working backwards for the last 2 letters and then just guessed the word from those 4 letters

I like the added "click here" thing available in the solution. It would be cool if more authors did that.

[12] Can't even copy this image because it's a PNG format. Printing give you something unusable due to it's itty bitty size.

[17] not even sure how to go about doing that

You solved this puzzle in 16 minutes and 7 seconds and were the 98th Tanga member to solve it.

Finally got it. First time I messed up one of the colors, and the second time I was missing one of the letters. Guessed the word from there. This was really hard for me for some reason. Not good with estimated sizes of things and transferring them, I guess.

no idea where to even start. salt?

[18] You can copy it now because I just changed it to a JPEG (although I don't know why a PNG would prevent you from copying). I just learned this week that the squishy images were all PNGs but JPEGs will load more reliably. Forgot I had a puzzle tonight or I would have updated it ahead of time.

[18] I right-click and copy image and then paste into paint. If I had a working printer, I could always enlarge the image first. I just don't have the tools.

[7] should be all the salt you need i would think

[19] TG coming your way on how to do that...

"Super smart puzzle maker!" says my seven year old daughter. We both had a fun time doing this with just our fingers and brains. Even placed 91st!

Thanks Sonjahi!

[14] Yeah, I feel guilty, I had GIMP open already, and it was too easy to cheat. Also - Windows 7 snipping tool.

This was really fun, even though it took me longer than it should have to finish! (I was meandering through it, so that was fine...)

Great puzzle! I had to actually print it out.

[14] [27] With those programs, can you just make the background transparent and easily layer them? All I did with paint was mark off the areas. Wasn't actually able to physically manipulate anything.

I actually tried to cut out the itty bitty printed item. Obviously, that was a huge mistake and pretty useless. Good ol' eyeballing it up and scratching out finally revealed the answer. Guess I need to learn how to use all the fancy programs out there :-).

well that was fun

[30] I solved it in Paint. I "filled" the white areas with a true white and then did transparent layering.

[23] - It was a bit painful but it is reasonably easy to do this using Paint. After pasting I used the "draw rectangle" and "fill". (hope this is not too salty).
Unfortunately I got here late and could not make it into the top 100.

[33] Didn't know you could do that. Don't think I would be able to figure out how either.

Fun and clever, thanks sonjahi. I obviously need to improve my 'paint' skills, though : ).

[33] - huh, how do you do that? How do you do transparent layering in Paint?

*sigh* I am feeling super dense this evening. I am attempting to work this through with the salt that's out there, anyone willing to add a bit more...

NVM...I think I have it. We'll see.

[37] Or you can just do a freehand cut and move the pieces over the grid.

JPEGS made it harder. And for all you fancy shmancy "right click copy image" folks, have you realized you can hit the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard and you do an entire screen capture? Then you can manipulate your artifact free puzzle board in paint to get the answer quickly.

You solved this puzzle in 22 minutes and 16 seconds and were the 152nd Tanga member to solve it

Thanks for all the help that was there guys. I am still amazed at how dense I can be.

[35][37][39][40] I made sure "opaque drawing" was not selected in the "image" pull down. I filled the background with white (don't know if that was important). Then selected the pieces and moved them. (After reading [33], that is).

[40] And that point is interesting too. The first time I tried it was on my PNG image and it worked like a charm. When I tried it on the JPEG, there was some not-transparent white that hung around the edges of the color. So changing it to a JPEG helped the squishing problem but made it harder to use Paint to solve. :)

the 157th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 10 points for solving this. I used paint for the first time. It was crude.......the black letters were a mess, but I saw the solution!!!

[35], [37] In Paint 6.1, you click the down arrow below the Select button and then click the transparent selection option (if necessary) to put a check mark next to that option.

In Paint 5.1, you click Image on the menu bar, and then click Draw Opaque (if necessary) to put a check mark next to that option.

However, I solved this puzzle using the original PNG image. Now that it has been changed to a JPEG image, the colors are no longer true and the whites are inconsistent; unfortunately, transparent layering in Paint doesn't work very well with the inferior JPEG images.

EDIT: Oh, I see that sonjahi said the said thing in her comment [42].

[6] I solved it on screen.

I used the left and top then compared potentials with top-left.

I could see what had to be done, but it's a lot harder to actually do it on the screen with no help. Still, glad that I got it. OWWs aren't my strong point. Nice job setting it up, sonjahi!

You know, for everyone who's still here, I really should thank jebediehard for recommending I have the text say something. I originally just had random letters. I had to redo the color pieces to accomplish that but I think the puzle is much better for it. So, thanks jeb!

Lovely bit of fun!

I'll admit it - I printed it & cut them out. I'm just not visual enough to conceptualize it!

fun puzzle!

[18] I'm puzzled by your comment. I am able to copy, paste, and print PNG and JPEG images equally well.

[39] I admire your steady hand! I've never mastered freehand cutting with the very high degree of accuracy needed in this situation.

[40] Using PrintScreen results in an "artifact free" image only if the image on the screen is artifact free -- PrintScreen cannot improve the quality of an image. After this puzzle was changed to a JPEG, Paint didn't work well with either a copied or a PrintScreen image.

[51] Chances are the PNG would not have the artifact assuming the original was done in photoshop or paint. PNG employs lossless compression whereas JPEG uses a lossy compression that produces a lot of artifacts when it comes to high frequency data (e.g. a bunch of white pixels immediately next to a bunch of blue pixels). You can't really fault JPEG for this since it was designed for photography (that's what the 'P' in JPEG stands for) whereas PNG is sort of a spiritual successor to GIF, which was designed for computer generated graphics.

Cue "The More You Know" picture... err.. graphic... whatever

[52] Exactly! The original PNG image was artifact free, but the replacement JPEG image is not. My point was that jaymanmsu got an artifact free image only by doing a PrintScreen of the original PNG image, not of the replacement JPEG image.

Solved it on the screen... just a lot of counting.

Having it say something definitely made the puzzle more elegant and fun! I thought about doing it in my head and figured using the Gimp would be faster.

Great (and original) puzzle!

[30]
Right Click -> Copy Image
Gimp -> Paste -> Magic Wand Tool- > Select, Copy & Paste 3x
Solved

dup

[47] You're welcome, sonjahi.

[53] Actually, I showed up late to the party so I had to select the white areas in paint and delete them to make them pure white. I need to put gimp or photoshop (I've got an old legit copy somewhere around here) on my computer.

I don't use PAINT. But in my software, it's called MAGIC WAND -- and it's a tool I just learned to use the other day.

alright, 13 hours 43 minutes and 42 seconds! (but I didn't use any help)

You solved this puzzle in 17 minutes and 51 seconds and were the 308th Tanga member to solve it.

Interesting concept.

Had to come back to this one with a fresh mind. Fun if you are very savvy with all the programs! Not so easy if you're not! Some of these are wrapped in many layers!

Just a hint for MS Paint; instead of erasing or repainting the white areas for a transparency, simply save the image as a 16 color image and that changes all off-whites to white. - Although, I will warn that with this image it turned both the green and blue to an awful blue-green. -

[64] Thanks! That worked like a charm -- I'll have to remember that tip.

[42] I didn't know about the "draw opaque" option. I guess it's automatically selected. Thanks!

Thank you Photoshop.

You solved this puzzle in 6 minutes and 47 seconds and were the 402nd Tanga member to solve it. You earned 3 points for solving this.
I read all the messages before attempting this ~ thanks for all the salt! I don't know if I'd have had a clue what to do otherwise. I solved just on the monitor and took a guess after getting the first 3 letters - no photoshop necessary.
I use firefox and have never had an image load funny for me on this site.