the numbers of wheels on eight taxis

[vergil7]

add the numbers of wheels on eight taxis even numbers up to ten numbers on one dice

[4getmenot]

wheels on 8 taxis - 40
and I dont quite understand 2nd bit???

[cameo]

I think this question has been asked before but i can't find it.
It was on The MInt if i remember correctly!

[Mikeyd2]

wouldn't it be 6 wheels on each Taxi (1 spare + steering wheel ) knowing the way these so called rip offs , sorry quizzes work....and aren't there no numbers on a dice ?....

Easier to do "how long is a piece of string"?

[4getmenot]

Ah I didnt think of the spare

[JackDanielsU]

Yes this a MINT question, and the answer can be anything from 1-1,000,000 no doubt

Roman Numerals can be counted?? (the x in taxi = 10, the v in even = 5, the m in number = 1000 and so on)

You can be really pedantic and say is it a six sided dice? - There are 3 -sided ones up to a 20 sided dice (used by the role playing gamers) so any one of those could be the answer

And yes the taxis...does the steering wheel count? spare wheel? Are they in fact Robin Reliant taxis?...and so on.

Will be very interested to see what the answer is, if they ever decide to say someones won

[Mikeyd2]

They'd probably add fly wheel and any other ones to drag out the phonecalls and rack up the dosh they are taking on these so called programmes .....more like a tv equivalent of the old 3 card trick on Oxford St me-thinks ....(allegedly).

[hopalong]

working on that roman numerals then Taxi can equal 12

X=10
I =1
XI =11
X +I +XI =12

[save75pence]

The answer to the puzzle was 3758, quite how they came up with that I don't know. Noone won it and the answer was revelead near the end of the show by opening an envelope with the answer in.

I've never called the mint and now after seeing the answer I certainly will NEVER EVER call it. I was conviced the answer was either 43 or 44. I can accept if the answer was higher by using the spare wheel and steering wheel on the taxi's but 3758?? And made worse by not revealing how they came to get the answer.

[save75pence]

Just to follow up, the game wasn't won the first time so they brought it back a few days later. The 10,000 was used for a snake game, a simple game that requires the brain size of a flea to workout, obviously they made their money already on the ridiculous 8 wheels on a taxi, even numbers up to 10, numbers on one dice question.