Bianca plays lemon Jenga

Bianca expresses her annoyance with the ‘wielding’ rule of the task, using several lemons to illustrate to Antoine that due to their shape, each lemon would need two cuts to be structurally sound, and that she could therefore only make a tower that is three lemons tall, at best.

After thinking it over a bit, Bianca realises that while (in her mind) each lemon still requires two cuts – to remove the pointy ends – that she can actually slice three lemons with a single cut, giving her more lemons to work with.

As Bianca starts to stack her lemons, she takes time to breathe and calm herself down, noting that her shaking hands reminds her of whenever she plays Jenga.

When she runs out of sliced lemons to stack, Bianca re-reads the task and notices that the text does not dictate that the tower needs to be self-supporting.

Bianca uses her final cut to slice off the bottom of a single lemon and add it to her tower, holding everything in place with her mouth.

When Antoine asks why Bianca doesn’t just hold her tower up with her hands instead, Bianca’s tower falls over while she is attempting to answer. She quickly rebuilds her tower, adding one more lemon on top for good measure, and once again holding it upright with her mouth, but this time also stabilising it with her hands as Antoine measures it.

Bianca builds a 49cm tall lemon tower, and wins the task.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)