Sep 08, 2011 One Word Wonder Puzzle

Guessing we need to know how to play this game in order to solve the puzzle?

Missed the second 3 in there at first!

That was great TangaAl, thanks :)

Uggh! Didn't pay enough attention to that tricky little last step. :)

Very nice. I liked the first one and I liked this one even more.

[1] Is that a real game?

[1] It should be fairly self explanatory. You need to fit all those tiles into place in the pattern shown, as demonstrated with the blue tiles. The vertical ones stay vertical and the horizontal ones stay horizontal.

BTW, the second down word in the solution text is listed incorrectly.

Nice puzzle. I am getting used to these.

I would have preferred it if the grid had a second occurrence of letter 3, rather than repeating it.

[2] so did i. i had the grid filled in and was thinking, "hey, that doesn't make a word, it's missing a letter." I added the missing letter back in without even noticing that the puzzle was calling for it.

Got my plum on this! Woohoo! Good night for me tonight, one of my best ever, maybe i am finally getting the hang of things?

[7]kc you have some ego correcting a puzzle TangaAl did many weeks ago. :)

[7], thanks. I fixed it. Yeah, this is a bit tougher to do than it looks, [9]. I was looking at this yesterday one more time and thought the same thing. Still, I think it works when you look at the puzzle as a whole.

[4], [8], thanks!

[2][10] same here!

Head slap! Knew how to do this and had the grid filled in early. Answer didn't take so tried a different arrangement. Didn't notice the second step at the bottom.

Hmm, got it, late, and with what appears to be a missing letter---I guess i still don't get the solve method....

edit [15] aaahhhh thanks for the 'splainin' lucy...

Another good one TangaAl!

Woohoo!!! Got my rocket!
First time in a few days where I didn't need salt anywhere (was starting to think I had lost what little skill I had)
Really cool puzzle! Thanks!

I got the answer a while back, then was scratching my head to figure out what the "Part 2" was. As the solve count reached 87, I panicked and entered my answer to the first part... only to find it was correct! Wish I had know about the "Part 2" being a reference to an earlier puzzle.

Oh, well, 88th here. Clever little word puzzle!

[13] I feel your pain but I also think in it's own special way, that final step was cool. We all smugly thought we knew what we were doing and were done once the "grid" was filled in. You clearly indicate that final step. It's not your fault we didn't look closely. ;)

[20] Yeah, I agree with sonjahl, the puzzle definitely indicates that extra letter clearly enough. (After all, we're only a half-hour in and almost at 100 solves).

Loved it!

[19] Thanks for the nudge. I think that should have been left out.

Enjoyed this one! Not sure if/how this would work as a standalone game, but if it does, I'd buy it.

Sadly the only way i can solve these type of puzzles is to actually cut out little paper tiles.

[26] LOL! I was just considering that approach....

ETA: I did in fact go there...and it totally worked!

Fun One!!

[26][27] Instead of printing and cutting... I used my graphics editing program (GIMP), created layers for each tile. Then with the move tool I was able to rearrange everything just as if I had physical dominoes.. Spent more time setting that up than actually solving once I had done so..

I also missed the 2nd 3, and also was scratching my head for what to do for part 2. but decided to go with what I thought the would should have been at the end of "part 1" and was right.

EDIT: Played around with some anagrams for answers which would not have required duplicating a number.. (Not salt, just exposition) Among them: Absentee, Barometer, Boomerang, Genome, Embargoes, Sweetener, or Waterborne

Great puzzle!

I had to do what [26] did, otherwise, to my brain it's just a bunch of letters. :-) Fun though!!

Wow, that turned out to be easier than I thought it would be. 5 min and few secs.