Aug 12, 2023
Here is the new puzzler. The new short puzzler.
My wife and I were leaving the house a while back, and right as we were about to walk out the front door she says, "Oh, wait a minute. I forgot to do something."
So, she leaves the front hall and walks into the kitchen. I have nothing better to do so I follow her into the kitchen. I see her open the freezer door. Then she takes out a tray of ice cubes. She slides the tray out of the little shelves that are in there in the freezer. You know, where you have all these different things piled up in there. Hamburger. Ice cream. Frozen veggies. All those things. Anyway, she takes the tray of ice cubes out, and then she turns it upside down and puts it back, face down on this shelf in the freezer.
And I said, "What the heck did you do that for?"
And that is the puzzler.
Why did she do this? And for bosun points, where were we going?
Good luck!
Answer time.
So, we were heading out of the house, and my wife went into the kitchen and turned the ice tray upside down before we left.
Why did she do this? And where were we going?
And here is the answer.
We were going on vacation. Leaving for a few weeks. So, the reason she turned the ice trays upside down is so that we could tell if there was a power outage while we were gone.
See, if there was a power outage, and all our food went bad, but then the power came back on a few days before we got back, we might not have known. So, she turns the ice trays upside down, so that if there is a power outage, and everything melts, the water from the ice trays would be all over the things below that shelf in the freezer.
But if we come back, and the ice trays are still frozen solid, with the ice upside down, then we know there was no power outage, and all the food is good.
