Quiz Call

Just caught a part of the farce on Freeview last night Channel 37.
"Count the pound notes". The presenter said this game had been running since 9.30pm. So at 12.30am when I tuned in she was taking it to a Higher or Lower option to get a winner. After hanging this out for a further half hour by taking no calls on air and just getting people to spend numerous 60 pences each time they call and not getting through, eventually she took the winner at 1am and the answer was a three digit figure ending in "eight". How on earth can you count up pound notes and not get multiples of five? Do they have unseen Monopoly money with one pound notes that the viewer can not see!!!
I cannot understand how this scam is allowed to continue.

They do this all the time. On Digitalspy (where there's a thread full of people who stupidly continue to ring in regularly, depsite how obvious the scam is) it appears there alre always people on the lines, even when the presenters act like there isn't, it's just that when you ring, you're told you have been "unsuccessful". And the answers- how the hell do they get them?

It seems a foregone conclusion that these rogues will eventually be stopped for deception. It's just a question of 'when' and not 'if'. And will any fine imposed by ICSTIS be greater than the profits they've made so far? Almost certainly not.

Didn't see it, but did they ask for the value or the number of notes themselves? After all you could have by way of an example 248 £5 notes.

I think the question was actually "Count the pounds" not the "pound notes."I suspect that can include the actual £ signs and also £10 can be read as 10 + 1 + 1 (the £ as a pound and the 1 in the 10) It's all very fake.

In all these cases the answer is always exactly what they want it to be at the time of their choosing.

These comps are a right con. They did one a few weeks ago with weights, running it for over 4 hours and then when someone finally got the right answer, not revealing how it was worked out!

From what I gather in all these comps you basically add up every possible way of adding things up!

And just to add though, we DO HAVE One Pound notes up here in Scotland still.

They are Green and issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland and are still in full circulation.

Indeed we do. But it's worth noting that they are scabby and smell.

They're no longer produced and being taken out of circulation. Infact some months ago I was doing my usual bank deposit when I was told by the bank that any pound notes should be used in the deposit as to be removed from circulation and not put back into tills or out to customers.

Moving on, I was curious about QuizCall when it first fired up and I tried one of their puzzles. I did it on my mobile stupidly enough and spent a whole £10 of credit I put on that day making about 8 calls. I got through on the 8th attempt. It was the wrong answer but hell knows how they got the answer.

I did see that 'add the pounds' one lastnight and when I did it add it up using their rather irate method of addition I did manage to get 48, although the other 300 was a mystery seeing as the value of the notes came to about 140.

There is a channel on Sky pulling the same scam, TTV shows the great big British Quiz with impossible puzzles and over a £1 a call. One on just now I think has been there since this morning. They're even worse, QuizCall tend to let you know if your near or have answered the same as someone else. This TTV lot just sit there in silence for hours taking random calls with crazy answers and none right.

Really though these puzzles with numerous possible correct answers, depending on interpretation, shouldn't be allowed.

No problem with difficult comps - makes a refreshing change actually - but they should have a definate answer!


Anyone know how well Quizcall is doing! I'm hoping it'll fade away in time for Big Brother Live in January!

I love the way people keep calling it a scam - i've entered for free on the website loads of times and i've won about £400 so far. And before anyone says anything, i've received the cheques, and they've all cleared.