Hey, everyone.

Mike Connor here for another 280 mysteries.

We'll never get back.

This is the bonus where we challenge one another

to the high intellectual game of solving Encyclopedia Brown mysteries.

The game is on.

The game is afoot.

Connor, how is your confidence level?

You should feel pretty good.

I feel like they sort of depend on the mystery, you know?

Some of them are, you know, it's like you're a mark in a three-card Monty game

where he sometimes will lure you in with an easy one where it's like, you know, it's like you're a mark in a three-card Monty game where he sometimes will lure you in with an easy one where it's like, you know, you couldn't see at night because there was a full moon, I don't know, the moon wasn't out that night. And then other times are like, well, according to semaphore, bugs mean he's, you know, tried to spell out, you know, there is no cow in the past year, but you didn't know that semaphore flags had no semicolon. So that's, uh, encyclopedia knew that could never have been the message he spelled out. What he said was a code clearly meant to convey that you were to take the third letter from each word.

Yes.

And that's how the cello was found out in the abandoned tool ship.

All right.

Well, we have a bit of, again, I don't know how tough this one is to solve.

I didn't really concentrate on that.

I concentrated on the meat of it.

Good. Okay. These are the actual, the story itself. So here we go. The last one had a lot of

weirdness. This one, I think, is up there. Okay. The case of the angry cook. Ooh, nice. Yeah.

Encyclopedia and Sally were in downtown Idaho

when they saw a very short sailor

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