Price tags · Puzzle #16 · Thursday, October 15
Price tags: the answers
Four questions, each with one true number. Here they are with their answers, how to reason each one out, and where the number comes from. Play today's Price tags.
1. A year of gas: How much did the average US household spend on gasoline in 2024?
Photo: Harrison Keely, CC BY 4.0 - Measured by
- BLS Consumer Expenditure Surveys
- Change from 2023
- Down 1.6%
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2. A day at Five Below: How much did one Five Below store sell on an average day in fiscal 2025?
- Prices
- Almost everything $5 or less
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3. T206 Honus Wagner card: What did a T206 Honus Wagner baseball card graded SGC 2 sell for in a private sale through Goldin in August 2022?
Photo: Published by the American Tobacco Company. Photograph by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum., Public domain - What
- A 1909–1911 T206 Honus Wagner card, graded 2 out of 10
- Rarity
- Fewer than 50 authenticated copies exist
- Sold
- Private sale through Goldin, 2022
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4. A cross-country road trip: At the US average price of regular gas in late September 2026, what would the gas cost for a road trip from Los Angeles to New York in a car that gets 25 miles a gallon?
Photo: Patrick Tomasso impatrickt, CC0 - Driving distance
- about 2,800 miles
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