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Describe words to your team-mates

Task types:

Solo

Live

Mental

Social

Objective

Single brief

Original

Locations:

NEP Studios

Task brief

The brief for the task is as follows:

Select a book from the top two shelves of the bookshelf, then describe the word within it to your team-mates.

Your team-mates will get a clue from the bookmark of your book.

If your team-mates correctly guess the word, you will get 1 point.

However, if the opposing team also guess the word, you will instead lose 1 point.

Most points wins.

Task notes

The contestants are seated on benches at opposite sides of the stage in their teams.
In the centre of the stage, there is a podium in front of a bookcase.
The bottom three shelves in the bookcase appear to be full of real books, while the top two shelves hold 12 prop books for the task, each of which contains the word to be communicated, and a bookmark with a clue for the team-mate(s) of whoever is standing at the podium.
The contestants who are seated on the benches must write their guesses as to what word is being communicated on a chalkboard.
Only six of the twelve rounds of the game played are included in the final edit of the episode, and based on which books are visible on the bookcase throughout, some of them appear to have been shown out of order.