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Identify which bin David is in

Task types:

Solo

Filmed

Mental

Objective

Single brief

Adapted

Mastertasks:

Identify which bin the Taskmaster’s assistant is in

Locations:

Bäst i Test House (Seasons 6 - 7)

Spaces:

The Driveway (Bäst i Test Seasons 6 - 7)

Task brief

The task brief is found alongside a stethoscope, in a frying pan on a plinth, outside of the house. The brief for the task is as follows:

Figure out which bin David is in, based on a guess.

The seven commandments state what you can do with the bins.

Do nothing which the commandments do not permit.

Whoever figures out the fastest where David is located wins.

You have 10 minutes.

Your time starts now.

Task notes

Near the plinth, and in front of the door to the house, are five yellow wheelie bins, labelled with the numbers 1-5.
Hanging from the balcony of the house is a large cloth with the ‘seven commandments’ printed on it.
The seven commandments are: 1. You may roll a bin 3 metres; 2. You may gently shake a bin; 3. You may hit a bin once with the frying pan; 4. You may knock over a bin; 5. You may listen to a bin with a stethoscope; 6. You may, with closed eyes, drop a thing into a bin; 7. You may call David once from the phone booth.
David is hidden in Bin 5.
Under Bin 2, there is a note reading ‘David ar udda’ [‘David is odd’], giving the hint that he is in an odd-numbered bin.
It appears that, while the other four bins contain the same items for each contestant’s attempt, they are not always in the same numbered bin (for example, in one contestant’s footage, Bin 3 appears to contain pots and pans while, in another contestant’s footage, Bin 3 is empty).
In his appearance on the episode of Taskmaster: The People’s Podcast that was released on 22 July 2022, David revealed that this task had been attempted for two previous seasons of the show, but never made it to air. He noted that he disliked doing the task, so had insisted that the version filmed for season 7 would be the last time he would do it.