One Word Wonder

2nd. And just passed the 10,000 point mark!

Hmmm....too many things to send you in the wrong direction...still, I got #6, but there's no need for the confusion, really.

which colors matter?

what's the center image?

[5] car is made in italy

center is also a major airline

Yeah. I got all the names, but the letters don't make any sense. Any salt out there?

The center is not any specific place. It's more of what it is showing.

yeah, I think I have all the words (airline and Italian cars are good salt) but no clue what to do with 'em. What I thought made sense, doesn't. Unless I have the wrong word for the bottom right-hand corner; I suppose that could be a few different things if we aren't looking for the person.

Okay, I got it, but I don't get it. If the stack of colored squares is supposed to be helpful, it ain't. (And I still don't know what the car is.)

You solved this puzzle in 14 minutes and 39 seconds and were the 24th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 87 points for solving this.

I had center wrong at first...thanks for the salt.

For the lower right, is it the person or what he's holding?

I take it back. I keyed to the wrong colors.

Woohoo! 27th!

[10] We are NOT looking for the person in the lower right image... at least not the human person.

I still can't get the center, and even if I do I don't think it makes any sense for what I have...

The fact that the clues spell out "RADIO" is a bad red herring. And ordering from the bottom-up is a little unusual.

[16] you'll see a lot of the center ones in Vietnam or possibly Louisiana or Mississippi

[17] RADIO isn't necessarily a red herring. In fact it's a bit of salt to help figure out the images.

[17] I agree with you on the "RADIO" spelling, but the ordering is correct (you just need to see the right colors, which I didn't for a long time...)

52nd Place. Worth 58 points.

I didn't know the car by sight, but rather by its logo.

As for the center...remember your geography classes back in grade school?

3rd on hard, and still banging my head on this one. I got RADIO like Murdoctor [17], but now what?

[20] I agree with you to a point, but you need to know all the images to get that word. That said, it will tie the puzzle together and show the pictures aren't too bad if you catch the theme.

By the way this was the second puzzle I ever created and it sat there for a very long time. I was kind of surprised to see it posted tonight.

The car is there in the photo, the name that is. I have gibberish, got the middle, think I have the gold guy.

ok. I have something wrong. Any salt on the kissy one?

You solved this puzzle in 28 minutes and 8 seconds and were the 99th Tanga member to solve it.

Got it, but it still doesn't make any sense how they're ordered. And I STILL don't really know the center or the car.

[27] Upper left is NOT with Rapunzel. LOL

120th...I see the need for the colors now, fun puzzle

[31] I don't see the need for the colors. Why are they there if you need to anagram afterward anyway? This puzzle is just full of red herrings.

[27] He needs to deny his father...

[30] Doesn't help me. Sorry.

Woo-hoo. 5000 points.

[34] Think Shakespeare, love stories, etc.

[36] OH! Thanks!

Fell for the red herring (or should I say the multi-colored herring) and also spelled the car wrong.

137th. I can sleep now, but this was not my favorite EOWW. I still don't get the theme. <sigh>

And, what's with the keyboard/mixer in the background? VERY cryptic, FachenLahd

[35] welcome to the STU club, you'll start to notice slight changes in your behavior and appearance, don't worry they are normal...

I was distracted by the color of the numbers.

199th to solve. I got the pictures, theme, numbers, colors.. and being an amateur radio operator, RADIO jumped out at me. Seems I was spinning my wheels until I finally got the answer by guessing what word the first 4 letters I got might make when the 5th didn't make sense, sorry, but I have to give an "F" for the unusual spelling required by one picture choice.

BTW, by using all the clues in the puzzle, anagramming is not necessary.

211th to solve. I still don't know what the upper-right picture was supposed to be, but if you get all the rest of the clues, you don't need it.

I got messed up by thinking the top left was the action, not the man.

Hmmm, the first "Weird One Worder"

So I updated the colored numbers so they are not so confusing (I Think).

As for the weird spelling there are two legitimate spellings for that word (at least I believe so...I saw both spelling all over the internet repeatedly). It was easier to find an image for one type of spelling over the other so that's what I chose.

Sorry some people didn't like this puzzle, but like I said it was the second puzzle I ever created and thus, possibly (or obviously?), not my best work.

Not bad. Once I figured out the colors, it all came together. And as people have said, no anagramming was required.

Frustating puzzle. Went from interesting and hard, to just frustrating and annoying.

I agree with [43] on the spelling issue.
Expecially misleading to me, given that the other 4 of the FIVE shared an attribute, which, using an alternate spelling, all FIVE shared. Here's what things turned out to be (looks better in fixed width):
lover
auto
water
place
award

Anyway, fun puzzle. (Just a bit more challenging when 20% of your solving supplies turn out to be inaccurate.)

[47] I am aware that both spellings exist. (Well aware, in fact. I had a hypercross that made use of this list and there was an uprising back then too.) I'm awful at car identification, so, at first, I assumed the car was a Toyota "E". Then, saw the logo was wrong, so decided it must be a Fiat "B" (which fit the mold of the other 4). Then, with salt, learned many people discovered radio somewhere, so I deduced my car must be wrong. Just put in what I thought it was called (which, again, matched the mold) and continued to be stuck. (I sorted in all ways I could imagine, including full blown anagram, but, with one character wrong, I was stuck.)

Again, totally valid, and, had I actually found your image, and stuck with what was provided, it would have been an easy solve. I'm not too worried that this experience will deter you, given that this was your second puzzle created and I know I've solved many of your other fine works.

This puzzle sat for months in my submitted puzzle page. I emailed Aaron a few times about even. I guess he saw some of the problems with it. After a few months I went back and tinkered with it more and it still sat for almost an entire year. It's weird because I tangagrammed Aaron about a cryptopix I just made trying to bring attention that one, so I was surprised to see this puzzle posted today (not to mention an earlier cryptopix I made). The really funny thing is that I came very close yesterday evening to actually deleting the puzzle entirely because I was sick of looking at it and figured it would never get published. (Considering all the complaints about it maybe it shouldn't have.) But all in all, I'm glad it got published because I think it still is an ok puzzle (not my best, but ok).

Seems like an OK puzzle to me. I found three of the letters obvious, the order was given, and only one word fit those three. I assume most would find a different three obvious (after all, the car is named in the image, not that I noticed it until trying to backsolve), and those three should make guessing the answer pretty easy.

After reading much of the salt and solving it, I have the following seasoning to help anyone left...

1. Colors are useful, but unnecessary.
2. [36] is good salt for upper left.
3. Car model is not needed (it's a 159), just the maker.
4. If you need salt for the center picture, see [7] and [18].
5. Order of pictures is irrelevant.
6. The background picture wasn't helpful to solve, but I figured out what it was with the answer.

Finally got it. All the talk about "radio" sure threw me off....

Ok I know I have the correct names for each, but when I use the numbers shown on each picture I don't get anything usefull. So then I tried using the numbers whose color matches the picture and I got different letters but no more usefull.

[56] That's right where I am. I know that doesn't really help but at least you know that you're not alone.

[57] thanks that does help! :)

<<<pulling hair out

wheres the new one?