http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/ Historic, folkloric and sometimes even automotive-- test your cranial power against the weekly puzzler from National Public Radio's Car Talk. 2008, Dewey, Cheetham and Howe 2008, Dewey, Cheetham and Howe http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/ The Car Talk Social Club has 500 members. For an upcoming event, tickets were 14-dollars for new members, and 20-dollars for old members. All the new members attended but only 70-percent of the old members went. How much did the Club make on ticket sales? Mon, 12 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/ 2008-05-12T04:00:00Z http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200818/index.html John buys a new car 21 miles away and has a plan to pick it up: He drives his old car 21 miles north, parks it, gets the new car and drives that one mile south. He then locks it up, walks back north one mile to the dealer, picks up his old car and drives Mon, 05 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200818/index.html 2008-05-05T04:00:00Z http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200817/index.html A truck is stuck in a narrow alley with a dead battery. Another truck arrives but cannot reach the battery of the first truck with jumper cables. How do the drivers restart the first engine within just a few minutes? Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200817/index.html 2008-04-28T04:00:00Z http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200816/index.html Going down a long, steep grade, a car was gaining speed at an alarming rate even though the driver was in low gear - he had to use the brakes nearly the entire way down. Why did he have to use the brakes? And why didn’t first gear slow down the car? Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200816/index.html 2008-04-21T04:00:00Z http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200814/index.html You have two lengths of fuse and each takes exactly 1 hour to burn. But the fuses don’t burn evenly and they’re both likely to be different. Using only these two fuses and a cigarette lighter, how do you measure 45 minutes? Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200814/index.html 2008-04-07T04:00:00Z http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200813/index.html A woman and her mother can reverse the digits in their ages. For example, if she is 37 her mother is 73. They have been able to do that six times in the past and could do it twice more in the future. How old is the woman now? Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200813/index.html 2008-03-31T04:00:00Z http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200812/index.html A ship and its boiler have a combined age of 42 years. The ship is twice as old as the boiler was when the ship was as old as the boiler is now. How old are they? Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200812/index.html 2008-03-24T04:00:00Z http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200811/index.html A woman calls her husband to remind him to do the grocery shopping. She asks him a normal question, which if she had asked it twenty or thirty years ago, he would have thought she was crazy. What was the question? Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200811/index.html 2008-03-17T04:00:00Z http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200810/index.html A student is asked if the following number is a perfect square: 334,912,740,121,562. Crusty knows the answer immediately. What does Crusty know? Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200810/index.html 2008-03-08T05:00:00Z http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200809/index.html A man goes to Vegas to gamble at a casino that requires a one-dollar entry and exit fee. The man plays the slots for three days, each day losing half his money, finally ending up broke. How much money did he start with? Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200809/index.html 2008-03-03T05:00:00Z