I love this, only thing is it doesn't have my favorite number: H Is there going to be a Wangernumb mode too?
I did get an 'h' once. It's simply less common than numers like 3 or √7.
It's even got 'i' (and everyone knows that's not a real number).
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#62In hindsight, we should have all jumped on this and pretended we understood the rules of Numberwang, in the style of Mornington Crescent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_%28game%29
Like the folks over at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/britishproblems/comments/1jvgn6/i_sa...
Nobody should do anything like Reddit.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
It makes slightly more sense when you understand the context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI
Carol Vordaman is just brilliant. To tie back full circle [1], if anyone hasn't seen it there's a great UK show called Only Connect. It may appeal to people on here as it's a fiendishly difficult pattern matching game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AB31ymF8zA [1] The hostess (Victoria Coren) recently married David Mitchell - the co-creator of the numberwang sketch
Victoria Coren Mitchell now. She's amazing and Only Connect is brilliant.
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#65I love this, only thing is it doesn't have my favorite number: H Is there going to be a Wangernumb mode too?
I did get an 'h' once. It's simply less common than numers like 3 or √7. It's even got 'i' (and everyone knows that's not a real number).
Of course 'i' is a real number. 'There are i edges in this shape, where i is equal to the value of half of x'...You can also use it when texting informally e.g. 'i m out atm'.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, "That's numberwang" does not indicate winning nor the end of the game. It just pops up at random throughout the game.
Ah yes - that's true in the BBC 4 version of the rules, introduced in 1968. I think most countries use that now. In Australia we play according to the original rule set, hence the misunderstanding.
BBC 4 was never associated with Numberwang, it was actually BBC 7.1
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#67Lost is when I got "a"
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#68For those unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc
It makes slightly more sense when you understand the context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI
Now someone make 2048 where in addition to numbers you get math operations and should achieve some number. Game could even get more complicated during gameplay as new operations appear.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah yes - that's true in the BBC 4 version of the rules, introduced in 1968. I think most countries use that now. In Australia we play according to the original rule set, hence the misunderstanding.
BBC 4 was never associated with Numberwang, it was actually BBC 7.1
The pilot debuted on BBC α
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#70i'm not entirely sure what I'm doing, but I think I'm winning...
Welcome to life, you now understand the rules.