Get to the end of the word grid

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• Jonas’ system is mainly trial and error; if there is a plan to the path he chooses, it is not revealed. Jonas jumps a few times to skip letters instead of treating the canvas strictly like a maze. Increasingly frustrated, Jonas asks Mark for help; Mark replies that there are a few things that set the monitor off. After several more tries, Jonas manages to successfully navigate the maze, and declares that he has no idea what the task he just did was all about. Jonas clears the maze in 5 minutes 30 seconds, and earns third place.
• Linda hypothesises that the way through the word maze is English words. She gets through the majority of the maze by spelling ‘single’ and ‘need’ before the monitor beeps. Linda moves on to using Danish words instead, first spelling ‘gotden’ [goody], then moving across three squares that do not seem to form the beginning of a word, at which point she declares that the maze is likely not Danish words, either. Linda quickly shuffles into the ending square, and declares that when the monitor decides to beep is entirely random. Linda clears the maze in 4 minutes 15 seconds, and earns second place.
• Sofie attempts to spell the word ‘agent’, but realises that the letters do not align themselves that way in the maze. She is then able to sneak down two rows before the monitor beeps. While waiting until she can try again, Sofie maps a path for her to spell ‘agent’, then locates another word: ‘saltgnu’, which just happens to be what is spelled out on the second row of the maze. She asks Mark if saltgnus are a real animal. Convinced that the word maze has a message in it, Sofie reads every row: she translates the top row ‘godabk’ as ‘good day bk’, and the next few rows below saltgnu, which read ‘ingen’ [no], ‘eller’ [or] - along with some question marks to fill out the rows – and ‘stilhed’ [silence]. While trying to understand ‘saltgnu’, Sofie’s monitor beeps, even though she has been standing on the same square for a while. Sofie hypothesises that the monitor does not like silence, and simply walks across the maze while voicing her theory, without worrying about the letters. Sofie clears the maze in 6 minutes 21 seconds, and earns fourth place.
• Tobias starts traveling the maze by spelling words – starting with ‘god’ [good]. His main problem throughout the task is that he asks a lot of rhetorical questions while he’s thinking, and since questions are one of the two things that make the monitor beep, he is often penalised and must start over at the beginning of the maze. There are also several instances where Tobias travels the maze in complete silence, which also requires him to go back to the beginning. At one point, Tobias even tries travelling the board “like a game of Twister” on his hands and knees. Eventually, Tobias steps out of the maze to get an overview of all the letters, and recognises the words ‘god’ [good], ‘salt’, and ‘stilhed’ [silence], then tries to figure out how the words relate to each other. On his next attempt, he removes his ankle monitor and throws it into the finishing square; the monitor beeps just before he reaches the finishing square. Tobias finally successfully travels the maze by spelling ‘god elle’ [good or], convinced that spelling words is the way to travel the maze. Tobias clears the maze in 23 minutes 40 seconds, and earns fifth place.
• In the studio, Mark informs the audience that Simon grew up as a Jehovah’s Witness, and has since let go of the faith, but that god may still be watching over Simon. Simon begins by stepping one square below the starting square; this allows him to spell ‘salt’, so he does. While thinking of his next move, a strong gust of wind blows the word maze free of the weights holding it down. Simon scrambles to untangle the canvas enough to reveal the finishing square, and jumps into it. Simon (and god) clears the maze in 1 minute 59 seconds, and wins the task.