Photo: Flickr/laurgasms (CC)
While we were preparing the menu for our upcoming feast, my wife asked how many guests we’ll be having. Being the geek that I am, I answered: Half are from out-of-state, one quarter are from in-state but out-of-town, one seventh are from across [...]
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This week, we needed your help finding a bottle of alcoholic cider in a batch of 1001 mostly non-alcoholic bottles. Due to some poor wording on my part, I accepted several different answers as possible solutions. Congratulations to Lt. Griffith for having his correct answer [...]
Photo: Chris Breeze (Creative Commons-attribution)
Last week, we needed help determining which of our witnesses was involved in a bank robbery. We got it! Congratulations to Shane for having his correct answer randomly chosen from all of the correct answers we received. Shane will receive [...]
Photo: Chris Breeze (Creative Commons-attribution)
After a string of robberies, several (female) witnesses were interviewed. We need you to tell us which of the witnesses was working with the robbers.
Alice: I work at the Balloon Factory. Three people came in at 4:00 PM, asked [...]
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This week, our geekogropher needed your help finding a capusle that contains the location of a geek community, where it is thought only geek families live and work. Many of you provided correct answers and Robert’s was randomly chosen. He will receive a $50 gift [...]
Photo by: BotheredByBees/Flickr
This weekend a window in the neighborhood was broken and we needed your help figuring out who was the guilty child so we could punish him or her by giving the other children ice cream. We also wanted to punish his or her parents by [...]
Photo credit: BallerinoJamers/flickr
U.S. Air Force photo by MSgt Marvin Krause
Photo: Sillof's Gaslight Justice League
This week, super-villain Jack Smith’s right-hand, Samantha Sly is shipping out counterfeit action figures to a number of duped toy stores around the US; she needed a little help with packing the shipping cartons. Thanks to Kenny Taylor, Sam found [...]
Photo: National Park Service
This summer, over 100 of our national parks that usually charge an entrance (or commercial tours) fee will offer several weekends during which the fees are waived. Specifically, these three weekends will be fee-free:
* June 20-21, 2009 (Father’s Day weekend)
* July [...]
Photo: Sillof's Gaslight Justice League
This week, super-villain Jack Smith’s right-hand, Samantha Sly is shipping out counterfeit action figures to a number of duped toy stores around the US; she needs a little help with packing the shipping cartons. E-mail your solution to the [...]
Image:Rio Grande Games
We received the game, Lost Cities: Daring Adventure for Two by Rio Grande Games, as a gift a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. We packed it up during our move and somehow forgot about it. It came back out of [...]
Photo by dweekly/flickr
This week, investigators needed (but did not receive!) your help deciphering clues that should lead to the location of sensitive documents super-villain Jack Smith stole from JPL. Sadly, we received not a single email with a solution, so there is no winner for [...]
Photo: JeremyKemp/Wikipedia
We, and I suspect many other geekparents, struggle with the right balance between providing our child with productive learning time and free play time. Sure, we let the geeklet play games on the Wii and watch (pre-screened) movies, but we also play a lot of board [...]
Spirit Illustration from JPL/NASA
This week, Pedro Vex must help navigate the Mars Exploration Rover, Spirit to safety before winter sets in. Solutions may be given as mathematics with explanation or as a diagram with explanation. Feel free to download, mark up, and attach the [...]
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), has just begun a monthly image release schedule. In the first of this new, accelerated PDS (Planetary Data System) archival program, they’ve released 64,704 [...]
