Travel Blindfolded as Far as Possible and then GET BACK | Full Task | Taskmaster
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.พ. 2022
- Travel as far as possible in three minutes whilst blindfolded. Then - with sight - return to your unknown starting position.
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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion. - ตลก
I love that you could tell the dog definitely had been eating the bread.
It had that mischievous look on its adorable face, for sure!
It looked at Mark like, “you got anymore?”
it looked like the dogification of a piece of bread
"I should have used the bread as a compass!" - Oxford graduate and incredibly smart lady Sally Phillips
Rivaled only by “I think I got to here and stopped” 😂
I think she just proved that Oxford ≠ smart.
You hadn't noticed that connections and money buy the degree? Ivy league graduates can buy their place in society, but they can't buy a better brain sadly.
@@Bubblemation it's a comedy show, she's trying to be funny lmfao. Watch older clips of her, it's only recently she's using the "master's degree but dumb" persona
@@wowisthatgami8293 And I think the biggest factor in this case, is that thinking too much doesnt always create good content. The best content is when you do not stop to think about certain decisions.
Brilliant outcomes of this task-
Bob smashing it
Aisling stumbling her way into 2nd place
Mark having the worst of luck
Nish looking into the camera looking so clueless
Sally's "Shit, I should've used this bread as a compass"
"I think I got to here and stopped."
You mean a microcosm of this series. This task is such a basic test of comprehension and awareness that it would probably have been the same for any TM lineup.
Aisling's method does make some sense. It's impossible to walk in a straight line blindfolded, or at least very hard. So using someone else to walk straight would sort of work
The dog eating mark's bread was the funniest thing i have seen on the show.
I actually can't see the dogs
@@sureindubitably3771 5:01
Hilarious that Bob was the only one who did the task "thinking inside the box" and it worked nearly flawlessly!
I think Mark tried box
that seem to be a theme with alot of these. Those who think inside the box end up having the most boring but also the most successful results.
@@BonghitTransplants he couldn't open it though
I love how Sally did the smartest thing of counting her steps, and even when she did a turn... but then completely forgot about it once she could see again.
there's actually a thing where blindfolded people will naturally go in spirals when trying to go straight
It goes for when you're seeing too if you're lost in a forest and don't use any survival tricks.
Mythbusters tested that and confirmed it I think. It even worked with driving if I remember correctly.
I think you can counteract that by carrying a heavy stone in your right hand
Probably the most compelling evidence for a Flat Earth.
@@kisbie No... It really isn't compelling evidence of anything not biological in nature
That shot of Nish at 7:56 kills me every time. Its too funny
Reminds me of that scene from Father Ted where father Jack runs around in the forest like a wild animal and the police want to shoot him with a tranquilizer gun.
8:32 is just as good 😂
He looks like that famous video of bigfoot!
He's far funnier when he doesn't open his mouth.
Dropping an item of clothing at the start would have made the whole thing trivial.
Only for a dog to run away with Mark's shirt...
or wearing the blindfold, and not having it cover your eyes. it never explicitly said you couldn't move the blindfold, only that it had to be worn
@@creatinegains That said, had someone done it. They would probably have been just as likely to disqualify, as be shouted at by the others, but win.
Only if they could still see the item of clothing.
@@insaincaldo there is about a zero percent chance of being disqualified for that.
It takes true brilliance to act as foolish and utterly hysterical as Bob!
Mans a genius
Good old Boots McFoolish.
I wish she explained what she meant by using the bread as a compass.
OK but poor Mark xD he had some of the worst luck (but was somehow almost winning the series)
If Bob Mortimer told me he went to school with Hansel and Gretel, I’d believe him
Taking off an article of clothing at the start location (at least the guys. A shoe would work too, but could be painful) would have been a good strategy. It'd be easy to spot.
The girls could have ordered Alex to take off his jacket as well. In character for Aisling!
@@FrederikMikutaSally would have done that too
I love how for some reason, this task makes everyone weirdly giddy
If I was handed the bread my first instinct would be to eat it before I start walking and then immediately realise I should of done breadcrumbs.
should have*
Fun fact, when walking blindfolded, if you *just* try to walk in a straight line, you'll end up going in a circle- as seen by Nish's attempt
"Wearing that blindfold at all times."
No one cottoned to the fact that it doesn't say _where_ you have to wear it.
First thing I thought, then again, I can’t imagine it’s that easy to think on your feet while processing the rest of the information.
But is it a blindfold if it's not blinding you?
@@none_o_ur_bidnis yes, just because something isn't being used for its purpose doesn't mean it suddenly becomes something else
Well then you'd have to take it off your face first, therefore not wearing it for the whole time.
@@zacharyyoungblood7013 you could push it down and wear it around your neck, stops you having to take it off
Bob is the only one to have properly read Hansel and Gretel. Aisling was just a bit too late in realizing it.
TBH around Frensham pond the ground is a layer of matted heather on sand, the amount of bread you would have to leave to actually create a trail you could see to retrace would get you about 5 metres. My first thought was they should have taken off a jacket and left it at the start but tbh, going 30-40m away you might not even see that unless you managed to stand it up quite well blindfolded.
“Yes, I see what you mean, well I don’t see anything at all” 😂
I don’t understand why those wearing spare layers didn’t just drop them at the starting point and then go as far away as they could.
tasks with minutes to think usually yield some good ideas, but people generally just GO for it when they're told "ok go" right there and then.
They Could have Dropped The Whole Bread at the Starting Point and Could Hve Gone In A Straight line and Then Could have Searched for that 🤣
they're trying to be entertaining not to game the system, the contestants who have been the most competitive have been some of the worst
@@-GMKirankumar Unless your name was Mark Watson
@@-GMKirankumar it depends how far they walking
And none of them thought about leaving a jacket or Alex´ pants on the starting point?
If Sally thought of it she definitely would have made Alex take his pants off
Thought about leaving clothing, but not Alex clothing. You evil genius, i applaude.
Why didn't any of them just leave Alex himself?
You could take off your jacket before you take a single step and drop it on the ground by your feet, then sprint as far as you can (with the hope that Alex will stop you running into trees or ditches) then once you have to make your own way back, just find your jacket, which is much easier to spot from far away than a slice of bread. The only way I can see that not working is if you happen to be doing it on a particularly windy day.
I'm sure whoever dreamt up this task had very different results in mind
This is my favorite taskmaster taske ever. So glad it's finally been posted.
When people are faced with a choice of either a left or right path, the will tend to pick the left as it is more comforting for the brain in a stressed situation. This was clearly evident here.
If I’m not mistaken, that’s probably because of those of us who learned to read left-to-right are more prone to have bias in gaining information starting from the left side.
Bob is a very special human being.
This was a great fun task. For us.
Ah the old bread compass 😂😂
Im sick and Nish wanderin in the distance made me fucking cough of laughter
At the moment of writing this, I haven't yet finished the clip, I've only come to the part with Sally bursting into a giggle, and I'm already laughing. Anticipation is high.
I've seen this already, but Sally was in the thumbnail. I see Sally, I click.
One of the best
honestly i would’ve dropped the bread and my jacket on the spot where i started and ran as straight as i could, then just run as straight as possible back and hope that it catches my eye
I would‘ve made Alex stand in the starting spot and yell or sing, that way while blindfolded I wouldve known what direction I came from and in the end I would’ve just followed Alex‘s calls
but he probably wouldn't since he had to measure the distance with the little device he was using on the ground. Maybe a cameraman could have stayed.
The task said that he’d be following by their side because he’s a strong independent handsome young man
Well deserved Bob.
Ah Frensham Pond in Surrey. Lovely place and I always think of the tasks they did here every time I visit!
9:15 Yes, that's what humans do when blindfolded. xD
I absolutely loved this task! It was sooo funny and Nish was brilliant as always 😂😂
My favorite show ever
Every season of TM has a field trip. This was the only one I can think of that literally went to the field.
Nish and Sally... 😂😂😂
The task doesn't say you have to go as far as possible away from the starting point. It just says you have to walk as far as possible. Walking in a circle was a good strategy. He should have just stayed put when he finished. Or ideally, just left the bread or his jacket on the ground.
This was my first thought too! Unfortunately though I think because it says "travel as far as possible" and not "walk as far as possible" it does mean furthest distance from the start.
distance is calculated by how many meters are between starting point to your ending point, it doesn't matter how many steps you take to get there. When did they ever say "take as many steps as possible"? Never. Overthinking things leads to really dumb conclusions sometimes.
@@vicc6790 Nothing about "travel as far as possible" explicitly means "in a straight line". Anyone who's watched this series for any length of time would know the text of a task is the only thing that matters. If distance was calculated in a specific way, then the text of the task would say so. It would be completely legitimate for a contestant to argue that traveling in a circle counts, and, in fact, plenty of tasks with similar wording have been successfully interpreted this way (such as the pea "throwing" task in season 2).
In fact it's blatantly obvious that this argument was anticipated. Why do you think Alex is holding a measuring wheel and following closely behind the contestants with it? How do you think those things work? It certainly isn't to measure a straight line distance between point A and B. The only reason why this very deliberately taken measurement was never brought up is because no contestant made that argument.
I feel like many of the tasks for this show have anticipated "clever" solutions, and sometimes, the contestants just don't think of them, and this is certainly one of those cases.
@@thorjelly it did said "far" tho. You can't get so "far" just by walking in circles. "Far" indeed is talking about the distance which is the length between point A to point B. Let's take Nish for example. He also walked in circles and Alex pointed out "Nish just ended up 50m from the starting point and walked 180m in the wrong direction." Meters is a unit of distance and distance is just the length between two points on straight line. The one with direction, if I remember it correctly, is vector.
@@sixjhontongalamar979 Again, he cited distance from the starting point because no contestant argued for distance traveled, which is a metric Alex was clearly tracking. I'd like anyone to explain why this metric was tracked if they never had any intention to humor it. Task Master has clearly used similar language on other tasks before and allowed contestants to use "distance traveled" logic, such as the pea throwing task which used the language "furthest". "Distance" can mean many things, it refers to the length along a path, and the path doesn't need to be a straight line at all. It is certainly up for interpretation, and historically in TM interpretation has been very generous for the contestants.
Just drop your jacket and run straight... you will most likely find the jacket back
I would have taken my jacket off just before I started walking, then walk as straight as possible. No problem in finding the jacket again then.
The more of these I watch, the more I realize that they just make the rules up as they go along, and even change them after it's done.
It would have helped to drop a piece of clothing at the starting spot. That would have been visible from a fair distance away, and then you could start laying the crumbs.
One of my favourite tasks ever…😂😂😂
bob is a treasure
That place is frensham ponds isn’t it!😅 Ahh that’s only like 40 minutes away from where I live I’m gutted would have been great to watch this in person!😅
And I'm just like... How can you *not* realise what the bread is for?
I think I would have just put the whole slice down where I was and just ran in circles around it
It's amazing u guys never list the episode number, and series number, for these clips.
Tbf if you kept the bread facing one direction at all times, it could've worked as a compass.
Like orientating a map north.
I question why no one thought to leave their jacket, or ask Alex to leave his jacket where they started.
I am dumbfounded by the guy who wound up next to a tree at the end when the starting spot was in the middle of the open area..
She counted steps, and noted the direction of turns, and yet...
Crying laughing at Nish
Well as someone with balance disorder I would not even start walking with a blindfold on and I'd defenitly use all I have at my disposal, before I actually do because I can't walk in a straight line normally let alone with a blindfold on. I could however mark the starting position and let somebody help me walk in a straight line.
"Hey Alex would you mind showing me where we started?"
It said they had to wear the blindfold, but not around their eyes
Hugh Dennis is probably the only one who would have picked up on that detail.
At least Morgana could cheat it then
or was it Rhod who likes to bend the rules? dang it, i mix them up...
@@theldraspneumonoultramicro405 If Rhod did it, Greg would’ve called it clever. If Hugh did it, Greg would’ve called it bullshit.
@@PonmonofNuggetor "Oh, one of um's my fwend!"
Leave the whole piece of bread, walk as fast as you can, then remove the blindfold and look for the piece of bread.
i wouldve just took my coat off and dropped it where i started, and walked in a straight line so that when i stoped i could do a 180 and walk straight till i find my coat
*reads the task*
"Show up first to a taskmaster video, and holler "FIRST!" Your time starts now."
SECOND
i should be working
Get up, stretch, and have some water. And then, get back to work ;)
Taskmaster is a killer of my productivity
I'm busy crushing on Sally.
NOT THE DOG EATING IT
Not one of these highly intelligent individuals thought to leave a piece of their clothing to mark the starting point. This show is awesome.
The task didn't indicate whether they would measure the distance or the displacement, and the device used by Alex here actually measures distance rather than displacement, meaning you could have - like Nish - just ran around in a small circle and travelled the largest distance.
If I had time to think, I would of dropped the bread slice where I stood and jogged in as straight as possible of a line and gone back looking for slice of bread
My first thought was bugger the bread, i'd take my jacket off and drop it; it would be easy as to find where I started.
i would of dropped my sweater and went as far as possible; hard to miss a sweater
I would have left behind some of my clothes to mark the starting point.
if the count was distance from target blindfolded, - distance from target after retracing your steps.. Sally might have won :D
Someone read Hänsel and Gretel while developing this task.
You could drop items of clothing, as well as the bread.
None of them thought to take off their jacket or shirt, lay it on the ground and then just run like mad. All you would have to do is find the jacket, assuming it hasn't moved.
Hansel and Gretel warned us about this....
The instructions say to wear the blindfold. The instructions don't say you have to wear the blindfold over your eyes.
I still don’t get why no one chose to throw down their jackets to mark their starting point to help find their way back. Also if Alex told me to stop, I would have rather waited the rest of the time rather than turning because I would be trying to go in a straight line.
Conceivably, you could just drop the bread at your feet and walk in the opposite direction and in that environment, when sighted, you should be able to see a large white piece of bread from a decent distance...
I have been watching taskmaster for a while but only just now did I realize that the map path drawn for Sally is completely wrong based on the VT
I’m confused by what their scale of marking on this task was. How far they walked away or how close they got to the starting point. It’s not clear in the actual task for which they should aim for. Based off the wording of the task I would assume it’s measured how far away you get but if you don’t make it back to the starting point you get disqualified which is obviously not what they actually did.
You had to go as far as possible from the starting point and then get as close to it at the end as possible. Which is why Nish's was particularly funny given that although he walked a long distance, it was just in a circle so he was only 15m away from the starting position, but from his perspective he was walking in a straight line so must have travelled a long way, making him wander off away from the start.
So just going as far away as possible wouldn't do it if you couldn't retrace your steps close enough to the beginning. You had to balance the two - go a long enough distance you think the others wouldn't beat it, but not so far that you can't figure out how to get back. That's what Sally ended up doing - she went furthest, but made it more complicated for herself in how she tracked the distance so her distance away from the start was only ok by luck (if you follow the path she took she went the wrong way after removing the blindfold).
@@AlexaFaie "travel as far as possible" not "get as far away as possible". Alex was measuring the distance that they walked, with a measuring wheel, so Nish actually travelled a fair distance and only failed because he walked away.
The first degree of point scoring was how far they were away from the starting point
The second degree is the distance travelled. As Bob was the only person who made it back to the start, this became irrelevant but, for example, if Sally had made it back to the start, she would have won the task as she travelled further than Bob did.
Should’ve just put the whole slice of bread at the start
The moment I heard "wearing that blindfold at all times" I immediately thought of just pulling the blindfold down over your mouth or something. Technically you would still be wearing it. I'm surprised no one thought of that. I'm also surprised some didn't even think to use the bread pieces as a trail back.
I don't know about them but I remember an old fairy tale about children who used bread crumbs as a way find their way back from inside the woods. Can't remember which tale it was though.
Hänsel and Gretel is the fairy tale :)
@@caro9390 Hansel and Gretel. There's no umlaut over the A.
Probably would have got you disqualified
Years ago on QI they showed how blindfolded people ended up going in circles.
i wouldve taken my shirt off and put it dont and make sure its secure to the ground thats a pretty easy find
anyone else notice Alex told Bob he only had 30seconds to get back to his start, but everyone else was told 3 minutes. What happened there?
But then he said 3 minutes to re-trace. I assume the 30 seconds was to get their bearings before the re-tracing step.
Given that I can move around in complete darkness just fine, I probably would be fairly good at this, but I would probably also get overconfident.
Surely they could take the blindfold away from their eyes but keep it on their face as that would still technically be wearing it
does anyone know where this task was filmed?
Take of all your clothes and create a big site. And run
distance traveled was the key point as far as i understood...
drop bread, walk in circles with Alex following with the measuring wheel, at time up, you should still be fairly close to where you started and have traveled quite a way
Why is the measuring wheel so small
None of them thought to drop a piece of clothing to mark the starting point.
Just walk towards the sun
Am I the only one who thinks about ways to game the system? I know some of the people on the show do that, but as a viewer my first thought was "Well if I rotate the blindfold 90 degrees I'm still wearing it on my head."
Blows my mind that upon stopping...turning around and walking the other direction wasn't the first go to? And why count your steps if you immediately give up the method when they are actually needed? Lol
Toss down a clothing article and dash
They should have dropped the bread and then just walked around in a square. 10 paces, turn left, 10 paces, turn left, 10 paces, turn left, etc…. Then when the time is up, you know you are within 10 paces of the bread somewhere inside a square to your left.
That wouldn't have been very far away from the start though. You'd have been 10 paces away only which isn't very far. If you did that method you wouldn't have beaten Bob Mortimer. The bread was the simple solution - because you can see when you need to return so dropping a trail of breadcrumbs you can follow works. Unless the dog shows up and eats the bread of course. But that was the idea - the old Hansel and Gretel story.
I watched this series but have no memory of this task…. Sounds like a re watch is necessary.