Saw this yesterday I think on some random quiz channel on TV, but cannot figure it out!

"ADD ALL THE NUMBERS"

So, if you follow the quote you end up with 11, but thats the WRONG answer as you're not supposed to do what it says, just add all the numbers...

So you add up 1, 5, 6, 22, 2 you get 36 - which again is STILL wrong!

So I thought, must be a trick question, cos they are all words and no numbers, so the answer must be zero - but thats wrong ASWELL!!!!!

:w all:

Can't figure it out

 

is it 6
as the rest of the number's don't tell you to add anything ???

 

is it 30?

 

sorry i ment 26 didn't read it correctly

 

my guess is 51

 

 

Maybe it works on the positive and negative factors of the numbers. i.e minus six is -6. If you add just the numbers in this fashion you would get 1 + 5 + -6 + 22 + 2 = 24??? or am I way off

 

12

 

(1) (5) (6) (20) (2) (22) (2) = 58

Go for the free web option as 60p a call is a rip off

 

agree with Tony, or it could be 42 if u use the minus 6, but logically would be 56

 

"minus" isn't a number Rick.... "add all the numbers" so the only number there in that bit is 6

 

answer = 0 there are no numbers all letters?

 

10 i think

 

^

 

whats the answer then ?

 

I don't get it - where did you get the extra 20 from?

And if you add the numbers 5+1+6+22+2 you get 36, not 56

 

Aint got a clue!

 

cause we basically add every number up that u come up with from the sum and

like 1+5=6 so thats a 1,5,6 -6 +22 so were now 1,5,6,6,22 /2=11 so the list is now 1,5,6,6,22,2,11 = 53 so thats still diffrent to what i got before but thats the kinda way i think it works lol

 

Read it again and tell me you cant see the word twenty

Then read it again and you will see the word twenty two

 

Does anyone know what the actual answer is?????

 

8???

 

TWENTY is not mentioned twice.

Using your working the numbers would be;

ONE : FIVE : SIX : TWENTY : TWO : TWO

I don't see how you can use one of the words (numbers) twice.

 

Well thats why you will never win

Your reading what you want to read

Twenty is there as a number ..... and twenty two is there as a number.

Don't look at it as a phrase, or a question or anything else - just look for numbers and add them up

 

Yes I know that, but the word TWENTY is not there twice

ONE(1) FIVE(1) SIX(1) TWENTY(1) TWO(1) TWO(2)

 

Twenty is there as a word ...... and twenty two is there as a word.

Your STILL reading it as a sentance

 

Its 58.

1+5+6+20+22+2+2=58

 

read it again and you will see another two, the one in twenty two

 

the answer is 24
MINUS six is a number! if you add a negative number you still subtract it!
so 1+5=6
6+-6=0
0+22=22
22 + 2=24

edited as i was tired and didnt read it properly!

 

I edited the first post at the same time as you chippers as even I missed one of them out

 

Read thrush's first post and you will see that 11 has already been guessed on the show and it WAS WRONG

 

I was before you






Mathematicians minds work alike, on tha contrary I am complete shit at things like countdown

 

sorry,twat! im tired
its 24

 

Ahhh minus 6 is a number, amended answer would be.


1+5-6+6+20+22+2+2=52.

Utterly riveting convo

 

chipper what are you adding there?thats nothing like the question!
1+6+-6+22+2=24

 

I think chippers is right.

 

No but the numbers are written in word form.


ie. Twenty two= Twenty, Twenty two and two.

 

We both posted or edited at 11.01pm (as can be seen from the time stamp) I realised that mistake 2 minutes before that when I was messing about with the bigger and bolder letters on the post above it.

Anyway we will still both be wrong somewhere - thats how they make their money

 

Well i realised it 3 mins before while I was first calculating

 

no chiper,the words are written so in twenty two you can ONLY see twenty and two! if it was in numerical,ie 22 you would see 2,2,22 but you can ONLY see twenty and two,doesnt matter if they are together or not,its only writen once.thats how i perceive it

 

Getting very passionate over a bunch of numbers on some quiz show neither of us saw