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Sat May 27 14:54:15 PDT 2023

 Dick, you are correct. And I already withdrew my challenge as to who he is and the authenticity of his account.
However, he did admit in the comments that the video is a fake. He said he was "just having some fun" with his followers.
And it is an interesting logic and math challenge.
Especially in a game where you can eliminate one or two answers.
That of course totally changes the problem with each elimination.
Not exactly what folks would want to see on a game show.
I stand by my evidence that this video and the stills which preceded it, are in fact parts of an urban legend, the logic problem aside. I don't know whether John Rudy originally knew this when he posted this challenge for all of us to debate. 
-- Bob Primak

    On Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 05:41:00 PM EDT, Dick Miller <themillers at millermicro.com> wrote:  

  Hi, All:

 FWIW, my quick search indicates that "tecmath" has been contributing to YouTube for ten years, perhaps longer.

 "Techmath" is a common term, but not a URL.

  Cheers from
 --Dick Miller, Partner, MMS <TheMillers at millermicro.com>

  On 5/27/23 14:44, Robert Primak wrote:

 Let me revise my reply.  
  Techmath is a verified account at You Tube, and it has been posting for over nine years. Other than that, I do not know their outside affiliations or general reliability of their alleged "sources".  They could well have been duped, or they might be in on the faking. (I'm leaning toward believing the latter, as this account makes money by the eyeballs it attracts.)  
  "I made a video" does not mean they made a copy of an existing download or video tape from 2005. IT can as easily mean (truthfully) "I created a fake video". Or "someone I dare not name created a fake video, and they don't want to be sued or taken down for copyright infringement, which may or may not be an issue after 17 years post-production under Australian Copyright Laws". 
  Apparently, this video was channeled through this account, perhaps with the unwitting complicity of the account owner. Or maybe they went for eyeballs. In any event, the video, whatever its original source, is an urban myth and a fake. I stand by my evidence, which was much closer to the time of the actual run of the show, and therefore not anywhere near as subject to technical faking as a video which only surfaced in May, 2022.  
  My evidence includes several postings of the full competition run, not just an isolated clip shown in only one known (and very recent) video copy. If this scene were real, it would have made headlines in 2005 as a game show scandal discussion topic. It did no such thing, because it did not exist then.  
  The entire scene, fake or not, was never aired as part of Who Wants To Be A millionaire Australia.  And it was not part of the huge payout run.  
  The presence of this fake video under this account name brings into serious question the validity of the many other math tricks posted on this You Tube Channel. This Channel has destroyed all its credibility by posting this fake.  
  -- Bob Primak 

      On Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 02:29:00 PM EDT, Robert Primak <bobprimak at yahoo.com> wrote:  

      There is absolutely no other place on the web with this video. I am calling it a fake. 
  If this had actually happened on the show, my references would have made mention of it. I already posted a link with the actual full 14-question listing from the actual 2005 run, and this question is not anywhere in that full listing. Three or four other sources concur on the original sequence. There is an unedited full-length, two-day span complete video of this run, fully posted to You Tube by at least two independent sources, which totally contradicts the authenticity of this edited fake clip. 
  Note also the posting date of this fake, according to You Tube:  May 27, 2022! Seventeen years after the show originally aired, and well within the time frame when Deep Fakes became so terribly convincing as they were in the 2020 Presidential Campaign. The time and date stamp is not from the account holder and cannot be altered by the account holder. Google tightly controls these date stamps on You Tube.  
  Who is "techmath" anyway? Can anyone find any personal information on the entity which posted this to You Tube? This is definitely not a verified account. 
  I told you before, NEVER MESS WITH A GOOGLE NINJA.  
  -- Bob Primak  

       On Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 09:43:25 AM EDT, Larry Wittig <9423lew at gmail.com> wrote:  

      Here's a good simple discussion of this "problem". 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jav-fkeMqj8

   On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 5:46 PM <jjrudy1 at comcast.net> wrote:

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