Welcome to the grand final of Game On!
Today we have the undefeated game designer Hannah Nicklin
versus video gamer Emma Blackery, who lost in her first match
but has just kept coming back since then.
One of them is going home with the Cheap Plastic Trophy, one of them isn't
and the only way to find out is to play the game, which is...?
Order and Chaos.
This is a lovely game of strategy. It's pure strategy.
-- Really pure strategy. -- Nothing else there, there's no luck involved in this
other than who's going first, so let's see who that is...
All right. Jeez. Er, I will be... order.
That's what I would've chosen.
-- I know! -- Yeah, you can tell!
So Emma's chosen Order. She has to make a line of five of any single colour.
She can play whatever colour she wants, red or blue,
she just has to get a line of five somewhere on the board.
And that means Hannah is Chaos...
...which means that she has to stop Emma from winning.
She can try and fill the board up
so that Emma hasn't succeeded in getting a line of five anywhere.
-- All right. -- Emma's put her first piece there as blue,
so what Hannah doesn't want to put is a red piece there,
because that would mean that, no matter what happens,
you're always going to have a line of two blues or two reds in the next move.
Right. And it starts to get dangerous when you get runs of three and four,
that are clear on both sides.
Exactly. Once it's a run of four, it's game over, if it's clear on both sides.
As Chaos, as soon as you see three in a row with nothing on each end,
you have to block that. -- Yeah, it's a forced move.
And even two in a row is getting dangerous.
Starts to. You start to think ahead, yeah.
I know it's my first actual move and everything,
but I was wondering if I could eliminate areas of the board by early plays.
Well, one way of doing that is to put an opposite colour right next to your opponent.
Okay, well that's not too bad. It's a bit out of the action,
but at least it's not diagonally next to...
So there is a possible run of five there, but is she... right.
So you block that straight away.
So if I were Emma, I would put one there, because I feel like that's going to start
to open up some lines.
-- And that's what she's done. -- Yep.
This is such a complicated game to get your head around!
You've got to remember that you can play both colours.
Yeah, it's not like one player's red and one player's blue like most games.
This is so much harder than I thought it would be.
Now we've started playing I've started to realise how hard it is.
I actually am now thinking it's slightly harder to play as Order.
The big mistake I can make is accidentally build you something in red.
But it's... I think it's negligible.
This is tough.
This is tough...!
I was going to say that Hannah has to play here,
but there are so many possible lines.
And if she plays there, she's starting to create a red one.
Yeah, it's tricky because obviously what blocks off one line can actually start creating another line.
It's a solid move.
I wonder if it's more advantageous to stick to one colour?
No, it's not, Steven... it's not. Oh! Okay.
Does that... make a difference?
'Cos now, presumably... no, Hannah doesn't have to block that yet, does she?
No, because even if Emma puts in a fourth blue in the middle there,
she can easily block that off at the end, so...
It's not dangerous because it's not open on both sides.
No. So all she has to do, really, she can do it now,
block the right-hand end of that run of what would be four.
Or look somewhere else on the board entirely, and try and shut down some lines
that might appear later. -- Yep.
There's a lot at stake here(!)
I mean, the trophy's engraved.
-- You're making it so much harder! -- Yep.
You certainly don't want to be blocking off the middle of that run of four yet
because there's just no point. Looking at it now,
that would actually be quite a bad move,
because you'd have quite a bit of pressure on those lines.
That one there horizontally and that one there vertically.
-- So don't... no! -- Don't do that!
-- 'Cos if you do that... -- Other end!
If you do that, you're leaving red lines open.
-- No. Aah! -- And she's taken her hand off it now...
-- Okay. That... -- That's dangerous. That's very dangerous.
If Emma plays here, you've got an open-ended line of three that Hannah has to block,
but there's also an open-ended line of four she's about to make.
Yeah. I think it might be forced now.
If, if, Emma has spotted it.
She has! She's gone for it. So Hannah has to block that.
--- I have to block this. -- Oh, wait...
She doesn't have a choice! This has to be Emma's victory!
-- 'Cos Hannah has to block that line of three... -- Yep.
And then Emma's got the line of four. It's over!
(This is a significant moment.)
This is terrifying.
That's it! That's it, it's over. It's over.
I've got a trophy to give!
Ooh, where should I put my...?!
Oh my god, I won a trophy!
Which... do you want it...?
-- I don't care where you put it! -- You sure?
You can put it wherever you like(!)
You can have it close to you, there you go. Well done!
Yes!
I actually won something! Woo!
-- Congratulations, there you go! -- I have a cheap plastic trophy!
-- I actually won something! -- Emma Blackery, you have won Game On, well done!
I've never won anything!
Thank you to Emma, thank you to Hannah, thank you to Steven, thank you to Katie,
all their YouTube channels and links are in the description and on screen now,
go check out every single one of them, they all make amazing stuff.
Thank you very much to our wonderful crew, to David Bodycombe
over in the commentary booth over there!
Thank you, David!
And thank you to you for watching, we will see you next time. Good night!
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