Aku takes it to the kitchen

Here's a description of the contestant's attempt. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to illustrate it.

Aku begins by pouring some of the blue liquid into the tube, but the liquid immediately leaks out through the holes. Remarking that “It’s probably non-alcoholic”, Aku places his mouth over one of the holes to block it, while attempting to block the other holes with his fingers and simultaneously pour in more liquid in from the top of the tube. When the leaking continues, he tries tilting and turning the tray for better positioning.

Deciding to use the kitchen tap as a constant supply of fluid, he carries the tray out of the lab. When he reaches the kitchen, he reasons that he is only touching the tray, and not the pipe, and then decides that he could just flip the tray upside-down to remove the ball. As he does so, both the ball and the remaining liquid inside spill onto the kitchen floor.

In the studio, Jaakko likens the fact that he has to explain to the contestants including Aku that the pipe MUST NOT BE MOVED to trying to explain rocket science to a Golden Retriever. When Aku points out that they all seemed to share the same logic that flipping the board didn’t count as moving the tube, Jaakko insists that the tube had moved quite significantly in the process. Pilvi questions whether the contestants could have moved the tube more boldly, since none of their attempts really adhered to the rules.

Aku removes the ball in 2 minutes and 16 seconds, but he earns just 1 point because he’d moved the tube.

(Written by Suurmestariprofessorn and proofread by Karl Craven)