Ben displays pinpoint throwing accuracy

Ben walks over to the tower and immediately pretends to push it over.

The instruction on the first block he removes is to “Write a beautiful poem and read it out to Paul while removing the next block.” Ben’s poem is as follows:

Block, block
You never mock
Just like a nice warm sock

The next instruction Ben must follow is to sing a brand-new original song about removing blocks, so he asks if he can just do repeat poem in a musical form.

The next block instructs Ben to remove the following block with his feet, and he is able to successfully push a yellow block out from the second row up with his foot.

Ben is then instructed to remove the next block while standing one metre away, and he is able to successfully stretch and remove a block near the top of the tower.

After being instructed to remove the next block while standing at least two metres away, Ben asks Paul for the tennis ball from his briefcase, and is unbelievably able to throw this and perfectly knock a block out with it. Paul states that it is maybe one of the most amazing things he has ever seen.

Ben is halfway through removing another block when Paul blows the whistle, ending the task.

In the studio, Jeremy describes Ben removing the block with the tennis ball as “possibly the greatest thing that’s ever happened in the history of New Zealand”, and Ben states that he’d just wanted to just retire from Taskmaster altogether at that point. When Madeleine suggests that Ben could retire from life, Abby adds “Valhalla awaits.”

It’s revealed that Ben had removed 20 blocks from the tower, which earns him second place and 4 points.

(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by JoGo & Will G and adjusted by David Fuller)