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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.
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I'm really interested to know what his process was, since he didn't seem to actually know the product he was subtracting 50 from.
Well it seems that he was always going for 4 from the top row, which reliably gives him 25, 50, 75 and 100 (I think). He then uses the ability to divide by 25 to treat these as an additional 2, 3 and 4. So once he has 318, he does (318 * 3) - 2 to get his 952, except via the 25s; ((318 * 75) - 50)/25. It's a hack; increasing the set of available numbers by guaranteeing the presence of a common divisor.
I think I just peed my pants.
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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
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lskhg/features/quiz
edit: which they've massively expanded since I last looked, I think they only had about 14 boards, now they have hundreds and seem to allow you to submit your own.
Looks like the internal state of the numbers that actually decide what can be merged is changed when you press a key. Also works if you hold it down, which is a bug I think. Just hold down one direction to observe.
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I'm really interested to know what his process was, since he didn't seem to actually know the product he was subtracting 50 from.
I'd think of the thought process a bit differently than lclarkmichalek, though of course with the same result. To get close to 952, you can quickly think of 106x9. 106 is easy to obtain and you have a 3. You can get another 3 from 75/25. You're now at 954 with only a 50 left. If you could divide by 25, that would give you the 2 you're missing but you already used the 25, unless you were to divide later. So instead of…
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The pilot debuted on BBC α
Mornington Crescent!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)
You can tell it's currently morning in the UK and night-time in the USA.
I think I should have won by now: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2hokoh94hujyf2j/Screenshot%202014-... I thought it played normally, and it does for a while, but it always eventually seems to randomly revert your high tiles (I verified that I had at least 1024 by checking the debugger). [edit:] Ah, I found the code. It's possible to win but you have to survive the small chance that it will perform a random merge and destr…
Hm, the comment is wrong, it's 0.5% chance.
I'll get my coat