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I emailed them and they said to think about it latterally

Hehe as in, dont waste your energy with this crap or your phone bill money or time thinking about the problem, and do something productive with your life. In fact doing NOTHING at all is more productive than this, watching a turned off TV is better! Not going to spend any more time of my life trying to stress my point.

If you dont get it yet I give up, just keep phoning them up with random answers to keep this demonic form of TV running.

Ps I'm not totally inhuman, Kat Porter is bitchin. She's got a good education, looks stunning, but a shame all she could do with her career to date is become one of these gambling pimps. Nice to see her on the telly now and then anyway, mabey the next Carol Vorderman ?

Daff

XeonXR6 wrote:

Ok, getting a little annoying... I have been watching this puzzle for a while now, its even on right now... I am thinking of starting up an entire website on this show. Its really pissy.... glad I have not called in...

Go ahead! Better still encourage people to complain to ofcom on the site.

I'd love to see the end of this scam quiz show gambling crap on terrestial tv.

arrond

lol, this question is still being run and no correct answer yet! 30k its worth so theyre not gonna give it away easily are they?!!

...oh i still remember primary school maths;

BODMAS = Brackets, powers Of, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction

anyway, ive spent / wasted a gd few hours and still every answer i have found elsewhere or 'worked out' has turned out to be wrong, whether ive seen posts from others in the same prediciment or watched and noted the answers given!

...i almost buy the conspiracy that it is all a scam to get your money, as you would think that someone would get the answer on a random guess, judging by the amount of calls there are! after all, how many numbers could it be? ... (guess it could go into the millions, but reakoning thts unlikely). So yeah maybe they just list all numbers guessed until they have raked in enough dosh, and then the next UNIQUE answer to be phoned in they say is correct?

Christ knows how much longer this will go on, but people are still phoning in their droves, so im guessing a while!!!

robertclegge

i belive the answer to the annoying :mad:

nineteen minus five =
4+3x2=
6-5=

IS ............1036 :rolleyes: ,.....because

the I in nIneteen and mImus is roman numerals to that s 2
the IV in fIVe is 4
and the M in Minus is 1000
and obvouisly + the 4 and 3 and the x is'nt a times its a roman numera 10 ! then + 2,6 and 5
so...
2+4+1000+4+3+10+2+6+5=
1036

flutegirl

robertclegge wrote:

i belive the answer to the annoying :mad:

nineteen minus five =
4+3x2=
6-5=

IS ............1036

Has anybody given this answer? I watched for a few minutes last night and as soon as I saw this puzzle I switched off, they are seriously annoying. I don't like the Mint. If Quizmania go down this route it will be bye-bye to them also.

AnAemia

JamesPere wrote:

Arghhhh its driving me insane same question near enough

Add the numbers

NINETEEN MINUS FIVE =

4 + 3 x 2 =

6 - 5 =

The answer is not 5, 14, 20, 7, 44, 25 or 29.

This is a stupid puzzle? why?
bcus its designed to look simple, and make money!

Lets look at it and ill try my best to explain.

Add the numbers:
NINETEEN MINUS FIVE =
4 + 3 X 2 =
6 - 5 =

Ive decided to take the words in to account, this is also to show you there are

loades of different cobinations, you dont know what ones they acctually used.

Lets look at the 1st line...
NINETEEN MINUS FIVE =
We see 19 - 5 so lets 1st add them together...
Next look at NINETEEN notice the NINE? so we add a 9.
and then for the equation 19 - 5 = 14

19+5+9+14 = 47
Now bcus we put it in to an equation...
we add thoes numbers...
47+1+9+19+5+9+1+4+14 = 109

Now i bet none of you noticed the NINE and thought you could add it to the

equation., or even add the numbers when put in to numerical form...

end of the day how do you know what metod they using? money maker...

Next Line
4 + 3 X 2 =
4+3+2+(3x2) = 15

Next Line
6 - 5 =
6+5+(6-5) = 12

Now
109
15
12

109+15+12 =

136

Now you could even go as far as add the numbers from the answears...

136+1+9+1+5

+1+2 = 155

See what i mean? it gets stupid, and i only looked at it for a seccond and

thought this up, imagine all the people that say 1000+ what do you think they

see?

This can get complicated..
for example 4 + 3 X 2 = could be (4+3) + (3x2) +4 +3 +2 +

(4+3x2)

heh and not to mention all thoes I in the 1st line?
NINETEEN MINUS FI

VE - are they I's or 1's?

Regards
Hope you can see my point.

Milktrolley

We got BOMDAS where O stood for Order. So if there were two multiplication sums in an equation, you'd work from left to right and work them out as you came across them. It makes a difference in some circumstances apparently.

arrond

cant believe im back on this forum, but sum neva listen.

read back and u will realise tht the O in BODMAS stands for powers Of, not order, or anything else.. i dont know if sum of u are unsure of wht a 'power' is, if so, learn sumthin!!!

back to the quiz, no the answer isnt 1036, so tht method is incorrect, the chances r (as ive read elsewhere) tht it is not one or other method but rather a mixture of several methods such as the roman numerals, or the using numbers of letters aswell as the more 'simple' traditional mathematics (which judging by posts is stumping enough of u neway, due to ur lack of the simple BODMAS rule)!! So yea, now u get how they make a fortune out of us idiots??

chiao

Milktrolley

arrond wrote:

cant believe im back on this forum, but sum neva listen.

read back and u will realise tht the O in BODMAS stands for powers Of, not order, or anything else.. i dont know if sum of u are unsure of wht a 'power' is, if so, learn sumthin!!!

You're wrong. It can stand for Order actually and generally that's the way it's taught, at second-level at least. Some schools bring indices into it and have the O stand for Of.

billy the squid

Pigman II wrote:

What a load of bollox! The presenters are like a couple of hustling pimps and it just made me sick listening to them nattering on like a pair of idiots.

I was watching it the other night and this came up

"What do the numbers add up to?"

NINETEEN MINUS FIVE =

4 + 3 x 2 =

6 - 5 =

So I watched it for about 10 minutes and a few sensible answers were offered (amongst a deluge of retarded ones) to the host. None was right tho. Anyway of curiosity I stuck in a videotape and recorded the whole thing in order to watch it on FF the next day to hear the correct answer from somone. Well I'm not kidding when I say they took calls for at least a full 2 hours and then just STOPPED with no right answer! :mad: (thank christ I didn't stay up watching it!)

Maybe it's a trick question (the host was letting on that it was 'easy') but personally I wouldn't be surprised if there was no right answer and they were just conning people to ring up and waste their 60p's.

That puzzle still hasn't been solved as of the last time i watched it last week.

Daff

Maybe it's a trick question (the host was letting on that it was 'easy') but personally I wouldn't be surprised if there was no right answer and they were just conning people to ring up and waste their 60p's.

That's why we should complain to ofcom - People are tricked into thinking
the solution is something they can work out. Clearly it is not, but they're
cashing in on all the folks who see it first time and think "err 25", or "44"
or whatever.

I don't like these shows at all, but this particular "add the numbers" game is the worse I've seen because the presenters are lying to us...

btw if you mention BODMAS, you are a DUMASS!

DontDoScamShows

They had it on again last night dangling a £60,000 carrot at you, man they must be making cash from this.

Here's a question they should do...

If everyone phone up 10 times a night at 75p per phone call, how many people does it take to make £1,000,000 a night ? And how much do we actually earn ?

Answer one, one hundred and thrity three, thousand three hundred and thirty three.33 (recurring).


Although the meaning is guesstimatable at.

Approximate answer about 1/30th of the peak audience for a prime time TV show. (say 4 Million for EastEnders).

Now think, how many people phone up 50 times a day a lot i bet !. Answer 1/150th of peak TV viewing figures, thats only 25 thou viewers and I bet they have that.

My Answer to the second is at a gut feeling is higher, £1.5M to £2M.

And then they give away a few hundred pounds in the last 30 mins before the program ends.


But I found an use for it.Was reading H2G2 all night, and muted it provided an ambient backlight.

Keep phoning guys (NOT !)

Alex0paul

The Add the Numbers quiz is back on!!!!!!!!!:mad: :mad:

BobOn28

Does anyone have a list of already guessed answers?

Daff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dmn/Mintpuzzle

Once you see the list, you'll realise how misleading the presenters
are being. "c'mon it's easy", "are you good at maths"? etc etc. It's
clearly not easy, and being good at maths is a disadvantage!

cat1982

am i being really stupid?? but isnt the 'add the numbers' thing talking about numbers as in a song?? ie add the songs..???

barry2000

BobOn28 wrote:

Does anyone have a list of already guessed answers?

My old IT teacher told me the maths order thing was Bless My Dear Aunt Sally ie Brackets, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction.

Watching the answers for some of the other quizshows, the answer is usually between 100-10,000, so you’d be better off just thinking of a random number, like you would do when guessing the mint vault pincode or choosing lottery numbers.

There is a database of previous answers people have given on the Phone Quiz Answers Resource website at http://www.phonequiz.somee.com. More specifically, the list of wrong answers for this maths question on the Mint here: http://www.phonequiz.somee.com/answerdetailsadd.asp?q=308

I don’t think it’s a complete list, but it’s better than nothing.

Stargal

There was a v good article about the Mint in the Guardian last week and how it's pretty much the only profitable thing on ITV right now

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,1864377,00.html

You have to register for free to read it, but if you couldn't be bothered, the gist of it is that since being launched in April, the show has made revenues of £27million and a profit of £9million. They claim to have given away £6 million to over 10,000 people so far but I'm dubious about that, based on the long and pointless hours I've spent watching it without a single person winning.

The company also say that they monitor calls and if they see loads of calls coming from one number then they ring that person up and check that they know what they're doing. Again, dubious.

craigtthatsme

Of course you would. it is.

This is the biggest fix the world has ever known. it really does deserve to be pulled. i have heard every plausible solution, mathmatically, philosophically, religiously?!?...

Today, it started at £15000 for a few calls. then it was tripled cos people are giving up, so £45000. Only new callers to the show were calling so it had a bonus £15000 for ages, sorta tempting the regular addicts (me included via web entry) back. that was £60000. now it's a £70000. The wideboy Bev is turning on it's tears as well. This has got dispicable.

i made the occasional call until i came in drunk one night, it let me call almost 200 times. now i use web entry and constantly bother the itv email staff with my complaints. I think everybody should follow DAFF's advice. complain at this link:

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/progs/:mad: