# The Car Talk Puzzler is back! Any thoughts?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 18, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-car-talk-puzzler-is-back-any-thoughts/596746 "2011-09-18T21:06:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2011, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-car-talk-puzzler-is-back-any-thoughts/596746/21 "2011-09-23T08:09:02Z")

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If the numbers themselves were on the assignment, as is most likely, then I suspect saying “a hundred” rather than “one hundred” was an attempt to throw us off. In numerals, they are the same thing.

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**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-car-talk-puzzler-is-back-any-thoughts/596746/22 "2011-09-27T01:16:55Z")

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Got the email with the new puzzler, and a recap of the old one. The numbers are now

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> Four, Six, Twelve, Thirty, Thirty Three, Thirty Six, Forty, Forty Five, Fifty, Fifty Four, Fifty Six, Sixty, Seventy, Eighty One, Eighty Eight, Ninety, and One Hundred.

Hmmm…

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