ChatterBank0 min ago
help - cryptic
one plus five minus
six plus twenty two
divided by two
add all the numbers
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If I gave you 562 + 15 and said add all the numbers, you might well think I meant 5+6+2+56+62+562+1+5+15
So just taking the word DIVIDED, we might have
D+I+V+I+D+D+DI+DIV+IV+VI+ID
Because the puzzle setter's logic could well be whimsical amd even a bit malicious, I totally ignore questions of this sort.
and even if you only use each letter of the DIVID once, there are different ways of splitting it up to make different totals.
Another feasible answer is zero. There are no numbers in the question, in the sense of figures - only words.
Another is infinity - add all the numbers (there are)
The 'right' answer in this type of question is a matter of chance. They exist solely to extract cash from mugs on premium rate phone lines.