******* The Car Talk Puzzler Psychic Friends Network******* >From the Desk of
Maury Maille Puzzler Tower Car Talk Plaza Hahvahd Squayah Our Fair City This Week's Puzzler: Send more money. But how much? RAY: This puzzler came to us from a guy named Bob Wilson. Here it is: A boy goes off to college and after the first semester he's run out of money. In fact, he's so broke he doesn't have enough money to call home, or to even send a letter. However, he manages to find a postcard with a stamp already on it. He sends the following message, "Send. More money." Here's how the message reads: from left to right, "s-e-n-d." Directly below those four letters, is the word "more." To the left of "more" is a plus sign. There is a line underneath those two words, and under that is the word "money", with the "m" under the plus sign, and the "y" under the "d" and "e" in "send" and "more." You with me? TOM: I've got it-- and I can see a follow-up puzzler for next week. He gets a postcard back, reading, "Drop. Dead." RAY: The question is, how much money do they send him? Believe it or not, there's only one solution. Think you know? Drop us a note via http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html If you're right and we select your answer, we'll ship you a $26 Shameless Commerce gift certificate. Want to listen to Ray obfuscate the puzzler in person? Listen anytime, at http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/ ************ Remember last week's puzzler? What's in a Car's Name? RAY: This puzzler comes from someone named Paul Zemlin. I had to change things around and obfuscate it just a little bit. It's semi-automotive. Here it is: My car was being vandalized by some kids whom I had flunked out of my English class. Each night, they would remove the first and last letter from its model name emblem. For example, "Camry" is the model name of a certain Toyota. They continued to do this until all the letters were gone except for one. The curious thing that I noticed was that each morning the remaining letters of the model name still spelled a word in the English language. I'll give you an example. If the car were a Chevy Blazer, you'd take off the first and last letters and you'd have "laze," which is a real word that I know something about. If you did it again, you'd wind up with the letters "A" and "Z", "az" Šlike you don't know your "az" from a hole in the ground. Of course, that doesn't work. But there is one model name for which it does work. And the question is, what is that model? And here's the answer: http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/ So, did you figure it out? Yours in weekly puzzler torment, Maury Maille Puzzler Dissemination Specialist Car Talk Plaza *************** Write Tom and Ray--Please! Been meaning to write us a witty, genius, evocative, insightful letter? Excellent! We're not getting any of those things from the chumps hanging around Car Talk Plaza. For that matter, we'd settle for anything better than the usual schlock Tommy reads on the air. So, what are you waiting for? Write Tom and Ray right now at http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html ******************* Useful information alert: How to Get a Free Car Talk CD or Booklet Tired of paying auto club dues to an outfit that lobbies against environmental causes? Check out Better World Club--and in the process get a Car Talk booklet or CD for free! Better World is an auto club with genuinely decent values-- unlike some others we could name... Whose initials happen to be AAA. Better World Club cares about... *Your environmental interests -- it gives 1% of its revenue to environmental clean up and advocacy. *Your consumer interests -- it even offers discounts on hybrid rental cars. *And it has the nation's only bicycle roadside assistance program. Dump your AAA membership and join better world! If you join via the Car Talk web site now, you'll get a free Car Talk CD, or a copy of our booklet, 10 Ways You May Be Ruining Your Car without Even Knowing It. Check out Better World Club now at Http://www.cartalk.com *********************************** Got more time to kill? This past weekend's new, lousy Car Talk show is now on the web site, at http://www.cartalk.com/radio/show/ ******************** Help Ray lose the night sweats he's been getting, trying to come up with a decent puzzler each week. E-mail him your suggestion any time, via http://www.cartalk.com/email/email.html ******************** Puzzled out? You can unsubscribe to the car talk puzzler psychic friends network anytime at http://www.cartalk.com/ct/maillist.jsp?Puzzler_list=subscribe#psychic We'll forgive you.
