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Solve the 11 fruit and vegetable tasks

Task types:

Solo

Filmed

Physical

Objective

Multiple brief

Original

Mastertasks:

Solve the fruit and vegetable tasks

Task briefs

The primary task brief is found on a table, surround by other supplies. The 11 other task briefs are found in a black box on the table. The briefs for the task are as follows:

Solve the 11 tasks the fastest.

Once you have used a fruit or vegetable to solve a task, you may not use it for another.

Fastest to solve 11 tasks wins.

Your time starts now.

Hide a fruit or vegetable.

Blow a fruit or vegetable off the table.

Get a whole fruit or vegetable through the ring.

Divide a fruit or vegetable into exactly 10 parts.

Throw a fruit or vegetable into the bucket.

Putt a fruit or vegetable.

Colour the entire surface of a fruit or vegetable.

Kick a fruit or vegetable into the goal.

Eat an entire fruit or vegetable.

Identify a fruit or vegetable.

Balance a fruit or vegetable on the pole.

Task notes

The task takes place in a sports stadium, where the contestants find a table holding a shopping basket full of fruits and vegetables (a parsnip, a banana, a lemon, a watermelon, a pumpkin, a pineapple, some broccoli, a coconut, a pea, a radish, and a dragon fruit), a black box, and a thick black marker pen.
Surrounding the table are a pole embedded into the ground, a small football goal, a bucket, a small putting green, and a stand with a small ring hanging from it.
Although this task has similarities to the 'Eat one item, balance one item, throw one item' task, it is different enough to be categorised here as an original task.

Task stats

Points

Disquals

Attempts

Here's a description of the contestants' attempts. Someone's probably working on collecting some images to add later!

Martin opens just one task at a time, so does not do any forward-planning. He hides the parsnip down his trousers, blows the pea off the table, passes the radish through the ring, and breaks the broccoli up into 10 pieces. He throws the dragon fruit into the bucket, putts the lemon into the golf hole, and colours the entire surface of the pumpkin with the black marker. He scores a goal with the coconut, eats the banana, identifies the watermelon, and impales the pineapple on the pole. Martin completes the task in 10 minutes and 16 seconds, earning first place.
Sebastian opens just one task at a time, so does not do any forward-planning. He hides the lemon beneath one of the stadium seats, blows the pea off the table, squashes the dragon fruit through the ring, and cuts the pineapple up into 10 pieces. He throws the broccoli into the bucket, puts the parsnip to bed (the word for 'putt' in Danish can also mean 'tuck into bed'), and colours the surface of the radish with the black marker. He scores a goal with the watermelon, eats the banana, identifies the coconut, and balances the pumpkin on the pole. Although the edit of his attempt makes it look like he dealt with everything very quickly, it is then revealed in the studio that he spent a great deal of time trying to throw one of the items into the bucket, alternating between throwing the pumpkin, the broccoli, and the dragon fruit for ???, and repeatedly missing or knocking over the bucket, before finally landing the broccoli with Mark's assistance. Mark reveals that Sebastian spent just 9 minutes and 32 seconds on the other 10 tasks, but spent 9 minutes and 26 seconds on the throwing task alone, bringing his total time to 18 minutes and 58 seconds. He earns fourth place in the task.
Julie opens just one task at a time, so does not do any forward-planning. She passes the banana through the ring, scores a goal with the coconut, throws the dragon fruit into the bucket, and balances the lemon on the pole. She putts the radish, colours in the surface of the parsnip with the black marker, and breaks the pineapple up into 10 pieces. She is then left with just the pea (which she eventually finds hidden in the grass), and the pumpkin, and has to eat one of them and blow the other off the table. To avoid having to eat an entire pumpkin, she sources an air compressor from somewhere in the stadium to help blow it off the table instead. She then eats the pea. It is unclear, from the footage shown, what she did with the broccoli or the the watermelon, but she would have had to hide one of them and identify the other. Julie completed the task in 17 minutes and 44 seconds and earns third place.
Simon opens all of the tasks first, to get an overview of the situation and make a plan. He blows the pea off the table, passes the broccoli through the ring in bits, scores a goal with the pineapple, and throws the dragon fruit into the bucket. He balances the parsnip on the pole, putts the coconut, and breaks the banana up into 10 pieces. He messily colours in the entire surface of the pumpkin by smearing the ink from the black marker over it with his bare hands. It is unclear, from the footage shown, what he did with the lemon, the watermelon, or the pea, but he would have had to hide one of them, throw one of them into the bucket, and identify one of them. Simon completes the task in 17 minutes and 36 seconds, earning second place.
Eva opens just one task at a time, so does not do any forward-planning, and definitely pays the price for this. She hides the pea inside herself by eating it, scores a goal with the pineapple, throws the lemon into the bucket, and identifies the broccoli. She impales the dragon fruit on the pole, blows the radish off the table, and bites the banana into ten pieces (peel and all). She passes the parsnip through the ring and then, with her remaining options limited to just the watermelon and the pumpkin, begins trying to eat the entire pumpkin raw. She then decides to put the watermelon to bed (the word for 'putt' in Danish can also mean 'tuck into bed') back at the house, while she cooks and eats the pumpkin. She and Mark cut up and boil the pumpkin, adding canned whipped cream (in lieu of regular cream)and apple juice to turn it into a pumpkin soup. She places the watermelon on a pillow on the sofa, and pulls a duvet up to cover it. She then sits down to try to eat her giant bowl of pumpkin soup, which she is unable to do. In the studio, Lasse suggests that she could have revisited her decision to hide the pea inside herself, claiming that she had instead eaten it, and then she'd have had the option of hiding the pumpkin instead. Mark reveals that Eva took 1 hour and 52 minutes to complete the task, but Lasse ultimately disqualifies her for not finishing the pumpkin.

(Source credit: Karl Craven)