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Slap and tong

Task types:

Team

Live

Mental

Physical

Social

Objective

Multiple brief

Adapted

Mastertasks:

Slap and tong

Winner takes all?

Yes

Task briefs

The briefs for the task are as follows:

To Gabriela, Pipoca, and Fernando:

Grab the marshmallow with your tongs.

When the Taskmaster says ‘Play’, you have 10 seconds to grab the marshmallow.

Whenever your tongs are directly over the table, you must try to grab the marshmallow.

If you successfully grab the marshmallow, you win.

To Gilmário and Pedro:

Bat the marshmallow away when the Taskmaster says ‘Play’.

You have 10 seconds to bat the marshmallow away with your hand.

Your hands may not be over the table before the other player’s tongs are over the table.

If your hand is over the table before the other player’ s tongs, you are disqualified from the round.

If you bat the marshmallow away, you win.

Task notes

The contestants are lined up side-by-side along the back of the stage.
In front of them, there is a clear plastic plinth with a large plate full of marshmallows on top, and a round table upon which there is a pair of tongs.
As the only two contestants who can win the episode (Pipoca and Gilmário) are normally on the same team together, new teams are created before the task brief is read, in order to give them both a chance to win the episode.
Throughout the reading of the task brief, everyone mishears ‘pinça’ (‘tong’) as ‘piça’ (‘dick’).
Six rounds of the game are played, but one team is always wielding the tongs, while the other is always slapping.
The winning team in each round earns an in-game point, with the team with the most in-game points at the end of the task earning 5 episode points.