This puzzle is driving us all crazy!!

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/!!

Who has the answer book?????

I’m not sure I will understand the answer tbh

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
You are in detention until you've learned this Whitewave

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

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.

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

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.

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

So the answer is.....

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.

43!!

I am happy with 43

43

I can't get the visual explantion any bigger.

I will try again!

Trying again.

My brain hurts!!

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>

48.

Do you multiply first if so =30
But if working left to right
10 + 5x 4 = 60

40. ?

You must follow the mathematical rules. it's called BODMAS.
Lots of explanations on line.

This type of puzzle is taught in P7 in Scotland.
If 43 is wrong, Grannmarie and I should have been sacked years ago!

My grandson, doing economics at Uni, says it’s 43.
I didn’t realise it was a Scottish puzzle, Marydoll, that’s why I couldn’t do it