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Today I watched the hundreds and thousands round of SkyQuizLive and they displayed in some order:
one hundred, century, millennium, 300 , 500/5 (actually 500 underlined with a 5 beneath it), 100 x 5, a monkey, ton.
My first answer was 27, which was given as wrong, and I could also come up with 1 (also given wrong) and 125 by counting one hundred and century together as 100.
No one got the answer, which apparantly was 75! I would like to know how they came up with it, because the presenter kept implying that the answer was straightforward yet I couldn't see it and I'm not stupid.
I had a quick look on the sky web site and couldn't see any solutions, but I noticed that point 6.2 of the terms and conditions on the website http://www.skyquizlive.co.uk/terms/ basically says that if the solution is wrong then tough (not that I'm at all cynical)!
This has really bugged me as well, so I hope someone has an answer. If I find one myself I will post it here.
Hello, My name is Brian from Swanage in Dorset. I hope my explanation will answer your question. I have myself also participated in these quizzes and for many months annoyed me also, but eventually after a long time working them out did eventually win money on the programme.
For example with this particular puzzle: You also have to think laterally as in count absolutely everything. The one thing that you forgot to count was ROMAN NUMERALS. e.g in the word CENTIPEDE - you have a C and a D. The letter C in roman numerals = 100 and the letter D = 500. these must also be counted in th answer and the same goes for any other words in the puzzle.
I found this very helpful and it seems to work for me.
Roman numerals, of course! How annoying that I didn't think of that - I'll put it down to being ill at the time (that was why I was at home off work). That said, judging by my original comments (it was a long time ago I saw the show) it seems that the presenter was making out that it was a lot more obvious than that.
Anyhow, many thanks for that bit of information Brian, this was something that really bugged me at the time so I am glad that someone took the time to explain (even though its months since you replied - the account is not on my main email address), and that I know that the answer was valid, albiet very sly!
Once again thanks for your answer, it has been gratefully received.
Colin, Vale of Glamorgan.