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12-9 Special Aviation Puzzler
Why did the pilots intentionally cause the planes to backfire?
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12-2 Crusty's Trip to Coleslawvania
How could Crusty's wife tell a person spoke English just be looking?
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11-25 Landscaping Trees
How can four rows of five trees each equal 10 trees?
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11-18 Man & Woman Walking
How can a man and woman walk together and travel different distances?
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11-11 The Empty Brake Fluid Can
What one question will reveal what's wrong with the car?
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11-4 Partying with Bill Gates...and a Coin-Toss Quandary
Can a person call a coin-toss correctly 10 out of 10 times?
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10-28 Bicycle Murder-Suicide
How did the inspector know that "the gardener did it"?
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10-21 Jealous Neighbors
What is the smallest number of moves needed for each neighbor to move to another apartment?
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10-14 Skipping CD
How could moving a CD player from living room to kitchen make it malfunction?
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10-7 Algebraic Baseball Puzzler
How could Popeye win a batting average wager when Bluto batted better than him?
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9-30 Combat Boots
Based on the number of combat boots worn, what's the population of Babba?
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9-23 Bicycle Puzzler
Who was the person who's invention revolutionized the development of the bicycle?
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9-16 Poker Hand
What hand did Ray's wife draw to win the game?
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7-7 Restaurant Bill
How many people were in the original group?
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7-1 Locomotive Puzzler
Why was it necessary for the locomotive have 80 carts?
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6-24 Starting Problem
What was causing the car not to start?
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6-17 Problem at Ford Plant
What was causing the dead batteries at the Ford plant?
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6-10 The Bridge of Tom and Ray
How did the driver make it across the bridge?
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6-3 Baseball Team Hats
What's the probability that 19 out of 20 kids get their hat?
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5-20 Putrid Puzzler
Who Am I?
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5-13 Coin Puzzler
Can you pick a bogus coin out of 50 coins?
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5-6 Crusty's Puzzler
How did Crusty get his car started?
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4-29 A Genuine Automotive Puzzler
Can you figure out the solution to this brake problem?
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4-22 Special Limerick Edition Puzzler
Can you come up with the missing four lines of this limerick?
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4-15 Maritime Puzzler
What was causing the boat engine not to start?
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4-8 Case of Two Bedouins and a Broken Car
How do the Bedouins tow the broken down vehicle?
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4-1 Case of Two Bedounins and a Dead Man
Two Bedouins find a dead man and his belongings scattered around the desert. What happened?
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3-25 Case of Chicken Soup
Ray is delivering chicken soup. Why wasn't he concerned about the soup spilling?
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3-11 Case of German Fan Belt
How did the soldiers figure out a way to extend the life of a fan belt?
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3-4 Case of Melting Sorbet
Couple is transporting sorbet to a wedding. What happened on the way?
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2-26 Going Fishing
How many fish did the guys catch?
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2-19 Popping Pills
How do you avoid a dangerous drug overdose?
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2-12 Too-Good-To-Be-True Used Car
A couple is shopping for a used car. How does the woman know the salesman was lying to them about the car?
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2-5 Kent's Exploding Ford Aerostar
What caused Kent's engine to make a laud bang and die down?
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1-29 Vinnie Goombatz and the 247 Arm Wrestlers
How many matches will have to be fought to determine a single winner?
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1-22 Case of the Whacked Out Clock
Can you figure out if the clock is broken?
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1-15 Camping in the Woods
How do you measure exactly two gallons of water with 13 and 7-gallon jugs?
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1-8 Deserted Island
Fire is burning up the island. How do you save your butt?
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