it's not about what you know; it's about what you can do.

This week in the garage, some faces you might recognise,

some games you can try at home

and we have pushed the budget just a little bit.

We've got some music and a countdown timer.

Welcome to the Game Garage.

Today, we are playing Above Average, and playing it with me are:

-Hello, I'm Cambria. -My name's Guy.

I'm Taha.

And I would ask you how you all know each other, but to be honest, I know you.

Let's be honest. I've brought some friends in for this one.

How do you all know each other?

They spent a week, two weeks, five weeks in my basement.

Okay.

Do you want to give context to that, or do you want to leave that as is?

That went up, that started;

week in the basement, then it became five weeks.

Yeah.

I think it'll be six by the time we're done.

-Yeah. -What are you doing in your basement?

We're animating a music video.

Okay.

We need no natural light and we need something exactly like this room, so...

I was going to say, this is familiar territory for you then.

Yeah.

-Yeah, yeah. -And actually, if you...

What's the music video? Is it...

Stop motion.

So like things on a table being moved about?

Yeah, model making.

Which is kind of the games we're doing here today.

You guys have been inadvertently practicing.

This isn't fair!

You've been training us, the last five weeks have led up to this.

Who's been actually filming the video, because you...?

Us two have.

You guys have been animating, I've occasionally been clicking.

Right. And telling us we've been over budget.

Yeah, but mainly just, you know, telling them off for not moving things.

Not going home.

'You need to leave, it's like 1am.

'He needs to go home.'

You're gonna have three games today, plus a final.

Every one of those games that you are above average in,

is going to make the final easier.

And the final is hopefully where you're gonna win some money.

And Above Average means you are beating the average

of the seven people that you're playing against today.

Here's who you're up against.

We have Saf from SuperSafTV.

He is our tech reviewer.

Lucy Bella Earl, from English with Lucy, English teacher, obviously.

Hannah Witton, sex educator, vlogger, author,

a whole load of other things that I couldn't fit in that caption.

In his motorised armchair, Colin Furze, inventor in his shed.

Em Ford from My Pale Skin.

She's our beauty expert and a load of other things besides.

Steven Bridges, magician.

If you're wondering why he's not waving at you, it's because I forgot to ask him to on camera.

And happily waving at you, is Barry Lewis, chef.

Those are the seven. What do you think?

Colin Furze, I think, is just going to like invent something in those sixty seconds

that's gonna help him.

-And Saf is going to be interesting. -Yeah.

I don't know; I don't know how much he knows about the technology he reviews,

but if he knows anything then I think that's gonna be... gonna be difficult.

Definitely Steven Bridges.

He's a... he's a tricky man.

-A crafty guy! -Very sneaky.

Alright, let me show you what your first game is.

Hold as many pencils as you can in one hand.

You have one minute.

I am gonna give it a little think.

I feel quite lucky that I have freakishly long fingers, so this might come in handy.

Ah, okay, yeah. I have tiny hands.

People haven't thought about it this much, have they? Erm...

You can use anything you like to get the pencils into your hand

but at the end of the minute, they must be held off the table using just one hand.

No other objects, no other parts of your body.

Pencils are counted at the end of the minute.

Good luck!

I just wish that I'd brought a Mickey Mouse glove with me,

or one of them like big Incredible Hulk hands. I'm like, urr...

I've never owned so many pencils!

This is new territory!

Look, there's two up there in the cupboard but they're the same make.

Do I have an advantage?

Spoiler: Colin did not have an advantage.

-Oh! I'm surprised. -So the first...

the first decision of the show for you folks,

is who is going to be up there playing game one?

Game one is worth one point, game two is going to be worth two

and game three is going to be worth three.

Definitely me, I have huge hands(!)

I don't know!

Mine aren't much bigger.

Erm, yeah...

I feel like... Okay, yeah.

He can like almost crush my fingers with your fingers.

You've got an engineering background.

I feel like that's an advantage.

Yeah, I think so.

I mean, I say an engineering background...

-Yeah, but you've made... -I did physics.

-That's good enough for me. -Yeah.

You've made a paper bridge before in your time, I guess.

Yeah, I made cardboard conveyor belts for a project.

-Okay, yeah. -Don't ask.

I think that's enough.

I think so, I've got some ideas.

Alright, Taha, please take to the table.

Any tactics?

Yeah. I think I'm gonna make like a splint and then have two layers of,

of pencils on either side to try and get a lot of them.

What is that?

I think we've picked the right person! I would've just grabbed them.

I am so glad you're on our team, is all I can say.

I think... I think, I'm like...

I'm pretty confident I can get out a sizeable chunk of these.

Your time starts when you first touch a pencil.

Okay.

Oh my god, okay.

Oh... err...

Right, okay.

Okay, so if I put these,

and you're gonna tell me, like, time-wise what's going on.

Right, so I'm thinking this can be like this

-and then if I put half of them here... -Fifteen seconds gone.

... I can use these to hold these,

and then put... another half up here.

Urgh.

You've used half your time.

Aargh! Don't do this!

And then if I hold them... like this? No.

Right, I'm just gonna have to give up on that.

Fifteen seconds left.

Right...

Ten seconds.

Three, two, one...

That's it! That's it!

Alright, I'm gonna come in and sweep these pencils away.

-Alright. -There we go.

-There's still one on the thing. -There we go.

-Alright. -You can put those down.

And while we're counting those, let's see how the others did.

I could build a little pencil thing that could then hold; that's the best bet.

Pencil there, pencil there, pencil there, pencil there, creating a little pencil basket.

Oh, this is not as easy as I thought it was gonna be.

Maybe if we like flatten them and just lay them all on top.

That might be the best way to go, I think.

Ooh!

This is quite... Ah...

Okay, okay.

I feel like it's all going horribly wrong already.

Wow, okay.

Okay, I'm trying to balance as many as I can on here.

Oh, Colin, as a practical man, you should just excel at this.

Half your time gone.

I feel like men might have an advantage here.

I'm trying to create, like, a web.

I'm starting to think that pencil basket was not the wisest choice.

Abandoning pencil basket.

-Ten seconds. -Oh, that feels wobbly.

I'm happy with this.

Five...

Three...

-One... -S***!

Time!

-Okay. -How was that for you?

That was... like, I'm pretty optimistic now that I've seen that.

Erm, no one went for any sort of strategy; it was all kind of just...

I mean, they started out with one.

Steven had a great plan with his pencil basket.

Yeah, I just didn't understand like, yeah,

I just felt like it wasn't an efficient use of space.

My whole thing came from we went to Pizza Hut once with my uncle,

and this was in Pakistan and you have to, they charge every salad bowl.

So we got one salad bowl and he was an engineer,

so he used the Dorito chips to make...

-Oh! -... a building of salad bowl.

And so I was like trying to replicate that.

-I've got some stats for you. -Okay.

Erm, first of all, you got 106 pencils.

That one at the end.

Yeah, you got more than half there, and that one might make the difference.

-Yeah. -I can tell you that the best score was Em Ford.

She said she had freakishly long fingers: 142 pencils.

Whoa!

But I'll also tell you that the worst score, and I won't say who this is: 60.

Okay. Okay.

You got 106.

Yeah.

Their average is one hundred and...

-... three. -Wow!

Yes!

Congratulations.

That is one point.

Your Dorito bowl story worked, I love it.

You are above average.

Let's see what the second game is.

Count backwards from a number, in multiples of another number.

You must throw the beanbag in the air while you say each answer,

and you must catch it afterwards.

-Pick a beanbag. -Orange...

-Oh, yellow. -Orange.

I'm gonna go with orange.

-Yeah. -What's the beanbag for?

You have to count, ten, eight, or something like...

-Yes? -How are you with mental arithmetic?

Oh, dude!

Average, I wouldn't say I'm an expert.

I got... I was okay to a certain level at school

and then as soon as it got more complicated...

Mental arithmetic.

So, if I ask you to count back from 100 in fives,

the answers would be 100, 95, 90, and so on.

You can only say each answer while the bag's in the air.

If you say the wrong answer, drop the bag,

or if you say the answer too early or too late, the chain is broken.

Your score is the highest chain you achieve at any point within the one minute.

Good luck.

I can't multitask to save my life.

This may not be your game then(!)

No, I don't think it is!

Feels like I'm on the Krypton Factor.

Not just about maths, this one, is it?

-No, it's not. -What do you think?

I was so bad at maths.

Oh no! It's the multiples.

-This is what I was worried about. -Maths tests.

Taha's like our maths guy.

-This is... -Yeah.

This is my thing.

Oh, I'm gonna point out that you cannot shout numbers in.

-Feel free to shout advice. -Okay.

But there's no shouting numbers in at whoever's up there.

Can I say things that rhyme with numbers?

If you can think of them that fast, then yes.

I say yeah.

Look, between us, you're the producer of Penny4,

-but can you throw beanbags? -I knew you were gonna do this.

See, I was gonna say I think I'm better at beanbags than I am at maths, so...

-You're better at beanbags than maths? -Yeah, and I'm not...