The Great Book Of Answers (story)

"The Great Book Of Answers" is a story that is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. It is an adaptation of the comic book story "The Smurfs And The Book That Tells Everything" set in that particular universe.

Plot Summary
On the day that Handy unveils his latest invention, the smurfopedia, which turns out to be a magic mirror that would allow its user to get all sorts of answers to appear on the mirror just by using a typewriter-style keyboard, Brainy tells Empath about a situation that took place a few years before Empath's final return.

During one of Papa Smurf's extended visits to Homnibus the wizard, Brainy was cleaning the village leader's laboratory when he came across a book within a locked cupboard that had nothing on the pages except the page numbers. When he turned to the front page of the book, a voice said "hello" and told Brainy that he can ask any question. Brainy asked the book for the age of Papa Smurf, and after he was told to go to a certain page, he discovered that the book provided the correct age of Papa Smurf being 545 years old. He tested the book again about the water level of the village dam, and was astounded by the book's correct answer.