Minka floods the lab

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

Minka begins by climbing onto the table to peer down into the tube. She then jumps back down, and suggests that the tray and tube could just have been placed on the floor, before moving it there herself.

She inserts some drinking straws into the holes in the tube and then crouches while pouring in some of the blue liquid. As she does so, she questions whether her moving the tray would count as moving the pipe. As she stands up at one point, she accidentally knocks the tube, but then catches it before it falls over, with the ball remaining inside.

Having already poured all of the blue and red liquids into the tube, she leaves to fetch more water. Finding several water bottles outside the lab, she returns with four of them. Looking inside the tube, she sees that the ball is still at the bottom of it. As she then continues to add more fluid, she realises that her system isn’t working, because the tube itself is no longer firmly attached to the tray, and all of the water is simply leaking out of the bottom. Eventually, she knocks the tube over on the flooded tray, and the ball rolls out onto the floor.

In the studio, Jaakko states that Minka’s attempt was even worse than the earlier ones, and she agrees, praising Miika’s more effective technique and stating that her own shouldn’t be replicated at home. When Pilvi confirms that Minka had moved the tube right at the start of her attempt by placing it on the floor, Christoffer welcomes her to the group of other tube-movers, including himself, Aku, and Kiti.

Minka removes the ball from the tube in 4 minutes and 39 seconds, but she earns just 1 point because she’d moved the tube.

(Written by Suurmestariprofessorn and proofread by Karl Craven)