Pirjo pulls a Lycett

After reading the initial task brief, Pirjo asks Pilvi which task she should begin with. Without waiting for an answer, Pirjo then asks if she is allowed to open the gift box before reading the other task briefs. She then does so, and finds the jigsaw puzzle within. Pirjo then assembles the puzzle before opening any of the six task briefs.

Pirjo first opens the brick tower task brief, completing it quickly.

She next opens the task requiring her to place her hand on her hip. She places her right hand on her hip, which appears to be her dominant one.

Pirjo’s third task is the garden-related items one. She gathers her items from the shed, including a lantern, a pair of gardening shears, and two buckets (because, as Pirjo makes sure to point out to Pilvi, the task did not forbid identical items from being part of the count). All of Pirjo’s items fit into the buckets, but they spill out while she is on her way to the playhouse. After gathering her items back up, Pirjo picks up the wheelbarrow, holding it against her chest, and uses her leg to awkwardly open the playhouse door before dropping the wheelbarrow inside, apologising for the loud clattering noise everything makes once in there (in the studio, Joonas jokes that Pirjo is “quite the criminal”).

Pirjo next opens the jigsaw assembly task, and excitedly exclaims that she has already completed it, before quickly opening the next task: hiding the jigsaw pieces in the forest.

She runs to a nearby tree stump at the edge of the forest and sprinkles the jigsaw pieces in and around it.

Pirjo’s final task is the bowling one, which she appears to take literally: she takes one pin to the shed, where she finds a basketball, and bowls that into the pin.

In the studio, Jaakko comments that Pirjo was the first person to complete a task without actually reading it (the precedent, of course, was famously set by Joe Lycett, and repeated by Phil Roy, but Pirjo is indeed the first contestant on Suurmestari to complete a task before knowing what it was). Pirjo seems confused as to why she did it, but does make sure to point out that putting the jigsaw puzzle together before being told to do so wasn’t against the rules. She then jokes that perhaps she was just living in the future, like Heikki had suggested.

Pirjo is revealed to have completed all six tasks in 9 minutes and 15 seconds, and she earns second place.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

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