Thomas uses Mark, excessively

Thomas blows on a beach ball, getting it to slowly roll over enough that he can see the number written on it.

When he has trouble blowing a second ball, he pushes Mark into the ball, to get it to roll over.

Thomas then proceeds to drag Mark around the rink, using him to push the balls over to reveal their numbers.

He realises that the best thing to do is to get all of the balls nearer to the edge of the rink, before he starts removing them, and decides that he will use Mark to do this.

Thomas has Mark kick all of the balls to the edge of the rink, near the penalty box.

He then quickly puts all six balls into the penalty box, in ascending numeric order.

In the studio, Mark reveals that while the other four contestants spent a combined total of 22 minutes and 21 seconds on the ice (regardless of whether the time was counted towards the actual task or not), Thomas alone had spent 23 minutes there.

Thomas admits that he’d realised after the first beach ball that Mark could have kicked them all for him, but had decided to drag Mark around on the ice, regardless.

Thomas clears the rink in just 15.2 seconds, and wins the task.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)