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Get three balls on your hat using litter-pickers

Five rows of ping-pong balls on an incline stretching into the distance.

Task types:

Solo

Live

Physical

Objective

Single brief

Original

Mastertasks:

Get three balls on your hat using litter pickers

Locations:

Pinewood Studios

Task brief

The brief for the task is as follows:

Catch three balls on your head.

After you’ve caught a ball, you must shout ‘ball’.

You may not step off your circles, move your circles, adjust your arms, or touch the balls with your hands.

Fastest wins.

The cast of UK series 16 on the studio stage. They are wearing academic robes and hats and holding litter-pickers.

Task notes

All the contestants are lined up side-by-side on stage, standing on circular red ‘TM’ markers.
Everyone is dressed in graduation robes and mortarboard hats, and is holding two litter-pickers.
On the stage in front of them, there is an angled box with recesses which hold a large number of balls.
Immediately after reading the task brief, Sue asks Alex if they are allowed to cooperate. Alex is silent for a moment before reluctantly replying, “I guess we’ll find out”.
This task has similarities with a couple of previous live tasks, such as ‘Make the most exotic fruit hat’ and ‘ Get the most balls of the same colour in your bucket using litter pickers’, but has been categorised here as essentially original.