Emma remains on the stage throughout

After she’s finished reading the task brief, Alex asks Emma if she’d actually taken any of it in. She quickly admits that she hadn’t, confirming Alex’s suspicion. She tries to get Alex to hold off blowing his whistle until she’s had time to think, but he declines.

Emma remains on the stage throughout her attempt, and is first seen identifying the egg cup and the elephant, before turning around and trying to count the number of seats in the first row, but visually panicking about having to also keep an eye on the screen.

After managing to do some counting, she identifies the “house façade”, and then the “stuffed eagle”, before asking Alex for a pen. As she then kneels down on the stage to try to perform some calculations on the task brief, she looks up and identifies the robot (noting that she’d loved it).

Having completed her calculations, she then yells out for Alex to stop the clock, before identifying an on-screen triangle. When Alex reminds her that the clock doesn’t stop until she says a number, she reveals her estimate of 318 seats. She then looks around and says “If there’s a secret chair…”, before shaking her fist at Alex, who responds that there are “No secret chairs”.

In the studio, Alex reveals that Emma had only missed identifying one item which had appeared on the screen (an envelope), and that her total completion time, taking penalties into account, was 19 minutes and 18 seconds. This earns her 3 points.

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

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)