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Monday Mindbuster Answers
| December 9, 2019 | The toilet paper holder is blocking the drawer, at least when the roll is mostly full. By the time the roll has been mostly used up, it no longer blocks the door. Did you find another solution? Let us know! |
| December 2, 2019 | 1 acre. |
| November 25, 2019 | She'd have to buy at least 7 plates. |
| November 4, 2019 | 1,110. For a number to be divisible by 15 it must be divisible by both 3 and 5. A number is divisible by 3 only if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3, so the number in question must have three 1's in it. |
| October 21, 2019 | She had 13 pieces of candy. |
| October 7, 2019 | There were 11 rows (of 29 people). 319 = 11 x 29. Though less likely, there could also have been 29 rows of 11 people. |
| September 30, 2019 | Each of the eight three-letter words is an abbreviation for a U.S. airport: FAT=Fresno; OAK=Oakland; LAX=Los Angeles; SAT=San Antonio; DEN=Denver; SEA=Seattle; PIT=Pittsburgh; LIT=Little Rock. |
| September 23, 2019 | As long as you maintain a high enough speed, a wind foil will form across the top of the sunroof opening, keeping the passengers dry. The second driver either wasn't driving fast enough or slowed down, the rain pouring through the sunroof. |
| August 12, 2019 | There are 10 ways of choosing three sticks. Of those 10 ways, only 3 result in triangles: 2-3-4, 2-4-5, 3-4-5. |
| August 5, 2019 | The 35th season took place in 1999 in the 20th century. |
| July 8, 2019 | 5. The numbers in the second row give the number of distinct ways of scoring points in football. Here is the complete list: 1 /Impossible 2 /Safety 3 /Field goal 4 /Two safeties 5 /Field Goal & safety 6 /Two field goals; three safeties; one touchdown 7 /A field goal and two safeties; a touchdown with extra point 8 /Four safeties; two field goals and a safety; a touchdown and a safety; a touchdown plus two-point conversion 9 /Three field goals; a touchdown and a field goal/ a touchdown with extra point and a safety; field goal and three safeties. 10 /A touchdown with an extra point and a field goal; five safeties; two safeties and two field goals; a touchdown and two safeties; a touchdown with a two-point conversion and a safety. |
| June 10, 2019 | If you start with the first letter of each word and count every other letter, the result is also a word: REALIGN = Rain SHALLOT = Salt CHARRED = Card INDULGE = Idle |
| June 3, 2019 | All four men have numbers hidden in their names, either forward or backward, but in Steve Allen's case, the letters that spell the number aren't together. JAY LENO ALADIMIR LENIN LEN DEIGHTON |
May 13, 2019 | 26 x 1.04 = 26 + 1.04 |
| May 6, 2019 | 68 circles/checkers will fit, as long as you alternate columns. |
| April 8, 2019 | 14,850. Consider the lyric "99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer. Take 1 down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall" and so on. This equates to 99 + 99 + 1 + 98 and so on. |
| April 1, 2019 | 1 Across: STATE 3 Across: FAIRY 1 Down: STIFF 2 Down: EARLY -OR- 1 Across: RIVER 3 Across: DECAY 1 Down: RIGID 2 Down: RELAY |
| March 18, 2019 | 1000. |
| February 18, 2019 | (333/3)/3=37 -OR- 33+3+3/3=37 |
| February 11, 2019 | Morose, Indigo = Blue Gross, Major = Rank Hot Dog, Candid = Frank |
| February 4, 2019 | A total of 30 bricks (5 rows of 6 apiece). |
| January 28, 2019 | Face the music. |
| January 7, 2019 | Depends on how you arrange the numbers: 2 1 2 12 5 = CABLE 3 12 1 25 = CLAY |
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