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These are problems that can't really happen. (kinda like fictional problems). But there's a catch! Every problem has something you CAN'T do, and like fictional problem threads, you only have a few items.
For example, I could say: Help, giant Gherkins are banging on my door and I only have shampoo, cheese, and pie, but I can't smush the pie in their face. What do I do? (answer that!)
submitted by Luna, age 11, Hogwarts
(May 1, 2015 - 5:10 pm)
(May 1, 2015 - 5:10 pm)
Spill the shampoo under the door so they will slip and fall back. Then, open the door, throw the cheese in their faces, and shut the door. Eat the pie to sustain yourself, then leap out through the back window!
Eyouch! There's a big red monster coming from a pit under the floorboards! I have a giant jar, an oxygen tank, and a lemming, but I can't stick the monster in the jar. Halp!
(May 2, 2015 - 1:12 am)
Distract the monster with the lemming, then hit it on the head with the oxygen tank.
Oh no! A frog wearing skinny jeans is trapping me in a cage! All I have are some opals, a donut, and a squirrel, but the squirrel is tiny and can't eat the frog.
(May 6, 2015 - 4:29 pm)
Squirrels are MAGIC, so just get it to put a spell on the donut and have the donut eat the frog.
Oh, that's bad, I'm being chased through the set of Cutthroat Kitchen by two crazy gorgons with free samples. All I have is a tank of liquid nitrogen, a giant whisk, a basket of processed cheese products, a food processor and a very freaked out Alton B., but I can't pour the liquid nitrogen on the gorgons. What do I do??
(May 6, 2015 - 10:29 pm)
Um... Admins... Alton Brown is a TV show host, everyone who watches CTK knows his name anyway... :P
Well, now I know, too!
Admin
(May 6, 2015 - 10:49 pm)
Oy vey, that's a problem you've got there.
Use the liquid nitrogen to freeze the hard cheeses into rocks, then hand them to Alton and have him throw them at the gorgons. Meanwhile, rig the whisk into the food processor to fire cheezy-whipp at the gorgons until they meet a cheesy demise.
I've got a paperback, a pillow, sliced mangoes, and a birdcage and am hiding under my piano bench because three foxes are chasing me! However, I can't put the foxes into the birdcage. Halp!
(May 7, 2015 - 12:28 am)
Throw the mangoes at the foxes to distract them. Then read the paperback aloud to hypnotize them and put a pillow under their heads so they can sleep. Then walk them out the door with the birdcage as a souvenier.
(May 7, 2015 - 5:01 pm)
Yikes! A rabbid monster is chasing me and all I have are a toothbrush, a dog, and a plate, but I can't use the dog to attack the monster!
(May 8, 2015 - 4:36 pm)
Throw the plate at the monster like a Frisbee. It will stun the monster. Then jump on the dog and run for your life.
Oh no! Alton Brown and I escaped in my hovercraft with our lives, the food processor, the giant whisk, and a package of wieners (I'm planning to drop him off in Paris) but now my hovercraft is being followed by the gorgons (they didn't die)! However, my hovercraft's weapons systems are malfunctioning and I can't fire on the gorgons! WHADDOIDONOW???
Fruity says xeex. A palindrome!
(May 8, 2015 - 6:33 pm)
Put a few wieners in the food processor to form them into a puree. Then fling it at the gorgons, knocking them down, while you use the whisk as an air oar (no idea) to super-speed your wayh to Paris!
I have a sharpie, some post-its, a few feet of rubber hosing, and a lunchbox with a plastic spork and one apricot inside. However, I'm stuck inside a middle school bathroom with a herd of antelopes outside, wanting to attack me! I can't use the sharpie on the post-its though! Halp!
(May 9, 2015 - 12:16 am)
Oh no! Continuity issue! Lemme fix this real quick...
Draw a "NO ANTELOPES" sign on the bathroom door. Antelopes are very law-abiding creatures and will leave.
(May 9, 2015 - 11:33 am)
Use the package of weiners as a parachure and thrown the giant whisk at them. Then, when their attention is diverted, put them in the food processor.
Ack! A huge bumblebee is trying to sell me donuts and won't take no for an answer! All I have are two bottles of nail polish, a cracker, and a foghorn, but the foghorn is broken.
William Turntheboataround III says acid. (wow, a CAPTCHA word!) Acid... like your breath?
Beaky: Yes, I am very proud of my acid breath.
Luna: Sure, sure.
(May 9, 2015 - 8:29 am)
Trade him the nail polish for some, and if you like donuts eat them. If you don't throw them away once you are out of sight.
So, we escaped the gorgons, and killed them this time, but we got blown twenty feet off course and crashed into the Eiffel Tower! There are French police all around the tower, so we can't climb down. All we have are our good friends the food processor and the giant whisk, plus a box of eclairs and a plate of Crepe Suzette. What do we do now?
(May 9, 2015 - 11:38 am)
Make a trade with the police: a box of eclairs for a free trip down the Eiffel Tower. Save the rest for when you get hungry and you want to whip up a delicious Crepe Suzette smothie in your trusty food processor.
Help! I'm being attacked by 7 ninja lions riding a giant flying pig! All I have is a teaspoon of ice cream, a package of googly eyes, a daisy bush, and a tube of cinnamon rolls! What should I do???
(May 9, 2015 - 1:52 pm)
Disguise yourself as a daisy bush, smear the ice cream on the cinnamon rolls, with the googly eyes so the lion ninjas are like "what the heck are those things flying towards me with a bunch of eyes?!?!" after you throw them & hopefully the pig will get freaked out & buck the lion-ninjas off. All that time you're just standing there in your costume, so hopefully everyone will think you're a bush. There. I'm satisfied.
(May 10, 2015 - 8:49 am)
HELP!! I'm surrounded by giant man-eating hotdogs, & all I have is a tube of ketchup, a flashlight, a glass jar, & a shovel, which I can't hit them with!
(May 10, 2015 - 8:57 am)