How to Play
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).












January 2012 Puzzlethon - Puzzle #1 of 24
This puzzle is part of a 24-hour, one-puzzle-per-hour Puzzlethon that started on Friday night at 7PM. Anyone who solves all 24 puzzles by 7PM on Saturday will be entered into a drawing for a nifty prize.
phenomenal!
Very nice jebediehard!
I really liked this one...thought it was going to be too easy, but then found and loved the twists
Very cool one
I got the first step, but when I did it I got 4 words?
edit: Got it. Thanks.
Nice, nice, nice, Jeb! Kept turning down different corners and enjoyed discovering the clues along the way! Great start to the 'thon!
[6] Keep going!!
[6] Have you made use of everything in the puzzle?
Very, very nice!
Argh! You're trying to kill me. Lather, rinse repeat. Nice one jebediehard!
Fun, fun, fun!
bravo! great puzzle. best one ever perhaps.
Awful :)
And so it begins!
[14] You're so mean! ;-)
Excellent!! Helps to intuit how many times to do what the first step advises... Loved it!
[13] I felt very similarly when I had the great honor of modding this one. I simply loved it!
I agree with all of you. It's no accident that I started the 'thon with this one. Heh, just remember that around, say 3 or 4 in the morning, okay?
107th... lead down the wrong trail with a bad word choice.
Excellent puzzle.
Great puzzle!
AND , , , THEY'RE OFF!
Good start jeb.
Great puzzle!
Was hoping you would start out easy. NOT! How do you know which four words to put on the right side.? Got the first step though.
[24] You need to get the second step and then you'll know what to do with the right side.
Off topic. Should I be insulted there is a monkey as my picture?
Absolute love word puzzles. That was great Jeb. Needed Sonjahi help to get it tho.
??? Maybe Ihad too many preschoolers today, but I'm not sure what path to start down. I have 2 possiblilties...............Anybody?
Edit:You solved this puzzle in 1 hour, 29 minutes and 35 seconds
On my screen it looks like most of the spaces on the right don't exactly line up with a single space on the left. Is that my eyeballs, a flakiness of the graphic creation, or design?
[29] They're not supposed to line up. You have to use what you get from the second step to fill in the right spaces.
Was I the only one who didn't immediately realize the words were already in order? I did the hypercross first because of that!
They don't need to line up. You get those words another way (something else lines up).
[30] I was about 5 minutes in when I realized they could be... were... in order.
[31] I got the first alignment... Guess I'm currently stuck between steps 1 & 2. Misunderstood what the first clue referenced, I guess.
Edit -- got the 2nd step... Whew!
Wish I'd gotten here sooner on this one. But at least I'm "really clever." :) It just occurred to me to do...that.
WOW... I'm very impressed that you were able to get the first two steps to work that way.
Argh! I've got a second word list, but I can't seem to make that work.
Update: Evidently I can't count. Thanks for the pointing that out, Arnott.
It won't take my answer :( I could have sworn I had it correct.....
Edit....DUH! LOL :)
Great puzzle!
Thanks :)
Great puzzle.
So bummed I missed the puzzlethon- I was out of the country. Wahh.
I finally got around to this ... it was amazing! I am in awe.