RAY: This is Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers and we're here to talk about cars, car repair, and of course, the answer to last week's puzzler, which my brother just remembered.

TOM: Yeah, those were great clues; son, household appliance... What was the other one? That was it.

RAY: Anyway, we had a debate among the staff about this puzzler last week, because I presented it to the staff to see how it would fly, so to speak.

TOM: Yeah.

RAY: And I think the consensus was --

TOM: I remember the consensus, there were a lot of these [RASPBERRY] --

RAY: Bogus! Oh, that stinks!

TOM: I think it was sour grapes because not a one of us figured it out.

RAY: That's right, that's right. Crybabies.

TOM: That doesn't mean it's a bad puzzler.

RAY: No, it just means it's stupid.

TOM: It just means we might have no winners and we'll save 25 bucks.

RAY: Well, here it is. My son was performing a common household task; something that each and every one of us has probably done many times. He asked me, Is 50 enough, Pa? I said, No, I don't think so. He said, How about 125? I said, No, I don't think that's enough either; I'd try 90. The question was, what household task was he performing where this would be true? I'd be willing to bet that most people, because our staff didn't have any clue, that most people don't know that this --

TOM: Our staff has no clue about anything.

RAY: Oh, yeah, they can't find their feet in the shower. What he was doing, is that he was using the microwave oven.

TOM: Oh, yes!

RAY: Where 90 -- when you punch in 9, 0, start, is 90 seconds, which is a minute and 30 seconds. And it's more than 1,2,5, which is a minute and 25 seconds, not 125 seconds.

TOM: No. Wow.

RAY: So, there. Of course, there were doubting Thomases among us, including whom; my brother, Thomas. And --

TOM: No, I'm the one who ran over to the microwave to prove that you were right, because Dougie kept saying, No, no, if you put in 125 it's going to be 125 seconds. To which we said, Doug, I think you might be wrong about that. And indeed, when you put in 125, it reads it as a minute and 25 seconds.

RAY: Yes. In fact, when it has counted off the last of the 25 seconds, it jumps to 59.

TOM: Yes.

RAY: Do we have a winner?

TOM: Of course we have a winner. The winner this week is Martha the McGuinness from Philadelphia, PA.

[ Car Talk Puzzler ]