Price tags · Puzzle #18 · Saturday, October 17
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. Ice cream every week: At the US average price of a half gallon of ice cream in August 2026, what would one half gallon a week for a year cost?
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2. A day at McDonald's: How much did McDonald's restaurants around the world sell on an average day in 2025?
Photo: Steffen Mokosch, CC BY-SA 3.0 - Counts
- Every McDonald's restaurant, company-run and franchised
- Year
- 2025
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3. Sealed Super Mario Bros. game: What did an unopened copy of the 1985 Nintendo game Super Mario Bros. sell for at Heritage Auctions in July 2020?
Photo: Emilio J. Rodríguez Posada, CC BY-SA 4.0 - What
- A factory-sealed Super Mario Bros. cartridge for the original Nintendo Entertainment System (1985)
- Sold
- Heritage Auctions, Dallas, July 2020
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4. A year of household spending: How much did the average US household spend in total in 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
Photo: Me (Elsa Versailles), Public domain - Measured by
- BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey
- Eating out
- $3,945 a year
- Entertainment
- $3,609 a year
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