Play your people right

Task notes

• The contestants are seated side-by-side along the front of the lower part of the stage, with their backs to the audience.
• Each contestant is equipped with two paddles – one if which has the word ‘higher’ printed on it, while the other has the word ‘lower’ printed on it.
• At each of the contestants’ feet, there are two portraits of them attached to a short red piece of wood with hinges, so that they can easily flip them over onto the stage each time they guess incorrectly.
• Greg and Alex are stood on the upper part of the stage behind a long wooden bar, on which portraits of the cast have been set up so that they can be raised in turn to become visible to the contestants and audience.
• The first portrait is of Alex, and the category is ‘shoe size’.
• The next portrait is of Rosie (who has a smaller shoe size), and the category is ‘Wikipedia entry word count’.
• The third portrait is of Mathew Baynton (who has a longer Wikipedia article), and the category is ‘trainers owned’.
• The fourth portrait is of Greg (who owns 11 more pairs of trainers than Mathew), and the category is ‘number of dogs owned’.
• The fifth portrait is of Fatiha (who has never owned a dog), and the category is ‘number of nieces’.
• The sixth portrait is of Alex (who has 10 less nieces than Fatiha), and the category is ‘lucky number’.
• The seventh portrait is of Jason (who has a MUCH lower lucky number than Alex), and the category is ‘number of countries visited this year’.
• The eighth portrait is of Greg (who has visited less countries than Jason), and the category is ‘greatest distance run in their life’.
• The ninth portrait is of Stevie (who has run much further than Greg ever has), and the category is ‘number of failed driving tests’.
• The tenth and final portrait is of Mathew (who has failed more driving tests than Stevie, because she’s never even taken one).