Howard the Duck (1986)

Plotzle Original · Puzzle #2 · March 22, 2026 · Fantasy / Comedy

Six plot descriptions for Howard the Duck (1986). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. An underemployed magician discovers his pet duck can predict lottery numbers but only when fed expired bread while his skeptical wife documents everything for a potential exposé on gambling addiction.
2. Two college dropouts start a mobile petting zoo specializing in ducks as therapy animals but their biggest client turns out to be laundering money through fake bookings and donations.
3. A millionaire playboy nicknamed Howard due to his cowardice hires actors to pose as his friends when his estranged father visits for reconciliation and the charade spirals hilariously out of control.
4. A woman inherits her uncle's roadside attraction featuring mechanical waterfowl and reluctantly partners with a former carnival barker to save the business from foreclosure through increasingly bizarre promotional stunts.
5. An alien duck is brought to Earth through a laser beam and befriended by young people who try to protect him from scientists and help him return home before another dangerous alien arrives.
6. A shy librarian joins a community theater production about migratory birds where he falls for the director's assistant and they bond over shared experiences of abandoning creative dreams.