What do you do when you're thinking about something hard or an odd issue?

I reach for my cricket bat and head towards whoever caused the problems to carry out some user education....

I think a lot of people have different expressions used when they're thinking about something.
I was a neighborhood party, someone was asking me about their google calendar acting odd.
I told her what I thought would work and she's like I think I tried that.
I was then a bit stumped by that and I think I kind of wrinkled my forehead, squinted maybe a little and looked a bit to the side seeing if something else would come to mind.
Do others have some expression they use in cases like this, or do you think some are better or should try and not do these things?
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TBuilder wrote:
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