COUNT THE CHICKENS

1, Detective "Chicken Harry" Cullett ???

5.

15 Hens
5 Chickens
11 Roosters
1 Al Capone Hat

>> 5 Chickens
It was actually "chicks" - those are not necessarily chickens. So, I'd say 0.

I think my Grandfather told me this back in the 60's.
We were on a cross-country trip in his old Henway when the riddle came up. I'll wait to see if someone gets it.

chick and hen could also be female birds
Al Capone fed birds in Alcatraz not chickens so I would say 0 chickens

BTW, I could be totally in wrong direction :)

Al Capone was not in Alcatraz

depends (of course) on how you read the query. A case can be made for
825

>>Al Capone was not in Alcatraz

http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/cap1.htm

>> 825
Don't you mean 15 * (5 + 1) * (11 + 1) = 1080 ( = 15 hens + 75 chicks + 990 roosters)

:)

AL Capone was not the 'Birdman of Alcatraz' (palyed by Burt Lancaster in the movie)

"Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the Birdman of Alcatraz, was a prisoner in Alcatraz who supposedly found solace from segregation in raising and selling birds. Despite his nickname, he never kept birds in Alcatraz, running his business until transferred to Alcatraz from Leavenworth."

AW

MacroLand:
Thank you for correcting my misstatement. Arthur Wood supplied what I should have said

990?

awking00

how do you arrive at 990?

>> how do you arrive at 990?
15 * (5 + 1) * 11

See my earlier comment ...

hmmmmmm...........

So which one had an Al Capone Hat ?

"15 fine hens all met 5 chicks"  differs from "15 fine hens met 5 chicks" therefore I agree with the 15*5  instead of 15+5 ;

then "they all met 11 roosters" but they are still 75 chickens.

From the context, "One had an Al Capone Hat" is supposed to be one of the 11 roosters... but this is irrelevant...

Therefore I guess the answer is 75.    :)

chicks and roosters are chicken,

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chicken ...
"The common domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus) or its young."

According to quiz call its 2459 but aint got a clue how that answer came about

Chicks are girls and peeps are baby chickens.

Mike

Assuming you're meaning the following to each refer to a chicken:
hen
chick
rooster
capone

and assuming that you don't mean that EACH of them met EACH of  the ones listed (meaning not 15 * 5 * 11) then there are 32.

From the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms:
(as given in the link http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Don't+count+chickens)

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"Don't count your chickens (before they're hatched).
something that you say in order to warn someone to wait until a good thing they are expecting has really happened before they make any plans about it. "
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In this sense, we were asked to "Count the Chickens" therefore I suppose one of them will kill the others. Nothing related to the number of chickens, I mean.  I am telling what I am expecting to happen!

Is that it???

If you assume that all the 15 fine hens met the same 5 chicks and that they met all the same 11 roosters you have 15 + 5 + 11 = 31 chickens

If the fine hens aren't female chicken, but a different sort of fowl, then my answer is 16.

I propose sending N e-mails each with one of the intergers between 0 and N+1 with N= 2459;  thereby providng the right answer.

Mr. Collindsouza... I guess we have already suffered enough... please bring light to this  #$*#*#$$# problem!   :)

According to Urban Dictionary...

Capon        
a gay rooster with no nuts

And from webster

One entry found for capon.
Main Entry: ca·pon
Pronunciation: 'kA-"pän, -p&n
Function: noun
: a castrated male chicken

825 or 240?

Four.

If they were to perform an action such as to push or pull etc. then it would be five.

Of course... on the other hand, if you're only counting the "exact matches", there's just one.  The title "the chickens".

Actually, if you're only counting the "exact matches", there's Two.  The title "COUNT THE CHICKENS" and in the body where he says "COUNT THE CHICKENS."
 
 

 

Sort of true... but I was figuring it like "Start running when I say go.  No!  Not now!  Get back here... I meant the NEXT time I say Go.  STOP THAT!!"
=]

>>Sort of true... but I was figuring  ...

And I was figuring the command was self referential considering where you had to get your information on the chickens to be counted.  :>D

31

15 hens
5 chicks
11 roosters

just add them together- they're all chickens

>TEFKASG...
Of course, that's assuming there's not some major trick and we haven't actually gotten ANY information about the chickens to be counted...

30

I counted 31 also.

32

It looks as if they all went to a Jethro Tull concert.
(http://www.ministry-of-information.co.uk/setlist/03b.htm)

They could also have gone to Doug Savage's party to celebrate the 500th Savage Chicken cartoon (hence the 500 points for this question)
(http://www.savagechickens.com/blog/2006/12/500th-cartoon.html)

Of course you could have an answer like 2459 as in http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070304060836AAaeg7K, but to my mind that's just a con. Frankly one ought to be in bed by that time, instead of watching endless mind-driviling television. For all I know they might have been playing the Jethro Tull music in the background!

Quiz Call, what a ripoff. Even Channel 4 dropped it from freeview slot. It's time the DTI reclassified these phone-in quizzes as lotteries or just closed them down as scams.

OK. I counted the chickens... now what?

So what is the answer?

hi.....
is it 826 chicken?

15 * 5 * 11 + 1 = 826 (1 is the Capone)

Does this correct?

or should it be 30?

15 hens plus chick 5 plus 11 roosters...mayb the A1 is include in the 31 chicken..so delete one A1 then become 30 chickens there

or should it be 30?

15 hens plus chick 5 plus 11 roosters...mayb the A1 is include in the 31 chicken..so delete one A1 then become 30 chickens there.

5?

I guess we all have "earned the right" to know the answer, Mr. Collindsouza.

This is a polite request (I do believe) in the name of all of us who tried, during some minutes at least, to find the answer.

If you don´t know the answer or there is simply no answer or whatever, please let us know, too.

Thank you for your comprehension.

fskilnik.

There is also the one asked where you have to guess the list of what is in a womans handbag.
The answer included rawlplugs and a balaclava

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/campaigns/tvquizswindle/article.html?in_article_id=416471&in_page_id=509

At least they recommend you limit your calls to no more than 100 per night. At 75p per call that's £75 per evening!

That's ITV Play rather than Quiz Call jr2003, at least ITV Play is dead as of last week.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6449213.stm

>> If you don´t know the answer or there is simply no answer or whatever, please let us know, too.

The simply fact that Mr. Collindsouza ignored my last posting makes (at least to me) the answer to his original question self-evident: the answer is certainly ONE.

Someone (but he) disagrees?     ;)

P.S.: there is no real pun intended. I´m just joking with the wild idea that this might be the answer expected, by the way.

there are 15 chickens... :-)

Lotusleaf6 ...

You may be right... till now, I mean!   :^)

Where these supposed chickens crossing any roads?  If so, why?

^_-

Thanks, andyalder.  One rooster is gone for good.   :)

Why are we all simply talking to ourselves?  There has been nothing from OA in more that 3 weeks (last comment was 3/6/2007).  I suggest that this question has been abandoned, at least by the OA, who is the only one who knows 'the right answer' - hence no one can be awarded any points, since there is no obvious 'right' answer.

AW

>>hence no one can be awarded any points, since there is no obvious 'right' answer.

The points could always be split.

We could be brave and do that... unless we're chicken.
How many of us are there again?

^_-

There is only 1 chicken.

He's the guy named One and rears 31 pheasants in his backyard.

20 is the right answer as hens and chick are chickens and ans roosters aren't

15+5+11

=31 chickens, plus, a red herring.

the al-capone hat thing appears to be the red herring!


@HalfDevil: pooh! Roosters ARE chickens too :)

ahhh!       i didn't read the question  correctly before i thought it had to do something with eggs. Yeah
ok! ,,,,,,,,,,,,DAVID WARD.......... 31 is the right answer..........thanx

>> ,,,,,,,,,,,,DAVID WARD.......... 31 is the right answer..........thanx

That's it, give credit to the last person who posts 31 as the answer and not the first.  Typical.

Unfortunately, we still don't know for certain the right answer because unless Collindsouza is intentionally trying to make it seem harder than it is, there has to be some "trick" to the wordage.
The "obvious" answer is the simple math of actual chickens ("common domestic fowl esp. when young"; "any of various birds or their young"), ie 15 + 5 + 11 = 31 as first noted by TEFKASG

Less obvious answers are if you include Capone ("capon" is a chicken) making 32 or including each potential in the sentences:
"...fiNE Hens..."; "..., tHEN..."; "oNE Had..."; "CAPONe"; "capoNE Hat"
making for a possible of 37...?

Or depending on the definition of "all" in the two places it was used which could be multiples, if the word "all" was used to mean "each"...

Pretty sure that covers the possible answers...

>>Unfortunately, we still don't know for certain the right answer because ..

True enough!  Actually I re-read my last comment and it sounds pissy when I was going for slightly indignant.  :>)

Looking at dagesi's comment:
>>"...fiNE Hens..."; "..., tHEN..."; "oNE Had..."; "CAPONe"; "capoNE Hat"

and if you are  only counting the chickens in the text string,
wouldn't you get 5 + 1 hen + 1 chick +1 rooster = 8?
and if you count in the word chicken in the question, that will make 9?

@TEFKASG:..........."That's it, give credit to the last person who posts 31 as the answer and not the first.  Typical.""""""""""

            oh! ok the right answer is 3452875827582.  there...........
    i hope my this answer won't steal your points.....jackass

>Wwysdom...
Too true... =]

@dante_the_half_devil

You might try reading the comment I posted after that one.  

@TEFKASG............yeah all right! and i am sorry for what i said before.........      (^_^).........        :)

ZERO as i would have ate them alll

Without knowing the intent, it's kind of difficult to determine a "winner"...
If you're inclined to check the answers, I'd consider awarding points to one or all of the following answers:

Data-Man guessed 26 "hens" and "roosters" (assuming "chicks" was something non-specific)

MusicMan guessed 5 "chicks" (assuming the word "chicks" was basically "chickens"

Infinity08 guessed 0 (pointing out the word "chicken" didn't actually appear IN the Q)
OR
guessed 1080 (referencing aburr below but correctly pointing out that it should effectively have been 15 hens + (15 * 5) chicks + (15 * 5 * 11) roosters

aburr guessed 825 (assuming "all met" meant "each met" so 15 * 5 * 11)

dagesi guessed 32 (assuming "hen", "chick", "rooster", "capone")

TEFKASG guessed 31 (assuming "hen", "chick", "rooster")

tang_tzuchi guessed 826 (refencing aburr plus "capone")