Put these objects in the right order

On the metal table in the Taskmaster house lab is a brown men’s shoe with no laces filled with pita bread. Next to it is a red and white plate covered in soil.

Task types:

Solo

Filmed

Mental

Objective

Single brief

Adapted

Mastertasks:

Put these things in order

Mastertask notes:

In this version of the task, the objects are to be arranged in the order of the planets of the solar system, since each of them represents one of the planets, either directly by name (e.g. a Mars bar representing Mars), symbolically (e.g. a fork, representing a trident, representing Neptune) or through strained wordplay (e.g. a shoe full of pita bread representing Jupiter).

Task brief

The task brief is laid on top of a manila folder on the table in the lab. The brief for the task is as follows:

Space these objects out in the right order.

Fastest and most accurate object order wins.

You have 10 minutes.

Your time starts now.

On the metal table in the Taskmaster house lab from left to right, a brown men’s shoe with no laces filled with pita bread, a red and white plate covered in soil, a Venus Fly Trap in a black pot, a manila folder with a sealed task brief on top. On the folder is written (upside down from our view) ‘PROPERTY OF PAUL’, a folded piece of blue fabric, a household white plastic thermometer, a three pronged fork on a stand, and a chocolate bar.

Task notes

Also on the table, there are (from left to right): a shoe containing pita bread (‘Shoe Pita’, representing Jupiter); a plate of soil/earth (representing Earth); a potted Venus fly trap (representing Venus); a manila folder containing images of celebrities named ‘Anna’ (e.g. Anna Nicole Smith, Anna Paquin, and Anna Kournikova) , labelled ‘Property of Paul’ (‘Your Annas’, representing Uranus); some folded light blue satin fabric (representing Saturn); a thermometer (representing Mercury, since thermometers used to contain mercury); a three-pronged table fork on a stand (representing the trident of the god Neptune); and an unpackaged Mars bar (representing Mars).
Next to the table, in a red wire mesh waste paper basket, there is a mannequin’s foot with blue tape on its toe (‘Blue Toe’, representing the dwarf planet Pluto).
The correct order for the objects on the table is the order of the planets in our solar system, outwards from the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and then Neptune.
The choice to use the word 'space' rather than 'arrange' in the task brief is presumably meant as an additional clue.