This puzzle is driving us all crazy!!

48.

60

10 +5 ×4

It seems too easy for me, and i am not brain of Britain, so i must be going wrong somewhere....... <wanders off sadly>

My brain hurts!!

Trying again.

I can't get the visual explantion any bigger.

I will try again!

43

I am happy with 43

43!!

We don't know what a wristband is worth. Or do we???
No, we don't Marydoll. I have been peering anxiously at the picture looking for them, thinking my eyes must be worse than I thought.

So the answer is.....

Oh my goodness! Popped off for swift cuppa and returned to all these posts! Will we ever know the answer I wonder??

There is only one shoe in the last row, Lisa, so it's worth 5, not 10 and you have to follow the mathematical rules, ie. BODMAS.

You can tell I've never worn wristbands... Never been to the gym

Callistemon and Marydoll, I think you may well be right about the wristbands, so I can do 23-4=19, then our answers match!

I've always 'seen' that as 4 wristbands, so good to challenge my perceptions.

60
Shoes - 10
Man - 5
Straps -4
Last row - 10 plus 5 times 4 = 60
?

I'm making a stand here. The loops are definitely on his wrist.
If he is wearing wristbands, as well as holding weights, the game's a bogey, as we say here in Glasgow.
We don't know what a wristband is worth. Or do we??? ??

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I’m not sure I will understand the answer tbh
You are in detention until you've learned this Whitewave

DH just wandered in and said "what are you doing?"

Perhaps he's a cheer leader and they are colourful batons to twirl!!

I’m not sure I will understand the answer tbh

Who has the answer book?????

Ah, Callistemon, I never thought of that, it looked to me like he had them on his wrists and in his hands...

I think everyone who has stuck with this, tried and tried again, is an absolute ? star/!!

GM, I thought the ones on his wrists were part of the ones hanging down! ?

Of course by the law of averages we will hit on the correct answer eventually

Bottom line
[Man +2 weights+ 2 shoes ] =5+2+2+10 =19

5+ (19x2) =
5+ 38 = 43

I still think he has put his hand through the loop on the top of each wristband/weight so only had one on each wrist.