2007 Puzzlers

12-24	PUZZLER: To Our Fair City or Bust! The Mondelli family drove from New Jersey to Our Fair City to pay Tom and Ray a visit, making a pit stop along the way. What part of their car traveled the greatest distance?
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12-17	PUZZLER: Locking Out the KGB You need to send an important object to a friend in Russia in a locked box but you cannot send the key separately or along with the package or else the KGB will confiscate it. How do you do it?
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12-10	PUZZLER: The Case of a Counterfeit Twenty A man pays for a shirt with a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. If the twelve-dollar shirt cost the store almost seven dollars wholesale, how much money has the store lost?
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12-03	PUZZLER: A Weighty Weigh-In Ray takes two trips to the dump in his pickup. After the second trip, his truck weighs less empty than it did the first time. Why?
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11-26	PUZZLER: To Stop a Car Thief In the 1960s, a mechanic had a simple 10-second way to render a car theft-proof by reaching under the hood. What was he doing?
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11-19	PUZZLER: Name that Car! What three cars have plural model names?
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11-12	PUZZLER: Day at the Ballpark A photo of Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio standing side-by-side was taken at an All-Star Game. How can you tell?
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11-05	PUZZLER: The MPG Smackdown: The Clunker vs. the Hybrid Can a beat-up Plymouth Voyager get as good gas mileage as a new Prius?
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10-29	PUZZLER: All in the Family In a family, each daughter has the same number of brothers and sisters. Each son has twice as many sisters as brothers. How many brothers and sisters are in the family?
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10-22	PUZZLER: Tall Ships and Dangerous Cargo Back in the day of tall ships, there was an ordinary cargo which, if not stowed properly, could sink the ship in minutes and without warning. What was the cargo?
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10-15	PUZZLER: Red Light, Green Light What is one flaw of the new LED traffic light signals?
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10-08	PUZZLER: The Hunt for a Lone Stick Shift Walking past a row of parked cars, how can you tell if a vehicle has a manual transmission without looking inside the car?
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10-01	PUZZLER: The Asymmetric Commute The round-trip distance to work and home is 20 miles. Taking the shortest route both ways, it takes 5 miles to get to work but 15 miles on the way home. How can this be?
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09-24	PUZZLER: A Haircut in Horse Town, Part Deux A new law orders that every man in Horsetown must be clean shaven but there is only one barber. Who shaves the barber?A new law orders that every man in Horsetown must be clean shaven but there is only one barber. Who shaves the barber?
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09-17	PUZZLER: Crusty's Curious Conundrum How does Crusty diagnose a faulty window without even touching the customer's car?
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09-10	PUZZLER: The Un-Ordinary Bicycle Who was the person whose invention revolutionized the development of the bicycle?
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09-03	PUZZLER: For Whom the Dart Tows Tommy's car broke down, so why does he end up doing the towing?
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08-27	PUZZLER: Free Anniversary Dinner Why did the restaurant owner not believe the couple was celebrating their anniversary that day?
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08-20	PUZZLER: Paging All Junior Mathematicians How much do a hundred pounds of potatoes weigh after they've been sitting out in the sun for a while?
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08-13	PUZZLER: Tommy's Tick-Tock Troubles How did Tommy accurately set his home clock after his trip to the barber shop?
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08-06	PUZZLER: Where's Elsie? A man in a mysterious car steals one of Dougie's sheep. How does Dougie track down his beloved Elsie and the sheep-swiper?
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07-30	PUZZLER: Gus's Model Garage Two fire departments race their trucks at the county fair. What quick adjustment can one team make to make sure they win the race?
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07-23	PUZZLER: With This Hat, You're Hired! Three people are vying for a job. The boss blindfolds the job applicants and places colored hats on their heads. How do they know what color hat they are wearing?
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07-16	PUZZLER: Claudette's Exploding Bridge Conundrum What's the shortest time Claudette can get her injured comrades safely across the bridge?
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07-02	PUZZLER: Run Tommy Run! Tommy goes out for a two-hour jog, sometimes running 8 miles an hour, sometimes 12 miles an hour. How far does he run?
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06-25	PUZZLER: Seeing Double What word has three consecutive double letters?
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06-18	PUZZLER: The Gassy Case of a Stolen Chevy Car thieves steal a 1956 Chevrolet convertible. They stop at a gas station and pre-pay for 20-dollars worth of gas but leave the station without filling up. Why?
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06-11	PUZZLER: To Knit or Knot to Knit? Jeff's wife is knitting a scarf. How can Jeff determine how much more she can knit without knowing how much yarn she has?
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06-04	PUZZLER: Sell This! What common household item could double its sales by adding one word to the directions on the packaging?
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05-28	PUZZLER: Zen and the Art of Telling Time. Russell worries he's running late for dinner. How does his newly purchased book put his mind at ease that he's on time?
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05-21	PUZZLER: Tires 'R' Us The tires on Joe's Saturn have worn down evenly after 40,000 miles even though he's never rotated them. How can that be?
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05-07	PUZZLER: Bye Bye Bertha. In 1951, Aunt Bertha died of an illness that was common at that time, but no Americans have died of it since. What killed Aunt Bertha?
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04-30	PUZZLER: Wordplay Anyone? Find a common word that when you remove either the first or second letter, you end up with a perfect homophone of the original word.
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04-16	PUZZLER: What Comes Next? Ray gives a series of nine numbers followed by a blank. What's the next number in the series? And why?
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04-09	PUZZLER: Walk the Dog. A man and his aging dog set out for a walk up a hill. The dog walks at half the man's speed. What kind of dog is it? And how far does he walk?
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03-26	PUZZLER: One Clutch Away from Love. Why can't Mark jump start his pickup truck by rolling it down a hill to pop the clutch?
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03-19	PUZZLER: Getting to 100 Create an equation with a list of numbers from 1 to 9 that equals 100.
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03-12	PUZZLER: Pleased to Meet You! How did Bob know that Annie and her mother have the same name?
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02-26	PUZZLER: A Dictionary Dazzler There's a plural word in the English language that shares no letters in common with its singular version. Name both words.
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02-19	PUZZLER: Bugsy's Car Conundrum Bugsy is always full of stories about his many beloved cars, but how many cars does Bugsy really own?
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02-12	PUZZLER: Inflate This? A driver has a tire blow out on a lonely, desert road. Two teens fix the hole but have no air compressor to inflate the tire. Within minutes, the driver is back on the road. How do they inflate the tire?
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02-05	PUZZLER: What Do These Eight Words Have in Common? A list of eight words, share something unique in common. What is it?
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01-29	PUZZLER: Who's Shootin' Who? Mr. White is the worst shot, then Mr. Brown, then Mr. Black, who never misses. White goes first. At whom does he aim?
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01-22	PUZZLER: Can You Spot the Error? Can you spot the error in one of these three sentences?
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01-15	PUZZLER: The Shortest Day of 2007 Just like 2006, 2007 has 365 days. Of those 365 days, which day will be the shortest day?
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01-08	PUZZLER: Measuring Up Romania What part can you find on cars in Romania that still uses the British system of measurement?
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