Puzzle

My son was watching a TV quiz and couldn't work out how they arrived at an answer. I said, "give it to me son, I'll show you". It's now been 3 days and I'm losing sleep over it. If there are any intelligent people out there who can explain this, please put me out of my misery.

Question is as follows:

"In nineteen eighty-one Peter Patten was born. He graduated aged twenty-one and intended to travel to forty countries. He married when twenty-three which prevented his travels".

Add the numbers...

The answer is 5679, apparently; but for the life of me...


Tonish

[msnscared][msnembarrased][msnmad][msncry][msnscared]
Sorry can't help!![msnmad]

Has ANYBODY.....worked this out yet [msneek][msnmad] It's got me ![gun]

Linda

I got stuck on a similar one. The solution is to add all the regular numbers plus the roman numerals, ie 'c' = 100 etc.

Good luck

Sue

I thought there might be a lot of numbers within some of the words ie Patten, intended. Obviously not[msnsad]

Kim

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by stuart
I thought there might be a lot of numbers within some of the words ie Patten, intended. Obviously not[msnsad]

Kim
[/quote]

We are thinking along the same lines as you Kim, but are still working on it. [msntongue]

Dont forget some have double numbers as well such as (nine)+ nineteen and (eight) and eighty which can be used.

I thought it might be the years:-

Born in 1981
21 in 2002
23 in 2004

That makes 5987 which is 308 too many, back to the drawing board.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by wrpac00
I thought it might be the years:-

Born in 1981
21 in 2002
23 in 2004

That makes 5987 which is 308 too many, back to the drawing board.
[/quote]


Thats what I was thinking, but as you say back to the drawing board.

What was he doing in the two years between graduating and getting married? Did he travel before getting married? [xx(][msnscared]

Someone work out the answer it's driving me nuts

Kaz