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The Team Factor is the thirteenth episode of the fifth season of Numberblocks. It is the 103rd episode overall.
Synopsis[]
Welcome to the Team Tag Arena for another exciting match! Who will be left standing?
Characters[]
- All Numberblocks Two through Twenty-Four appear as contestants.
- One appears as the host.
Game[]
When a larger Numberblock is tagged by one of their divisors, the Numberblock splits into copies of the said divisors and joins their team. If by chance a Numberblock attempts to tag a number that they are not a factor of, they get a time-out.
"Can be tagged by" means that the numbers are proper divisors of the target Numberblock. Numbers in parentheses are Numberblocks that actually tagged the target in the episode.
"Can tag" refers to the multiples of the Numberblocks in question, as all multiples will split into copies of the tagger and join their team.
Note: Ten attempted to tag Twenty, but Twenty threw Twenty-One in front of himself, causing Ten to mistakenly tag the latter.
Results
The following table shows the amount of copies a prime Numberblock (including themself) has after the Arena match.
Numberblock | Copies | Numberblock | Copies | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Two (2) (Winner) | 27 | Thirteen (13) | 1 | ||
Three (3) | 16 | Seventeen (17) | 1 | ||
Five (5) | 10 | Nineteen (19) | 1 | ||
Seven (7) | 6 | Twenty-Three (23) | 1 | ||
Eleven (11) | 3 |
Math Magic[]
- 22 ÷ 11 = 2
- 21 ÷ 10 = 2 R1
- 2 × 10 + 1 = 21
- 10 ÷ 5 = 2
- 20 ÷ 5 = 4
- 14 ÷ 7 = 2
- 21 ÷ 7 = 3
- 18 ÷ 9 = 2
- 9 ÷ 3 = 3
- 16 ÷ 4 = 4
- 4 ÷ 2 = 2
- 8 ÷ 2 = 4
- 24 ÷ 12 = 2
- 12 ÷ 6 = 2
- 6 ÷ 2 = 3
- 6 ÷ 3 = 2
- 15 ÷ 5 = 3
Trivia[]
- Numberblocks Twitter says that this episode teaches number factors (divisors).
- Thirteen, Seventeen, Nineteen and Twenty-Three are the four numbers which could not tag or be tagged.
- This is because they are prime, and their smallest multiples (26, 34, 38 and 46 respectively) exceed 24.
- The title of this episode is based on the show: The X Factor.
- This may be because they are powers of two. (8 =23, 16=24)
- Five and Eleven are the only participating Numberblocks whose player card was never shown.
- The number of ways each Numberblock can split until reaching prime numbers is equal to the number of factor (divisor) trees of that Numberblock (A144757 in the OEIS)
- All numbers in this episode have at most six ways of splitting, except Twenty-Four, which has 20.
- Because of that, there are 2,764,800 possible ways ALL Numberblocks 2-24 can split.
- Despite Twenty-Five being figured-out prior to this episode by series order, she was absent.
- Eight's player card notably has his Series 2 look, as seen on the picture to the right.
- There is a reference of the video game Pac-Man; on the timestamp 2:32, when Sixteen is chased by Eight.
- One is the announcer because every number can make a team of ones. So if she participated, she would be an OP player.
- The Team Tag arena is similar to a laser tag arena.
- The gameplay of Team Tag is barely similar to Count Pacula, a canceled game by Bally Midway proposed in December 1983. Unlike Count Pacula, it shows small Numberblocks chasing big Numberblocks (so that small Numberblock could divide a big Numberblock into teams of a small Numberblock).
- The big Numberblocks split into teams of small Numberblocks might be temporary. At the end of this episode, they joined back into big Numberblocks offscreen.
- If Zero were to be a competitor, she can’t tag anyone because numbers cannot be divided by zero, nor be tagged by anyone. This counts no matter the amount of players.
- Eight saying "Yikes!" When he saw 5 Fours was reused from Terrible Twosday.
Goofs[]
- Fourteen's player card did not show Two as a divisor.
- When Four tags Sixteen to split her, the resulting Four Fours don't wear their hats anymore.
- On YouTube, it is listed as episode 14 instead of episode 13, and reads "Team Tag".