Winners of the May/June game with the right answers.

Guess what??

There weren't any winners with the real answer! It's rare I find a gadget no one knows about, but this time I did.

That strange yellow gadget is the Uni-Funnel, the hands-free funnel holder. It lets a funnel stand up on it's own so you don't have to hold it and the bottle you're using to transfer liquids from or to.

It's a clever idea, but of course the few times I wanted to use it, I couldn't find it. Turns out I had put it in to box marked: "Possible WTHII gadgets"!

Cute, Clever & Could Be Answers.

Since no one got the correct answer and since there were SO MANY entries this month, we ended up with 20 people with cute, clever answers. This was a hard one to judge with almost 200 people playing. All 20 winners are listed below with their entries. We originally picked 32 answers we liked, but we finally whittled it down to 20 winners and gave up trying to cut out the last two get it down to 18.

The top five most given answers were variations of these we picked at random:

A tool to do Circumcisions – Joseph J. Gudac Jr

Cigar Cutter Grant Prathe

I think it is a egg cracker. Tim Smith

It's the hose adapter you've been looking for; but you didn't know what the heck it was. Alexis J :)

That is a hand powered (squeeze handles together) bubble blower. Gravetron

More obscure answers:

It is a hand operated fog horn. Ward Bissey

A plastic marijuana pipe! A disaster waiting to happen. -Skullman

Beer Opener. Just place the round opening on the top of a bottle, squeeze the handle, and "pop" the cap is removed. Alan at Cape Cod

Looks like some sort of Garlic Press. Pizzagew

I believe it is used to prevent inhaling offensive smells. Put the suction cup on your forehead then put the clothes pin portion on your nose. Tony

It looks like Marvin the Martian's ray gun! Ian Winkler

This is a device for holding carrots while you peel them. Mr.Generic

It’s a manual eyeball adjuster. Just look through the ring while squeezing the handles till the vision is properly tuned. Gordon

It looks like a “Periscope from the Beatles - Yellow Submarine” Jeffrey Slomovitz

My guess is that it is a device to get kinks out of a hose Ben from omaha nebraska

It’s a DIY makeshift monocle maker, for wannabe Prussian generals. Doug Johnson

Kazoo Pro model - Jerster

It's a handgrip strengthener with a gauge to see how strong you get :D Cassandra

It’s a halo maker for do-it-yourself angels! Tom Hedeen

It looks to be a Ping Pong Ball calibrator for tournament events. N4BFR

WINNERS (Who live in the U.S.) get the August 2020 issue of MAD. It's the Special All Jaffee issue! Al made a rush decision to retire from doing the MAD Fold-Ins & writing Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions at age 99! I'm in with look back at "A MAD Peek Behind The Scene At Health Spas." I wrote it and Jaffee illustrated it. Even though MAD moved to LA in December 2017 I'm continuing the WTHII game and sending out MAD magazines to winners since so many people say they love to play it. MAD's 'cheap' so winners of MAD magazine are for US addresses only. If you win and live in the US, email me your full name & address and put MAD WINNER in the subject so I can pick it out easily. I'll autograph your MAD with your first name & my name unless you specify "Dick's name only". If you'd rather have one of those 38+ year old Alfred E. Neuman pictures, instead of August MAD, put "SEND ALFRED PIC NOT MAD" in the subject line. Soon, they will be no more of those either. The remaining Alfred E pics were shipped to MAD in LA. If you won more than once using different names, please just ask for one MAD. If you live anywhere outside of the US email me with WINNER in the subject line and I'll autograph an Alfred E. Neuman photo to you, scan it & email it to you. You can print it out & no one should know the difference. (I've done it quite a few times already and people say it looks fine.) Email me at gizwizbiz@gmail.com.

Here's The New May/June 2020 "What The Heck Is It?" Game.

Do you know 'what the heck it is'? To play, come up with the right answer, or make up a silly, or inventive answer that we find funny or clever that describes the gizmo shown. We give away up to 18 autographed copies of MAD Magazine. (Up to 6 for the correct answer, up to 12 for cute, silly answers.) The judges have very small attention spans, so make sure entries are no more than 25 words, and please make just one guess per entry. You must sign your entry with a nickname, screen name, fake name, or even real name, but sign it! If it's not signed, it's not eligible. You'll be playing for the August 2020 issue of MAD - issue #14 of new MAD produced by the LA staff. That issue will be a special tribute to Al 'Fold-In' Jaffee, one of the famous UGOI! Remember, right answers and cute or clever wrong answers can win too! Please be sure to put " WTHII" in the subject line so we can pick it out quickly. Good luck! E-mail your entry to gizwizbiz@gmail.com by midnight (EST) June 30th 2020. By entering you agree this is a game for fun and laughs. Winning answers are published on this website the 1st or 2nd of July 2020, so come back to see if you won. Because like MAD, we're really low budget here, we can only mail winning copies to United States addresses. Please don't answer on this website; it won't count. Good Luck! Winners outside the US can have a 38+ year old Alfred E. Neuman photo autographed to them, scanned and emailed to them. Again, sign your entry with something - initials, first name, last name, full name, fake name, screen name, something or it won't count. We cut & paste the answers in a long list, so we need a name attached to it. Once again entries go to: gizwizbiz@gmail.com

Winners of the March/April game with the right answers.

This time only 3 people knew what the "What The Heck Is It?" gadget was!

The first answer even has the company website where you can see exactly how it works. The winners are:

It is a plant pot hanger – Hang-A-Pot – for hanging a plant in a pot on a wall. galenbarb

https://hangapot.com/                

It's a flower pot holder to attach said flower pot to a deck railing (or similar surface). Scott Cotton

It's flowerful. It's colorful, it's a pot hanger.

Brice Obermueller

To learn how to get your prize please read the description under the 'cute, clever, could be' section below. 

Winner with Clever, Cute, Could Be Answers.

Since there were only 3 winners with the right answer we picked 15 'wrong answers' instead of just 12.

There were a lot of telegraph answers. We picked two at random:

Telegraph for toe tappers - -Chad Masters

It is a telegraph key. Used by a telegraph operator for tapping Morse Code. Bryon J. Hammer

A lot of shoe/boot/sock answers: We picked a few at random:

That’s a bench from a shoe store used during the days when a salesman actually fitted your shoes for you. Carole Marciano

That's a boot puller offer. It helps you get your cowboy boots off. Karl Phoenix, AZ

I think it is a “shoe shine salesman sample”. Jeffrey Slomovitz.

A sock installer - Joe J.

Other winning answers:

It is a STAPLER for Legos. Ward Bissey

Plastic grocery bag holder. Mo

Connector that is fastened to the wall so you can hook your belt on the u clip. Jim Holloway

That is Frank Lloyd Wright's first and last attempt at designing a stapler. -- John Hattan

I think this is a workout bench for a hamster. Tim Stites

It’s a tablecloth clamp to keep tablecloth from blowing away on a picnic. Tami Maloney

Gutter Clip for lights. Troy Sica

Diving board for your pet rat to use in his bird bath swimming pool... Jay

A device to aid in hanging pictures at the right level. Ralph

WINNERS (Who live in the U.S.) get the June 2020 issue of MAD. It contains some new material while the rest of the issue is filled with MAD favorites of the past. My "Disco Clap" song lyrics are in that issue. They were in a MAD Disco Special, never in regular MAD. Music was by Norm Blagman. (Sorry the old floppy record was not able to be included in this issue. Even though MAD moved to LA in December 2017 I'm continuing the WTHII game and sending out MAD magazines to winners since so many people say they love to play it. MAD's 'cheap' so winners of MAD magazine are for US addresses only. If you win and live in the US, email me your full name & address and put MAD WINNER in the subject so I can pick it out easily. I'll autograph your MAD with your first name & my name unless you specify "Dick's name only". If you'd rather have one of those 38+ year old Alfred E. Neuman pictures, instead of April MAD, put "SEND ALFRED PIC NOT MAD" in the subject line. Soon, they will be no more of those either. The remaining Alfred E pics were shipped to MAD in LA. If you won more than once using different names, please just ask for one MAD. If you live anywhere outside of the US email me with WINNER in the subject line and I'll autograph an Alfred E. Neuman photo to you, scan it & email it to you. You can print it out & no one should know the difference. (I've done it quite a few times already and people say it looks fine.) Email me at gizwizbiz@gmail.com.