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This is an encore episode of Ask Me Another.

From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from beautiful Brooklyn, New York.

It's NPR's hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, Ask Me Another.

I'm Jonathan Colton.

Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.

Thanks, Jonathan. So I've got a story for you today. And it's a real hit in my house with the five-year-old boy demographic.

Okay, good. Good. My favorite kind of story. So my son is always asking for me to tell him a story, a silly story from my childhood. So I told him one about a month ago. And now I'm in a loop. He wants to hear this story every day. I can't remember where we were maybe like a chucky cheese at a birthday

or something like that where they had whack-a-mole. You played whack-a-mole. You know, it's literally a

machine where the little painted moles are coming out of the holes. And then you're whacking it

with this mallet. So he, he remember that game and he was like,

oh, I want to go play whack-a-mole. And so I remember the story that when I was like a teenager,

we would go to the Calgary Stampede, which had all those games, the, you know, the carnival games

throw the ring on the bottle and the water pistols. And there was whack-amol. And I was with my friends. And I think maybe the first time without

our parents at this event. And we were playing Wackamol and we weren't very good at it. And the

moles were coming out really, really, really fast. And we wanted, we had her eyes set on some

stuffy that we wanted. I don't know why. You won a prize. And so we figured out, we were like, oh, let's just sit on the machine. Oh, geez. Yeah, let's permanently whack all holes. And so when the moles pop up, they will whack themselves. I mean, it's a brilliant strategy.

So we sat on the machines, and Lucas loves when I said, so the moles just, they were whacking our butt. He loves that part. We have to take a pause for like a good, solid two minutes of laughter right there. You changed the game to whack a butt.

The whack a butt. And then, of course, we were caught and we were kicked out at the stampede.

That's the funniest part is that you were kicked out for cheating at Wackamull.

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