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The Rolling Sixes is the fifth episode of the seventh series of Numberblocks. It is the 140th episode overall.
Synopsis
It's time for Table Spinners, a game show hosted by Numberblock One. Today's contestant is none other than the Six Times Table. Her task is to try and identify the order of a special team - the Rolling Sixes. They include Six, Twelve, Eighteen, Twenty-Four, Thirty, Thirty-Six, Forty-Two, Forty-Eight, Fifty-Four and Sixty. The Six Times Table will get to see the team for a brief moment before the doors slide shut on the table spinner.
Plot
Welcome to a grand round of Table Spinners, with your host, the one and only One, where you have to figure out the numbers in a set. Tonight's player is the Six Times Table, and the number set for her is the multiples of 6 to 60, or as One calls them the Rolling Sixes! Time for round 1. Who's behind the first three doors? Remember, each number behind the door is 6 more than the one before. So door 1 has 6, door 2 has 6 more than 6, 12, and door 3 has 6 more than 12, 18! Now let's move to the end (at least up to 10×) for round 2!
Who's behind door 10? The Six Times Table guessed easily-it's 60! Now, how about the door before her? The Numberblock should be six less than 60. Let's solve by regrouping. 60 - 6 = 50 + (10 - 6) = 50 + 4 = 54!
Round 3. Who's behind door 5? Nearby Numberblocks can help the Six Times Table figure it out. 4 × 6 = 24, and 6 × 6 = 36, so the door in the middle is 6 more than 24 and 6 less than 36. Either way, it's 30!
Final Round: Who's behind door 7? We know who's behind door 6, and door 8 is home to 48. So the door before 36 and 48 is...42-wait, where is he? Oh there he is, as seven sixes! The Six Times Table found all of the Rolling Sixes!
Characters
- One
- Six Times Table (debut)
- Six
- Twelve (doesn't speak)
- Eighteen
- Twenty-Four
- Thirty
- Thirty-Six
- Forty-Two
- Forty-Eight
- Fifty-Four (figured-out debut)
- Sixty
- Numberblobs
Math Magic
- 1 × 6 = 6 (mentioned)
- 2 × 6 = 12 (mentioned)
- 3 × 6 = 18 (mentioned)
- 10 × 6 = 60 (mentioned)
- 60 - 6 = (9 × 6) (mentioned)
- 10 - 6 = 4 (mentioned)
- 60 - 6 = 54 (mentioned)
- 4 × 6 = 24 (mentioned)
- 6 × 6 = 36 (mentioned)
- 36 - 6 = 30 (mentioned)
- 5 × 6 = 30 (mentioned)
- 48 ÷ 6 = 8
- 8 × 6 = 48
- 36 + 6 = 42 (mentioned)
- 48 - 6 = 42
- 8 - 6 = 2
- 7 × 6 = 42
Trivia
- This is the fifth times table prologue episode. The first one is Twoland, the second one is Too Many Threes, the third one is Friendly Fours' Beach Day and the fourth one is All-Star Line-Up, while the sixth one is The Rainbow Makers, and the seventh one is We Need Another Hero.
- There aren't any One times table or Ten times table prologue episodes, since counting and skip counting by tens have been covered before many times and these times tables are easy to remember.
- This episode marks the return of Sixty since About Time.
- When Forty-Eight saw Forty-Two's empty slot, she said: "Oh dear! I think my friend Forty-Two is having teleporting trouble again!" This means they are officially best friends now.
- This is the only times table prologue episode to have the times table of that number in it.
- This is the second episode in Series 7 where a new Numberblock gets figured out, and the first one where only one Numberblock is figured out.
- This is the only episode where a times table is introduced before their actual episode.
- One is the only Numberblock to not be a multiple of Six in this episode.
- Twelve is the only Numberblock to not speak in this episode.
- Forty-Eight’s 42+6 can be misinterpreted into 46+2. This is because of the place value palette.
- Music from Fifteen's Minute of Fame is reused in this episode.
- This episode was produced after Grid Games Galore and Remix the Sixes since Fifty-Four's debut.
- One's line 'can you find the ultimate answer?' [Referring to Forty-Two], is a reference to 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', as 42 is referred as 'the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything'.
Errors
- Small one, but Forty-Eight's Numberlings don't align properly when she makes her Tens and Ones arrangement. It usually has the Tens Numberling align to the rightmost Ten block and the Ones Numberling align to the remaining ones (take Twenty-Three, Nineteen, or any of the compound Numberblocks' main arrangements as examples). But this time, Forty-Eight's Numberlings remain aligned to the middle, like any other shape.
- There were two mistakes on learningblocks.tv:
References
Video
The Rolling Sixes - S7 E5 - Learn Times Tables - @Numberblocks