Mar 09, 2011 One Word Wonder Puzzle

You solved this puzzle in 7 minutes and 47 seconds and were the 88th Tanga member to solve it.

That was really tough for me.

clever! not too difficult either

You solved this puzzle in 3 minutes and 35 seconds and were the 67th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 44 points for solving this.

Woo-hoo! And with that, I finally earned my rocketship!

Thanks google. Had no clue without you.

I have all the words correct (I think) but I just can't get it. Any salt (we just passed 100 solves)

How do I not have this? I have a perfectly clued word that doesn't work.

[5] [6] The word or words clued is indicating the actual answer.

I agree I have the word too, but cannot get it to work

Salt please!

edit: Finally got it thanks to sonjahi! Reminds me of the B-52's . . .

Doh! I forgot that it was a One Word Wonder :p

You solved this puzzle in 12 minutes and 35 seconds and were the 129th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 10 points for solving this.

Wow! took me FOREVER[9]!

That was hard. But IT can be done.

no effin clue--nothing I try works--AM again!!!!

Ugh---that was kinda tough...

[7] I should clarify. I have the initial (partial) words from the puzzle, but I can't make sense of them. I am assuming that once I do make sense of them that there is another step, but I'm not there yet ... I'm still on the step before that. :-/

(I believe I correctly interpreted each clue)

That was a great puzzle!

[9] the letter is made out of the cousin

[14] slur them together

Fun puzzle

[14] Yeah, I was stuck where you are for a long time too. Google helped me once I changed the spelling around a bit.

[17] I've tried dozens of spelling and google ain't helpin' me! Just not my night - looks like it will be at best a 40 point night?

edit: p&s - I misinterpreted kc's comment in [7] to mean the opposite of what he said. I finally got a google hit that worked and thought "he lied!" lol - then I read the comment better.

Good job, houck!

I have the first two parts, but the third picture loses me

[18] I'm female :) Glad if you finally figured it out though!

[20] You can't take too much offense though, because it looks like [18] simply assumes that liars are male! (Just kidding sonjahi ... of course)

Now that I look closer, that's definitely a woman's eye. ;-)

That was tough. Had it right, but I kinda take issue with that Mandela pic in there...threw me off the scent w/pronunciation.

[22] I also had problems with the phonetics. Also, this felt like a One-Word Crypto.

SALT???

Nevermind

This seemed a little confusing to me.

LOL — no wonder I was having such a hard time, I was using "blender" for the first word. Duh! Got it right away after that piece of info from bitwisenot ... thanks!

I came up with a real word that fits all of the clues, but is not correct. Two days in a row of being lost on the OWW.

You solved this puzzle in 14 minutes and 15 seconds and were the 194th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 10 points for solving this.
grrrr indirect route

[20] Ha-ha! Sorry about that! I'm usually so careful about using s/he when I don't know. Adam's right. I just assumed you were male when I thought you were a liar! Just kidding guys... :)

Oddly enough, I managed to manipulate the clues into the name of a famous Chapel that gave me the answer. Which is for the best, since I wasn't familiar with the actual clue.

Beh!! I was totally mispronouncing the hairy wonder (HIRSUTE! *hehe*) I kept sticking an extra word in the clue because i was seeing multiple hirsutes :;)

(yes , even us newer arrivals learned all about that one!)

It took me a while to get a sufficient amount of slurring.

I did manage to find a nice accidental (I have to believe) red herring: If you anagram the words from step one you can make LENT EATERIES. Given the time of year, this seems like a reasonable path to go down. To bad it didn't lead anywhere.

The 302nd Tanga member to solve it! :) Couldn't do it last night, so put put my mind to it this morning with new slurring accents and googling and found out the answer isn't the slurred word. There's a step two! These are the kind of OWW's that I expect from Houck....why is he so quiet during these reveals? I don't think he ever comments on his own puzzles.......

[18] ONLY 40 POINTS tonight!? Wow.........I'm speechless...... another surprise tonight.... [20] is female.
[30] good point.

Sorry, but I found this one to be sketchy... (not salt, just disappointment)

[30] [33] I thought the first clue represented an EGGBLENDER instead of what it actually is. So, I thought the first partial word clued was "LENDER".

I've never heard nor have I uttered the words "egg blender" in my life, so I'm not sure why I thought that. (probably due to sleep deprivation)

... I kept searching for a place called "Lendernal" ...

Google is not helping me. Im pretty sure I have the words right. Im hitting nothing here

The upper right clue definitely has the wrong vowel sound.

Am I supposed to be concerned about the number of beasts inside the letter?

[Edit][39] I know they're not beasts, but I didn't want it to be obvious. Let's try this again...Am I supposed to be concerned about the number of cousins inside the letter?

[38] no. and I wouldn't call it a beast; it wouldn't like that so don't get it stirred up lol boy I wish I could have been here at 9:59 pm. I got it in 3 min &25 sec w/out salt I found this one easy for some unknown reason.

Enjoyed this one a lot!

I really liked this puzzle. Thanks.