# 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Numberblocks!
# 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Numberblocks!
# One and another one is two
# And another one is...Me! ..that's three
# 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Time for some number fun
# You can count on us, we're the Numberblocks! #
It was a grey day in the big city.
I was wondering where my next case would come from when...
You've got to help me, 1!
It's gone. Everything's gone.
Slow down, 9! Tell me what happened.
I live in apartment 9 on the 9th floor of Numerical Towers.
I left home this morning at 9 o'clock to buy a newspaper.
When I came back 9 minutes later, the door was opened.
Everything was gone.
A mystery indeed.
I'll take the case.
Let's look for clues.
Did you notice anything strange or usual when you got back?
Uh, no, nothing.
Oh! There was one thing.
A suspicious shadowy stranger in a coat and hat pushed past me
and ran out of that door.
But apart from that, nothing.
Can you describe this stranger?
They were as wide as the door so two blocks wide, with a flat head.
Clue 1 - flat head when standing two blocks wide. Anything else?
I could see over their head when we were both two blocks wide
so they must have been smaller than me.
Clue 2 - smaller than 9. Hm.
Look! Hat, coat! It's them!
After them, quick!
Huh?Oh!
Oh, there! On the steps.
The hat!
These aren't steps. It's... Oh!
Huh?Oh!
Did either of you see a suspicious
step-shaped figure in a coat and hat?
Sorry, friend, no-one else down here.Just us.
Something didn't add up or did it?
Let's look at what we know.
Clue 1 -
the suspect had a flat head when standing two blocks wide.
So it can't have been 3, 5, 7, or 9.
And it wasn't you because you can't stand two blocks wide. Oh!
2, 4, 6, 8, 10. The suspect must be an even number.Bingo!
And remember clue 2 - the suspect was smaller than 9,
so it can't have been 10.
That still leaves 2, 4, 6 and 8.
But which was it?
Hm. Wait!
There's one more clue we nearly forgot.
The suspect can make a step shape. Not 2.
Or 4.
Or 8.
So it must have been.....6!
And who did we meet in the alley?
3 and another 3!
Equals 6!
Stop, thief!Ha!
You've got it all wrong. Oh, where to begin?
I'm not taking these things, I'm moving them in.
Moving in? Come up and I'll show you.
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
9...
Wait. 9 doesn't come after 5.
This isn't apartment 9.
It's apartment 6!Oh!Oh!
Look, number 6 turned upside down looks like a number 9.Oh!
No-one stole your things, 9.
You went into 6's empty apartment. So my things must be...
..right where I left them.
Case closed!
Sorry we chased you, 6.
I thought that you were after me.
That's why I hid as 3 + 3.
Let's make it up to you by helping you move in.
Welcome to the big city.