More Ways Than One

More Ways Than One is the nineteenth episode of Season 5 in Numberjacks, uploaded onto the Numberjacks YouTube channel on December 30, 2016.

Four, Five and Six are playing a version of Circle Slide, using different ways of moving. Four goes out to defeat the Puzzler who has trapped Eight and make people do silly things by finding three ways to make eight.

Plot
"'Yes, it's me, and oh, what fun. You'll never guess what I've just done!'"-The Puzzler before bubbling Eight

"Four, Five, and Six are in the gym, preparing to do a trick for Seven, Eight and Nine (the three eldest Numberjacks): everyone goes into a circle drawn on the ground in a different way. Five slides and Six jumps, but Four says, “I can’t do that!”. Five points out that since everyone has to do it differently, he isn’t supposed to do what they did. Four tries to claim that there are no ways left but he accidentally bombs Five’s biggest buddy block and slips into the circle. Then, Three presses the alarm button and they go to the control room."Agent 27 reports the problem: a girl is putting her coat on while lying down. Six sends Four out, claiming that the latter is “good at doing things in unusual ways”. After Four is launched, Five tells him to be careful of strange goings-on and Agent 63 reports a man walking weirdly down the street. Then, Agent 18 reports a gardener digging with her shoe and her glasses in the garden centre. Then, the Puzzler appears.

The Puzzler reveals that he has trapped Eight in a bubble and that he is indeed the one causing trouble. One, Two, Seven and Nine then enter the control room and Five tells them what’s going on and imagines what else the Puzzler might get up to. The Puzzler then sets a challenge for those in the control room: make eight three different ways.

Agent 63 points out that a way of making eight is adding two numbers together. Seven decides to start with her number and asks what adds to eight. Three says, “One”, so Seven adds her and One’s buddy blocks together. They then put those blocks into the Brain Gain machine.

After the Brain Gain is sent, Two wants to help with the second way of making eight. Six suggests that he add his buddy blocks to his own, but Agent 27 thinks that it isn’t different enough because it’s still addition, so Two groans and the Puzzler makes a woman drink her glass with one foot in the air. Nine makes eight by subtracting one of her buddy blocks. After this information is sent via Brain Gain, the Puzzler makes the man from A Close Thing ride his bike backwards and sets the ground on fire.

Two wants to help with the third way of making eight, but they cannot see how he could do it. Agents 18 and 27 have a suggestion: multiply himself, which he does, using his buddy blocks and Six’s. Eight is saved and the Puzzler leaves. Everything is put back to normal and Four and Eight go home.

After the episode recap, Eight rolls into the circle and Four asks the viewers how to make his number.

Characters
Agents: 18, 27, 63

Numberjacks: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine

Meanies: Puzzler

Outside locations

 * Girl’s Wendover House
 * Cromptions Interiors Ltd / Timpson Wendover
 * Garden Centre
 * The Coffee Tree Aylesbury
 * Bike Pathway

Reception
More Ways Than One was met with mixed-to-negative reviews. Many viewers claimed More Ways Than One was fake since the bubble appeared to be wet and at 9:39, one could see Eight breathing while he is supposedly in the Puzzler’s bubble. Many viewers also noted that this video would not have been uploaded if Eight was actually trapped in a bubble, as uploading graphic content is a major violation of YouTube’s community guidelines. More Ways Than One holds 101k likes and 111k dislikes.

After the video was uploaded, the channel’s subscriber count went into a free fall – falling immensely from the 3 million sub count inched recently at the time, until a few days later when the subscriber count went back to normal. The video, as well as all of the Numberjacks was proven fake in Hundreds and Thousands, leading to Three appearing on the YouTube news channel DramaAlert, who did an interview with Three.[1]

Trivia

 * This is the first time Eight gets trapped in a puzzle bubble.
 * This is the only time Agent 27 sees Eight.
 * Zero is absent in this episode.
 * This is the last appearance of a teen-agent, like Agent 18, a twenty-agent, like Agent 27 and a sixty-agent, like Agent 63.
 * This is the last time Four or Eight go out there.
 * This is the last time Four or Eight go out there.