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Jenny, Kiell and Mae build a duct tape suspension bridge

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

Mae is first to arrive on the scene, and is holding the potato when Jenny arrives. When Jenny asks why they have it, they claim they brought it with them from home "for luck". Kiell arrives third, in time to catch Jenny explaining to Mae that you can sometimes smell when a potato is "on the turn". After reading the task brief, Jenny offers to be the one who takes care of the tutting. However, the team then all run off to collect supplies, with Kiell and Jenny fetching barrels and oil drums from the driveway, while Mae runs off towards the shed. They start stacking the barrels and oil drums on top of one another, either side of the red green, to create two vertical supports for their bridge, but Mae steps on the red green in the process, and then admits to it. Jenny is furious, asking Mae why they would voluntarily point out their mistake. The team returns all of their equipment to where it came from, and head over to start again from the drawing board. However, while they are heading up the driveway, one of the oil drums starts rolling back towards the red green behind them. Kiell spots this happening, and quickly touches the drawing board before running to intercept the oil drum. He successfully stops it from rolling onto the red green, but then ends up stepping on the mat himself, due to his momentum. The team tuts, rolls the drum back again, and returns to the drawing board once more. They restack their oil drums on top of their barrels, and place tyres on top of each tower, planning to suspend the potato on a duct tape suspension bridge between them. They then realise that they have lengths of drainpipe which they can hold up in the air to create even taller towers, and so completely abandon the original ones. They create a duct tape sling between the ends of two lengths of the pipe. The sling has a dog's bowl attached in the middle of it, to provide a safe place for the potato to rest. Kiell and Mae carefully raise their drainpipes and move the duct tape sling over the red green, raising it as high as possible. Jenny provides moral support by singing a song about a magic potato ascending into the sky, before helping Mae to lift their end of the bridge higher. In the studio, Alex reveals that they managed to get the potato 2.40 metres above the red green. This earns them three points each.

(Written by Karl Craven)