New Car Talk Puzzler: The Top Secret Free-Beer Code

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Become a Car Talk Sponsor   The Top Secret Free-Beer Code   RAY: Interestingly, this was sent in by an "anonymous donor" who didn't want his or her name associated with the Puzzler in any way, shape or form. Here it is: There's this unusual little bar, where you can get a free beer if you know the secret code. The secret code works like this: You sit down at the bar. The bartender tells you a number. And you tell him another number. If it's right, you get a free beer. For example, a customer goes up to the bar and the bartender says, "Six." The customer says, "Three," and he gets his free beer. The second fellow goes up to the bar, and the bartender says, "Twelve." The customer says, "Six," and he gets his free beer! A third customer sits at the bar, and the bartender says, "Fourteen." The customer says, "Eight." He gets a free beer. You're sitting there. The bartender turns to you and says, "Twenty-two." What do you say?     An officer, a gas station, and a suspicious car     RAY:  This is from my Law Enforcement series.  It was sent in by David Crop.   An off-duty policeman was vacationing this summer with his family when he pulled off the highway to get gas. While the attendant was filling the tank and someone else was cleaning the windshield, the wife was watching her husband. There he sat almost in a daze, his eyes glued to the rear of the car that was being refueled directly in front of theirs.   “What’s the matter, Hon?” she asked.   “I don’t know for sure,” he said, “but there’s something fishy about that car in front of us.”   “Looks perfectly normal to me,” she said.   “Well not to me!” he shot back.  “I think it’s a stolen car. In fact, I’m going to call my partner back at the station house, and I’m going to have him run that plate number, and I bet it won’t match the year, make and model of the car that it’s attached to.”   The question very simply is: What did he notice that made him suspicious?   The Puzzler Winner this week is Dan Harrington from Columbus, Ohio! Car Talk Plaza Box 3500 Harvard Square Cambridge (our fair city), MA 02238

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