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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:
189
TangaAl – Solves:
265
nocca – Solves:
295
jebediehard – Solves:
255
ethnosax – Solves:
290
armyknife – Solves:
397
armyknife – Solves:
243
armyknife – Solves:
174
armyknife – Solves:
233
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5 min in, 0 solves.
Okay, 1 solve.
7 minutes in, after five beers, I've tried four failed solve methods.
potato?
I have five letters, but they don't mean anything to me or Google.
Not potato, maybe spuds?
I entered "gibberish" but it doesn't take.
I can kind of see how the example works but I can't get any of the others to work.
I actually got this before getting the crypto (had 2nd line but not 1st line).
Though, truth be told, I only kinda sorta had the intended solve method.
I have no clue, I can't even see how the example works. Ok, I tried a few things, but they just didn't work.
no idea!
I am lost along with everyone else.
We need some "salty" spuds.
Is there a structured way to solve this or just trial/error (or brute-force) :-(
Nice one. Not easy as 1-2-3, but not as hard as solving the time-independent wave equation in closed form.
I'd give some salt, but I got it on a semi-random guess based on the background.
[15] Yeah, but you can read the solution now...
Let me just slide in here to say, there is a definite order-liness to this puzzle.
When it all falls into place you'll see the big picture.
[2] You had 5 beers in 7 minutes?
[17] My hero!
:: takes a bow ::
[17] That's some excellent salt there. I was struggling to come up with a hint without giving everything away.
[21] Me too, that's why I just resorted to cracking jokes
Is it some kind of freakish sudoku?
thanks [17]!
[23] No, not at all. Think back to your youth....then go read comment #17.
I think 17 goes as far as possible without giving it away.
Cool! This one was a lot of fun!
The only thing I can think of in relation to [25] gives me the same result for all the boxes but the first one.
Did anyone solve this the way it was intended? I finally guessed.
Very clever. Bravo.
JoJo, Loretta: If you two didn't get this one, get back to me for a clue. Use the phone if you need to.
[28] Well, yes....but HOW did you get there?
[23]. Went way back. 10 cents for movie and popcorn doesn't fit.
Yeah, I almost kicked this back to armyknife to ask for a better example... but when I sat and thought about it, there really aren't other "better" examples you could use.
SALTY SALT
Suffice to say you are not connecting the dots as much as you are putting things back to the way they should be.
[33] ROFL.
[32] I must not be doing what you're talking about because I don't understand that question.
Okay got it from Arnott's salt and the first 3 letters. I don't know what game from my childhood this is supposed to resemble, but it's not Tic-Tac-Toe which is what I was originally trying.
[37] No, not Tic-Tac-Toe. Think "puzzle".
Salt from [17] & [25] finally fell into place. I actually ended up solving as intended.
Ah, thanks Arnott!
Just barely slid in under 100! This was a tough one! Arnott's salt finally got me there!
Finally got it. Thanks to salty-salt. I'd tried similar things, but not quite the right thing.
Whew. Got here 20 min late and still made it in the top 100.
[2] Oh yes... there are quite a few solve methods. Too bad only one of them works. :-)
Tic-tac-toe didn't work. Connect the dots didn't work. All the different types of tangaing I could try, with and without various types of arithmetic didn't work.
i get where this is going with [17] and [25] but i still can't get it... is the example supposed to be used for all of them?
Semaphores didn't work either. I did notice one thing that seems to fit with the salt above, but I'm probably overthinking it.
Finally had the 'aha' great puzzle, got my brain working early today.
[34] Thanks. 'Connecting the dots' + 'putting things back' worked for me.
[15] The background looks alot like the wallpaper in Graceland's Jungle Room. I think the answer is "Elvis".
[45] No. The example shows you what the missing letter in the word "example" would look like if you coded it according to this method. You use it to figure out what the method is and then apply the method to the other grids to get letters.
[37] I think the puzzle that soccer_ref is referring to is one of those little plastic 3x3 grids that has little squares that slide around. It's not quite the same thing because, with those, one of the squares is missing (otherwise you wouldn't be able to slide them around to form the picture or put the numbers in order). The solve method isn't quite that anyway since that might use a more circuitous route to get them in order. This puzzle is much more direct.