Herd the ping pong balls into a pen
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Physical
Objective
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Task brief
The brief for the task is as follows:
Herd the most ping pong balls into the ping pong pen.
You may only touch the ping pong balls with the basketball, the string or one little finger.
You may not move the ping pong pens.
You have 10 minutes.
Your time starts now.
Task notes
- One ball has a message written on it, reading: “Herd me and halve your total”.
Task stats
Points
16
Disquals
0
Attempts
Here's a brief description of the contestants' attempts. Someone's probably working on writing up some additional detail, though!
- Iain ran back and forth between the two pens, balancing the ping-pong balls on the balls of string. He herded 27 balls.
- Joe started to herd the balls individually by balancing them on the balls of string, before cutting open the basketball and using that to carry multiple balls. Although he herded 51 balls altogether, he also herded the Taskmaster's special ball, which reduced his total to 25.5 balls.
- Lou started to herd the balls by balancing them on the balls of string, before cutting open the basketball and using that to carry multiple balls. Although she herded 51 balls altogether, she also herded the Taskmaster's special ball, which reduced her total to 25.5 balls.
- Paul managed to herd one single table tennis ball by rolling it along the platform with the basketball.
- Sian balanced table tennis balls on the balls of string and herded 8 balls.
(Source credit: Taskmaster Wiki contributors)
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