Communicate an instruction in a secret language
Task types:
Team
Filmed
Creative
Mental
Social
Objective
Multiple brief
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Task briefs
The first task brief is received in the living room, where there are eight different-coloured bells, two torches, a pile of wooden sticks, and a pile of large matches on the table. The briefs for the task are as follows:
To everyone:
Come up with a secret language that doesn't use words.
You have 10 minutes, after which one of you must go to the lab.
Your time starts now.
To Dara & Munya:
Secretly give this instruction to your team-mate.
You may not say or write any other words in the instruction.
Fastest wins.
Your time starts as soon as you walk through the door, and stops when the instruction's carried out my your team-mate.
To Dara & Munya, on a separate piece of paper, in an envelope:
Feed three giraffes and an elephant to the clown.
Task notes
- When the first part of the task is over, one member of the team receives a second task brief, plus an envelope containing the instruction they must convey, in the lab.
Task stats
Points
10
Disquals
3
Attempts
Here's a brief description of the contestants' attempts. Someone's probably working on writing up some additional detail, though!
- Dara, Fern and John struggled to come up with a system, eventually settling on two bells representing 'yes' and 'no', and the rest representing groups of letters of the alphabet, with sticks being held in conjunction with them, to signal which letter the bell was specifying. However, John struggled to understand the system, particularly since Dara appears to have used it incorrectly to start with, holding up the wrong number of sticks to specify an 'E'. Dara was eventually able to communicate the instruction to "feed 3 elephants and a giraffe to the clown". However, since Dara communicated the wrong instruction, the team received zero points.
- Munya and Sarah came up with a complicated system where some of the bells represented individual words like 'punch', 'lick', 'I', 'you', 'gently', 'hard', and 'medium', and two bells represented nouns and verbs in general, which would be specified further using the sticks. Munya was able to use the sticks to create pictograms of the animals, so that Sarah understood what to do. As they were the only team to complete the correct instruction, they received 5 points each.
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