The Mint, on ITV - a programme with no intention other than to rip the general public off
You ring in, at 2am, to be greeted with a lottery system, which if you are successful, means you go through to another lottery system, in order to get onto the actual show.
With me so far? (this costs you 60p by the way).
If you get on to the live show, you have the oppportunity to guess at a Family Fortunes style survey i.e. guess the people/groups in "5 Number One chart acts". There is no other criteria except for this, no, really.
So after 2 hours of pissed up punters ringing in, the absolutely lovely Beverley French (pictured) starts to give clues like, "one of the people mentioned is from Manchester" etc. and as time goes on, it gets easier until they are basically telling you the answer (if you guess one of the answers you get a cash prize).
So, were down to the last few minutes of the show, the final group (worth £8000) is left, the clues are:
The leader singer is, Mike Skinner.
The Cryptic Clue was: Dry your eyes, mate (a line from one of their songs, obviously)
The contestants answer?
A Tissue...
Oh yes and dont despair, you can always have a go at "The Mint", guess the four digit code and win £100,000 - GUESS THE FOUR DIGIT NUMBER!!!! chances? 1 in 1/4 of a million...
