The sixth series of Numberblocks began airing on the 4th of March, 2024. It is the twelfth Blocks Universe series overall.
News
Numberblocks and friends will be returning as part of a four year output plan for the Blocks universe, following BBC Children’s and Education investment in multiple series in the Blocks franchise. Produced by Alphablocks Ltd and Blue Zoo animation studios, the order will include a second series of Colourblocks, further series of both Numberblocks and Alphablocks, as well as brand new title Thinkingblocks which introduces coding to a preschool audience.
Style Change
The sixth series of Numberblocks notably introduces design changes to the primary characters. Some of the bigger changes come down to their colours: Five's blocks (as well as Seven's respective block) are now capri instead of cyan, and Nine's blocks have been further darkened. Numberland has also been redesigned, now having more greenery.
Episodes
| no. overall |
no. in series |
Episode | Relase Date | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 121 | 1 | Painting by Numbers | 4th March, 2024 | 2 |
| 122 | 2 | Leap Blob | 5th March, 2024 | |
| 123 | 3 | Ice and Dice | 6th March, 2024 | |
| 124 | 4 | Go Go Domino | 7th March, 2024 | |
| 125 | 5 | Ten in the Bed | 8th March, 2024 | |
| 126 | 6 | Shape Party | 11th March, 2024 | |
| 127 | 7 | Can We Have Our Ball Back? | 12th March, 2024 | |
| 128 | 8 | Cuboid Castle | 13th March, 2024 | |
| 129 | 9 | On My Way to Numberblock Fair | 14th March, 2024 | |
| 130 | 10 | Octoblock and the Path of Justice | 15th March, 2024 | |
| 131 | 11 | Five's Handy Shop | 18th March, 2024 | 3 |
| 132 | 12 | As Tall as the Sun | 19th March, 2024 | |
| 133 | 13 | Feeding Time | 20th March, 2024 | |
| 134 | 14 | Rockets and Rekenreks | 21st March, 2024 | |
| 135 | 15 | The Pattern of Patterns | 22nd March, 2024 |
Characters
New Characters
- Semicircle in Can We Have Our Ball Back?
- Reks in Rockets and Rekenreks
- Rekenrek in Rockets and Rekenreks
- Decablobs in Rockets and Rekenreks
Returning
Numberblocks
Flatlanders
- Line
- Circle
- Triangles
- Square
- Rectangle
- Rhombus
- Trapezium
- Kite
- Dart
- Parallelogram
- Pentagon
- Hexagon
- Heptagon
More Characters
Trivia
- This is the first Numberblocks series to air (directly) after Colourblocks.
- This series marks the longest time gap between Numberblocks series: 2.7 years (983 days) between Series 5 and Series 6.
- This series is the second to air all of its episodes in the same month, the first being Series 2.
- This series is the third with only 15 episodes, with the first two being Series 1 and Series 2.
- This is the second Learningblocks series to premiere in 2024.
- This series started with 10 Orange Level Two episodes and then Yellow Level Three with the next 5 episodes.
- This is the third series to step back levels. The first two were Series 3 and Series 5.
- This makes it the first series without new Numberblocks introduced. The second is Numberblocks Series 8.
- This makes it the first Numberblocks series to not go up to the highest level known at the time.
- Of all the Numberblocks from 0-20, Zero, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, and Seventeen are absent.
- This is also the only series in this live stream that is not showcased.
- The theme of this series is exploring new math topics, like probabilities, money, and measurement.
- This is the contrary in Series 7, which is all about multiplication and multiples of numbers to 10, a topic covered in a majority of previous episodes.
- This is reminiscent towards Series 3, which explores new math topics. The difference is that this series steps back from topics of numbers themselves even further. They even have episodes which the topic they teach aren't even math based, like reading a map.
- One, Two, Three, and Four (and a bit of Five and Six) play a major role in this series. The former quartet are all seen in six of the fifteen episodes.
- A fraction of them, some but not all, appear in seven episodes.
- The only episodes where none of them appear are Ten in the Bed and Octoblock and the Path of Justice. Coincidentally, the only Numberblock to appear are the respective titular ones.
- However, Three did make a cameo in Octoblock and the Path of Justice.