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Welcome back to Game On, I'm Tom Scott.

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I'm David Bodycombe.

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And today we have our first elimination match.

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One of these players is going to be out of
the competition.

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What's the game?

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It's a number war and it's called Black Hole.

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They're going to take turns placing counters,

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1 then 2 then 3, all the way down to 10.

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At the end of the game there'll be one place
left on the board,

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that is the Black Hole,

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which sucks in all the numbers around it.

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So whoever has the least numbers pulled in
is going to be the winner.

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Simple as that.

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All right. Let's see how they do.

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Yeah, I think I'll go first. All right.

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I haven't worked out whether it's advantageous
or not to go first.

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See, I don't have any strategy, so...

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You'd think that the person who's going first

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is going to have the advantage

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but, of course, when they place their last
counter,

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the other person will have a choice of two
spaces left.

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So they get the last decision if they go second.

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Yeah. So you have to make sure that if you're
playing first,

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the two spaces you leave,

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both of them are winning positions for you.

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And that can be quite difficult.

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Oh! Okay.

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Would you favour the mathematician or the
video gamer here?

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I think the video gamer, in a way,

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because I think they're going to have to think
a few more moves ahead...

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My strategy is winging it.

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Winging it, I wouldn't recommend as a strategy!

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I think I would probably mirror for a while.

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Ah, mirroring! What a great strategy.

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Throws your opponents off, that does.

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D'you know what else throws people off?!

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What, muttering narration?

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Maybe!

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Yeah, how do you think we felt?

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Was mirroring a good idea?

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It's not a bad idea.

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I wouldn't have put that in the corner there,

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because there's only two spaces where the
black hole could be in the corners,

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but it's not a bad idea to sort-of go mano-a-mano
for the first few steps.

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Certainly, you'd think low numbers in the
middle of the board makes more sense

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because they have more spaces around it

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which are more opportunity for the black
hole to be near there

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so pack the middle of the board with the lower numbers.

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This is tough. This is tough.

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Emma's got the face of concentration on her.

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Shut up(!)

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(Good move.)

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So at this point, I would be looking at

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the possible places that are going to be left

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and calculating the numbers around them.

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Yeah, I mean it's certainly quite interesting

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how the spaces have got a bit compartmentalised
there.

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[inaudible]

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So we're getting near the end now. That's
happened really quickly.

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I don't like Katie's position here,

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because that run of blue pieces down the middle
of the board,

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it's quite exposed. There's lots of positions
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she's actually going to be losing.

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I'm going to lose so much no matter what I
do!

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I feel like I've gone into this with the complete
wrong strategy.

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Of winging it.

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So Emma clustering the numbers together means
they're less vulnerable to the Black Hole.

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Yes. Really, only that space next to the 7
and the 3 at the top corner

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is her only worry there.

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Really? Oh, yeah, you're right. Because all
the others,

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there are more numbers of Katie's next to
them

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or it's a draw in a couple of places.

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Yeah, if she puts that 8
next to the 7 and the 3,

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she's looking pretty golden at the moment.

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Ohh! Oh...

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Well, that's okay. She can touch them...

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She's got to make sure that hole's filled
in though.

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Oh. Which... which Katie has just done for
her!

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Well, that's sensible play. Tucks another
number away from the other places.

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But Emma must fill in that space below the
7 and the 3 now.

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Because that's her vulnerability?

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That's her vulnerability right now. And then
she should be...

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(Emma's got this.)

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I can actually feel my heart beating.

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Yeah. I don't know why I care!

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Now who's taking it seriously(?)

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There's so many traps here.

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See, I can't think ahead, I play chess, but

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I can't think ahead in this.

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And then it's basically her game?

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It should be.

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Ah! No, not there.

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No! Because now you've got one space with
her 7 and 3 and 9 around it,

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and very little of Katie's.

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No! No, no, no.

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No no no, because now Emma's got a place to
hide the 10!

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Either of the two spaces that are left, Katie's
10 is now going to count.

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There you are. Game over.

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There it goes. Katie's got to put the 10 up
there, and that's the game.

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Well done Emma!

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That is nerve-wracking!

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Also, that is one of those games that is infinitely
easier to play

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on the sofa when you don't have to be in the
moment.

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People in the comments are going to be like,

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"you should have done this!"

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Yeah, seriously, I feel like I nearly screwed
up with the 9.

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I was like, "what have I done there?"

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Hey, I won something!

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So Emma lives to fight another day.

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She's going to be in the playoffs in a couple
of shows' time

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but next up it is Steven vs Hannah, for a
place in the final.

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What's the game?

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It's going to be a psychological war of bidding.

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Oh, that's -- a psychological war against
a magician?

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That's going to be interesting.

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