Steal My Ideas, Please

Uh, I kind of forget to finish a puzzler I posed a while back: What’s the most a contestant could find during a normal game of Jeopardy!?
Here are the parameters: During each of the first two rounds there are six categories. In the first round, each category has these amounts up for grabs: $200, $400, […]

If you missed the question, and want to try to solve it, go to: “Puzzle: On ‘Jeopardy!’ What’s the Max Anyone Could Win?
To win the max, a player would have to question every answer correctly, and always bet the maximum on the Daily Doubles and in Final Jeopardy. The wrinkle is that each of the Daily Doubles would have […]

Do the cross-eyed “stereovision” trick! Remember those Magic Eye puzzles? You kind of looked “through” two pictures till they combined to make a 3-D image? Well, if you do the same with the Picture Puzzles found in the back of Life magazine, the “differences” will pop right out at you!
Obligatory warning: Always check with your eye doctor […]

Par 3. Par 4. Par 5. Hmm. There are other options. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a golf course where you tee off from a mountain and watch the ball soar and bounce and bounce toward the hole a mile away? You hop in your Jeep and zoom after it. Maybe the hole’s par […]

Back when the ratings of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? were falling, I offered an explanation and a solution in a newspaper article. Diagnosis (besides overexposure and foolishly butting heads with other strong shows): Viewers like to think they could win. Questions seemed fairly easy (making it fun to watch with your kids), and […]