Get the tarpaulin into one of the containers

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Points

15

Disquals

0

• Linnéa chooses the yellow wheelie bin (still marked with a number from the ‘Identify which bin David is in’ task). She opens the bin to find it about halfway filled with tennis balls. She folds the tarp up, stopping occasionally to press the air out of it. After a few rough starts, she is able to get most of the tarp into the bin, but David does not approve it, as the lid cannot be fully pushed down. Linnéa rearranges the tarp and is eventually able to fit it inside the bin with the lid fully closed. In the studio, Babben comments on how Linnéa seemed to live up to her name (‘Wikblad’ translates to ‘fold-leaf’). Linnéa earns third place.
• Marko opens the suitcase to see if it can hold the tarp, revealing that it is packed at least partway full with dishes. As David counts down Marko’s final seconds to choose his container, Marko panics and chooses the large barrel, which turns out to be about halfway filled with rubber ducks. Clearly annoyed by his container choice, Marko walks around the tarp, kicking away the rocks holding it down. Without attempting to fold the tarp, Marko drags it to the barrel and starts shoving it in, before stopping and realising that he can empty the barrel’s contents into another nearby container. He removes the tarp and pours the rubber ducks into the yellow wheelie bin. He then starts shoving the unfolded tarp back into the now-empty barrel, before realising that it will need to be folded. Chiding himself for being sloppy, Marko folds the tarp, but still has trouble getting it into the barrel. Eventually he prevails, but earns fourth place.
• Nikki chooses the rucksack, which turns out to be filled with ping pong balls, which she pours into the yellow wheelie bin. She insists on taking her time, to get the task done correctly the first time. She slowly rolls up the tarp, stopping often in order to press down on it to remove any trapped air. Having rolled the tarp up in one direction, she turns her attention to rolling it up in the other direction, kneeling down on it after every turn to try to compress it even more. She finds a knife and cuts off the frame of the rucksack, in order to allow the bag to stretch further. Amazingly, she manages to get the entire tarp into the rucksack just as her time runs out. Henrik, who had chosen the same container, and failed, stands and applauds her in the studio. Nikki earns second place.
• Henrik chooses the rucksack, which is filled with ping pong balls. Henrik pours these balls out onto the ground, insisting he'll clean them up later. He folds the tarp from corner to corner, at one point joking that he was folding up “Babben’s bedsheets” (in the studio, he looks appropriately contrite). He crawls and rolls across the tarp in an attempt to eliminate any trapped air. However, he is unable to get the folded tarp into the rucksack, so he unfolds it again and starts rolling it up instead. He soon decides that the rucksack is too small, though, and gives up. He earns just a participation point.
• Anne chooses the white bin, which is about the size of a laundry hamper, and is full of various costume items. Anne runs the bin over to the shed and pours the costume items into the trunk where they normally reside. She then effortlessly folds up the tarp, but is unable to quite get it fully into the white bin. While trying to squeeze more air out of the folded tarp, Anne asks David if the production crew had tested to ensure that the tarp could actually fit into all of the provided containers. While refolding the tarp to reduce its width, she makes an off-handed remark that the length of the folded tarp shouldn’t matter. It visibly pleases David (a quite short man) to hear that sometimes shorter is better. After folding the tarp up a second time, Anne uses her weight to push it further down into the white bin, describing the experience as “giving birth in reverse”. Eventually Anne is triumphant, and wins the task.