Joe was really impressive in this task. Paul was too, but you expect it with him. Paul was like watching a profession athlete, Joe was like watching your best mate somehow only 2 seconds behind.
Joe Thomas (despite being quite competent in many tasks) in EVERY task looked like he is having a crisis of faith and the thoughts are actively trying to escape his head 😄 It's a bit like that fact that John Kurnz was very good at 'sporty' tasks. The visuals and body language just don't tell the same story as real life 😁
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@@hyperhero2 The first part of a Windows 2000 key that also works with XP, lol. I can remember all 25 characters of that until the end of time, while forgetting what year it is and why I walked into rooms
I was thinking it all along but I still say Loo's way could work- put all the cards in the best order for you to remember them and then recite them when you get there and if he calls you out, confirm that the task says "the order that they are currently in" and currently means now so, at any time you read the task, it's the order that the cards are in at that time!
@@funlovingvoyeur Task: "In five minutes you must return this pack of cards to Alex in the lab and tell Alex the order that the cards are currently in...." Anyone well versed in English could very easily interpret that to mean that you need to recite the cards in the order that they are currently in when they are returned to Alex. So its a very good argument to say that you could reorder them before returning them and recite them in the order they are currently in once returned.
But then she blew it by leaving the room, because every mistake and issue she had was because she decided to do the task....without reading the task first.
@@brianofmoore You could make that argument if the word "currently" was omitted, absolutely. If you don't see the problem with the beginning of the sentence describing a time in the future and the end describing the present, and the way those both relate to the time the task is first read, you're not as clever as you'd like to think. To be clear, it's 100% okay to be wrong about things! Just, y'know, try to be less pompous about it. "At the present time" and "at that time" are different concepts. The comment you're replying to already pointed this out, but since it bears repeating: given that "now" and "currently" are synonymous, you're suggesting you could just reread the task and say it clearly states your time starts now at any point, so you should never run out of time. Do you think that's also a very good argument, or do you see how you can't just substitute either of those words for "presently" whenever you like?
@@snr0n Speaking of pompous, hilarious that you're comment is absolutely dripping with a better than thou attitude and yet nearly everything you said was absolutely wrong.
"...tell Alex the order the cards are currently in" ....once you get to the lab. Definitely think there is a valid case to be made that you could reorder them before memorizing them and giving them back to Alex.
Nope - currently means as they are reading the task sitting in the pile on the desk. Once you rearrange them, it's no longer the order they are currently in. BUT - it's all up to how the contestants argue that, now isn't it?
@@lunabelletheinsane Currently is instantaneous, once they are rearranged they are in the order they are currently in, and the previous order is irrelevant; the past
That's why I like Iain so much. He goes into every task with way too much confidence, then falls flat on his face. I still laugh thinking about the 'Score a goal' task.
@@canadianmoth I've seen a ton of people talking about Iain having a character arc across the series, and (obv they're all doing personas to a degree but) in my opinion he totally does
@@orangenostril I agree, I didn't like him at first cuz I felt he was too full on, but when he started to mellow out and laugh more I actually found him funnier and started to like him more. Especially with the Clumpy Swayey Clumsy Man bit he did
@@jlammetje I disagree because the full task states to return the cards to Alex - in the lab - and identify the order they are currently in. Which could be the order they are currently in when returned to the lab. The sentence makes sense both ways.
@@materialgrl2000 "In 5 minutes, you must return this pack of cards to Alex in the lab, and tell Alex the order the cards are currently in. You may not leave this room during the 5 minutes. Most correctly named cards wins. Your time starts now." Unfortunately, you can't read it the way you are trying to say. Because otherwise it would just say, and tell Alex the order the cards are in, the word CURRENTLY is what does her in. Currently means the order the cards are in when the task starts when they are sitting on the table as they are reading the task. Not the order they are in 5 minutes in the future when they enter the lab. Otherwise, they would have cleverly stated on the task, "and tell Alex the order that cards are in when you/they enter the lab." Currently means NOW, not later after something has changed.
Yes currently is 'at this moment' but the context of the sentence is talking about "in 5 min." I'm not surprised Lou went for a loophole when many of the tasks explicitly forbid you from taking certain actions. If I were Alex, I would said, "you may not rearrange the cards." With how goofy the cards were, I was surprised that Alex hadn't thought of the loophole already.
The order in full, according to Sarky Sister Alex... * All the Clubs in alphabetical order (Ace, Eight, Five, Four, Jack, King, Nine, Queen, Seven, Six, Ten, Three, Two) * King of Diamonds * King of Hearts * King of Spades * Yellow * All the remaining Hearts in order from Ace to Queen * Happy Birthday * 2 x 15 of Diamonds * 15 x 2 of Diamonds * Alex * Greg
This is a really niche observation but Joe looks just like a mix between Dax Shepard and Lewis Brindley (of the Yogscast) and I simply cannot unsee it.
I think I would have chanced on points for cheekiness. I'd just say "Sue, Peter, Alan, Greg...." and if he protested, say, "What, you told me to name the cards!"
One time I memorized an entire poem in 15 mins for school cause I waited till the last moment to do so and we were required to recite them by memory in front of the class. I managed to do it somehow. I've never tried repeating a feat like that again. However, I do have all the birthdays memorized of people that are important to me. But that's probably only like 20 birthdays or so lol
Joe really reminded me of my days in school, desperately trying to remember what I've studied for a test, except I would have fared only half as good as him 😂😭
You could just say how many cards are in the deck. The order also means the following: MATHEMATICS the degree of complexity of an equation, expression, etc., as denoted by an ordinal number. the number of differentiations required to reach the highest derivative in a differential equation. the number of elements in a finite group. the number of rows or columns in a square matrix.
I wonder.. it says to tell them the order of cards but it doesn't say you can't change the order? Wouldn't the meta be to just change them into an order that you will remember? Or has everyone done that and I missed it haha
The four cards were Jack, King, 9, Queen. So the dialogue is meant to be: “Jacking?” (slang for a sexual act) “Nein, Queen!” (Queen can be slang for a gay man)
Lou was really funny in her double debacle and her denegations afterwards, putting the blame on Alex (and making it feel absolutely right, because yeah, "all the informations is on the task", blablabla, you're a prick Alex!). Love how Paul was able to shine in that one.
First thought: literally arrange the cards in the usual poker card order. How hard can that be? Second thought, arrange them in ascending number and suit, then the special ones at the back.
That's why it specifies "Order the cards are currently in" at 7:57 , so no rearranging I'd also imagine the addition of the extra cards like "Yellow", "Happy Birthday" and the 15 of Diamonds are there to make any standard deck memorisation more difficult
In the Swedish version of taskmaster, a contestant uses her mobile phone and takes a photo. Maybe mobile phones are not allowed in the English version?
@@bootieos7701 also the 'choose your adventure' team task, in which Rose protested, but those instances hardly trivialised the task like phones would have done here (but then again using Alex's iPad would have the same result)
@@iliketrains3495 Asim Chaudhry also used his phone quite a lot in series 6, and I think Jamali Maddix taped his to the fence for the photocopier/dinosaur task in series 11. According to various episodes of the Taskmaster podcasts, the contestants are not normally prevented from bringing their phones with them on set ... more often, they either choose not to or just forget!
One of the strengths of this show is that they are really good at group casting and I find that each contestant brings something enjoyable to the table. Lou Sanders, however, is an exception. I'm not sure if she was just dialling up the petulance for entertainments sake, but I found it really irritating. She was not as detestable as Daisy May Cooper, who is my least favourite Taskmaster contestant by a country mile, but the fact that Lou Sanders won this series feels wrong.
The task required the cards to "be in the order they currently are" with the implication being the order when you read the instructions at the start of the task. Lou tried to rebaseline "currently" to after she had sorted the deck. She was disqualified because of leaving the room, so we don't know if Greg would have accepted the sorted deck.
Well chuffed, I saw this then. remembered I fell asleep watching this series. Then checked the episodes and found out id missed 3 episodes in the middle of the series. I'd also like to say no I wasn't bored, but it was 2am or something 😅
I would just reorder the cards. Not super quick, but I'm pretty sure I could do it quickly. I always order the Rook cards to check that they're all there.
i think it doesn't say that you cant rearrange the cards , so just order them by color and emblem and remember the weird ones , so club 1 to 15 , and just remember the weird ones
Eh. I'm really not a fan of the trend of people doing amateur diagnosis (usually autism or ADHD) based on how people behave on screen. You have no idea how she is in her actual day to day life, and regardless you can be quirky and erratic without having a neurodevelopmental disorder. Kind of makes a mockery of the genuine serious impact that ADHD has on people if you start applying it to any minor thing.
@@mahoganywolf8843 True, I have no idea on how she is in her everyday life, but I do recognize myself in those erratic mistakes which is why I'm wondering if she does have it. And it's not to make mockery of the difficulties, but rather a way of extrapolating how something can look "fun and cute" on TV but when taken into a broader perspective you can see it's not really fun and cute anymore. Rather it becomes a disability when you have difficulties reading and following instructions with a tendency to missing important details. There's also some truth to "it takes one to know one". Might be something else completely of course, but that's just the feeling I'm getting as someone with ADHD themself and who meet a lot of people with ADHD.
Great show, wonderful people (guests & hosts alike). Side note, Sian Gibson is so nice, cute, huggable, sexy and adorable (! ❤!) at the same time I'd marry her twice just to settle it for good 🙃
I would have just taken the deck into the lab, read them off while still holding the deck, then given it to Alex. I don't think the task specified that you have to give the cards to Alex before you list them.
@@MrVideoFreakDoesn’t it say “return the cards to Alex and tell him the order they’re in”? It doesn’t say “AND THEN tell him the order,” it just says that you have to do both things.
The rules don’t state you can re-organise the pack so simply put them in order as back to factory sealed. Then you just need to remember the order of spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs.
OK, but where do 'yellow', 'happy birthday' and 'Alex' fall into the ordering? Also, if you make even one error with that method you'll get every single subsequent card wrong, as they'll all be one step out of place.
Joe was really impressive in this task. Paul was too, but you expect it with him. Paul was like watching a profession athlete, Joe was like watching your best mate somehow only 2 seconds behind.
That paints a picture. 🤣
Being a TV actor would have helped him-they have to memorize lines, often in very little time.
@@FloraWest Alex did say that before playing the clip, but you still don't expect it out of him like you would Paul.
Totally. Joe's a low-key genius, and it's lovely seeing him getting a rare (almost) win 😊😊
@@danniantagonistrare win? Joe won an episode where he was one point short of a clean sweep
You know that when they don't show a contestant it's because they either aced the task or utterly failed
Or because they had to work with chickens
That's phenomenal. I'm glad Paul made one mistake so we know he's human.
Or was it a carefully calculated decision to purposely get one wrong so we'd think he's human? This is Paul we're talking about here.
@@Augwa😮😮😮😮😮🎉🎉🎉❤
Well, you only have to look at the other tasks to know for sure that Paul is human😂
This was filmed shortly before he was diagnosed with Parkinson's!
@@sairaghav93Paul is like very specifically designed AI that is impressive in the thing it was made for and useless with other things 😅❤
Sian’s ‘no’ in tiny was so cute 😂
And her little annoyed look at 4:59 when Alex explains how 'easy' it is to remember the cards 😂
Joe Thomas (despite being quite competent in many tasks) in EVERY task looked like he is having a crisis of faith and the thoughts are actively trying to escape his head 😄 It's a bit like that fact that John Kurnz was very good at 'sporty' tasks. The visuals and body language just don't tell the same story as real life 😁
Joe was also quite good at athletic tasks. In fact, there could be an entire series based on 'surprisingly athletic' contestants
He and Mark Watson both presented themselves as losers, but their scores were impressive
It's like a witch cursed him into a perpetual state of confusion
@@iliketrains3495Y’know who's at the top of that list should be Noel Fielding: Proper Lad 😂😂
@@flamingarbre1284 Ol' Tony Three Pies?
The odd tone that Paul says "Happy birthday", always slays me
One contestant on the Danish version had a brilliant solution to this- he “gave” the cards to the assistant by taping them to his jacket in order.
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@@MinekEzQMc’mon no one cares man.
@@MinekEzQM might want to avoid public places, where people discuss the show, yknow
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Cringe@@MinekEzQM
3:24 "Then there was a picture of a scumbag."
I love it.
The intense way Paul says Happy Birthday. lmao
Blows me away that this was the same year that Paul was diagnosed with Parkinson's. What a feat!
he had parkinson's?? that's insane
Ah, the origin of one of the classic entries from the Taskmaster Book of Quotes™: "Now is currently, currently is now yeah?"
Also, calling Alex ‘arrogant’ while wearing a costume that proclaims herself the series champion. 😅😅😅
Joe reciting those cards is the most attractive thing I've ever seen, and I'm not afraid to have that on record on the internet forever
Paul Sinha doesn't do it for you as well then... 😂
@@billyfox6368 heyy I never said that 😂
That was extraordinarily impressive memory work by everyone (who got at least 2 points)
I will always remember "Jack-King-Nine-Queen". The system works
Right up there with correct horse battery staple and RBDC9-VTRC8
@@alakani what's that second one?
@@hyperhero2 The first part of a Windows 2000 key that also works with XP, lol. I can remember all 25 characters of that until the end of time, while forgetting what year it is and why I walked into rooms
3:17 that quiet "no" was so adorable
The way Paul was just silent while memorizing. It was like watching a master at work
I'll bet that pencil is embossed "Debajo De La Mesa".
With a tiny boat on it, too
J'ai la réf !
My immediate thought when the task was read was "You have 5 minutes to put these cards in order".
I was thinking it all along but I still say Loo's way could work- put all the cards in the best order for you to remember them and then recite them when you get there and if he calls you out, confirm that the task says "the order that they are currently in" and currently means now so, at any time you read the task, it's the order that the cards are in at that time!
That should be the order in which they are when you first read the task. Or you could restart your task at anytime.
@@funlovingvoyeur Task: "In five minutes you must return this pack of cards to Alex in the lab and tell Alex the order that the cards are currently in...." Anyone well versed in English could very easily interpret that to mean that you need to recite the cards in the order that they are currently in when they are returned to Alex. So its a very good argument to say that you could reorder them before returning them and recite them in the order they are currently in once returned.
But then she blew it by leaving the room, because every mistake and issue she had was because she decided to do the task....without reading the task first.
@@brianofmoore You could make that argument if the word "currently" was omitted, absolutely. If you don't see the problem with the beginning of the sentence describing a time in the future and the end describing the present, and the way those both relate to the time the task is first read, you're not as clever as you'd like to think. To be clear, it's 100% okay to be wrong about things! Just, y'know, try to be less pompous about it.
"At the present time" and "at that time" are different concepts. The comment you're replying to already pointed this out, but since it bears repeating: given that "now" and "currently" are synonymous, you're suggesting you could just reread the task and say it clearly states your time starts now at any point, so you should never run out of time. Do you think that's also a very good argument, or do you see how you can't just substitute either of those words for "presently" whenever you like?
@@snr0n Speaking of pompous, hilarious that you're comment is absolutely dripping with a better than thou attitude and yet nearly everything you said was absolutely wrong.
Didn't expect Iain to get almost half correct! Did pretty okay despite the meltdown! 😂
Lou Sanders, destroying herself in the sand bucket task and then here absolutely baffles me 😂
"...tell Alex the order the cards are currently in" ....once you get to the lab. Definitely think there is a valid case to be made that you could reorder them before memorizing them and giving them back to Alex.
Nope - currently means as they are reading the task sitting in the pile on the desk. Once you rearrange them, it's no longer the order they are currently in. BUT - it's all up to how the contestants argue that, now isn't it?
@@lunabelletheinsane Currently is instantaneous, once they are rearranged they are in the order they are currently in, and the previous order is irrelevant; the past
The use of mnemonics was stellar
I know Iain gets shit for being too competitive, and fair play, but this melt down is hilarious
Iain was my least favorite contestant so far. I can not stand that little twerp of a man
@@canadianmoth it's a TV show bro calm down
That's why I like Iain so much. He goes into every task with way too much confidence, then falls flat on his face. I still laugh thinking about the 'Score a goal' task.
@@canadianmoth I've seen a ton of people talking about Iain having a character arc across the series, and (obv they're all doing personas to a degree but) in my opinion he totally does
@@orangenostril I agree, I didn't like him at first cuz I felt he was too full on, but when he started to mellow out and laugh more I actually found him funnier and started to like him more. Especially with the Clumpy Swayey Clumsy Man bit he did
I'm with Lou. The 'current' order of the deck when you go to see Alex is the order the deck is in when you go to see Alex.
Same! That was my thought.
That’s not how the task is worded though. “The order the cards are currently in” refers to “now”, not “when you return them”
@@jlammetje I disagree because the full task states to return the cards to Alex - in the lab - and identify the order they are currently in. Which could be the order they are currently in when returned to the lab. The sentence makes sense both ways.
@@materialgrl2000 "In 5 minutes, you must return this pack of cards to Alex in the lab, and tell Alex the order the cards are currently in. You may not leave this room during the 5 minutes. Most correctly named cards wins. Your time starts now."
Unfortunately, you can't read it the way you are trying to say. Because otherwise it would just say, and tell Alex the order the cards are in, the word CURRENTLY is what does her in. Currently means the order the cards are in when the task starts when they are sitting on the table as they are reading the task. Not the order they are in 5 minutes in the future when they enter the lab. Otherwise, they would have cleverly stated on the task, "and tell Alex the order that cards are in when you/they enter the lab." Currently means NOW, not later after something has changed.
Yes currently is 'at this moment' but the context of the sentence is talking about "in 5 min." I'm not surprised Lou went for a loophole when many of the tasks explicitly forbid you from taking certain actions. If I were Alex, I would said, "you may not rearrange the cards."
With how goofy the cards were, I was surprised that Alex hadn't thought of the loophole already.
Paul mentioning the cards
Paul : "Alex.."
Alex : "Yes?"
Paul : (...bruh that was the card)
I constantly find myself saying "Happy Birthday" like Paul in this task
The intense way Paul says Happy Birthday. lmao. I'll bet that pencil is embossed "Debajo De La Mesa"..
The order in full, according to Sarky Sister Alex...
* All the Clubs in alphabetical order (Ace, Eight, Five, Four, Jack, King, Nine, Queen, Seven, Six, Ten, Three, Two)
* King of Diamonds
* King of Hearts
* King of Spades
* Yellow
* All the remaining Hearts in order from Ace to Queen
* Happy Birthday
* 2 x 15 of Diamonds
* 15 x 2 of Diamonds
* Alex
* Greg
This is why I make sure to carry a pen with me everywhere.
Love this show
Can't wait for 16
haha I forgot how glorious Lou's failure was!
Read the back of the deck. The order is "Taskmaster" 49 times.
Honestly, I would have just gone with the reordering and argued about ambiguity later. Could have pulled out at least one point there.
so many classic lines from just this task! and mostly Iain directed at Al...
This is a really niche observation but Joe looks just like a mix between Dax Shepard and Lewis Brindley (of the Yogscast) and I simply cannot unsee it.
Memorise is very different to reading what you've written down or looking at a video... to even have a pen there seems like a cruel trap.
I think I would have chanced on points for cheekiness. I'd just say "Sue, Peter, Alan, Greg...." and if he protested, say, "What, you told me to name the cards!"
Good strategy! This feels like a thing Richard Osman would do (or Bob Mortimer, although his names would be Sue Spacklethwaite or Larry Eiderdown)
Surprised no one handed the cards to Alex, then asked for them back and just read through them.
Possibly cause you can never know for sure whether he will do it or just say "no".
my first thought was for someone to start sorting the deck new
Happy new year fellow humans.
Iain getting genuinely mad 👌🏻
One time I memorized an entire poem in 15 mins for school cause I waited till the last moment to do so and we were required to recite them by memory in front of the class.
I managed to do it somehow. I've never tried repeating a feat like that again.
However, I do have all the birthdays memorized of people that are important to me. But that's probably only like 20 birthdays or so lol
You wouldn’t think Lou would go on to win the series.
joe was so hot here. no further notes.
Joe really reminded me of my days in school, desperately trying to remember what I've studied for a test, except I would have fared only half as good as him 😂😭
You could just say how many cards are in the deck. The order also means the following:
MATHEMATICS
the degree of complexity of an equation, expression, etc., as denoted by an ordinal number.
the number of differentiations required to reach the highest derivative in a differential equation.
the number of elements in a finite group.
the number of rows or columns in a square matrix.
I would record my voice reading out the cards then play the recording.
“oh, come onnnn-ahhhh!” 😂
You could just give Alex the cards on by one, as you name them
Poor Paul 😔
Poor Lou. Clearly suffering from dementia in this video. haha!
There’s nothing in the task that sagas you can’t reshuffle them… so just put them in order
"The order the cards are currently in."
I wonder.. it says to tell them the order of cards but it doesn't say you can't change the order? Wouldn't the meta be to just change them into an order that you will remember? Or has everyone done that and I missed it haha
Ahh just finished. Yeah I'd have been the last girl hahaha
30 seconds in - who's going to reorganize the cards?
Can anybody explain the joke at 7:33? I'm German but I don't quite get it 🙈
The four cards were Jack, King, 9, Queen.
So the dialogue is meant to be:
“Jacking?” (slang for a sexual act)
“Nein, Queen!” (Queen can be slang for a gay man)
If I were Paul, I’d be cross at myself, too
I wonder how Victoria would have done
Lou was really funny in her double debacle and her denegations afterwards, putting the blame on Alex (and making it feel absolutely right, because yeah, "all the informations is on the task", blablabla, you're a prick Alex!).
Love how Paul was able to shine in that one.
Lou fully didn't read basically any of the task
The cheeky, cheaty workaround would have been to hand Alex one card at a time, while reading out what the card was.
First thought: literally arrange the cards in the usual poker card order. How hard can that be?
Second thought, arrange them in ascending number and suit, then the special ones at the back.
That's why it specifies "Order the cards are currently in" at 7:57 , so no rearranging
I'd also imagine the addition of the extra cards like "Yellow", "Happy Birthday" and the 15 of Diamonds are there to make any standard deck memorisation more difficult
Not sure which one is cuter, Joe or Ian.
I was thinking they should simply take their phone out and video as they page through.
the reveal of them not being real cards... just absolutely rotten
you really think people would learn to look debajo de la mesa by now (or would this be en el lado de la mesa?)
Sarah Millican understood the assignment
@@iliketrains3495 the one time someone went straight for that and it was just a 'Hello Sarah' lol
In the Swedish version of taskmaster, a contestant uses her mobile phone and takes a photo. Maybe mobile phones are not allowed in the English version?
Hm. I've definitely seen phones used in other tasks--maybe they have to ask for them and no one thought of it?
They take them off them for some tasks
Ed Gamble used his phone to take a picture of the grid pattern in the portrait task.
@@bootieos7701 also the 'choose your adventure' team task, in which Rose protested, but those instances hardly trivialised the task like phones would have done here (but then again using Alex's iPad would have the same result)
@@iliketrains3495 Asim Chaudhry also used his phone quite a lot in series 6, and I think Jamali Maddix taped his to the fence for the photocopier/dinosaur task in series 11.
According to various episodes of the Taskmaster podcasts, the contestants are not normally prevented from bringing their phones with them on set ... more often, they either choose not to or just forget!
They could have used urine to make invisible ink... but I'm not sure how they would have made it uninvisible.
Also, potentially not broadcastable.
Nice!
5:40
Lou gets 6 points for being the most entertaining to watch :)
I wouldn't have gotten a single one correct
glad Paul got the chance to prove he isnt a complete idiot.
One of the strengths of this show is that they are really good at group casting and I find that each contestant brings something enjoyable to the table.
Lou Sanders, however, is an exception. I'm not sure if she was just dialling up the petulance for entertainments sake, but I found it really irritating. She was not as detestable as Daisy May Cooper, who is my least favourite Taskmaster contestant by a country mile, but the fact that Lou Sanders won this series feels wrong.
why didn't they rearrange it?
edit: commented too soon
Could they re-order the cards?
The task required the cards to "be in the order they currently are" with the implication being the order when you read the instructions at the start of the task. Lou tried to rebaseline "currently" to after she had sorted the deck. She was disqualified because of leaving the room, so we don't know if Greg would have accepted the sorted deck.
I watched the full series but I don't remember this one was it not in the series???? If it was please tell me the episode 😮
Well chuffed, I saw this then. remembered I fell asleep watching this series. Then checked the episodes and found out id missed 3 episodes in the middle of the series. I'd also like to say no I wasn't bored, but it was 2am or something 😅
Did no one have a smartphone? (When was this filmed?)
I suspect they took phones and pens away before the task started.
Joe "uuhhhh" Thomas
Hello!
I would just reorder the cards. Not super quick, but I'm pretty sure I could do it quickly. I always order the Rook cards to check that they're all there.
I’m just i
What is this from? This isn't a recognizable season.
Was there anything in the rules saying they couldn't organise the cards how they wish
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i think it doesn't say that you cant rearrange the cards , so just order them by color and emblem and remember the weird ones , so club 1 to 15 , and just remember the weird ones
Saw nothing about not being able to rearrange them, would have made it easier!
Can't you just reorder them into standard unshuffled order and simply recite them from there?
From the tasks I've seen with Lou I got to ask: I can't be alone thinking she must have ADHD, am I?
/Someone with ADHD
Eh. I'm really not a fan of the trend of people doing amateur diagnosis (usually autism or ADHD) based on how people behave on screen. You have no idea how she is in her actual day to day life, and regardless you can be quirky and erratic without having a neurodevelopmental disorder. Kind of makes a mockery of the genuine serious impact that ADHD has on people if you start applying it to any minor thing.
@@mahoganywolf8843
True, I have no idea on how she is in her everyday life, but I do recognize myself in those erratic mistakes which is why I'm wondering if she does have it. And it's not to make mockery of the difficulties, but rather a way of extrapolating how something can look "fun and cute" on TV but when taken into a broader perspective you can see it's not really fun and cute anymore. Rather it becomes a disability when you have difficulties reading and following instructions with a tendency to missing important details.
There's also some truth to "it takes one to know one". Might be something else completely of course, but that's just the feeling I'm getting as someone with ADHD themself and who meet a lot of people with ADHD.
Great show, wonderful people (guests & hosts alike).
Side note, Sian Gibson is so nice, cute, huggable, sexy and adorable (! ❤!) at the same time I'd marry her twice just to settle it for good 🙃
Joe is obviously very intelligent, but he’s an absolute bore of a human. He’s unwatchable.
I would have just taken the deck into the lab, read them off while still holding the deck, then given it to Alex. I don't think the task specified that you have to give the cards to Alex before you list them.
It did say that on the first line.
@@MrVideoFreakDoesn’t it say “return the cards to Alex and tell him the order they’re in”? It doesn’t say “AND THEN tell him the order,” it just says that you have to do both things.
@@oxwof"In 5 minutes you must return this pack of cards to Alex in the lab"
@@MrVideoFreak Yep. Walk into lab with the cards. Read the cards out in order. Return them to Alex in the lab. Task done.
@@oxwof it says "pack of cards", if it said "return the cards" then maybe that could work.
Iain was obnoxious in this series.
Am i the only one who just thought to put them in the order of a new deck? Then you just count up from 2 to ace and go through the houses.
thats fine but it has to be done before reading the task
The rules don’t state you can re-organise the pack so simply put them in order as back to factory sealed. Then you just need to remember the order of spades, hearts, diamonds and clubs.
Would anyone else try to rearrange the order of the cards into something easier to memorise if they couldn't find the pen?
They could have just rearranged the cards to make it easier for themselves. It didn’t say anything abt rearranging them numerically by suit.
Can’t you just rearrange the cards in order
surprised that no one in the comments has said to just put the cards in order by suit and then go ace-king through each
OK, but where do 'yellow', 'happy birthday' and 'Alex' fall into the ordering?
Also, if you make even one error with that method you'll get every single subsequent card wrong, as they'll all be one step out of place.
Many people have said that.
The task said remember the cards, not remember the order of the cards.
"...and tell Alex the order the cards are currently in." Did you not watch the clip? It's right there in the task, which Iain reads out at 23 seconds.
"...and tell Alex the order that the cards are currently in."
Lou? Is that you?
i would have just memorized all of them, no problem