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Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, goose

Task types:

Solo

Filmed

Mental

Objective

Single brief

Original

Locations:

Taskmaster NZ/AU House

Task brief

The task brief is laid on top of a plinth in the garden. The brief for the task is as follows:

Win a game of duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, goose.

Interrogate these ducks, then correctly accuse the one that is secretly a goose.

There are two gangs of birds. One gang wears blue, the other wears red.

One gang always tells the truth, the other always lies.

You may ask each bird one yes or no question, and not the same question twice.

You have one official accusation.

The goose successfully accused after the fewest questions wins.

Your time starts now.

Task notes

Also on the plinth, there is a judge’s gavel, a ‘Duck Pocket Dictionary’, and a glass of water.
The dictionary is an otherwise empty notebook on the first page of which a Duck to English key has been provided, stating that one quack means ‘yes’, and two quacks means ‘no’.
Arranged in a circle around the plinth, there are 10 stands, on top of each of which there is a plastic duck decoy.
Each duck is designated with a unique number between 1 and 10, as indicated by the large red numbers next to it on its platform.
The odd-numbered ducks are wearing blue bow ties, and the even-numbered ducks are wearing red bow ties.
As the contestants ask specific-numbered ducks questions to help determine which one of them is actually a goose, responses are given in the form of either one or two quacks being played through a speaker.
It turns out that duck number 8 is the secret goose.
‘Duck, duck, goose’ is the name of a children’s game which bears no relation to this logic puzzle of a task.