Some of my favorites:
- He uses a magnifying glass made of a hairpin and wine to read names of spies off a watch.
- As a way to hold off killer ants for awhile, MacGyver makes a flamethrower out of a hose, pipe, and tank of gasoline. He also uses some “kitchen ingredients” as a fuel-thickener to prevent the contraption from simply exploding.
- MacGyver rigs a pair of dice by rounding some of the edges with a shoe buffer with an abrasive added so that the chance of rolling a ‘7’ is increased. In order to create a distraction to swap the dice at a craps table, using some string and a paper clip, MacGyver fastens the string to the paper clip then attaches it to the dress of a woman who is walking nearby and steps on the string, pulling down her dress thereby creating a distraction and allowing him to swap the dice.
(via the title tag on today’s xkcd)

