Eero thinks on a massive scale

After searching the shed, Eero finds a long braided rope, the thickness of which he is excited to find is just shy of the diameter of the doughnut hole.

He quickly pulls the rope through the hole without much concern for the doughnut, which he lets bounce free in the air.

When Pilvi informs him that he still has a little over two minutes left of his time, Eero dashes back into the house and emerges with a roll of aluminium foil. He quickly wraps the doughnut in the foil – making sure to poke a hole through the middle of it – and then heads to the nearby pier. He then submerges the whole foil-wrapped doughnut in the water, pointing out that the water is passing through the hole in the middle.

Eero asks Pilvi how she thinks his result will be measured: just the Baltic Sea? Or, knowing that the Baltic Sea connects to the oceans, could he have technically passed most of the world’s water through his doughnut?

Just as his time runs out, Eero removes the doughnut from the foil to prove to Pilvi that it has emerged from its swim intact.

In the studio, Eero semi-seriously argues that his solution was so good that he should get 5 bonus points. Eero’s result is measured as the surface are of the entire Baltic Sea – roughly 392,000 square kilometres – and he wins the task.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

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