Olga throws water from the balcony... and then goes for a drive

Olga searches the shed, while encouraging herself to come up with ideas. During this process, she catches sight of Pilvi – looking on expressionless, as she normally does – and comments that she finds Pilvi annoying when she has that look on her face.

Olga eventually finds a small sand bucket and fills it with some of the water, before taking it up to the balcony on the opposite side of the house from where she had received the task brief. Although she is not shown explaining her logic, Olga has – like Joonas and Eero – interpreted the task wording as meaning that the water must be thrown as far away from where she’d received the task brief as possible. However, she initially chooses only to throw it from the opposite side of the house, rather than travelling further away, like Joonas and Eero had done.

As she prepares to throw the water, she reasons that if she swings the bucket at an angle, she will throw the water outwards and away from the house, thus sending it a little further away from the starting point.

After Olga throws the water, Pilvi informs her that she still has half of her time left to use. Only at this point does Olga get the idea to drive away from the mansion. She puts Pilvi in the backseat of a production car, holding the fishbowl, while Olga drives. She stops driving in the final 30 seconds of her time, retrieves the fishbowl from Pilvi, and then runs a bit further down the road with it before dumping it out on the ground right before Pilvi calls time.

In the studio, Jaakko is confused by Olga’s and other contestants’ interpretations of the task wording, arguing that javelin-throwing competitions don’t begin with a 10 minute drive before the javelin is thrown. However, he compliments Olga on the fact that – unlike Joonas and Eero, who had also driven away with the water – she had at least completed another attempt at the task first, by throwing the water off of the balcony.

Olga’s balcony throw is ultimately the one that is measured and accepted, likely because it was the furthest of the two, at 6.96 metres, and Olga earns third place.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by Karl Craven)