Move forward when you hear your note

Task types:

Solo

Live

Mental

Objective

Single brief

Adapted

Mastertasks:

Move forward when you hear your note

Locations:

The Glass Hall

Task brief

The brief for the task is as follows:

Listen for your tone.

When your tone is played, you may move one space forward.

If you move on another participant’s tone, you must move two spaces backwards.

The highest score after 15 played tones wins.

Task notes

The contestants are lined up side-by-side on stage, each standing on a small circular red marker spot.
The checkerboard stage has had numbers adhered to the squares in front of and behind the contestants, with the marker spots representing ‘zero’ on the scale, which runs from ‘-5’ behind them, to ‘3’ in front of them.
Mark and Lasse are unusually positioned at stage-left, where Mark is standing behind a keyboard synthesiser on a stand, and a music stand on which he has some sheet music.
Before the game begins, Mark assigns each contestant a note from the keyboard to listen out for. At the start of the game, he cues up a drumbeat on the keyboard, to play along to.
During the game, Mark plays each contestant’s note three times in total, in a seemingly random order, so everyone has the opportunity to move forward to ‘3’ on their scale, if they identify their note correctly each time.
If the contestants make a mistake, Mark plays the crashing sound effect from the electric maze used in the ‘Complete the tasks with increasing rapidity’ task, earlier in the episode, which triggers a traumatised response from all of the contestants.