Find out what’s in the yellow box

Task notes

• The locked yellow box is positioned in the middle of a long wooden board laid across the tops of two plinths. There are also four other boxes in different colours (red, orange, green and blue) on the board, arranged in rainbow order. Each of the boxes has a numeric keypad built into the lid which the contestants may use to unlock it.
• There is also a pair of binoculars next to the yellow box, and a laminated sheet of paper which provides a double-sided reference guide to how numbers are communicated in Morse code, and how letters are communicated in semaphore.
• Visible in the park from the contestants’ vantage point in front of The Turkish Tent are the crew members wearing animal costumes, as previously seen during the ‘Draw the monster‘ task: the crow, the alligator, the monster, and the bear.
• The crow and the alligator take turns standing in the middle of The Five Arch Bridge, signalling numbers to the contestants in code before leaving the bridge to hide behind a tree.
• The crow signals the number ‘2323’ by flapping its wings up and down in a specific sequence, pausing between each number. This code opens the orange box, which has ‘CROW’ written on the bottom, and ‘4’ written on the underside of the lid (‘crow’ is a four-letter word). The orange box contains a compass, the relevance of which is not revealed.
• The alligator signals the number ‘8585’ in Morse code by holding up paddles with a dot and a dash on in the correct sequence. This code opens the green box, which has ‘ALLIGATOR’ written on the bottom, and ‘9’ written on the underside of the lid (‘alligator’ is a nine-letter word). The green box contains a large photograph of the monster’s back, which has been printed across multiple standard-sized photographic prints as a sort of jigsaw puzzle. Safety-pinned to the monster’s back is a sheet of paper featuring the text ‘?????’.
• The monster is stood on the far bank of The Serpentine Lake, signalling the word ‘UNDER’ in semaphore to prompt the contestants to look underneath the boxes. It then turns around to display its back to the contestants, to which is safety-pinned a piece of paper featuring the clue ‘_479_’.
• The bear is seated on a collapsible chair on the footpath on the near bank of The Serpentine Lake, reading the Christmas edition of a magazine titled ‘SUGAR GUYS’, which features pictures of Greg and Alex on the front and back covers. The date on the magazine is ‘25 12’, the numbers in which open the blue box. The blue box has ‘BEAR’ written on the bottom, and ‘4’ written on the underside of the lid (‘bear’ is a four-letter word). Inside the blue box, there is a sheet of paper featuring a partially-completed game of hangman, in which the target word is clearly ‘MONSTER’ (only the ‘S’ is missing). Also, on a double-page spread inside the magazine, above a picture of the Taskmaster house, is the text ‘Recreate this [not visible] 44794 we[not visible]’.
• The contestants may glean the number ‘1142’ from the task brief, by looking at the words which have extra space around them (‘one’, ‘one’, ‘force’, ‘to’). This code opens the red box, which has ‘TASK’ written on the bottom, and ‘4’ written on the underside of the lid (‘task’ is a four-letter word).
• The yellow box has ‘MONSTER’ written on the bottom, which is a seven-letter word, making the missing digit the contestants are looking for a ‘7’. The code for the yellow box is therefore ‘44794’. Inside the yellow box, there is a battery-powered wriggling cloth fish.
• The code for the yellow box is also provided on a brass memorial plaque attached to the bench inside The Turkish Tent, in the form of text reading:

  Loving Memory
  M. Onster
  44 / 7 / 94