i think it was saturday night on tv the question was how many reds ?????in the paragraph. How the hell did they get the answer 5633????? can anyone tell me
The answer is absolutely nothing to do with the question, it's jus a number thought up by someone ...
That way, they can make a fortune by people ringing in with the wrong answer ... because no-one will ever get the right answer from the question posed.
There was a lot of press coverage about this a while ago, trying to get these programs taken off.
They never explain the answer; they just congratulate the "winner" and move swiftly on to another puzzle. I think they owe it to all the people who spent (or rather wasted )75p ringing in thinking they knew the answer. to prove how they arrived at that sum. They seem fond of this kind of puzzle and if they explained how to do it, it would give the game away and they wouldn't be able to use the same format again.
I have seen some of these so called quizzes, and as far as i can tell, they are a con. I take my hat off to the person who devised the format, as they must be raking in vast amounts of money. The questions are, at best obscure, and the answers even more so.