Ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.
Ten cases that involve the reader's crime-solving participation present the remarkable boy detective working on his own and helping his police-chief father with Idaville's more serious problems.
The ten-year-old detective continues his war on crime in Idaville through ten more cases, for which the reader is invited to guess the solution before it is revealed.