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RHETT ALLAIN teaches physics at
Southeastern Louisiana University.
He was technical consultant for the
MacGyver reboot (2016–2021) and an
advisor for MythBusters. He blogs
about physics fun at rhettallain.com.
LEE ZLOTOFF
is an award-winning
writer, producer, and director of film and
TV, including MacGyver (1985–1992). His
new production, MacGyver: The Musical,
casts a different audience member as
Mac at each performance. macgyver.com
CAN YOU MACGYVER A FAST FIX FOR A FLOODED FAMILY ROOM?
By Lee D. Zlotoff and Rhett Allain
We are all MacGyvers now! Make: has brought Mac
back to help you think — and make — your way out
of emergencies. Watch for the next challenge on our
blog (makezine.com), Mastodon (@makemagazine),
Twitter (@make), and Facebook (makemagazine) and
enter your solutions for a chance to be featured in
these pages and win Make: goodies!
The Scenario
You’re 17, and your family just moved into a new
house in the suburbs. Your parents have an
overnight date in the city, leaving you with clear
instructions not to have a party while they’re
away. So, no sooner do they leave then you invite a
half dozen friends over for, not a party exactly but,
you know … a get-together. Which, astonishingly,
involves various inebriants in your finished
basement cum family room. Midway through the
festivities the local power goes out, driving the
party upstairs to the patio outside — unaware
that one of your hammered BFFs has left water
running in the sink with the drain closed. When
you venture back down for more refreshments at
3 a.m. you discover to your horror there’s a good
2 inches of water flooding the basement! Now
curiously sober, you summon your homies —
who abandon you like rats from a sinking ship.
The Challenge
Now on your own, you realize you have exactly 7
hours to get the water out and clean up the mess
before your folks return. And the power is still out.
What You’ve Got And it’s all you’ve got:
• Normal kitchen stuff. Knives, forks, spoons,
cookie sheet pans, but weirdly no bowls or
pots. But if it’s in a kitchen drawer, you have
it.Spatulas, straws, turkey baster.
• There’s a nice mixer (again, no power), a
toaster oven, air fryer, microwave.The fridge
is off — but it has just a bare minimum: a six-
pack of soda and a squeeze bottle of ketchup.
• Of course, there’s the “junk drawer.”You have
a battery-powered flashlight, coins, keys,
pocketknife, marbles, empty film canisters, AA
batteries, rubber bands, paper clips.
• Yes, you have plastic straws and duct tape.
• In the garage, it’s just outdoor stuff:garden
hose, sprinklers, shovel, hoe, rake. There are
no gas-powered devices and no buckets.
• The basement does have a small window to get
out to the ground.
• The rest of the house just has normal stuff.
TURN THE PAGE FOR SOLUTIONS!
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