Can you solve this week's puzzler?

View in browser » Beets and Hondas Puzzler time.  Okay, this one is weird. I will fully admit that. Here we go.  The President of the California Free Range Beet Growers Association is taken hostage. Due to his position of great prestige, a full blown manhunt is set in motion. Eventually, police surround an underground parking garage in San Bernardino where they believe His Eminence is being held. There are four cars inside the garage, one of which belongs to the kidnapper and contains the hostage. The other three, a Nissan, a Ford and a Buick, all belong to innocent shoppers returning from a long afternoon of shopping at the mall.  The kidnapper, knowing that he's surrounded, decides to let the hostage go. But he wants to do so without giving up his identity. So he decides to release his hostage in the stairway of the garage and then run back to his car and blend in with the other innocent motorists getting in and out of their cars. And he's going to drive away.  The hostage is blindfolded this whole time. He has no idea where he is, what kind of a car he was kidnapped in, nothing. He can tell nothing from the sound of the engine.  The kidnapper turns the car off, leaves the keys in the ignition, opens the door and then leads the blindfolded hostage to the stairwell. He takes the hostage to the top of the landing on the stairs and leaves him there.  He runs back down, hops in his car and pretends that he's just another shopper leaving the garage.   The Buick leaves the garage first, the Ford goes out second, and the kidnapper in his Honda Accord leaves the garage next.  As he emerges from the garage, he is arrested on the spot, charged and eventually convicted. The hostage had called the police and let them know that the kidnapper was driving a Honda, so they were able to apprehend him immediately.  How did he know he was kidnapped in a Honda?  This hint is, he used to be a boy scout.  Good luck. Answer the Puzzler » Remember last week's puzzler? How to Hum This one is middle of the road, not amazing but not awful.  Here we go. Very few people know that we had a barber shop quartet at the garage, even though we had six guys. And the reason it was a quartet is that a few of the guys didn't know how to sing. So one of the guys decides he's going to go to the library and he is going to get a book on how to sing. He quickly realizes that he is so bad at singing, that he has to start at square one, so he decides to learn how to hum first. He figures if he learns how to hum, he might have a good shot at learning how to sing after that.  So, he goes to the library. He has never been to the library before, so he doesn't know anything about the Dewey Decimal System or the card catalog. He knows nothing so he just walks around. He walks all the aisles until he finds a book that says, "How To Hum." He says, "Great." Takes the book, he sits down at a table and begins to read. There is nothing in the book at all about singing, music, or how to hum. What was the book that he pulled off the shelf? Find out here » Congratulations to this week's puzzler winner:  zarkinj Congratulations! This correct answer was chosen at random by our Web Lackeys. Cartalk.com Community This Week's Show Podcast Add to address book Unsubscribe from list Email preferences Shameless Commerce Care of WBUR, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 Contents © 2025, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.

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Can you solve this week's puzzler?

View in browser » How to Hum Time for the puzzler.  This one is middle of the road, not amazing but not awful.  Here we go. Very few people know that we had a barber shop quartet at the garage, even though we had six guys. And the reason it was a quartet is that a few of the guys didn't know how to sing. So one of the guys decides he's going to go to the library and he is going to get a book on how to sing. He quickly realizes that he is so bad at singing, that he has to start at square one, so he decides to learn how to hum first. He figures if he learns how to hum, he might have a good shot at learning how to sing after that.  So, he goes to the library. He has never been to the library before, so he doesn't know anything about the Dewey Decimal System or the card catalog. He knows nothing so he just walks around. He walks all the aisles until he finds a book that says, "How To Hum." He says, "Great." Takes the book, he sits down at a table and begins to read. There is nothing in the book at all about singing, music, or how to hum. What was the book that he pulled off the shelf? Good luck. Answer the Puzzler » Remember last week's puzzler? The Tricky Truck It's time for the new puzzler. And I thought I would use an automotive puzzler. This is a real, actual true story, because it happened to none other than yours truly. This one has to do with my old truck.  My son comes to me years ago, my older son, Louie, who had been driving my truck, and he says, "Dad, there's something wrong with the truck." I said, "What, is it out of gas again?" And he says, "No, no. I start the thing up in the morning and I drive it. And then he radio stops working, the whole radio won't work. The whole thing is dead. And I drive it for a little bit, and it comes on all by itself, and it goes off again. It is all messed up." So, I decide I am going to fix the truck. So, I take the truck into the shop the next morning. And while I am driving, I notice that the radio indeed stops working. But I also notice something else. Something really interesting. When I step on the gas, it stops working. When I take my foot off the gas and go to step on the brake, it starts working again. Then when I take my foot off the brake, and step on the gas, it stops working again.  So I think to myself, this will be easy to fix. It must be a loose wire under the dash. When I step on the gas, the throttle cables must be hitting this loose wire causing the radio to stop working. Simple.  So when I get to the shop, I spend 2 hours working on this truck. There is no loose wire. There is constant current going to the radio. I can't find any reason that this might be happening. The truck appears to work perfectly. The radio works fine. I can't recreate the problem in the garage. So, I give up on the truck for the day. As I am driving the thing home, the same thing happens, of course. So on this drive home I am fiddling with everything on the dash. And I discover that when I pushed in the cigarette lighter, the radio worked. I pulled out the cigarette lighter, the radio stopped working. So, I put the lighter in, and I hold it in. I don't let it pop out, and the radio works the whole time. Until the cigarette lighter fuse blows and then the radio stops working again.  I continue the drive home and I realize at that moment, that I can't see a thing. All of a sudden, both headlights have stopped working.  And just then, I realize what is happening.  And the puzzler is, what is going on here? Find out here » Congratulations to this week's puzzler winner:  wrightme61 Congratulations! This correct answer was chosen at random by our Web Lackeys. Cartalk.com Community This Week's Show Podcast Add to address book Unsubscribe from list Email preferences Shameless Commerce Care of WBUR, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 Contents © 2025, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.

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