Late night quiz tv question

[Jon L. Obscene]

Add up the numbers.


BEV AND KEV HAD 19 MATES, 12 DOGS AND 15 CATS. FOR EVERY PET THEY HAD 12 Birds, 4 GOLDFISH AND 9 MICE.

They presenter said something about notice the caps and letters can be numbers :huh:

Jonno :cool:

[Gemby!]

bev ?

kev ??

kev!!

bev !!

[Jon L. Obscene]

Yeah thought someone would do that :lol:

Well the answer was given but no explination how it's reached :huh:

Can someone enlighten me?

Jonno :cool:

[Gemby!]

i think ....

BEV AND KEV HAD 19 MATES, 12 DOGS AND 15 CATS. FOR EVERY PET THEY HAD 12 Birds, 4 GOLDFISH AND 9 MICE.

+

Gemby

=

WZF ( what ze feck?)

[Jon L. Obscene]

Exactly what I said :lol:

Jonno :cool:

[manker]

Yeah thought someone would do that :lol:

Well the answer was given but no explination how it's reached :huh:

Can someone enlighten me?

Jonno :cool:Looks like bollocks to me :huh:

[Jon L. Obscene]

Yeah thats what I thought, ok I'll give the answer and see if anyone can explain how you get to that answer.

8988

:huh: how?

Jonno :cool:

[manker]

Yeah thats what I thought, ok I'll give the answer and see if anyone can explain how you get to that answer.

8988

:huh: how?

Jonno :cool:Unless the numerical position of the letter of the alphabet comes into the equation, and I really can't be arsed with working that out, I have no idea.

Btw:

The pets bit; if for each pet (cats and dogs) they had those other animals (birds, goldfish and mice) - then surely they would constitute pets too.

This makes the total number = ∞

[Cheese]

Yeah thats what I thought, ok I'll give the answer and see if anyone can explain how you get to that answer.

8988

:huh: how?

Jonno :cool:Unless the numerical position of the letter of the alphabet comes into the equation, and I really can't be arsed with working that out, I have no idea.

Btw:

The pets bit; if for each pet (cats and dogs) they had those other animals (birds, goldfish and mice) - then surely they would constitute pets too.

This makes the total number = ∞

A sideways 8?:blink:

[Jon L. Obscene]

The pets bit; if for each pet (cats and dogs) they had those other animals (birds, goldfish and mice) - then surely they would constitute pets too.

This makes the total number = ∞

I thought that too, it was really stupid, a question that ran for an hour and was worth 5 grand why the fuck did'nt they explain? stupid twats :dry:


@Cheese.... Yeah I get that if I turn my keyboard round 45 degrees :01:

Jonno :cool:

[Gemby!]

its a small sideways 8 :rolleyes:

[manker]

I'm having trouble sorting out the ones who are rodding about the 'sideways 8' and the ones who aren't :unsure:

[manker]

A sideways 8? :blink:@Cheese.... Yeah I get that if I turn my keyboard round 45 degrees :01: Jonno - master builder :01:

[Virtualbody1234]

@Cheese.... Yeah I get that if I turn my keyboard round 45 degrees :01:

Jonno :cool:
Or even 90°. :P

[Busyman]

The pets bit; if for each pet (cats and dogs) they had those other animals (birds, goldfish and mice) - then surely they would constitute pets too.

This makes the total number = ∞

I thought that too, it was really stupid, a question that ran for an hour and was worth 5 grand why the fuck did'nt they explain? stupid twats :dry:


@Cheese.... Yeah I get that if I turn my keyboard round 45 degrees :01:

Jonno :cool:
Infinite mang. I guess you knew that but er uh..ok. :unsure:

[Gemby!]

What ze feck ?

[{I}{K}{E}]

Yeah thats what I thought, ok I'll give the answer and see if anyone can explain how you get to that answer.

8988

:huh: how?

Jonno :cool:

Roman Numerals :unsure:

I=1
V=5
X=10
L=50
C=100
D=500
M=1000


:huh:

[Cheese]

Yeah thats what I thought, ok I'll give the answer and see if anyone can explain how you get to that answer.

8988

:huh: how?

Jonno :cool:

Roman Numerals ;)

V=5
X=10
L=50
C=100
D=500
M=1000


:huh:

I checked that. Still didn't add up to 8988.

[JPaul]

I would rather burn my own eyes than bother even try to work that out.

[Jon L. Obscene]

@Cheese.... Yeah I get that if I turn my keyboard round 45 degrees :01:

Jonno :cool:
Or even 90°. :P

No cos my keyboard sits at a 45 degree angle to me :P

@People trying to work this out..... It's stupid init :frusty:

Jonno :cool:

Edit: ok this is bugging me :frusty: I've emailed them :lol:
It was "Big Game TV" on sky.

[DanB]

Roman Numerals ;)

V=5
X=10
L=50
C=100
D=500
M=1000


:huh:

I checked that. Still didn't add up to 8988.


Did you both remember to use the I's as 1's? :huh:

[Jon L. Obscene]

Good point, altho I just tried that and got 5338, leaving 3650 unacounted for :frusty:

This is starting to annoy me now :dry:

Jonno :cool:

[GepperRankins]

tis impossible. for every pet they have 25 more pets. that means they have infinite pets :dabs:

[Jon L. Obscene]

Yeah I know, I worked that one out too so it has to be different, I'm going with the roman numerals atm cos it makes sense with what they guy said about letters can be numbers.

But I'm not quite getting there, altho I have a very very thin theory :lol:

Ok

vdvdmdcvddidmic

In roman using the first v as 5000 (normally in roman it would have a line above it) and adding the rest to it you come up with 10207, now if you take the 12 and the 19 and put them together to make 1219, then subtract 1219 from 10207 you end up with 8988 and the other numbers are just there to confuse you :01:

What ya fink? :lol:

Jonno :cool:

[Jon L. Obscene]

ARGH!!!! :angry: this is really doing my head in now :frusty:

And no I can't leave it, I'm unemployed and have nothing to do cept sit here and work out stupid puzzles :01:

Jonno :cool:

[Gemby!]

i have a task for you

figure out my surname or find an actual pic of me.... you have no chance in finding out so i win :01:

however if you want to pass the time you can try :)

[manker]

i have a task for you

figure out my surname or find an actual pic of me.... you have no chance in finding out so i win :01:

however if you want to pass the time you can try :)You posted a pic of yourself last year.

I'll get DanB to find it later, if you want :naughty:

[Gemby!]

you can try :shifty:

[Gripper]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/gemby/feet.jpg

I WIN :w00t: :w00t: :01: