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Snatch, steal, or shield

Task types:

Solo

Live

Mental

Social

Objective

Single brief

Adapted

Mastertasks:

Pinch, protect, or plunder

Locations:

The Circus Revue Tent

Task brief

The brief for the task is as follows:

Win the most potatoes in a game of snatch-steal-shield.

In each round, you can either choose to snatch, steal, or shield.

If you choose ‘snatch’, you may snatch one potato from another contestant.

If you choose ‘steal’, you may steal all of the potatoes from another contestant.

If you choose shield, the other contestants cannot steal from you, but they can still snatch from you.

Each potato is worth 1 point.

Task notes

The contestants are lined up side-by-side on stage, each standing behind a plinth upon which there are three potatoes.
Leaning against each plinth, there is a Stormester-branded whiteboard.
The points won in this task are actual episode points, meaning that the contestants could potentially earn up to 15 points from this task alone.
The name of the game in Danish is ‘Snup stjæl skjold’, which is in keeping with the alliterative nature of the original version of this task.