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Say how many chairs are in the cinema

A wide shot of the chairs found in Thorpe Park's Sunset Cinema.

Task types:

Solo

Filmed

Mental

Objective

Single brief

Original

Locations:

Thorpe Park

Task brief

The task brief is presented on an office chair on the stage in front of the screen in Thorpe Park’s Sunset Cinema. The brief for the task is as follows:

Say how many chairs are in this cinema.

You may only give one answer.

You must not say any numbers until you give your answer, and you must say the name of every object that appears on the screen.

If you miss an object, one minute will be added to your time.

For every chair you get wrong, one minute will be added to your time.

You have a maximum of 10 minutes.

Your time starts now.

A close-up shot of five miniature chairs on the edge of the stage.

Task notes

When the task begins, a videos is projected on the screen which shows Alex standing in various positions in front of the Taskmaster house, with various objects superimposed on the scene.
The sequence of objects presented on the screen is revealed by Alex to be as follows: Teapot, Horse, Rabbit, Egg cup, Elephant, Tortoise, House, Robin, Eagle, Éclair, Trophy, Hose, Robot, Extension lead, Egg timer.
The first letters of each of the items to be named thus spells out ‘THREE THREÉ THREE’, which is the answer to how many chairs are in the cinema (333).
However, based on footage of the contestants’ attempts, the sequence actually continued beyond just these three sets of objects, including: Hedgehog, Emu, Triangle (as in the musical instrument), Exercise Ball, Ear, and Envelope.
On the very edge of the stage, there are five additional miniature chairs, which the contestants might miss.
Given the office chair and five miniature chairs on the stage, this means that there must have been 327 regular cinema seats in the cinema.