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WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD
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WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD RAY: This puzzler was sent in recently by a fellow named Aaron Ahouvian. And it came pre-obfuscated!Aaron writes, "My work takes me to Padua, Italy. One night after work I went with some friends to dinner in the nearby village of Este. We had to catch the last train home to P...
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Car Talk - Seize the Truck
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Seize the Truck RAY: I'm driving down the highway and I see way up ahead one of those diesel tractor trailers spewing from its smoke stacks the vilest, blackest, thickest, most acrid smoke imaginable. And as luck would have it, I'm closing in on the guy and I realize that after a minute or so that he's p...
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Puzzler
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WINGIN' IT RAY: The other day, one of the neighbors and I were having a little conversation.TOM: One of the few neighbors that still talks to you?RAY: There's always the new guy on the street. He was asking about the radio show. It took him a while, but he finally got around to asking how much preparation...
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Puzzler - The Elusive Vacuum Leak
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The Elusive Vacuum Leak RAY: A few months or weeks ago, one of my guys was under the hood of an old Chevy pickup truck,trying to find a vacuum leak. The way you find vacuum leaks is, we use a little wand that shoots propane. When the vacuum leak and the propane meet, you'll suck the propane in and the engi...
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THE CASE OF THE MISSING LAW BOOK
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THE CASE OF THE MISSING LAW BOOK RAY: This puzzler came from Doug Whiting, who writes:I went to my attorney's office the other day and was seated in the conference room. While I was sitting there, I was looking around at the impressive collection of law books. Though most of the books contained dozens...
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THE FLAWED CASTLE
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THE FLAWED CASTLE RAY: An obscenely wealthy hedge fund manager named Throckmorton Bottomfeeder IV decided to build for himself and his trophy wife a modest little 40,000 square foot home. It was a stone castle complete with an observation tower at one end that was almost 100 feet high -- perfect, th...
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