Jack finds some special goggles

Jack begins the task by sharing with Alex that he hates opticians, “because you can never tell if the eye chart is actually in focus, or whether it’s just a big scam”.

In the studio, Greg highlights how Jack had posited the theory that “all opticians are part of an international scam”.

Jack begins his attempt by investigating the plinth, asking “Is there anything…?” as he tries to pry the loosely-attached top off of it. However, he apparently decides that the top is not meant to come off, because he then decides that he needs to look around the house instead.

Jack leaves the lab and walks down the hallway, walking straight past the second eye chart and the cheese dish.

When he eventually returns to the lab, Jack is wearing a pair of flying goggles which he has found somewhere, and he claims that they are “special”. Alex responds by stating that he is “slightly surprised”, but then tells Jack that he can’t deny “that those are special glasses”, which Jack takes as an approval of his solution.

In the studio, after Greg suggests that he’d just “wandered off and come back in with any old glasses”, Jack attempts to argue that it had never been clearly defined what ‘special glasses’ were. Emma jumps in to point out that “the elephant in the room” is that Jack had put on goggles, and not glasses.

Alex reveals that Jack had put on his googles after 4 minutes and 23 seconds, which was the quickest. However, Greg decides that Jack “must be punished”, and so awards Jack a single “sympathy point”.

(Written by Karl Craven and proofread by M3 / Andres Sanchez)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)