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<blockquote data-quote="jimbo" data-source="post: 360692" data-attributes="member: 175309"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><u>Best brains baffled as ITV quiz says two plus two is </u></strong></span><strong><u>506</u></strong> </span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">ITV COULD be ·fined after broadcasting a mathematics challenge on late"night television which some of the country's best brains are unable to solve. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The puzzle was broadcast on the Make Your Play programme which starts at midnight and is aimed at poor sleepers and those who have been drinking. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The on-screen question headed "Add the pence" listed: <strong>two pounds, 25p, £1.47, 16p and fifty pence</strong> and offered a prize of £30,000. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Three-and-a-half hours after the programme started, the host announced the answer was <strong>506</strong> and that no one had won, but <strong>did not</strong> explain the solution which an ITV source said was standard practice since "it would ruin the game for some people". </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">But mathematics professors, the high IQ. organisation Mensa and the lateral thinking pioneer Edward de Bono all failed to come up with a solution. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Only the cryptanalysts of Bletchley Park, who helped end the Second World War by breaking Nazi ciphers, were able to suggest an answer. But ITV said the code breakers were wrong and the solution was not that complicated. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, Marcus du Sautoy, showed the puzzle to other lecturers. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">He said: "No one can fmd a good reason for the answer being 506. That's not to say that we haven't missed some clever perspective but there was a growing sense among those I talked to that this could be a scam. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">"Anyone adding up the pence in the obvious way gets to 438. So there is a missing 68 pence." - </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The regulator Ofcom said it was investigating 20 complaints against the show.</span></span> </span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">So..... members, do you have any thoughts on a solution?<img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /> </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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