One of my favorite radio shows is Car Talk. If you are a fan, you know that one of the Click ‘n’ Clack Tappet Brothers, Tom Magliozzi, passed away in 2014 due to complications of Alzheimer’s disease.
In honor of Tom, I start this Unofficial NSX Puzzler thread. Feel free to post puzzlers. While any puzzler is fair game, I would encourage you to come up with your own puzzlers. Let’s see how inventive we can be.
I’ll start:
On a beautiful spring Sunday, at just about noon straight up, a young couple was traveling home in their SUV, returning home from Grandma’s house. In the backseat were their two young children, and the family dog all the way in the back. It was a lovely day, Mom was driving, Dad was in the front passenger seat. They were on an Interstate highway, traffic was really light, and Mom was enjoying the relaxed drive, traveling just a few MPH below the posted speed limit. But. . . .
Since Grandma had pumped the kids full of M&M’s, they were still on a sugar high and were rambunctious. Dad was playing the car radio loudly, and the dog was in the back barking indiscriminately just to join in on the noise.
Mom wanted a peaceful ride, so she turned off the radio, and said to the kids “Let’s play the quiet game. If you guys can stay quiet for exactly ONE MINUTE, we’ll stop at the park playground on the way home.”
So, Mom was driving along, and counted down. “OK, 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . START!” The kids shut up, the dog laid down, and all that was heard was the quiet thrum of the engine and the tires rolling down the road.
EXACTLY one minute later, Mom said “OK, YOU DID IT, so we’ll stop at the park on the way home!”
Now, Dad says “How did you know that was exactly one minute? I know your wristwatch doesn’t have a second hand on it, you didn’t look at your smart phone, and the car’s digital clock has been broken for six months.”
Mom says “Oh, I knew.” Dad says “Oh, yeah?!? How?”
So, how did Mom know when exactly one minute had passed?
In honor of Tom, I start this Unofficial NSX Puzzler thread. Feel free to post puzzlers. While any puzzler is fair game, I would encourage you to come up with your own puzzlers. Let’s see how inventive we can be.
I’ll start:
On a beautiful spring Sunday, at just about noon straight up, a young couple was traveling home in their SUV, returning home from Grandma’s house. In the backseat were their two young children, and the family dog all the way in the back. It was a lovely day, Mom was driving, Dad was in the front passenger seat. They were on an Interstate highway, traffic was really light, and Mom was enjoying the relaxed drive, traveling just a few MPH below the posted speed limit. But. . . .
Since Grandma had pumped the kids full of M&M’s, they were still on a sugar high and were rambunctious. Dad was playing the car radio loudly, and the dog was in the back barking indiscriminately just to join in on the noise.
Mom wanted a peaceful ride, so she turned off the radio, and said to the kids “Let’s play the quiet game. If you guys can stay quiet for exactly ONE MINUTE, we’ll stop at the park playground on the way home.”
So, Mom was driving along, and counted down. “OK, 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . . START!” The kids shut up, the dog laid down, and all that was heard was the quiet thrum of the engine and the tires rolling down the road.
EXACTLY one minute later, Mom said “OK, YOU DID IT, so we’ll stop at the park on the way home!”
Now, Dad says “How did you know that was exactly one minute? I know your wristwatch doesn’t have a second hand on it, you didn’t look at your smart phone, and the car’s digital clock has been broken for six months.”
Mom says “Oh, I knew.” Dad says “Oh, yeah?!? How?”
So, how did Mom know when exactly one minute had passed?
