Eero’s increasingly-desperate mimes

For the first category of ‘celebrations’, Eero is required to mime a ‘bachelor/ette party’ (‘polttarit’ – Finnish does not distinguish between a ‘stag do’ and a ‘hen night’). He mimes drinking a lot, before pointing at his bare ring finger and waving his hands in denial, indicating that he is unmarried (which Jaakko seems to miss). He then slings his arm around an imaginary companion and pretends to sing merrily and drink. Jaakko incorrectly guesses ‘wedding’.

For the second category of ‘days of the week’, Eero is required to mime ‘Wednesday’. He uses his hands to indicate five individual things in front of himself (representing the five weekdays), then emphasises the middle one, and stares at Jaakko as he does. He then draws a line straight down the centre of his body, to once again emphasise the middle-ness of his day. Jaakko claims that Eero’s mime has nothing to do with the actual day, but guesses it correctly anyway.

For the final category of ‘colours’, Eero is required to mime the colour ‘blue’. After being initially confused as to how to approach it – doing so by awkwardly dancing – Eero gets the idea to slowly move around and wave his arms, as though he were floating underwater. Jaakko recognises Eero’s mime, and correctly guesses his colour (which shocks Pamela, who was confused by Eero’s mime).

As Jaakko was only able to guess two of Eero’s mimes, he earns joint third place.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

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