Tanga - a One Word Wonder by interhawk

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Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:03 PM |

I have no clue!

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Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:04 PM |

It took you 3 minutes and 21 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 5th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.
Average solve time: 1 minute and 21 seconds.
Median solve time: 1 minute and 36 seconds

yayy! clever once you see what's going on.

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jerkstore

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:04 PM |

very cool puzzle. i was 4th.

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meruru

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:05 PM |

You were the 1st Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Yay :). Nice puzzle, Gilberto!

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jammer1001

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:06 PM |

It took you 3 minutes and 40 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 10th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

First top 10 ever! Woot!

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Dan999

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:06 PM |

It took you 4 minutes and 51 seconds to solve this puzzle.
You were the 11th Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

Sounds slightly familiar, but kind of cool

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EVDebs

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:08 PM |

I'm still stumped.

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Petru5

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:09 PM |

Do I need to cut this out?

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nrkii

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:09 PM |

I can't believe I figured this one out!

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Thosw

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:10 PM |

Bart: Heads up, Homer!

[throws ball, which hits him in the head]

Homer: Ow!

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mundane

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:16 PM |

It just clicked into place!

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A_Beaverhausen

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:19 PM |

I'm so lost with this one that I doubt that even my Girl Scout compass could help me.

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must67

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:19 PM |

So many clues to the correct answer. The theater setting is a ;ittle missleading but the text and the screen image tells the tale. It truly is right under your nose.

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Bearcat89

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:26 PM |

Finally understood the arrow/number clue. But I have no idea what the background image has to do with the solution. At least the AHA! moment was relatively salt-free.

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Coyotek4

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:29 PM |

Does this have to do with ZIP codes?

EDIT: nm; a two-word phrase on BGG did it for me. Nothing to do with ZIP codes whatsoever.

Cute.

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glsonn

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:29 PM |

38th. Yeah, veterans here kinda been there, done that. Shoulda seen it sooner.

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KeithBreach

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:31 PM |

39th! First ever Top 50. Yay me!

I'm really not sure how I got it. I thought I understood the arrows and numbers. It got me the first 3 letters, but I can't get the rest of the answer that way.

EDIT: Duh. I had the arrow/number thing wrong... I just happened to get something close enough to work! Got it now.

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r0xjo0

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:36 PM |

Rough. Got excited when I first saw this puzzle. Thought it was going to be a real dandy. Background could have been anything however. The theater doesn't really make any sense.

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princessproton

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:40 PM |

My printer was a major disadvantage for this puzzle...

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Hope2002

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:40 PM |

Is there anyone here to whom the clue is really true?

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Hanumann

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:41 PM |

[18] I think it has something to do with the rows of seats on either side of the center aisle.

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dajagr

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:43 PM |

I don't know how long I spent staring at things under my nose, trying to make sense of them.

...no, I take that back. It was 27 minutes and 18 seconds (with a few breaks here and there for getting my mind off things for a bit).

(And every time I see a puzzle like this, I try not to think about the New World Symphony.)

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Booalready

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:44 PM |

So cool. Would have been faster but my key is so cheap that the letters have rubbed off a bit.

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hld1970

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:51 PM |

My key is fine, it;'s my mind that has rubbed off a bit. Someone please geekmail me and put me out of my misery.

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jerkstore

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:51 PM |

[21] you couldn't be more wrong

hld what is your gm?

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bcgrote

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:57 PM |

very elegant, once you get the pattern!

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hld1970

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:58 PM |

Jerkstore- Nevermind, I had the letters but I made two words out of them instead of one.

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sandar

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:59 PM |

oh we're kickin' it old school. =) awesome puzzle.

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Skittles

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 07:59 PM |

Gottit! Think about what kind room it is. How could possible do with a key? Then you can solve it.

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leadfoot

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 08:07 PM |

The room looks like a theatre to me..

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davey

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 08:08 PM |

Got it in nine minutes, but spent most of that time staring at it trying to figure out the "key" clue. This is quite similar to a very early Tanga puzzle, but I didn't recognize it for a while.

Well done! Solvable, salt-free, and research-free!

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EVDebs

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 08:10 PM |

I solved it, but I don't get it (a post upthread gave it away for me). I've never been so clued out about a puzzle for which I've provided a correct solution!

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the_juice101

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 08:21 PM |

i can'
t figure it out. I'm a newbie so I'll check back in the morning.

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LoneWolf

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 08:22 PM |

I got it and then checked out BGG and was wondering what the heck "philtrum" has anything to do with this puzzle?

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leadfoot

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 08:33 PM |

[34] LoneWolf
philtrum is right under your nose literally - the bit between your lips and your nose, with the small cleft...

[edit] from wiki: The philtrum (Greek philtron, from philein, "to love; to kiss") is the vertical groove in the upper lip, formed where the nasomedial and maxillary processes meet during embryonic development."

and thx [36] princessproton

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princessproton

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 08:36 PM |

[34], [35]

That's what's beneath your nose but it has nothing to do with this puzzle (and it isn't what the clue is referring to). Don't take the garden path that I did thinking that it was saying "filter 'em"...

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brigand13

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 08:44 PM |

Yeah, and don't bother jumping on the "multiples of 9" train, either. It's headed north, when the answer is to the south.

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John

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 08:54 PM |

There's something vaguely Tetris-y about this puzzle.

Nice one Gilberto

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TGov

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 09:13 PM |

good one :)

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ahecht

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 09:14 PM |

hmm, it appears that my key is configured a bit differently than normal. That's what I get for using a laptop.

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Impr3ssion

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 09:33 PM |

I never did get the order right, but hey, that's what anagram programs are for, right?

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interhawk

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 09:41 PM |

I'm glad people are enjoying the puzzle.
The reason for the background picture is a subtle clue pointing towards the similarity in the arangement of the seats in a theater relative to one another and .....

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EVDebs

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:03 PM |

[42]That sort of makes sense, interhawk. But I remain puzzled by this puzzle, despite having "solved" it. Can't make head or tail of the numbers, the arrows, or the screen. And I think I'm only half getting the clue at the bottom. Given the fact I know the answer this makes me teh suxxor!

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MitchellW

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:05 PM |

I got the number and arrow clues. Not sure why there's Keys pictured in the theater though :-D

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jokermage

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:41 PM |

# It took you 11 minutes and 14 seconds to solve this puzzle.
# You were the 193rd Tanga member to solve this puzzle.

One of my better times, probably. >_>

For most of the 11 minutes I thought the arrows meant one thing, when they actually meant another. Once I gave up on my original thought and tried something else it came pretty quickly.

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quandaryus

Posted on Tue Mar 20, 2007 11:54 PM |

[41] The order of the numbers is from top to bottom.

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Bearcat89

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 04:17 AM |

I don't know if the key is right under your nose but it is probably right at your fingertips.

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bagherra

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 04:56 AM |

tetris doesn't seem to work...

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fachanlahd

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 05:26 AM |

Great puzzle! I got it pretty quickly because I remembered an earlier puzzle that used the same key. I certainly wasn't board by this one. Well done!

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bkxanon

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 08:11 AM |

I like it :)

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GaryL

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:14 AM |

I figured out the main trick and the meaning of the arrows, but I originally read the letters in the wrong order - I wrote down the entire left side first, then the right side. But at a glance, I could anagram the letters to the actual answer, and then in retrospect figured out in what order they were supposed to have been read.

It's a neat coincidence (at least I"m assuming it's a coincidence) that the particular word chosen as the final answer can be formed using this particular solving method.

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maluba

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:21 AM |

ARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!

i just FINALLY put in an answer that occured to me 12 hours ago. TWELVE HOURS AGO! and it was the right answer. but i thought, lo those many hours ago, "THIS can't be the answer. THIS isn't right under my nose. Maybe if I was solving this puzzle back in 1976 it would be, but certainly most people looking at this puzzle on their computers don't even HAVE one of these, let alone keep it under their nose.

argh. nice puzzle, but totally misleading clue. it would've been more accurate to say "the key probably ISN'T right under your nose, because you live in the 21st century."

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Devin8r

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:47 AM |

Sheesh! It took me long enough. Awfully salty there, maluba.
Once I got that hint, backsolving it was a piece of cake! I was close for a mighty long time--I just couldn't figure out what to do with the arrows (nice clue, though!).

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DJKuulA

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:51 AM |

Maluba, the KEY is under your nose -- not the ANSWER!

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shugyosha

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:07 PM |

It is actually NOT a coincidence that this word can be formed by this method. It was designed that way for salesmen to use.

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EVDebs

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 12:34 PM |

NOW I get this puzzle!

Took me only 16 hours after "solving" it to understand why the right answer was the right answer.

It's actually quite clever.

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maluba

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 03:07 PM |

[54] maybe i don't understand what the KEY is then, still. i thought i knew. it seemed that they were the same...

OH!

the key.

as in the key from the other hint. oh.

excuse me. i have to eat some words.

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mortt

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 03:28 PM |

oh, duh. I was stuck up on the "0" cause i was counting...once i really looked at the arrows it became quite clear.

nice puzzle!

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belibutn

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 06:05 PM |

wow, went pretty fast once I knew what the key was

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Rickj4029

Posted on Wed Mar 21, 2007 09:25 PM |

and this is logical how?

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humblegenius

Posted on Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:15 AM |

I don't like it. I figured out the "key" on my first guess, but it wasn't very clear what to do with it. The fact that the numbers are so jumbled is confusing, as well as the fact that the arrows point toward them instead of away from them. I don't know if I ever would have figured that out without looking at the solution. According to the official solution, there's a lot of random noise, but not enough of the necessary information.

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humblegenius

Posted on Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:20 AM |

Also, there's a lot of noise in here and not much useful salt.