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One Word Wonders are puzzles where the answer to the puzzle is exactly one word. For a better idea on how to solve this puzzle see an example
wants to try to stump you with this puzzle that was published on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:00 PM
Wants to stump you with this puzzle:
How to play: Answer this puzzle with exactly one word.
Wants to stump you with this puzzle:
How to play: Answer this puzzle with exactly one word.
Wants to stump you with this puzzle:
How to play: Answer this puzzle with exactly one word.
Wants to stump you with this puzzle:
How to play: Answer this puzzle with exactly one word.
Wants to stump you with this puzzle:
How to play: Answer this puzzle with exactly one word.
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60 Comments
jmcintyre
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:03 PM |
2nd. And just passed the 10,000 point mark!
ninjoo
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:08 PM |
Hmmm....too many things to send you in the wrong direction...still, I got #6, but there's no need for the confusion, really.
nrkii
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:08 PM |
which colors matter?
trumanj
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:10 PM |
what's the center image?
Arnott
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:12 PM |
I can't figure out the car or the center.
trumanj
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:13 PM |
[5] car is made in italy
ninjoo
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:14 PM |
center is also a major airline
heatherlouwho
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:14 PM |
Yeah. I got all the names, but the letters don't make any sense. Any salt out there?
fachanlahd
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:15 PM |
The center is not any specific place. It's more of what it is showing.
BigSlick
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:17 PM |
yeah, I think I have all the words (airline and Italian cars are good salt) but no clue what to do with 'em. What I thought made sense, doesn't. Unless I have the wrong word for the bottom right-hand corner; I suppose that could be a few different things if we aren't looking for the person.
at8ax
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:18 PM |
Okay, I got it, but I don't get it. If the stack of colored squares is supposed to be helpful, it ain't. (And I still don't know what the car is.)
trumanj
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:18 PM |
You solved this puzzle in 14 minutes and 39 seconds and were the 24th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 87 points for solving this.
I had center wrong at first...thanks for the salt.
rmcelroy
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:19 PM |
For the lower right, is it the person or what he's holding?
at8ax
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:19 PM |
I take it back. I keyed to the wrong colors.
ESQuire
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:20 PM |
Woohoo! 27th!
[10] We are NOT looking for the person in the lower right image... at least not the human person.
blahmcblah
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:20 PM |
I still can't get the center, and even if I do I don't think it makes any sense for what I have...
Murdoctor
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:22 PM |
The fact that the clues spell out "RADIO" is a bad red herring. And ordering from the bottom-up is a little unusual.
fachanlahd
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:23 PM |
[16] you'll see a lot of the center ones in Vietnam or possibly Louisiana or Mississippi
Arnott
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:24 PM |
Hmmm... a perfectly okay puzzle really muddled up by some poor image choices and an unnecessary red herring-ish extra color scheme.
fachanlahd
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:24 PM |
[17] RADIO isn't necessarily a red herring. In fact it's a bit of salt to help figure out the images.
dragontrainer
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:25 PM |
[17] I agree with you on the "RADIO" spelling, but the ordering is correct (you just need to see the right colors, which I didn't for a long time...)
JLRobert
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:25 PM |
52nd Place. Worth 58 points.
I didn't know the car by sight, but rather by its logo.
As for the center...remember your geography classes back in grade school?
Alba
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:26 PM |
3rd on hard, and still banging my head on this one. I got RADIO like Murdoctor [17], but now what?
dragontrainer
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:27 PM |
[20] I agree with you to a point, but you need to know all the images to get that word. That said, it will tie the puzzle together and show the pictures aren't too bad if you catch the theme.
fachanlahd
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:27 PM |
By the way this was the second puzzle I ever created and it sat there for a very long time. I was kind of surprised to see it posted tonight.
steph_frolin
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:27 PM |
The car is there in the photo, the name that is. I have gibberish, got the middle, think I have the gold guy.
heatherlouwho
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:29 PM |
ok. I have something wrong. Any salt on the kissy one?
hatemachine
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:31 PM |
You solved this puzzle in 28 minutes and 8 seconds and were the 99th Tanga member to solve it.
blahmcblah
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:31 PM |
Got it, but it still doesn't make any sense how they're ordered. And I STILL don't really know the center or the car.
JLRobert
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:33 PM |
[27] Upper left is NOT with Rapunzel. LOL
steph_frolin
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:33 PM |
120th...I see the need for the colors now, fun puzzle
blahmcblah
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:36 PM |
[31] I don't see the need for the colors. Why are they there if you need to anagram afterward anyway? This puzzle is just full of red herrings.
scoutmom
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:37 PM |
[27] He needs to deny his father...
heatherlouwho
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:38 PM |
[30] Doesn't help me. Sorry.
Yollege
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:39 PM |
Woo-hoo. 5000 points.
blahmcblah
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:39 PM |
[34] Think Shakespeare, love stories, etc.
heatherlouwho
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:40 PM |
[36] OH! Thanks!
BigSlick
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:42 PM |
Fell for the red herring (or should I say the multi-colored herring) and also spelled the car wrong.
heatherlouwho
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:42 PM |
137th. I can sleep now, but this was not my favorite EOWW. I still don't get the theme. <sigh>
heatherlouwho
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:44 PM |
And, what's with the keyboard/mixer in the background? VERY cryptic, FachenLahd
trumanj
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 07:55 PM |
[35] welcome to the STU club, you'll start to notice slight changes in your behavior and appearance, don't worry they are normal...
escKey
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 08:19 PM |
I was distracted by the color of the numbers.
Alkara
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:20 PM |
199th to solve. I got the pictures, theme, numbers, colors.. and being an amateur radio operator, RADIO jumped out at me. Seems I was spinning my wheels until I finally got the answer by guessing what word the first 4 letters I got might make when the 5th didn't make sense, sorry, but I have to give an "F" for the unusual spelling required by one picture choice.
BTW, by using all the clues in the puzzle, anagramming is not necessary.
zodiaccat
Posted on Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:16 PM |
211th to solve. I still don't know what the upper-right picture was supposed to be, but if you get all the rest of the clues, you don't need it.
okmaybenot
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 02:15 AM |
I got messed up by thinking the top left was the action, not the man.
whitastic
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 04:15 AM |
Hmmm, the first "Weird One Worder"
fachanlahd
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 05:26 AM |
So I updated the colored numbers so they are not so confusing (I Think).
As for the weird spelling there are two legitimate spellings for that word (at least I believe so...I saw both spelling all over the internet repeatedly). It was easier to find an image for one type of spelling over the other so that's what I chose.
Sorry some people didn't like this puzzle, but like I said it was the second puzzle I ever created and thus, possibly (or obviously?), not my best work.
jwiv
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 05:38 AM |
Not bad. Once I figured out the colors, it all came together. And as people have said, no anagramming was required.
mszatlanta
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 05:39 AM |
Frustating puzzle. Went from interesting and hard, to just frustrating and annoying.
spamwise
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 06:02 AM |
I agree with [43] on the spelling issue.
Expecially misleading to me, given that the other 4 of the FIVE shared an attribute, which, using an alternate spelling, all FIVE shared. Here's what things turned out to be (looks better in fixed width):
lover
auto
water
place
award
Anyway, fun puzzle. (Just a bit more challenging when 20% of your solving supplies turn out to be inaccurate.)
spamwise
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 06:10 AM |
[47] I am aware that both spellings exist. (Well aware, in fact. I had a hypercross that made use of this list and there was an uprising back then too.) I'm awful at car identification, so, at first, I assumed the car was a Toyota "E". Then, saw the logo was wrong, so decided it must be a Fiat "B" (which fit the mold of the other 4). Then, with salt, learned many people discovered radio somewhere, so I deduced my car must be wrong. Just put in what I thought it was called (which, again, matched the mold) and continued to be stuck. (I sorted in all ways I could imagine, including full blown anagram, but, with one character wrong, I was stuck.)
Again, totally valid, and, had I actually found your image, and stuck with what was provided, it would have been an easy solve. I'm not too worried that this experience will deter you, given that this was your second puzzle created and I know I've solved many of your other fine works.
fachanlahd
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 06:28 AM |
This puzzle sat for months in my submitted puzzle page. I emailed Aaron a few times about even. I guess he saw some of the problems with it. After a few months I went back and tinkered with it more and it still sat for almost an entire year. It's weird because I tangagrammed Aaron about a cryptopix I just made trying to bring attention that one, so I was surprised to see this puzzle posted today (not to mention an earlier cryptopix I made). The really funny thing is that I came very close yesterday evening to actually deleting the puzzle entirely because I was sick of looking at it and figured it would never get published. (Considering all the complaints about it maybe it shouldn't have.) But all in all, I'm glad it got published because I think it still is an ok puzzle (not my best, but ok).
jeffg
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 06:59 AM |
Seems like an OK puzzle to me. I found three of the letters obvious, the order was given, and only one word fit those three. I assume most would find a different three obvious (after all, the car is named in the image, not that I noticed it until trying to backsolve), and those three should make guessing the answer pretty easy.
sjlee
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 07:29 AM |
After reading much of the salt and solving it, I have the following seasoning to help anyone left...
1. Colors are useful, but unnecessary.
2. [36] is good salt for upper left.
3. Car model is not needed (it's a 159), just the maker.
4. If you need salt for the center picture, see [7] and [18].
5. Order of pictures is irrelevant.
6. The background picture wasn't helpful to solve, but I figured out what it was with the answer.
pandapal
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:46 PM |
Finally got it. All the talk about "radio" sure threw me off....
dlandon2000
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:53 PM |
Ok I know I have the correct names for each, but when I use the numbers shown on each picture I don't get anything usefull. So then I tried using the numbers whose color matches the picture and I got different letters but no more usefull.
DrewO
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 01:59 PM |
[56] That's right where I am. I know that doesn't really help but at least you know that you're not alone.
dlandon2000
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 01:39 PM |
[57] thanks that does help! :)
debsprpldragon
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 05:08 PM |
<<<pulling hair out
zyzzva
Posted on Fri Jan 18, 2008 07:05 PM |
wheres the new one?
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