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Marketing Madness: Don't Be Manipulated

Advertising is a game of manipulation. Here’s how you can avoid falling victim to the latest marketing schemes.

Challenges

Get It for Granny
Granny just sent you to her labyrinth of a cellar to retrieve a thing or two. Before you can get it, you must navigate her cellar——it's not your typical maze, but Granny’s cellar is anything but typical.

Woodenhead
Do you speak dummy? Long after the ventriloquist has gone home for the day, his stage partner Wilbur Woodenhead just keeps on talking. Can you decipher 10 of his words or phrases?

Battle in the Boneyard
You’re in the boneyard filling a gunnysack with your booty when the not-so-friendly Skyler Skeleton challenges you to a bone-grabbing battle.

Cowabunga
Dude, you’re still playing hangman? Cowabunga is this totally awesome game that teaches you to speak like a surfer. Play smart and you’ll ride the barrel. But make one misstep and you’ll meet the men in the gray suits!

Don't Break the Budget
We're setting your budget; you just have to follow it. But watch out!

Flip a Coin
Flip an old Eisenhower silver dollar and it transforms into a gold Sacagawea dollar. Unfortunately, every other coin in your column or row will flip too...

Mall Cop
As head of security at the mall, you have a job to do...make that three jobs. It seems a series of crimes have been committed – each more sinister than the last – and you must figure out which of the five prime suspects is up to no good!

Superduplication
Study these four average citizens for as long as you want. Now can you rebuild each one? Wait! This is America! SUPER-duplicate the same four people...in their SUPER hero guises!

Agent Geo
Spy phone text messages and the Pink Mink will help you find the bad guy's secret lair.

Scooperstar
You're auditioning for Scooping With the Stars tonight and this is your chance to practice! Grab your spoon and get it on with your Scooperstar moves!

Jousting for Dollars
After a successful day jousting, it's time to deposit your winnings at the credit union. But before that, you'd better know how to play chess! Use your trusty steed to pick up your winnings off the chess board...

Electric X-Mas
Your display of holiday lights has inspired a simple game of leapfrog. Hop one blinking light over another and leave yourself with one alone in the middle.

Debunker
We've gathered 10 popular legends circulating in and out of e-mailboxes. Which ones are actually true stories?

Commander in Checkers
Pick one of our most popular presidents in a classic game. Who will be the Commander in Checkers?

Wet Windshield
It's like testing your driving skills inside a car wash.

Nine Lives Deluxe
The cats are gone--in this Sudoku game you'll find everything from bacteria to brats.

Buzzwords
Game show gadfly Hugh Googol gets buzzing about B's--and C's and D's.

Rediscovering America
Collect clues and enter pass codes to see 25 states in totally new ways!

Countdown
Tower to flight U: you're cleared for a high5 if you can solve wacky clues and find it first. Over.

The Sixth Census
Say it twice fast--Sixth Census, Sixth Census. Sorry, we've got sick senses.

Robot Receptionists
If you can talk like a robot, you'll be great at this game.

Car Builder
It's a slow day at Hugh Googol Cars. Ready for some fun?

Smoke and Mirrors
Paula Picasso is busy decorating for the season. Uh oh, what's this….?

Rubber Checks
Uh-oh. Your checks are bouncing all over town! How quickly can you stop the rubber check madness?

Top Dollar
How fast can you make a buck? Drop quarters, competing against a mysterious challenger. Who will be the first to get four in a row? That's top dollar!

Sack the Quarterback
Hey quarterback! You're about to get sacked!

Tongue Twisting Tribulation
Try typing torturous tongue twisters.

Just Your Type
Compete to retype the sentence exactly, with no errors.

Super Secret Message
A nickel isn't always a nickel, nor a dime always a dime.

Tricks

Fun activities

Speed

Visual

Seeing Stars
On a clear night look up into the sky and you’ll see stars. Early astronomers saw much more. Can you see what they saw by connecting stars to form famous constellations?

Chip It
You get a rack of pool balls and nine one-dollar bills. If you chip it just right, you'll own them all!

High Rise
The tenants of these high-rise apartments are a memorable bunch. Or are they? Study the residents as long as you want. You get only one chance to recall where you originally saw these increasingly unusual tenants!

School of Gemini
At the School of Gemini every student has a twin! Can you sort them out? If you do, a bonus puzzle awaits you in each classroom!

The Litterbots
Mad Doctor Xelplogoog isn’t eco-friendly. Heck, he isn’t friendly period. His latest invention? A squad of Litterbots!

Superduplication
Study these four average citizens for as long as you want. Now can you rebuild each one? Wait! This is America! SUPER-duplicate the same four people...in their SUPER hero guises!

D-cypt-it
A cryptogram is a coded message where one letter replaces another. Our twisted artist put his crypt in the form of a comic strip! Your job is to D-CRYPT the word balloons to read the comic as it was meant to be!

Scooperstar
You're auditioning for Scooping With the Stars tonight and this is your chance to practice! Grab your spoon and get it on with your Scooperstar moves!

Hair to the Chief
Something is funny about these currency portraits. The hairpieces of our Founding Fathers have been swapped, and it's up to you to identify whose do is on whom.

Electric X-Mas
Your display of holiday lights has inspired a simple game of leapfrog. Hop one blinking light over another and leave yourself with one alone in the middle.

Commander in Checkers
Pick one of our most popular presidents in a classic game. Who will be the Commander in Checkers?

Dance Off
Take to the stage in a new kind of dance contest. Can you dance off enough of the floor to identify the currency underneath?

Branding Iron
You've just spent an entire afternoon corralling cattle. Now comes the fun part: Sorting the steers...until the cows come home!

Wet Windshield
It's like testing your driving skills inside a car wash.

Nine Lives Deluxe
The cats are gone--in this Sudoku game you'll find everything from bacteria to brats.

Short Sighted
We gave a baby a camera, can you guess what the pictures really are?

Countdown
Tower to flight U: you're cleared for a high5 if you can solve wacky clues and find it first. Over.

The Sixth Census
Say it twice fast--Sixth Census, Sixth Census. Sorry, we've got sick senses.

Smoke and Mirrors
Paula Picasso is busy decorating for the season. Uh oh, what's this….?

Rubber Checks
Uh-oh. Your checks are bouncing all over town! How quickly can you stop the rubber check madness?

Top Dollar
How fast can you make a buck? Drop quarters, competing against a mysterious challenger. Who will be the first to get four in a row? That's top dollar!

Wooden Nickels
Unscramble wood coins drawn by Dr. Seuss, a former First Lady, and the Muppet Man.

Sack the Quarterback
Hey quarterback! You're about to get sacked!

Getting an Eye Fool
The crazy eyeballs of our April Fool lead to classic optical illusions--can you figure them out?

Director Detector
How good are you with faces?

Spring Broken
Putting the 'break' in Spring Break.

Security Cameras
Where in the credit union lobby are they?

Stars and Stripes
You and your mouse can help stripes beat stars. That would be Uncle Sam.

Switching Channels
Your new satellite dish is picking up all kinds of strange networks. Flip through dozens of channels until you’ve had enough television, then turn off the tube and try to remember what you just saw. Is it true that too much TV makes you stupid? Here’s one way to find out.

Year of the Palindrome
Decipher the palindromes from picture clues.

Animals Schmanimals
Deep-dish fruit pie for turkeys, and other delights.

Money words

Verbal

Bamboozled
There are more than 3,800 words in the English language with a double-o. Can you identify these double-o answers without getting bamboozled?

Incomplete
You've been enjoying summer vacation when your report card arrives—full of incompletes. Try our homework completion machine. Can you remember the last time finishing your homework was so much fun?

Clear as Mud
Whether you're as smart as a whip or as dumb as a box of hammers, you've likely used a simile or two in your lifetime. We messed 'em up and now you have to put them back together again.

Letterhead
You already know the answers to this quiz. The trick is knowing where to put them.

Mega-Truth or Baloney?
Some things we see and hear are true, some are not. Can you separate myth from reality?

Text Message...or Crossword Madness?
What if a crossword puzzle told a story? You’d have TEXT MESSAGE, a puzzle where clue-answers can be rearranged into dialogue that's rather...pithy!

Search and Destroy
This is no ordinary word search--we're timing you! Every word you find lands on a bingo card. Get four in a row to stop the clock. Try to destroy your best time!

Autocoder
Use AJ's Autocoder to decipher text messages, or to create your own coded messages for your friends!

Debunker
We've gathered 10 popular legends circulating in and out of e-mailboxes. Which ones are actually true stories?

Buzzwords
Game show gadfly Hugh Googol gets buzzing about B's--and C's and D's.

Robot Receptionists
If you can talk like a robot, you'll be great at this game.

Tomfoolery
Will you trust a jester to help you with a Googolplex trivia quiz?

FWD: Don't Pass It On
Don't believe everything you see online.

A Group of Grapes
Name the groups of these fine bunches.

Tongue Twisting Tribulation
Try typing torturous tongue twisters.

Grave robber
Help Mad Dr. Xelplogoog dress his latest creepy creation in style. You won't be finding monster clothes at the mall. Grab your shovel...we're going shopping in the graveyard!

Further Fimblefamble
Dibble, screeve, fletcherism, and yeuling--among others.

Anger a Hamster, Anagram Man!
Can you decipher "anger a hamster"? Anagram Man can. What's this mean?

Googol 2000
When you supply the missing letters you'll learn more about money.

Super Secret Message
A nickel isn't always a nickel, nor a dime always a dime.

Numerical

Facts

Money

Odd finances

Celebrities