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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).
sonjahi – Solves:
177
TangaAl – Solves:
265
nocca – Solves:
295
jebediehard – Solves:
254
ethnosax – Solves:
290
Murdoctor – Solves:
233
Murdoctor – Solves:
524
Murdoctor – Solves:
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Murdoctor – Solves:
295
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Oh, my. Good luck, everyone. My hat's off to whomever figures it out first. LOL
FYI, I came up with this puzzle idea about a week after first joining the site.
In case anyone has trouble reading the text, here are the clues:
1. He said, "a single soldier of Han is equivalent to five Central Asian soldiers."
2. Seaport city in Northern Morocco
3. Surgeonfish of genus Zebrasoma
4. Tall gambler nicknamed 'Spotted leopard' from classic Chinese novel "Water Margin"
5. Touching at a single point
6. Intertwine
7. Chinese Dynasty lasting from 618â907 A.D.
8. Having a sour taste
9. Latin-American ballroom dance
10. Tropical American tree with yellow cherrylike fruit
11. Maori god of the sea
12. Highest volcano of the Nevados de Quimsachata
13. Southernmost province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Note that the "a" in "Maori" (in clue #11) has a line over it, which is the correct character to use for the name of that culture/people.
it's not 'whout' ...
It's not "a".
Eek. Six possibilities for #3 just from Wikipedia...
[4] There's a common theme to all the answers that should help narrow it down.
[5] That's six with the apparent common theme taken into account... seven otherwise. Unless, of course, there's a *second* common theme.
[6] I think you're getting too specific with that one.
[6] All of the answers to the clues are a single word/name, except for #1 and #4.
Am I right that a few answers have "nothing left"
One more bit of salt: For the step after you get all of the answers, the flavor is important too.
[9] Yup.
[8] I have all the answers, but I'm not sure what to do with them. Is it just a coincidence that applying the clue numbers to the first seven answers yields something you could hold the theme in? Since that's not the solution, and the answers to clues 8-13 don't have enough letters, I'm not sure what to try next.
[12] Yes, that's a coincidence... particularly since it sounds as if you have an incorrect 4th answer.
What you need to do now is the "without it" step, keeping my comment in [10] in mind.
Got it!
[14] (Hat's off to Philana)
[13] Thanks--I jumped on the first character who seemed to fit the theme. When I try to take [10] into account, I'm pretty low on vowels--is anagramming required?
Congrats Philana!
2nd. I was able able to get it despite having #4 wrong. On wiki, make sure you get the one with the proper nickname.
3rd -- fortunately my wife kept me from overthinking the very last step. :-)
[16] No anagramming necessary.
[19] Alas, I have no one here to stop me from doing so!
Yep, I must definitely be overthinking, as if that makes me feel better - :-)
On 1 and 4 do we want first and last name?
[23] Yup.
[19] Yep, the very last step should not be over-thought.
[25] Over thinking it, or thinking about it at all, is too much on the last step. There are a few things I avoid, and the answer is one of them.
Don't take that as salt.
I'm worried I'm not getting the right answer for #10. Err, maybe that should be the least of my worries.
[27] In case it helps, I solved it without having the answer to #10.
Step 1) Get answers for all the clues - check
Step 2) Apply "without it" step (remembering Murdoctor's hint in [10]) - check
Step 3) Avoid any thinking, especially the "over" kind - check
Step 4) Solve puzzle - still elusive
Are you sure I don't need to think just a LITTLE bit? :-)
[29] After step 2, you should have a two-word clue for the final answer.
Had the wrong tense on #6, and didn't apply step 2 "completely", but got the second word and enough of the first to get it. Thanks for the help [29] and others.
I liked this one better than the featured hard OWW tonite. Fun!
A great example of Murdoctor's early talent!
Might not have taken me so long, but the first map I consulted had a different spelling for #2--missing a critical vowel.
[30] I do believe I'm misapplying Step 2, since I'm getting nothing pronounceable or decipherable.
Actually, I'm not (misapplying, that is). But I had a wrong alternate name for #2, a more modern development of #13, and somehow managed to skip #8 entirely. On the other hand, I managed not to stumble over #4 somehow... :)