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List of problems solved by MacGyver:

In order to create a distraction, MacGyver connects a self-inflating life jacket, a self-inflating boat, and a signal flare together so that as the life jacket inflates it pulls the ripcord off the boat. This serves as a time-delay mechanism. As the boat inflates it sets off the pen flare.

MacGyver and the people of a village he is protecting create a trap using a bamboo pipe with holes drilled along its length, “fire ash”, and “rice alcohol”. The fire ash and rice alcohol are ejected through the holes in the pipe by a car exhaust, creating a smoke screen and irritating the eyes of their attackers.

To slow down their attackers, MacGyver places a large tree branch across the access road to the village. Using some cord wrapped around the triggers, he hooks the branch up to some AK-47 assault rifles pointing toward the road at ground level. When the soldiers try to move the branch, they inadvertently pull the cord and the guns shoot out their jeeps’ tires. To bring down a helicopter gunship, MacGyver lassos a metal cable onto the helicopter’s landing rails and connects the cable to a jeep’s winch. By winding in the winch, he pulls the helicopter to the ground.