One Word Wonder

kibw4fub3

The first one is V, not K.

(Which really doesn't help, does it?)

Could be a 2 as well

Last row top could be a 6 also

I'll have you know the answer is not "bubs dived" - you know, just in case you were ready to try that.

If you carefully compare them to the source pix ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Manual_Alphabet ), I think W is correct.

i have VIBW
4FUB3

its gibberish

Nice Aha on this puzzle, especially once I realized I did not need to overcomplicate things and look elsewhere for information.

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The puzzle is self-contained. Everything you need is there. It is all in how you use the information given.

So . . . do the 1s at the top indicate we should note the position (up/down) of the 1st (i.e., index) finger in each picture?

I have no clue what the 1's indicate or how to interperet the hands.

If its self contained then all you can say about the hands are what number of fingers are up or down.

But it's all there! We must be blind not to see it. ;-(

Might help if it were in brail.

It's not badcdcbdc . . .

...what in the world?? (Just got here; am stumped.)

lol i went that route too

[17] Welcome. I am a stump, apparently!

or 1011, 10111 or 11, 23 or KW

[20] Yeah, those won't working for me, either.

Also if self contained why use different representations of the 3 fingers up or 4 fingers up.

Rats! I had hoped that reading through the comments would help me. No such luck!

Some salt would be a help

well, i know lots more things it's not!

I'm thinking the fingers, when combined with the 1s at the top, will give us numbers, then convert to letters maybe?

edit: Well that didn't get me very far.

Although the answer is unknown to me, the answer is not UNKNOWN.

Some times it pays to spell out what you see in black and white.

The solution is simply a matter of applying Tanga numbers!

It's not HANDSOME, although I want it to be.

I tried taking the first letter of each number spelled out but got nothing...

[30] Try using those numbers in a different way.

[28]&[29] OMG! I'd tried that already -and given up- with the singular and with the specific plurals, but not _that_ way. Thanks!

I'm so lost :(

[33] Have you read the help in comments [8], [10], [28], and [29]?

Spelling isnt helping any

I have used the fingers as numbers as well as the number 1 as numbers....neither is panning our or has panned out.

damn i had that as the key too, but got stuck because i didnt make it plural

Plural? Feh. There were just too many things you could do here, and any puzzle whose answer includes the phrase "a big red herring" is not going to make me happy.

[38] Not only that, but more than one. If you get too many red herrings, or if they're a major part of the puzzle, it really detracts from it, IMHO.

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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78th???? Wow...I didn't realize it was so difficult!

Use the word you get in the black box as the key for the tanga numbers below.

And after tanga-ing, there is a second step to interpret the words found.