Numbers game - Revision history

LoganSkelton at 22:09, 19 April 2026

2026-04-19T22:09:57Z

Dicto: didn't anyone notice

2024-05-13T21:47:49Z

didn't anyone notice

Smjg: consistency

2023-02-24T12:28:37Z

consistency

The Doctor at 20:18, 30 January 2023

2023-01-30T20:18:18Z

TobyMcDonald at 21:41, 10 July 2021

2021-07-10T21:41:58Z

The Doctor: moved Numbers round to Numbers game: Moved by a vandal, and nothing links to Round

2020-05-21T08:46:55Z

moved Numbers round to Numbers game: Moved by a vandal, and nothing links to Round

Launchballer: fixes

2020-02-27T23:04:44Z

fixes

Launchballer: moved Numbers Round to Numbers round: fix capitalisation

2020-01-26T11:30:52Z

moved Numbers Round to Numbers round: fix capitalisation

MartinS at 10:17, 26 January 2020

2020-01-26T10:17:09Z

MartinS at 10:16, 26 January 2020

2020-01-26T10:16:36Z

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 One contestant chooses from where in this layout six numbers are to be picked. Contestants variously choose a specific pattern (e.g. the [[inverted T]]), the number of cards to take from each row, or simply the quantities of large numbers (25–100) and small numbers (1–10). At yet other times, a contestant would give the arithmetician a free choice.
-A three-digit target number is then generated by [[CECIL]], and the contestants have 30 seconds to make the target number (or as near to it as possible) from some or all of the six numbers. The target can currently range anywhere from 101 to 999, although a most likely older version of CECIL generated 100 on several occasions, the last being in [[Episode 8159]].
+A three-digit target number is then generated by [[CECIL]], and the contestants have 30 seconds to make the target number (or as near to it as possible) from some or all of the six numbers. The target can currently range anywhere from 100 to 999.
 Each of the six chosen numbers may be used only once in any solution. Only addition, subtraction, multiplication and division may be used; moreover, no fractional numbers or negative numbers may appear as part of a solution.

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 One contestant chooses from where in this layout six numbers are to be picked. Contestants variously choose a specific pattern (e.g. the [[inverted T]]), the number of cards to take from each row, or simply the quantities of large numbers (25–100) and small numbers (1–10). At yet other times, a contestant would give the arithmetician a free choice.
-A three-digit target number is then generated by [[CECIL]], and the contestants have 30 seconds to make the target number (or as near to it as possible) from some or all of the six numbers. The target can currently range anywhere from 101 to 999, although a most likely older version of CECIL generated 100 on several occasions, the last being in [[Episode 6405]].
+A three-digit target number is then generated by [[CECIL]], and the contestants have 30 seconds to make the target number (or as near to it as possible) from some or all of the six numbers. The target can currently range anywhere from 101 to 999, although a most likely older version of CECIL generated 100 on several occasions, the last being in [[Episode 8159]].
 Each of the six chosen numbers may be used only once in any solution. Only addition, subtraction, multiplication and division may be used; moreover, no fractional numbers or negative numbers may appear as part of a solution.

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-The '''numbers round''' was played as rounds 4 and 8 in the [[9-round format]], as rounds 5, 10 and 14 in the [[15 round format (original)| original 15 round format]] and is played as rounds 3, 6, 9 and 14 in the [[new 15-round format]].
+The '''numbers round''' was played as rounds 4 and 8 in the [[9-round format]], as rounds 5, 10 and 14 in the [[15 round format (original)|original 15-round format]] and is played as rounds 3, 6, 9 and 14 in the [[new 15-round format]].
 [[Image:280605 numbers.jpg|thumb|right|Example of one of [[Jon O'Neill]]'s numbers games.]]
 The game involves a board of 24 numbered cards, initially arranged face down in a layout of four rows as follows:

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 ==Techniques==
-The most commonly chosen selection is one large number. An example would be:
+The most commonly chosen selection is one large number, which has been picked over 22,000 times. An example would be:
 , 2, 5, 6, 1, 4 — TARGET: 273

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 One contestant chooses from where in this layout six numbers are to be picked. Contestants variously choose a specific pattern (e.g. the [[inverted T]]), the number of cards to take from each row, or simply the quantities of large numbers (25–100) and small numbers (1–10). At yet other times, a contestant would give the arithmetician a free choice.
-A three-digit target number is then generated by [[CECIL]], and the contestants have 30 seconds to make the target number (or as near to it as possible) from some or all of the six numbers. The target can currently range anywhere from 101 to 999, although a most likely older version of CECIL generated 100 on several occasions, the last being in [[Championship of Champions VIII]].
+A three-digit target number is then generated by [[CECIL]], and the contestants have 30 seconds to make the target number (or as near to it as possible) from some or all of the six numbers. The target can currently range anywhere from 101 to 999, although a most likely older version of CECIL generated 100 on several occasions, the last being in [[Episode 6405]].
 Each of the six chosen numbers may be used only once in any solution. Only addition, subtraction, multiplication and division may be used; moreover, no fractional numbers or negative numbers may appear as part of a solution.

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 * The remaining three rows (currently) contain six, seven and seven cards respectively; these cards are two each of the integers between 1 and 10 inclusive.
-One contestant chooses from where in this layout six numbers are to be picked.  Contestants variously choose a specific pattern (e.g. the [[inverted T]]), the number of cards to take from each row, or simply the quantities of large numbers (25–100) and small numbers (1–10).  At yet other times, a contestant would give [[Carol Vorderman|Carol]]/[[Rachel Riley|Rachel]] a free choice.
+One contestant chooses from where in this layout six numbers are to be picked. Contestants variously choose a specific pattern (e.g. the [[inverted T]]), the number of cards to take from each row, or simply the quantities of large numbers (25–100) and small numbers (1–10). At yet other times, a contestant would give the arithmetician a free choice.
 A three-digit target number is then generated by [[CECIL]], and the contestants have 30 seconds to make the target number (or as near to it as possible) from some or all of the six numbers. The target can currently range anywhere from 101 to 999, although a most likely older version of CECIL generated 100 on several occasions, the last being in [[Championship of Champions VIII]].
-Each of the six chosen numbers may be used only once in any solution.  Only addition, subtraction, multiplication and division may be used; moreover, no fractional numbers or negative numbers may appear as part of a solution.
+Each of the six chosen numbers may be used only once in any solution. Only addition, subtraction, multiplication and division may be used; moreover, no fractional numbers or negative numbers may appear as part of a solution.
 Disregarding the order in which the working numbers appear on the board, there are a total of 11,905,457 different possible numbers games. Of these, 10,858,746 (91.2%) are perfectly solvable; 941,822 (7.9%) are impossible to solve perfectly but possible to score points in by being 10 or fewer away from the target; and 104,889 (0.9%) are impossible to achieve any points in, with nearly all games in this last category featuring six-small selections.
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 *300 − 27 = 273
-A variation on this method is to add or take away a number from the largest number. This case we could do (75 − 6) × 4 which is equal to 75 × 4 − 6 × 4. The solution could be:
+A variation on this method is to add or take away a number from the largest number. In this case, we could do (75 − 6) × 4 which is equal to 75 × 4 − 6 × 4. The solution could be:
 *(75 − 6) × 4 = 276
 *276 − 2 − 1 = 273
-With very low targets, usually under 200, it's possible to use the large number last and add it on. In this case we would need to make 198 from the remaining numbers, which is not possible in this case.
+With very low targets, usually under 200, it's possible to use the large number last and add it on. In this case, we would need to make 198 from the remaining numbers, which is not possible in this case.
 The scoring system is as follows:

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