Julian defies probability
After reading the first task brief, Julian fixates on the word ‘walk’. Deciding that he’s too tall to pass under the step-ladder while standing up straight, he instead moves it to the shed (throwing the task brief inside after it, for good measure), but does not spot the lucky penny provided there.
After reading the second task brief, Julian momentarily looks around for a penny, then asks Alex if he’s allowed to come back to the task later, which Alex says is fine.
After reading the third task brief, Julian picks up the bag of salt and overturns it onto the driveway.
After reading the fourth task brief, Julian closes all five umbrellas provided on the driveway. As he does, he muses that “the younger contestants” will probably be more successful at this particular task.
As he picks up the final task brief, he notes out loud that there’s a penny on top of it, and Alex asks if it’s lucky. He eventually flips five heads in a row using the regular coin provided, though he does appear to check his final flip before placing it onto the back of his hand, leading Alex to question if it was a ‘standard’ flip. Julian insists that everything was above-board, and before Alex can argue further, completes his skipped task by placing what he had presumably declared to be his lucky penny into the piggy bank. Julian then aggressively asks Alex if he “has a problem” with how the coin flips were handled, and Alex meekly replies with a “No, sir”, before the two go their separate ways.
In the studio, Greg expresses his surprise that Julian would outright threaten Alex, and Julian retorts that it was “heterosexual male banter”.
Alex reveals that despite using a normal coin, Julian had managed to get five heads in a row on just his third attempt, which is impressive, as there’s only a 3% probability of flipping heads five times in a row.
Julian completes the fortune trail in 4 minutes and 12 seconds, and wins the task.
(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)
(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)
