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Answers to last week's brain-teasers

Math Camp. I should have read the brochure more carefully before I signed up -- It says "Go on an add-venture and have sum fun"!

"What's an eight-letter word for 'unmarried man'?"

Message In Bottle In Bottle

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

Though he created more than 300 products from peanuts, George Washington Carver was unable to change even one of them back into a peanut.

Barks in code.

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

'Uhhh... Houston, we have a problem.'

'Trust me, there's nobody to rescue that way...'

'I'll give you a clue. The answer is a number, not a fruit.'

"The note in the bottle said someone's stranded here, but where is he?"

A Vase has fallen on a cat's head. Are mice to blame?

Murder in Apartment 6-K

"You're lucky someone was nice enough to turn it in."

"You know the stories about putting a pair of socks into the washing machine and getting out just one of them...Jones, it seems that we found the hideaway of the second socks!"

I understand that our cat Magus died. I miss her a lot. But I wish my parents wouldn't tiptoe around it. House of Java.net Cybercafe. You don't have to watch Youtube clips of CSI: Miami to understand that death is a part of life. The thing I don't understand about our cat's death is, who would've killed her and left a mountain of unresolved clues that only a crack forensics team can figure out? Where were you at 8:45 p.m.? The Youtube Generation grows up fast.

The Chicken Who Crossed the Road, in therapy. My motives are always being questioned!

"This just in: one of us always tells lies; the other always tells the truth. Who's who? Stay tuned."

"Excuse me ma'am, may I help you cross the road so that I can get the answer to this dumb joke my friend keeps telling?"

'No, you can't use your last wish, to wish for another three wishes!'

"According to the map, the treasure should be right behind that door."

Marriage a la Mode - Death of the Earl.

Man browsing books see couple kissing in romance section of book store.

"So, just to be clear: the 'voices inside your head' told you to launder the money from forfeited law enforcement seizures in exchange for federal tax breaks for your Uncle Mark in Costa Rica?"

Sphinx Comes Alive

'Time machine materialises in Westminster Lord Lucan arrested'

"Odd, since neither of us overfeeds her by even the smallest amount."

'It was part way through the initial investigation that detective Walters felt as if he was being watched, but there was no one in the room. No one that is except the cat, who sat contently on the chair and watched him with an almost human repose.'

"So that's where all the socks ended up!"

'I can't read their smoke signal. It's encrypted.'

"I'm sorry, JB, we still haven't worked out how we did it."

Aliens From Outer Space Come in Many Shapes

"Since we installed the video surveillance system we're losing fewer socks."

'There's an imposter among us!'