Thursday, September 8, 2022

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This Week's Puzzler

The Essence of Brevity

This puzzler is the essence of brevity.

We will just get right into it, no need to drag it out. Ready?

My son's father is your father's only child. What relative of yours am I?

That's it. That's the whole thing. This is sort of like the "Whose on first? Whose on third" type riddles. 

Brevity! Gotta love that part of it.

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Remember last week's puzzler?

The Phantom Wet Spot

This puzzler comes from a listener in Plano, Texas. And I'm just gonna read it as he sent it. Here it is, in its grueling entirety... Kidding! It is pretty brief. But it is a good one!

He said, "I was working a little late in my office building one summer afternoon, although I couldn't see outside from where I was working. I heard thunder and figured it might be raining. When I left the building, I noticed my car had beads of water and there were a few wet spots around so there had been a light rain. It clearly hadn't rained much because it did not cool the air and the sun was shining again. As I was unlocking the door of my car, I noticed a wet spot in the space next to me. The space was empty, as were many parking spaces since most people that are already left. The thing I noticed was that the wet spot exactly fit the outline of a car. I started driving home but my mind was working on that wet spot. It seemed backwards somehow. If a car was sitting in the parking space when the rain came and was moved after the rain stopped, one would expect a dry spot. Not a wet spot. It would be a dry spot in the middle of surrounding wetness. But I had seen a wet spot in the middle of a surrounding dryness!"

So that is the whole thing. That is all you have to go on.

What was it that happened here?

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Congratulations to this week's
puzzler winner:

Jim Peterson

Congratulations! This correct answer was chosen at random by our Web Lackeys.

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