Andy customises his die

Andy removes his gloves and asks Alex to give him a minute, as he leaves the living room.

He returns to the room with a black marker pen and some white chalk, stating that he hopes Alex won’t consider what he’s about to do as cheating. He then proceeds to add extra dots to the dice with the marker pen (not the only time he’s used this technique to solve a task), and attempts to hide one of the dots on the face with six dots using chalk, so that every face has five dots.

After rolling his die four times, it lands on the six. After looking at the die, Alex points out that he can still see the sixth dot, though, so Andy has to try to cover the sixth dot with more chalk and start again. He subsequently rolls five fives quite quickly, and asks Alex to stop the clock, before claiming that he’s invented a new game that “brings a bit of certainty to a world of doubt”.

In the studio, Greg accepts Andy’s technique for rolling five fives, which Alex reveals he’d been able to do in just 2 minutes and 40 seconds. This earns him 4 points.

(Written by Karl Craven and proofread by M3 / Andres Sanchez)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)