Put five grapes in the little bowl

Task stats

Points

14

Disquals

1

• Sarah immediately checks under the table, to make sure there are no grapes hidden there. After that she just starts scraping flour onto one of her flippers with the other one, and shaking the flour onto the floor, apparently forgetting the part of the task about leaving the most flour on the plate. After finding all the grapes, she re-reads the task brief, but doesn't appear to make any effort to replace any of the flour she has removed from the plate, leaving just 900g on there. She does not spot the grapes hidden on the garage door, on her way out. She earns fourth place for her effort.
• Munya thinks he's exposed the perfect solution when he spots that the plate holding the flour is balanced on a cup, which he assumes contains the grapes ('a grape-holder'). However, this proves not to be the case, and he moves the plate from on top of it to no avail. He ends up rummaging through the flour on the table and moving the grapes to the small bowl, which he has put on the floor, as he finds them. After finding all the grapes, he remembers that the task is judged based on the amount of flour on the plate. He scrapes as much back onto the plate as possible, then moves it to the floor and tips the remaining flour onto it from the table surface, leaving 2,514g on the plate. As he opens the garage door to leave, he spots all of the grapes hidden in plain sight along one of its support struts.
• Fern has a promising start, questioning whether there are grapes hidden in the ceiling, or behind her, and even checking underneath the table. Unfortunately, she does not look closely at the garage door, so does not find the grapes hidden there. She sets about exploring the flour with her flippers, an act which she likens to performing surgery. She claims that a lot of surgeons are alcoholics, and reasons that "it probably feels like they have big hands" when they are especially drunk. To entertain herself, she pretends she is performing surgery on an old person because "they're very dry and dessicated, so their bodies are just like flour". She claims to be too tired, towards the end of her time, despite having been at it for less than five minutes, and does not find all five grapes. Her fictional flour patient apparently passes away, despite Fern having done everything she could. As she leaves the garage, the door shakes and drops a couple of the hidden grapes on the ground, but she does not notice them. She earn zero points for the task, because she did not find all the grapes.
• John immediately begins 'panning for grapes' using his flippers, before quickly looking up at the ceiling and under the table, to make sure there are no grapes hidden there. While tipping the plate of flour onto the table, he also checks underneath (either to make sure there are no grapes hidden there, or to figure out why it tipped the way it did). Leaving the plate tipped at an angle, he removes most of the flour with his flippers to find the grapes. He then fishes the grapes out with his mouth, ending up with a face and mouth full of flour, and many regrets. He realises that he can put flour back on the plate, so uses his flippers to scoop some up from the table, leaving nearly 2kg on the plate. At the end of the task, he has to eat one of the grapes to get some moisture into his mouth. He earns third place for his effort.
• Dara does some exploratory digging in the flour with his flippers before knocking the plate off its support, and losing some of the flour to the floor. After righting the plate on the table surface, and flicking the cup away with his flipper-hand, he begins to question whether it's possible that there are no grapes in the flour. He then laughs maniacally as he realises that there is probably a trick to the task. After re-reading the task brief, he asks if he can go to the kitchen. He manages to open the garage door with this flippers, completely missing the grapes available right in front of his face, and fetches some from the kitchen instead. He manages to pick five grapes from a bunch and drop them into the bowl using his mouth. Because of his strategy, he leaves 2,903g of flour on the plate, winning the task.