BBC Breakfast viewers have expressed frustration over the latest instalment of the programme's weekly Brain Test segment. Hosts Charlie Stayt and Rachel Burden presented the puzzle on Friday, May 29, but the answer left many unimpressed.
Mathematician Matt Parker posed the question: "Your challenge is to work out the fewest number of items of clothing you can own so that you never repeat an outfit for an entire year." He explained that, depending on one's view on decency, the answer could be 17 items—five shirts and three each of trousers, jackets, shoes and hats—yielding 405 combinations. Alternatively, if nudity is allowed, nine items could produce 512 outfits, though some would involve not wearing trousers.
Viewers took to social media to complain, with one saying: "These puzzles have had their day, annoying." Another added: "Agree, they need to get rid." Others called the question "c**p" and "s***," with one fan writing: "WTF is this s****? No more please."
The segment also featured a new puzzle asking viewers to identify the colour of a shape in a pattern sequence. Elsewhere in the show, the hosts reported on a Blue Origin rocket explosion and celebrated brothers who ran 33 marathons in 33 days for dementia awareness.
