1999 Puzzlers

12-18	Pulsing Brakes What caused the reoccurring brake problem?
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12-11	Brass Bar Puzzler What building has doors with 3 horizontal brass strips?
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12-4	Fair Maiden Rowena and Three Boxes Which box has a picture of the beautiful Rowena?
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11-27	Locomotive Puzzler See if you can figure this mathematical problem out.
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11-20	Prediction Puzzler Should you invest 10 grand to receive a prediction for Super Bowl winner?
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11-13	World War I Puzzler, Number A Why did the number of head injuries increase after soldiers cloth caps were replaced with metal helmets?
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11-6	Fire Truck Race What adjustment did Gus Wilson make on one of the fire trucks enabling it to win the race?
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10-30	Quasi-Automotive Puzzler How can a race driver measure time without using any kind of clock or timepiece?
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10-23	String Puzzler, Number B Get your strings and Zippo lighter ready to measure time.
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10-16	Presidential Puzzler Which of the following president's mothers did not vote for her own son?
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10-9	Automotive Puzzler Why is Pete having problems diagnosing a vacuum leak on an old Chevy?
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10-2	Gastrointestinal Puzzler How does Ray find relief to his late-night gastrointestinal problems?
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9-25	Matchstick Puzzler Get your matchsticks ready and see if you can figure this equation out.
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7-10	Antonym Puzzler Can you think of two words that are their own antonyms?
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7-3	Crusty's Wedding Can Crusty extract the fallen screw from the distributor? Will he make it to the church on time?
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6-26	Matchstick Puzzler Another matchstick Puzzler. Ready to make a Roman numeral equation out of matchsticks or toothpicks?
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6-19	Paragraph Puzzler Look very carefully and pinpoint the peculiarity of this paragraph.
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6-12	Bloody Brakes: Why couldn't John bleed the brakes properly?
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6-5	Billy Bob's 50-cent Habit: What's the simple repair needed to end his twice-daily stops at the gas station?
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5-29	Life of a Salesman Puzzler Why does this traveling salesman always get stuck with the second floor?
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5-22	High Caliber Puzzler Why does this traveling salesman always get stuck with Why would the Japanese develop a .31 caliber rifle?
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5-22	Cryptic Messages When Ray's teacher wrote E I L N P U on the blackboard, what did it mean?
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5-22	Guess our WEIGHT Can you guess the car behind this license plate -- "WEIGHT"?
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5-15	Insta-Lawn Can you figure out the best time to plant an insta-lawn?
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5-8	Roommate Puzzler How did Ray locate his long lost roommate at the airport?
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5-1	President Puzzler Name three of the first five presidents who died on the Fourth of July?
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4-24	String Puzzler, Number A How can you measure time with two pieces of burning string?
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4-17	Collapsing Clutch Why does this guy's clutch cable keep breaking?
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4-10	Larry's VW What repair did Larry do to his VW Beetle that enabled the car to run perfectly OK for six weeks and then burst into flames when he got back to college?
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4-3	Man-made Object What man-made object first broke the sound barrier?
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3-27	Tom Hoofs it home How long was Tom walking home from the train before his wife picked him up?
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3-20	Stack The Deck: A probability puzzler with two decks of cards.
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3-13	Get Our Your Matchsticks Another clever match stick puzzler.
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3-6	The Great War Invention What discovery is hidden on the clothes of two inventers?
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2-27	Match Math Strike up your math skills with this matches puzzler.
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2-20	Slippin' and Slidin' Ray's hoping this VW won't make it up the hill, but the driver
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2-13	Manny The Miracle Worker An old lady comes into the shop and tells a long tale of woe.
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2-6	Fathers and Sons? Who is who in this puzzling family puzzler?
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1-30	A minister, a doctor, and a plumber How did the off-duty officer know who-dun-it?
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1-23	Household Task Why doesn't 50 or 125 work for this common task but 90 does?
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