Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 05, 2021

And he will brag about it to Mom and Dad all night long.

Good for you Calvin/Spiff.

Mission accomplished!? Am I reading the wrong strip???

Look at his face in panel 9: is surprised at his correct answer.

The mind works wonders when under stress

Should have used that luck on a lottery ticket

Having an imagination pays off!

I thought the answer was 42.

Little known fact: getting hit with a Frap Ray temporarily creates mathematical geniuses.

Spiff saves the day! But is it an Earth day, or a Zog day? And how long is a Zog day?

As the saying goes, “If you put 100 monkeys with typewriters in a room long enough, eventually you’ll get Hamlet .”

“Spiff again saves the day!”

Why aren’t the Zogites cheering? That was a great three point landing.

I tried the exact same thing in high school physics class. It did not work out well at all. But then I guessed “nine” and it got better.

Well, that saves him until the next one.

The Planet Zog has a similar name to the Planet Zok which appeared in another Calvin and Hobbes/Spaceman Spiff Sunday Strip. The Planet Zok was a planet with very low gravity which Spaceman Spiff could bounce around on. Calvin was bouncing up and down on his bed.

I could do this in my sleep!

IIRC Calvin is perpetually in second grade. He gets first grade math questions and sixth grade history and geography questions. Cartoon world at its finest.

I like the comment about high insurance premiums.

I wonder what ET Aliens pay with all those crashes they have on this planet.

That one time with a blind pig actually gets the acorn. It’s a pretty big deal to the pig.

Paying attention can get expensive.

I imagine Calvin standing up with arms spread in real life as his classmates look askance.

@BE THIS GUY- Yeah and to Susie Gerkins! But of course knowing Calvin, he won’t dare tell his parents that he guessed the right answer being Spaceman Spiff.

Looks like a Monday to me…just a bit of luck.

For once he got the answer right!

It’s called Luck.

LOL! LOL! That is one lucky kid! He will never forget #7.

And for the next few days, “Seven” was his answer to all questions…

I like the one where he’s told by the teacher to stop celebrating

Calvin should be proud of the three-point landing, they really are difficult to achieve.

We’re fortunate he has Watterson to “show his work”.

There is no substitute for dumb luck

Classic pulp SF.

Don’t laugh, Einstein also solved problems this way

Spiff got Frapped? Could be worse, could be a double mochafrappacrappacino with two extra shots. Or whatever it’s called at Spendbucks.

“So where’s my ticker-tape parade?”

These never get old. :-)

Me. All the way through life. Dumb luck.

That’s a long way to go for a play on words, “three point landing”

I’m sure it’s a coincidence but I’ve just seen three strips with flying saucers. Can we make it four?

That reminds me when a classmate brought a Playboy cover and was reading it in a social history class, got busted. Turned out the rest of the magazine was farming one. Everyone had a good laugh, even the teacher.

Blind luck oftens influences people’s live, more than they know.

There seems to be a lot of readers who think he “guessed” the right answer. He didn’t even GIVE an answer, he was completing the count down to crashing. Lucky yes, guess no.

Lucky Spiff!!