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monkeymurderer
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What the hell is this?
3 numbers up on the screen, you have to add them up and call in and give the answer.
Everyone so far has given the wrong answer. I don't understand how... It's clearly 459.
Should this be investigated by Ofcom?
3 numbers up on the screen, you have to add them up and call in and give the answer.
Everyone so far has given the wrong answer. I don't understand how... It's clearly 459.
Should this be investigated by Ofcom?
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These people who are answering are going um, ah three? When the numbers are right in front of them.
What happens is you call the number, and they say "lets see if we can put you through", you hear a buzz and then some dick goes on the air and says some stupid answer not even close.
It's clearly a scam.
Basically its not as it looks... or they are just making up the rules as they go along, there are probably many possible answers.
I bet he loves his job, thats a step down from a Cbeebies presenter.
The answer given as correct was 515, anyone know how to get this answer ?
They got told of these things nearly two years ago - Ofcom doesn't give one ****.
same odds for getting through as if you ring the premium rate number 'apparently' :rolleyes:
Yesterday afternoon they were running one of those 'add up the numbers in this paragraph' cons. It was about somebody buying three cars in 1984 and selling two in 1986 and still having one.
It was running at about 3pm when I tuned in and they eventually withdrew it at 10.15pm without anyone having got it correct. It was amazing the number of people who got through and gave the same 'obvious' wrong answer.
But when it finished they said the correct answer was 2836. That was patently total crap since the two dates in the question added up to 3970 and there weren't any negative numbers. In fact if you added in all the numbers you got to over 8,000.
I've sent them an email asking for an explanation of how they got to their answer but don't expect they will tell me. These things are a total con because they can make the answer anything they like.
But I suppose it would be more difficult to con people if they said 'Give us £1. In 19 times out of 20 you'll not be given a chance to win anything - you just lose the £1. The other time we will let you guess at a random number and if you get it right then you'll win £500. But we've not yet chosen the number so you've no chance of getting it right so you'll still lose your £1'.
I think the channel has only been running for a week - yet within the first few days someone has won the jackpot. But very few people each day get a chance to play the jackpot and if they do the chance of getting it right is 1 in 128. So the odds are heavily against anyone winning it. But surprise, surprise someone in Liverpool has. Or could it possibly have been one of their own staff on the phone???
These programs should be banned - they are total cons. Why do the regulators not do anything about them? They are blatently ripping people off.
Finally found the piece of paper for this:
Blue Motorway Sign
Birmingham 23 miles
Manchester 113 miles
Glasgow 324 miles
Target answer is 515.
Any ideas ?
"Don't start from here?"
Yes.
23 + 113 + 324 = 460
2 + 3 = 5
11 + 3 = 14
32 + 4 = 36
Add them all up and you get 460 + 5 + 14 + 36 = 515.
But it is warped logic - and I know that similar convoluted stupid illogical logic could get me to any answer they chose.
It is simply a SCAM SCAM SCAM. The answer could be anything - they decide it once enough poor mugs have phoned up and wasted their £1's.
Take the 324, you could do 3+2+4 or 3+24 as well as 32+2. None are any more "correct" than the others.
That's the issue, yes there is a type of logic but any genuine quiz answer will only have one real answer and that answer will be one that everyone would understand and accept.
And that of course doesn't even get in to how callers are or are not selected.
I agree. It should be shut down. It's for the vulnerable and the gullible who are probably already in debt, and who are lured by the unfounded promise of winning large amounts of money. And it's presented by unpleasant people who look as though they are on day-release from somewhere.
Agree with these comments.
I know several DS members post that anyone stupid enough, naïve, gullible or greedy deserves what they get. I disagree.
If someone is genuinely naïve, gullible or stupid even, then they need protection not criticism. I’ve made this analogy before but will do so again. If those same people found their granny had just been swindled out of £1,000’s of pounds by a cowboy builder who rearranged a couple of roof tiles would they call their granny stupid, gullible etc? There’s no difference in principle its just people believing and trusting people they shouldn’t.
We need to get away from this idea that the callers should blame themselves. The channels do need to be taken to task. We’ve had a long thread on Quiz TV on the Programs board. It does seem they are doing nothing illegal, but as was pointed out there, most entrants think they are entering a quiz of sorts when they are really entering a lottery and one that appears not to give equal chance to each entrant. It can’t be coincidence that so many of these sorts of channels have sprung up – easy money?
I’m sure they all know what they are doing from a legal perspective even if the viewers are being misled.
Concerns:
a) Calls are not randomly selected. Some quizzes are so easy its not possible to believe anyone can get them wrong yet they last for hours.
b) Multiple possible “correct” answers to each question. No proper explanation or rules are given.
c) No-one getting on despite the presenter stating they are waiting for calls.
d) Suspicions over how many “real” winners there are?
e) Many posters never getting through but strangely the same names get through time after time on the channels, How?
f) Apparent lack of any regulation as no official body seems interested.
g) Some callers apparently giving the ”wrong” answer whilst later on someone else gives exactly the same answer which suddenly becomes “correct”.
h) Channels selling themselves as quizzes when they are not.
i) Quizzes where to answer the question you have to get through on a particular telephone lines no. Despite only being 99 lines it takes hours for someone to get that particular line. How is this random?
Dice 1 shows 2,5,6 totalling 13. Dice 2 shows 2,3,4 totalling 9, Dice 3 shows 1,3,5 totalling 9, Dice 4 shows 2,3,5 totalling 10 and Dice 5 shows 2,4,5 totalling 11
Now that adds up to 52 in my book. Ofcom need to look into this channel.