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Here is a test for all dnf'ers.
In the UK there is a quiz show called "The Mint".
From Midnight last night to 3.30AM I watched the show where a puzzle with a top prize of £40,000 remained unsolved before been taken of the air at 3.30 am. The problem is the phone callers to the show pay a premium rate to dial in with their answer but on several occassions people rang in with what I felt was/or could be the correct answer to the puzzle. Here is the puzzle word for word:
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Add the numbers
Nineteen minus five =
4 + 3 x 2 =
6 - 5 =
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I actually came up with 2 answers that could be equally acceptable a. 29 or b. 25 (depending on how you calculated the second piece of the puzzle).
Several people rang in with those answers throughout the night while others realizing that those answers were not been accepted by the show started to be very creative by using formulas such as just counting how many numbers were there physically, so counting them coming up with 7, to others getting th result of each piece of the puzzle and putting the answers together to get either 14101 or 14141. But as far as I can see there was at least 20/30 callers who rang in that are entitled to £40,000.
But here is my question. How would you solve this puzzle and what's the answer?
In the UK there is a quiz show called "The Mint".
From Midnight last night to 3.30AM I watched the show where a puzzle with a top prize of £40,000 remained unsolved before been taken of the air at 3.30 am. The problem is the phone callers to the show pay a premium rate to dial in with their answer but on several occassions people rang in with what I felt was/or could be the correct answer to the puzzle. Here is the puzzle word for word:
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Add the numbers
Nineteen minus five =
4 + 3 x 2 =
6 - 5 =
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I actually came up with 2 answers that could be equally acceptable a. 29 or b. 25 (depending on how you calculated the second piece of the puzzle).
Several people rang in with those answers throughout the night while others realizing that those answers were not been accepted by the show started to be very creative by using formulas such as just counting how many numbers were there physically, so counting them coming up with 7, to others getting th result of each piece of the puzzle and putting the answers together to get either 14101 or 14141. But as far as I can see there was at least 20/30 callers who rang in that are entitled to £40,000.
But here is my question. How would you solve this puzzle and what's the answer?