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Lucy recognises a double-headed penny when she sees one

After reading the first task brief, Lucy squat-walks underneath the step-ladder.

After reading the second task brief, Lucy opens the piggy bank and shakes out all the coins. She counts out £7 in coins onto the plate, alongside a single penny, arguing that if the penny turns out not to be a lucky one, then there will at least be £7 on the plate.

After reading the third task brief, Lucy immediately sticks her hand out and knocks the salt off of the plinth, acting as if she is just incredibly clumsy.

After reading the fourth task brief, Lucy opts to open the umbrella in the shed. Unfortunately, she is facing the wrong way inside the shed, and so never spots the lucky penny.

After reading the final task brief, Lucy reasons that there must be a two-headed coin somewhere, and so she starts looking through all of the coins from the piggy bank. When she quickly rules them out, Alex points out that she’s only actually looked at one side of the coins.

Lucy runs into the house to search for a double-sided coin elsewhere, but emerges empty-handed. Undeterred, she returns to the shed, and this time spots the lucky penny. She is the only contestant to find it who actually recognises it as being double-headed. However, she then turns out to be terrible at flipping coins, although she does eventually manage to flip her five heads in a row.

In the studio, Greg probes Lucy’s inability to toss a coin, and she explains that she’s never done it before, because – while she doesn’t mean to be sexist – there’s always been a man around to do it for her. She points out that this is also the reason why she’s “never packed a [car] boot”, thus coining the episode title.

Lucy completes the fortune trail in 11 minutes and 3 seconds, but Greg disqualifies her for not correctly completing task which specified that she should put £13 or a lucky penny on the plate.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)

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