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The lowest unique number of jelly candies

Task types:

Solo

Live

Mental

Objective

Single brief

Adapted

Mastertasks:

The lowest unique number of items

Winner takes all?

Yes

Task brief

The brief for the task is as follows:

Candy on a cactus.

Between one and five sweets, choose how many you want on your cactus.

Whoever has the fewest sweets on their cactus wins.

If someone has the same number of sweets on a cactus as you, both will be disqualified.

Best attempt wins.

Task notes

The contestants are seated side-by-side in their usual chairs, each with a large planter pot in front of them.
Within each pot, there is a smaller ceramic pot into which half a cucumber has been mounted, with five toothpicks stuck into it, representing cactus spins. A single jelly candy has been impaled on each of the toothpicks.
Instead of just stating that the contestants must aim to keep the lowest unique number of candies on their cactus, the task brief states that anyone who has the same number of candies will be disqualified, which seems to imply that it’s possible to not win the task but still score points. However, like most other versions of this task, this is a winner-takes-all game.
It’s not known whether the game would have been replayed to find a winner, if everyone had been disqualified.