Recap / Taskmaster Series Thirteen

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Cast

From left: Sophie Duker, Chris Ramsey, Greg Davies (seated), Judi Love, Alex Horne (seated), Ardal O'Hanlon, Bridget Christie

• Taskmaster: Greg Davies
• Taskmaster's Assistant: Alex Horne
• Contestants: Ardal O'Hanlon, Bridget Christie, Chris Ramsey, Judi Love, and Sophie Duker
• Teams:
  • Ardal O'Hanlon and Chris Ramsey ("The Boys")
  • Bridget Christie, Judi Love and Sophie Duker ("The Girls")

NOTE: This was the first full series since Series 9 (and hence the first on Channel 4) to be filmed with a live studio audience and without the contestants socially distanced from each other (although the 2022 New Year Treat was the first such episode).

This page contains unmarked spoilers for the series in question. If you haven't seen the series yet, you are recommended to leave the page now. You have been warned.

Episodes

Episode 1 - "The Noise That Blue Makes"

• Prize Task: The Thing That, If You Found It In A Skip, You Would Be Most Excited By
  • Winner: Bridget - a 300-year old last will and testament^note the testator was not identified, but they had apparently bequeathed everything to someone called "Mary" (5 points)
  • Chris - a '90s style "important businessman" briefcase, with mysterious contents^note He promised to reveal the contents at the end of the episode, but didn't. (4 points)
  • Sophie - a "multi-purpose seating device" (i.e. an old leather sofa) (3 points)
  • Judi - a "NOW That's What I Call Music!" compilation cassette from the 90s^note specifically "NOW 24", released in April 1993 (2 points)
  • Ardal - a trophy (1 point)

• Task 1: Find All Ten Ducks. You Must Stay In The Lab. Fastest Wins. You Have A Maximum Of Twenty Minutes. Your Time Started When You Entered The Lab^note as none of the contestants found every single duck, they were ultimately scored on number of ducks found
  • Winner: Chris - 7 ducks^note one of which was found before he located the task. He was also the only one to locate the duck which had been hidden on the boots the contestants had been asked to wear (5 points)
  • Judi - 6 ducks^note including a "stray duck" that had been put on the wall in invisible ink for another task; in the Assistant's words, she "found six ducks but didn't find five." Ed Gamble revealed on the podcast that, contrary to Alex's assertion the duck had been put there years ago, it had actually been put there for a version of this task that was filmed for Champion of Champions II but later scrapped and revamped for this series. (4 points)
  • Bridget and Sophie - 4 ducks (3 points)
  • Ardal - 2 ducks (1 point)

• Task 2: Create The Best Picture Of The Taskmaster Using Only Lipstick On Your Lips. You Have Ten Minutes And Your Picture Must Fill Most Of The Canvas
  • Winner: Chris (5 points)
  • Bridget (4 points)
  • Ardal and Sophie (3 points)
  • Judi (1 point)

• Task 3: Devise A Duel And Have The Duel With The Taskmaster's Assistant. You Have Twenty Minutes To Devise Your Duel And Have The Duel. Most Exhilarating Duel Wins
  • Winner: Sophie^note a free-form rap duel. After an initial confrontation with a sword (Sophie) and a duster (the Taskmaster's Assistant), the two sparred with improvised raps before agreeing to suspend the duel and go on a bender (5 points)
  • Chris^note a ball duel. While on all fours, the contestants have to get as many balls into the basket on the other contestant's back as possible. (4 points)
  • Bridget^note a luchador joust. While wearing luchador masks, the contestants jousted with padded boxing gloves on the end of broom handles. While Bridget was able to ride a bike, however, the Taskmaster's Assistant was given a pair of wheeled pedals (3 points)
  • Ardal^note a fruit duel. Armed with either oranges or bananas, the contestants were given an eyepatch and moved five paces away from each other. They then proceeded to throw fruit at each other. (2 points)
  • Judi^note a throwing duel. The Taskmaster's Assistant had to hit Judi in the knee five times with one ball (and nowhere else on her body) while wearing roller skates that were several sizes too small. Judi had no such limitations, was using tennis balls, and was seated behind a shield that carefully concealed almost her entire body, while drinking a cocktail (1 point)

• Live Task: Count To Thirteen As A Group, Each Player Taking It In Turns To Say A Number. Every Time You Say An Odd Number, You Must Also Squat. Every Time You Say An Even Number, You Must Also Jump. If You Make A Mistake, You Are Out. If You Reach Thirteen Or Someone Is Eliminated, Other Rules Will Be Introduced^note Rule Addition 1: You must salute on multiples of 3 and must pronounce multiples of 4 completely wrong. Rule Addition 2: All the numbers must be French. Rule Addition 3: You must spin around when saying any number with the letter 'T'. Rule Addition 4: Pretend to be sick after saying any number with a single letter 'E'.. If The Taskmaster Thinks You Have Hesitated For Too Long You Will Be Eliminated
  • Winner: Chris (5 points)
  • Sophie (4 points)
  • Ardal (3 points)
  • Judi (2 points)
  • Bridget (1 point)

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Chris Ramsey (23 points)^note Just two points off of the 25 available points, Chris ties with Bridget in "I Think I've Got This" and Sophie in "Heg" as the third-closest ever to a perfect episode score, after Joe Thomas's 24 out of 25 in "This is Trevor" and Dara Ó Briain's 30 out of 30 in "Enormous Hugeness")
  2. Sophie Duker (18 points)
  3. Bridget Christie (16 points)
  4. Ardal O'Hanlon and Judi Love (10 points)

Episode 2 - "Birdy Hand Finger"

• Prize Task: The Object You Would Most Like to Show to an Alien
  • Winner: Ardal - a mirror^note arguing that showing aliens the mirror would scare them with the sight of their own tentacles; Greg cited this as an example of successful bullshitting, while mocking Ardal's pronunciation of mirror as "murr" (5 points)
  • Everyone else (2 points)
    • Bridget - a DVD of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    • Chris - a robot lawn mower
    • Judi - a Rubik's cube^note or "rubi-cubi" as she called it, arguing that she would challenge the aliens to complete the cube to prove their intelligence, and if challenged to do the same, inform them that she was Queen Zafufu and participating was beneath her
    • Sophie - a drawing of herself and her flatmates in the style of a painting of the Dutch militia^note arguing that this would provide a tactical advantage by "confusing [the aliens'] understanding of the timeline"

• Task 1: Either Tie a Ribbon Round the Maypole or Strike the Maypole With a Ping-Pong Ball. You Must Be Properly Blindfolded At All Times And May Never Step Beyond the Rope. Fastest Wins. Your Time Starts when Alex Gives You a Thumbs Up^note which he only did once the contestant was blindfolded and spun around ten times, and he did not tell them he had done so until they asked.
  • Winner: Sophie - 31.08 seconds (5 points)
  • Chris - 38.18 seconds (4 points)
  • Ardal - 2 minutes 10 seconds (3 points)
  • Judi - 4 minutes 15 seconds (2 points)
  • Bridget - 11 minutes 30 seconds (1 point)

• Task 2: Part 1: Reveal the Coolest Photo in your Phone. You Have 5 Minutes. Part 2: Recreate the Coolest Photo in your Phone. Most Accurate Recreation Wins. You Have 15 Minutes
  • Winner: Bridget - herself performing gymnastics on a rope (5 points)
  • Chris - his baby holding a bottle of beer (4 points)
  • Judi - herself on stage at Wembley Arena (3 points)
  • Sophie - a "wet-teated dog" she had seen in Ghana (2 points)
  • Ardal - sheep playing football (1 point)

• Task 3: Team Task—Score a Goal With Each of the Exercise Balls. You May Only Move the Exercise Balls on the Pitch when Driving the Buggy. Each Person Must Score a Goal Using Their Own Personal Wheels to Drive the Buggy, and No One May Score Two Goals in a Row. Fastest Hat-Trick Wins. Your Time Started when you Broke the Seal
  • Winners: Ardal and Chris - 8 minutes 38 seconds (5 points)
  • Bridget, Judi, and Sophie - 15 minutes 2 seconds (3 points)

• Live Task: Identify the Object Under your Table and Draw It on the Canvas on the Underside of your Table. You Must Also Write Down Three Words to Describe your Object. Most Accurate Drawing Wins. You Must Also Stare Menacingly at the Taskmaster at All Times. You Have 100 Seconds.
  • Winner: Bridget - a rubber glove full of water that had been frozen and then had two fingers broken off. Words: Birdy Hand Finger (5 points)
  • Judi - a model lobster. Words: Sea Crab Lobster (4 points)
  • Chris - a fish-shaped vase covered in jam. Words: Gunky Slime Vase (3 points)
  • Ardal and Sophie (1 point)
    • Ardal - a wet camel soft toy^note identical to the ones used in series 4's "Spatchcock It", Words: Wet Horse Green
    • Sophie - an upside-down toy pineapple. Words: Difficult To See

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Chris Ramsey (18 points)
  2. Bridget Christie (16 points)
  3. Ardal O'Hanlon (15 points)
  4. Judi Love (14 points)
  5. Sophie Duker (13 points)

Episode 3 - "I Think I've Got This"

• Prize Task: The Item That Sounds Funniest When You Say Its Name Over And Over Again
  • Winner: Judi - a jar of pickles (5 points)
  • Bridget - a stopcock (4 points)
  • Ardal and Chris (3 points)
    • Ardal - bubbles
    • Chris - a cookbook^note a "regional response," as the humour comes—as Chris intended—from his strong Geordie accent: "coukbouk"
  • Sophie - pheasant pluckers (along with a stuffed pheasant) (2 points)^note the Taskmaster was initially only going to give her one point, only to belatedly release the humour in the offering when he accidentally mispronounced it as "pleasant fuckers"

• Task 1: Accurately And Emotionally Recreate A Moment From History Using These Two Traffic Cones. Most Accurate And Emotional Recreation Wins. You Have Twenty Minutes
  • Winner: Bridget - the flight of Laika the dog, the first living creature to orbit the Earth (5 points)
  • Ardal - the Battle of Stalingrad^note the actual event was unnamed in the episode; the reference was edited out due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which occurred before the episode aired but after the task was filmed (4 points)
  • Sophie - the extinction of the dinosaurs (3 points)
  • Chris - the cloning of Dolly the sheep (2 points)
  • Judi - the building of the Pyramids (1 point)

• Task 2: Make All Of These Things Happen At The Same Time: The Monsters Must Be Squatting, The Robot Must Be Walking, The Marble Must Be Rolling, The Cradle Must Be Clicking, The Sand Must Be Falling, The Fidget Spinner Must Be Spinning, The Candles Must Be Out. You Must Applaud When You Think You Are Finished. Fastest Wins.
  • Winner: Chris - 2 min 57 seconds^note Chris is the only contestant who unambiguously completed the task (5 points)
  • Bridget - time unspecified^note it was unclear whether one of her monsters was squatting at the same time as everything else; playing the task back frame-by-frame showed it as an ambiguous blur as it was beginning to pop back up. The Taskmaster decided to allow her attempt. (4 points)
  • Ardal, Judi and Sophie^note Each contestant was scuttled by a pop-up toy failing to remain squatting. Had Judi succeeded, she would have won the task with a score of 2 minutes 32 seconds (Disqualified)

• Task 3: Enable The Taskmaster's Assistant To Bite His Duck. You May Not Encroach Upon The Decking. Fastest Wins. The Person Who Gets The Taskmaster's Assistant The Least Wet Gets A Bonus Point.^note All three ladies realise that the task didn't specify that water had to be used and ended up using the same net to complete the task. The men on the other hand delighted in drenching Alex. Furthermore, Chris was the only one to discover that the bucket had been sabotaged to leak water into Alex's wellingtons.
  • Winner: Bridget - 1 min 1 second (5 points +1 bonus point)
  • Sophie - 2 min 13 seconds (4 points +1 bonus point)
  • Judi - 3 min 15 seconds (3 points +1 bonus point)
  • Ardal - 14 min 37 seconds (2 points)
  • Chris - 15 min 38 seconds (1 point)

• Live Task: Team Task - As A Team, Put One Of Your Faces And One Of Your Legs Through The Holes In The Booth Curtain. The Taskmaster Will Guess Whether The Leg Belongs To The Face Or The Other Contestant. Most Wrong Guesses After Three Rounds Wins
  • Winner: Bridget, Judi and Sophie (6 points)
  • Ardal and Chris (2 points)

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Bridget Christie (25 points) ^note Just two points off of the 27 available points (counting the pre-announced bonus point in task 3 and the maximum 6 points in the live task), Bridget ties with Chris in "The Noise that Blue Makes" and Sophie in "Heg" as the third-closest ever to a perfect episode score, after Joe Thomas's 24 out of 25 in "This is Trevor" and Dara Ó Briain's 30 out of 30 in "Enormous Hugeness")
  2. Judi Love and Sophie Duker (16 points)
  3. Chris Ramsey (13 points)
  4. Ardal O'Hanlon (11 points)

Episode 4 - "Shoe Who"

• Prize Task: Best Night-time Thing
  • Winner: Ardal - "night-vision" goggles^note actually green-tinted swimming goggles with lights (5 points)
  • Bridget - a taxidermied fox (4 points)
  • Sophie - a 'coy' owl-themed hot water bottle (3 points)
  • Chris - a bed (2 points)
  • Judi - a duvet (1 point)

• Task 1: Display The Shoe The Taskmaster's Assistant Is Thinking Of. All The Other Shoes Must Be Out Of Sight At The End Of Your Attempt. You May Only Ask Yes Or No Questions And You Must Complete The Assigned Statement Or Action After Every Answer^note Ardal - "I have to find the shoe."; Chris - "No way!"; Bridget - "Okay, just one more thing."; Judi - must 'laugh with disbelief'; Sophie - must 'get increasingly exasperated. Fewest Questions Wins
  • Winner: Chris - 13 questions (5 points)
  • Judi - 20-24 questions^note Judi claimed that she was 'tricked' on some of the questions and requested that they be discounted (4 points)
  • Sophie - 30 questions (3 points)
  • Ardal - 40 questions (2 points)
  • Bridget - 161 questions^note more questions than there were shoes (1 point)

• Task 2: Team Task - Give The Taskmaster's Assistant The Best Stag Minute. By The End Of The Stag Minute, He Must Be Ready To Get Married. You Have Twenty-Nine Minutes To Prepare For The Stag Minute
  • Winner: Ardal and Chris - a traditional stag-do with parachuting^note with umbrellas, 'milk-balling'^note a substitute for paint-balling, shots and a curry, brushing the Taskmaster's Assistant's teeth^note because the task said that he needed to be ready to get married, and then handcuffing him to a lamp (5 points)
  • Bridget, Judi and Sophie - a 'personal' stag-do involving sitting him in a bath pouring vodka and bird-feed over him^note the ladies were under the impression the Taskmaster's Assistant liked birds; actually, they were thinking of his dad, feeding him "worms", "something blue", and "a mad twerking cat"^note Judi, who was particularly insistent that twerking be included in the proceedings waxing his arm (4 points)

• Task 3: Make A Stirring Speech For The Taskmaster Out Of This Bunting. Longest Speech Deemed To Be 'Stirring' By The Taskmaster Wins^note the Taskmaster eventually declared that all speeches had "an element of stir" in them, meaning they were eventually judged on character length. You May Only Use The Letters Currently On The Bunting. You Have Fifteen Minutes^note no one realised that the letters in red spelled out the message "Look under the desk", where was located an iPad with a recording of the Taskmaster's opening remarks in Series 10 episode "God's Haemorrhoid," which all the letters corresponded to (with one extra "K")
  • Winner: Judi^note 61 characters - A, hi Taskmaster, I don't like you looking happy. Rass man. I dare don't vex[!] me. End. (5 points)
  • Chris^note 57 characters - Sir! On my knee I implore u, please let me win this task. M good. Raaaaa Dad. (4 points)
  • Sophie^note 51 characters - God damn, if Sophie Duker wins Taskmaster we all win her. Papa! (3 points)
  • Bridget^note 39 characters - Treat others carelessly oik, wind is God wait! (2 points)
  • Ardal^note 36 characters - I am seven types of rank tit. U are swel [sic] man. Hail TM! (1 point)

• Live Task: Taking It In Turns, Roll A Tyre Down The Knappett. You Must Roll From On The Stage. If Your Tyre Does Not Pass The Line You May Not Roll Any Further Tyres. If Both Your Dolls Topple You May Not Roll Any Further Tyres. Last Doll Standing Wins.
  1. Winner: Bridget (5 points)
  2. Ardal (4 points)
  3. Sophie (3 points)
  4. Judi (2 points)
  5. Chris (1 point)

• Tiebreaker: Turn Over The Most Beer Mats (Out Of 91) In Thirty Seconds
  • Winner: Ardal - 64 beer mats (+1 Tiebreaker Point)
  • Chris - 59 beer mats

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Ardal O'Hanlon (17 points +1 Tiebreaker Point)
  2. Chris Ramsey (17 points)
  3. Bridget Christie, Judi Love and Sophie Duker (16 points)

This is the first episode where, barring the tiebreaker point to decide the episode, every single contestant tied with at least one other contestant, as well as the first episode where three people are joint third and joint last. This is also the closest episode to date, as everyone was separated by just a single point.

Episode 5 - "Having a Little Chuckle"

• Prize Task: Most Surprising Thing From Their Wardrobes
  • Winner: Bridget - an antique Japanese kimono which she bought for the Taskmaster seventeen years ago, which turned out to be worth thousands of pounds^note the Taskmaster challenged Bridget on why he hadn't received his gift at any point over the resulting seventeen years, accusing her of keeping it for herself once she realised it was worth money. However, though he maintained he was surprised "for the wrong reasons", he acknowledged that he was nevertheless surprised. (5 points)
  • Ardal - a red leather jacket "that's very squeaky" (4 points)
  • Judi - a nurse's outfit (3 points)
  • Sophie - a tin of biscuits^note Sophie claims not to own a wardrobe due to millenial-based financial issues: "we have to buy a lot of brunch." (2 points)
  • Chris - a wetsuit he's never worn (1 point)

• Task 1a: Make This Key Difficult But Possible To Retrieve. You Have Ten Minutes^note No points were awarded for this task, as it was a set up for a later task
  • Bridget - slipped the key into her boot
  • Ardal, Chris, Judi and Sophie - "hoyed it up a tree"

• Task 2: Give The Taskmaster's Assistant A High-Five. The Third-Fastest High-Fiver Wins. If You Are The First Or The Last You Will Receive No Points. You Must High-Five The Taskmaster's Assistant Within Ten Minutes^note although initially presented as a team task, it was actually an individual one; the contestants completed it in their teams, meaning that although they knew how they competed relative to each other, they had no clue how the members of the other team had performed
  • Winner: Sophie - 3rd (5 points)
  • Ardal and Chris (4 points)
    • Ardal - 2nd, 5th, 6th and 7th^note Was the only contestant to high-five the Taskmaster's Assistant multiple times. Was technically the last to do so within the time frame, but the Taskmaster elected not to penalise him
    • Chris - 4th
  • Bridget and Judi (0 points)
    • Judi - 1st^note exactly as Ardal predicted
    • Bridget - 8th^note high-fived just after the clock reached zero, meaning she technically did not do it within the time

• Task 3: Make The Water Level-Rise To The Top Of The Big Fish Tank. You Have Fifteen Minutes To Gather Six Things, Then You Must Put All Six Things In The Big Fish Tank. You May Not Put Anything In The Big Fish Tank Until The Fifteen Minutes Are Up, And If Any Water Leaves The Big Fish Tank At Any Point You Are Disqualified. Closest Water Level To The Top Of The Big Fish Tank Wins. No Fish Tanks May Leave The Room^note a statue of Archimedes was located in the room, along with a smaller fish tank; the base of the statue contained a map leading to a cubby where six bricks with the letters EUREKA printed on them were hidden; had the contestants found and used these, they would have leveled the water.
  • Winner: Ardal - brick, statue, satsuma, mallet, satsuma and "a quantity of water", which brought it near-level^note the Taskmaster allowed "water" as a singular item, although Ardal poured it in from multiple receptacles (5 points)
  • Judi - four bananas, a jar of coffee and a vase, raising the level 18mm (4 points)
  • Bridget, Chris and Sophie (Disqualified)^note both Bridget and Sophie removed the smaller fish tank from the room — despite Bridget vocally noting how ridiculous she thought the instruction was. Chris, despite his meticulous planning, accidentally splashed some water out while trying to push the smaller fish tank into the larger one. Chris came closest to discovering the hidden bricks

• Task 4: Answer The Taskmaster's Assistant's Phone Call. If You Find A Cuddly Toy, You Must Carry It With You Until You Answer The Phone Call. Also, You Must Be Making A Noise Over 50 Decibels At Least 50% Of The Time Until You Answer The Phone. Fastest Wins^note The phone was stored in a locked box, meaning it also turned out to be Task 1b — Retrieve The Key You Hid In Your Difficult-But-Possible-To-Retrieve Place
  • Winner: Ardal - 10 min 12 seconds (5 points)
  • Chris - Time unspecified (4 points)
  • Judi - Time unspecified (3 points)
  • Sophie - 19 min 5 seconds (2 points)
  • Bridget - 23 min 1 second^note despite ironically having, as she noted, the key in the easiest-to-retrieve place (1 point)

• Live Task: Pop Three Red Balls Out Of Your Hole^note in the red sleeping bags the contestants were enclosed in. Get your mind out of the gutter. You May Only Pop Out One Ball At A Time. If You Pop Out A Black Ball You Must Stop Popping Out Balls And Scream For Five Seconds. If You Pop Out A White Ball Everyone Must Stop Popping Out Balls And Dance Like A Worm For Five Seconds. If You Pop Out A Duck You Are Disqualified. Also You Must Stare Lovingly At The Taskmaster Throughout The Task. Fastest Wins
  • Winner: Bridget (5 points)
  • Sophie (4 points)
  • Ardal (3 points)
  • Chris (2 points)
  • Judi (1 point)^note She was disqualified from the task because she popped a duck, but the Taskmaster showed mercy and allowed her a point

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Ardal O'Hanlon (21 points)
  2. Sophie Duker (13 points)
  3. Bridget Christie, Chris Ramsey and Judi Love (11 points)

Episode 6 - "The 75th Question"

• Prize Task: Most Calming Item
  • Winner: Ardal - a tea towel (5 points)
  • Chris - his aquarium (4 points)
  • Sophie - an "access all areas massager"^note which looked suspiciously like a sex aid (3 points)
  • Judi - a fish water fountain (2 points)
  • Bridget - a cat cafe voucher (1 points)

• Task 1: Use The Cement Mixer For Something Other Than Mixing Cement. Best Use Of A Cement Mixer Other Than Mixing Cement Wins
  • Winner: Chris - the "sausage arena"^note sausages are suspended through the mixer with coloured sticks and ribbons, and then spun. The contestants must be the first to swallow part of their sausage. The spin turned out to be a lot faster than Chris was anticipating (5 points)
  • Judi - a cocktail mixer in a hipster bar^note marked up because the Taskmaster could see "some bell-end in East London doing that". (3 points)
  • Bridget - a combined musical instrument / metaphor about the Earth (2 points)
  • Ardal and Sophie (1 point)
    • Ardal - a hair salon^note in which the customer would, had they not been a mannequin, been seriously injured or killed
    • Sophie - an ice-breaker game^note containing statements like "You Will Eventually Die (Sooner Than You Think)"

• Task 2: Record The Highest Number On This Pedometer. You Have Twenty Minutes
  • Winner: Bridget - "11 trillion gazillion"^note eventually realised that the task did not actually specify that the number had to be steps recorded by the pedometer itself, so simply recorded the number on her phone while sitting on the pedometer. "11 trillion" was accepted as a real number, but the "gazillion" was discounted. Amount of steps recorded on the pedometer itself was 139, mainly because she appeared to not understand that she had to be wearing it while walking normally (5 points)
  • Chris - 2789 steps (4 points)
  • Sophie - 1209 steps (3 points)
  • Ardal - 1084 steps (2 points)
  • Judi - 483 steps^note tied the pedometer to a remote-controlled rat (1 point)

• Task 3: Hold A Meeting With Yourselves. There Must Be Eight Of You At The Meeting. Most Dramatic Meeting Moment Wins
  • Winner: Judi - a Jeremy Kyle-style show wherein infidelities and secret pregnancies are revealed (5 points)
  • Ardal - a meeting of the tennis club where the chairman is exposed as an embezzler and murderer (4 points)
  • Sophie - a meeting with the cast and crew of Series 13 of Taskmaster (plus a dog called Loky) to determine who killed the Taskmaster's Assistant^note the culprit was "Bridget", who proved herself worthy of becoming the new Taskmaster's Assistant (3 points)
  • Chris - a meeting to determine who stole some chocolate (2 points)
  • Bridget - a meeting with representations of her personal flaws (1 points)

• Live Task: Correctly Guess This Person's First Name^note Quentin. You Must Ask A Yes Or No Question On Your Turn. If You Take More Than Ten Seconds To Ask A Question You Miss A Go. Person Who Guesses Correctly Wins Five Points
  • Winner: Sophie (5 points)
  • Everyone Else (0 points)

• Tiebreaker: Sing "I've Won" In A Low Voice And "This Tiebreak" In A High Voice. Greatest Vocal Range Wins
  • Winner: Sophie - 25 notes^note A2 to E6 (+1 Tiebreaker Point)
  • Chris - 21 notes^note F2 to F5

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Sophie Duker (15 points +1 tiebreaker point)
  2. Chris Ramsey (15 points)
  3. Ardal O'Hanlon (12 points)
  4. Judi Love (11 points)
  5. Bridget Christie (9 points)

Episode 7 - "Heg"

• Prize Task: The Nicest Thing To Put Your Finger In
  • Winner: Ardal - a finger-puppet of "Dr Gerry Flynn", a life-coach (5 points)
  • Sophie - a hand puppet of "Jane Norman" amended to represent her as a Taskmaster contestant (4 points)
  • Bridget, Chris and Judi (3 points)
    • Bridget - "fart putty"^note a putty-like substance that simulates farts when it's pushed into and out of. Much to everyone's surprise, the submission of this prize turned out to be the springboard for an unexpectedly detailed anecdote about Bridget's difficult labour when delivering her daughter
    • Chris - a finger monster
    • Judi - warm custard

• Task 1: Show Off. Biggest Show Off Wins. You Have Twenty Minutes
  • Winner: Chris and Sophie (5 points)
    • Chris - balanced various lengthy objects — a snooker cue, a cricket bat, a chair, a ladder etc. — on his chin
    • Sophie - recited a speech from Romeo and Juliet before holding her breath underwater while handcuffed
  • Judi - bragged about her various accomplishments in her career and personal life for the whole twenty minutes (4 points)
  • Ardal - attempted to juggle bricks, disappeared for fourteen minutes before returning covered in glitter and balancing a wooden spoon on his chin (for about a second) (3 points)
  • Bridget - attempted to get various balls into various buckets from a distance... unsuccessfully (2 points)

• Task 2: Team Task - Deliver A Cocktail To Greg^note or rather, a statue of the Taskmaster. Your Cocktail Must Have The Following Ingredients: 3 Different Liquids Shaken And Stirred, 1 Piece of Fruit, Quite A Bit Of Ice. Every Ingredient Must Pass Through A Head Pipe^note pipes attached to helmets that the contestants were wearing Before Entering The Glass. Fastest Wins. Your Time Ends When You Have Garnished Your Cocktail With The Umbrella
  • Winner: Bridget, Judi and Sophie - 4 min 30 seconds (5 points)
  • Ardal and Chris - 13 min 27 seconds (2 points)

• Task 3a: Sculpt The Most Beautiful Sculpture. Your Sculpture Must Weigh Exactly 150 Grams And Be Entirely Edible. You Have Five Minutes To Order Your Ingredients Then Twenty Minutes To Sculpt Your Sculpture. Your Time Starts Now
  • Winner: Bridget, Chris and Sophie (5 points)
    • Bridget - a semi-baked representation of a mother feeding a baby floating on a plate of milk
    • Chris - the solar system
    • Sophie - a detailed representation of the human vulva, made largely out of butter
  • Ardal and Judi (4 points)
    • Ardal - Anastasia, an aging ballerina with one arm
    • Judi - the Tower of Love, a random assortment of chocolates and strawberries heaped into a pile

• Task 3b: Completely Consume Your Beautiful Sculpture. Fastest Wins. Your Time Starts Now
  • Winner: Judi - completely consumed in 1 min 50 seconds (5 points)
  • Sophie - completely consumed in 3 minutes, though "some came out afterwards" (4 points)
  • Chris - 137 out of 150 grams in 3 minutes (3 points)
  • Ardal - 40 out of 150 grams (2 points)
  • Bridget - 8 out of 150 grams (1 point)

• Live Task: Build The Tallest Tower Of Toilet Rolls In Front Of Your Spot. You Have 100 Seconds. After 100 Seconds You Will Throw Both Of Your Shoes At The Tower From Your Throwing Spot. Tallest Tower After Shoes Have Been Thrown Wins
  • Winner: Sophie (5 points)^note initially the second tallest, but she destroyed Chris's taller tower. Subsequent attempts to destroy her tower were deflected by her apparent psychic powers, though Ardal came closest
  • Ardal (4 points)
  • Judi and Bridget (3 points)
  • Chris (1 point)^note initially built the tallest, but it was destroyed by Sophie

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Sophie Duker (28 points)^note The second-highest point total ever for an episode with standard scoring, topped by Dara Ó Briain with 30 in Series 14. Katherine Ryan scored 30 points in Series 2 thanks to a live task scored beyond the five-point scale. Sophie also ties with Chris in "The Noise That Blue Makes" and Bridget in "I Think I've Got This" as the third-closest ever to a perfect score, with just 2 points less than the possible 30 available.
  2. Judi Love (24 points)
  3. Ardal O'Hanlon (20 points)
  4. Bridget Christie and Chris Ramsey (19 points)

Episode 8 - "You Tuper Super"

• Prize Task: The Loveliest Thing To Hold Above Your Head
  • Winner: Bridget and Sophie (5 points)
    • Bridget - a handmade lace parasol
    • Sophie - a teeny tiny trophy
  • Chris - the "un-untuckable shirt"^note a shirt with the hem sewn directly into a pair of underpants, to allow you to wave your hands above your head without exposing your midriff (3 points)
  • Judi - a fan (2 points)
  • Ardal - a table tennis bat^note on the basis that you could fool people into thinking you're a tour guide (1 point)

• Task 1: Learn Swedish. You Will Have A Five Minute Conversation With A Swedish Person^note Fred In Fifteen Minutes From Now. The Phrasebook And Tablet Must Remain In The Caravan. Best Demonstration Of The Swedish Language Wins. Your Time Started When You First Said "Swedish"
  • Winner: Ardal (5 points)^note Unlike all the other contestants, already spoke some Swedish, attributed to a drunken night out in Stockholm where he ended up singing Swedish folk songs
  • Bridget (4 points)^note Rang her brother, who lives in Sweden, and got him to translate; this was allowed as the task did not specify it had to be the contestant who gave the demonstration
  • Sophie (3 points)
  • Judi (2 points)
  • Chris (1 point)

• Task 2: Stick Your Tongue Out As Far As It Will Go And Keep It Out Until Further Notice. Then, Every Time The Taskmaster's Assistant Blows His Whistle, You Must Lick The Lemon, Then The Sherbert, Then The Ice Lolly. Everytime He Honks His Horn, You Must Hold Your Tongue Out In Front Of The Fan For Five Seconds. The Tongue That Sticks Out For The Longest Time Wins
  • Winner: Sophie - 26 min (5 points)^note Only stopped because she ran out of things to lick
  • Chris - 14 min 30 sec (4 points)
  • Bridget - 12 min (3 points)
  • Ardal - 6 min 40 sec (2 points)
  • Judi - 5 min (1 point)

• Task 3: Walk Through This Doorway Wearing The Longest Shoes And Biggest Hat. You Must Walk Through This Doorway In The Next Twenty Minutes. Bonus Point For The Most Stylish Outfit
  • Winner: Bridget (5 points)
  • Ardal (4 points +1 bonus point)
  • Sophie (3 points)
  • Judi (2 points)
  • Chris^note failed to understand the task and thought that it was to simply find a large hat and pair of shoes (1 point)

• Live Task: Team Task - Write Down Five Things That Fit The Category Given By The Taskmaster^note Category 1: things with four legs that are bigger than a rat. Category 2: purple things. Category 3: things that are nice to put in your mouth. Your Team Will Receive A Point If Someone From Your Team Writes The Same Word As You. If Someone From The Other Team Writes The Same Word As You It Will Be Wiped From The Board. You Have Thirty Seconds To Write Your Things And Must Be Silent And Still Throughout. Most Points Wins
  • Winner: Ardal and Chris (5 points)
  • Bridget, Judi and Sophie (3 points)

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Bridget Christie (20 points)
  2. Sophie Duker (19 points)
  3. Ardal O'Hanlon (18 points)
  4. Chris Ramsey (14 points)
  5. Judi Love (10 points)

Episode 9 - "It Might Be Wind"

• Prize Task: Best Object With A Handle
  • Winner: Ardal - a chess piece queen with a handle strapped to it (5 points)
  • Judi - a small bike (4 points)
  • Sophie - a wheel of fortune (3 points)
  • Bridget - a door (2 points)
  • Chris - a kettle (1 points)

• Task 1: Get The Most Surprising Thing Delivered To The Taskmaster House. You Have Six Hours^note and a £50 note
  • Winner: Chris - a baby (5 points)
  • Bridget and Judi (4 points)
    • Bridget - a mentally-summoned King Owain Gwynedd of Wales, refuting claims that the Taskmaster is his descendant^note the Taskmaster passionately maintains that these claims are true, though according to Bridget there are "conflicting opinions", along with a vinyl copy of Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick by Ian Dury and the Blockheads^note reportedly the first record the Taskmaster ever bought; the Taskmaster sheepishly refuted this in studio, admitting that he only claimed that because it was cooler than the true record, Google Eye by Roger Whittaker, a kaftan^note which the Taskmaster apparently wears on holiday and a tiny swimming cap^note representing the Taskmaster swimming for his county when he was twelve. Incidentally, Bridget apparently spent six hours contacting anyone who knows Greg trying to find out obscure information about him, up to and including his GP.
    • Judi - a container of fish heads and guts on top of a skateboard^note the Taskmaster estimated that only about £5 of the money went on the actual surprise, prompting Judi to confess that she spent the rest at Nandos. Alex afterwards stated that a member of the production team — Ben — reportedly made a "delicious" fish stew with the delivery
  • Ardal and Sophie (2 points)
    • Ardal - a wind-operated owl scarecrow
    • Sophie - a pretty basket full of live worms

• Task 2: Make The Longest Cup-Snake And Lie Down Next To It Outside This Building. You May Only Leave The Building Twice. You Have Ten Minutes
  • Winner: Judi - 11m 20cm (5 points)
  • Chris - 9m 66cm (4 points)
  • Sophie - 8m 77cm (3 points)
  • Ardal - 8m 56cm (2 points)
  • Bridget - 5m^note due to "fucking herself" after stepping out of the building before building her snake, she used a nearby log and decorated it with cups that she could reach (1 point)

• Task 3: Poke A Part Of Your Body Out Of The Shower Curtain And Waggle It About For Ten Seconds. The Taskmaster Will Guess Which Body Part It Is. The Biggest Body Part That The Taskmaster Incorrectly Identifies Wins. You Have Fifteen Minutes
  • Winner: Chris and Sophie (5 points)
    • Chris - his foot (and a bit of shin) in a boot... while he was lying on the cow^note the Taskmaster guessed that it was his arm
    • Sophie - her hair, masquerading as her leg^note the Taskmaster guessed that it was her arm
  • Judi - her hand in a shoe^note the Taskmaster guessed that it was her foot as a double-bluff (4 points)
  • Ardal and Bridget^note both were accurately guessed by the Taskmaster (0 points)
    • Ardal - his arm, with a face painted on it, in the hope that it would appear to be his neck^note Ardal had also, inexplicably, removed his trousers
    • Bridget - her head, under a sheet, wearing her hat

• Live Task: Write Down How Many Tin Cans You Think Can Fit In Your Bag. The Highest Predicted Number Fitted Within A Zipped Up Bag Within One Minute Wins. If You Don't Zip Up Your Bag Or Fit Your Predicted Amount Of Cans In Your Bag You Will Be Disqualified. You Will Have Ten Seconds To Write Down Your Number
  • Winner: Ardal- 35 cans (5 points)
  • Chris - 30 cans (4 points)
  • Bridget^note number written - 54 cans. Bag was unzipped, so no cans counted. However, there were only 55 cans in total and a substantial amount were outside the bag, meaning she almost certainly failed regardless, Judi^note number written - 30 cans. Amount of cans in zipped up bag - 32. Cruelly, had she simply written down and placed one can in the bag and zipped it up, or even written zero and zipped up an empty bag, the points she received would have won her the episode and Sophie^note number written - 29 cans. Amount of cans in zipped up bag - 28 cans (Disqualified)

• Episode Ranking:
  1. Winner: Chris Ramsey (19 points)
  2. Judi Love (17 points)
  3. Ardal O'Hanlon (14 points)
  4. Sophie Duker (13 points)
  5. Bridget Christie (7 points)

Episode 10 - "The House Queens"

• Prize Task: Finest Family Heirloom
  • Winner: Bridget - a box containing her children's teeth, hair, umbilical cord stops and pregnancy kits (5 points)
  • Ardal, Chris and Sophie (4 points)
    • Ardal - a biscuit tin that supposedly contains his grandmother's personal documents including her "birth cert"
    • Chris - an antique Italian coffee table which, when the lid is opened, plays the theme from The Godfather
    • Sophie - a rice cooker
  • Judi - a vial of her blood (2 points)^note extra point awarded on the grounds of Judi being an excellent bullshitter

• Task 1: Identify The Liquids^note Liquids were contained in: a perfume bottle with the instruction "You may only spray the perfume on your wrist" (pickled onion vinegar); a spray gun with the instruction "You may only spray the sponge" (lychee juice); a wine-glass and pipette with the instruction "You may only squeeze the pipette into your mouth" (vegetable stock); a bicycle valve and a pair of chopsticks with the instruction "You may only squeeze the (pipe) valve with the chopsticks" (tea); and a balloon with the instruction "You can do whatever you want with the balloon" (mushroom soup). Most Accurately Identified Liquids Wins. Your Time Starts Now
  • Winner: Sophie - 4 correct guesses (5 points)
  • Ardal, Chris and Judi - 3 correct guesses (4 points)
  • Bridget - 2 correct guesses (3 points)

• Task 2: Get The Most Ducks In The Taskmaster's Assistant's Basket^note attached to the Assistant's tricycle. You May Only Hold One Duck At A Time. If The Assistant Rings His Backwards Bell, You Must Walk Backwards Until He Honks His Forwards Horn. The Assistant Will Pedal As Fast As He Can Unless You Say One Of The Magic Words. If You Say A Magic Word^note written on the bottoms of some of the ducks The Assistant Will Rest For Ten Seconds. All The Magic Words Are Single-Use Magic Words. The Assistant Will Cycle Around The Circuit For Ten Minutes. Your Time Starts When The Assistant Honks His Horn
  • Winner: Chris - 65 ducks (5 points)
  • Sophie - 61 ducks^note rearranged the arrows the Assistant was following so that he ended up spinning in circles (4 points)
  • Ardal - 48 ducks (3 points)
  • Bridget and Judi (Disqualified)
    • Bridget - 148 ducks^note the maximum amount of ducks; Bridget removed the basket from the tricycle and filled it up, however she frequently held more than one duck
    • Judi - 90 ducks^note In addition to holding multiple ducks at a time, also attacked the Assistant and broke his tricycle

• Task 3: Team Task - Record The Best Multi-Track Song About Your Team. You Must Record All Six Tracks With Your Voice Or Body, And Each Person Must Record The Same Number Of Tracks. Most Powerful Multi-Track Song wins. You Have Twenty Minutes
  • Winner: Bridget, Judi and Sophie - "One Team, One Dream" by The House Queens (5 points)
  • Ardal and Chris - "Put An Aubergine In My Mouth" by The Tungsten Diamonds^note the song referenced numerous tasks which were ultimately not broadcast, including one which apparently involved Chris putting aubergine into Ardal's mouth (3 points)

• Live Task: Draw A Life-Sized Self-Portrait. Your Nose Must Be Poking Through The Nose-Hole In Your Canvas At All Times. Most Accurate Self-Portrait Wins. You Have 200 Seconds
  • Winner: Bridget and Chris (5 points)
  • Sophie (4 points)
  • Judi (2 points)
  • Ardal (1 point)

• Episode Ranking:^note The final placings for this episode exactly matched the series leaderboard, meaning it effectively had no impact on the overall placings
  1. Winner: Sophie Duker (22 points)
  2. Chris Ramsey (21 points)
  3. Bridget Christie (18 points)
  4. Ardal O'Hanlon (15 points)
  5. Judi Love (13 points)

Episode Tally

• Chris Ramsey and Sophie Duker = 3 episodes
  • Chris (Episodes 1, 2 and 9)
  • Sophie (Episodes 6, 7 and 10)
• Ardal O'Hanlon and Bridget Christie = 2 episodes
  • Ardal (Episodes 4 and 5)
  • Bridget (Episode 3 and 8)
• Judi Love (0 episodes)

This is the first time since Series 7 - and only the second time in a 10-episode series - that at least one contestant has never won an episode, and the first time it has happened in a Channel 4 series.

Task Tally

A breakdown of the tasks as won by the contestants is as follows:

• Bridget Christie: 17 tasks (5 prize tasks (1 joint with Sophie, 1 joint with Chris), 6 video tasks (1 joint with Chris and Sophie), 2 video team tasks, 3 live tasks, 1 live team task)
• Chris Ramsey and Sophie Duker: 15 tasks
  • Chris: 1 prize task (joint with Bridget), 10 video tasks (2 joint with Sophie, 1 joint with Bridget and Sophie), 2 video team tasks, 1 live task, 1 live team task
  • Sophie: 1 prize task (joint with Bridget), 8 video tasks (2 joint with Chris, 1 joint with Bridget and Chris), 2 video team tasks, 2 live tasks, 1 live team task, 1 tiebreaker task
• Ardal O'Hanlon: 13 tasks (5 prize tasks, 3 video tasks, 2 video team tasks, 1 live task, 1 live team task, 1 tiebreaker task)
• Judi Love: 8 tasks (1 prize task, 4 video tasks, 2 video team tasks, 1 live team task)

Episode Titles

Each episode is a Title Drop made by either a participant in the show, the Taskmaster, or the Taskmaster's Assistant. In this series, the titles were provided by:

• Episode 1: Ardal O'Hanlon (on being questioned on whether he was "blowing out" during the "make the best portrait of the Taskmaster using only lipstick on your face' task, with blue lipstick smeared all over his face: "No, that's just the noise that blue makes.")
• Episode 2: Bridget Christie (her three-word description of the item she was to describe and draw sight unseen during the live task: a rubber glove that has been filled with water, then frozen)
• Episode 3: Judi Love (repeated many times during her somewhat chaotic attempt at the "make everything happen at once" task, to the point where it almost becomes a Madness Mantra: "Hold on, I think I've got this.")
• Episode 4: Judi Love (noting the similarity between the "display the shoe" task and the board game Guess Who in conversation with the Taskmaster's Assistant:)
  Judi: So this is like Guess Who, with shoes.
  Alex: So what's it called?
  Judi: ... Shoe Who.
  Alex: Okay.
  Judi: ... Guess Shoe.
• Episode 5: Ardal O'Hanlon (after accidentally interrupting the announcement of the episode's scores by laughing to himself: "Sorry, I was having a little chuckle.")
• Episode 6: The Taskmaster's Assistant (noting how long the contestants were taking to find out the subject's name in the live task: "Just, by the way, this is the 75th question.")
• Episode 7: Judi Love (on being challenged over asking "Who's Greg?" in the "Make the Taskmaster a cocktail" task: "No, I thought you said 'Heg'. "Who's Heg?")
• Episode 8: Judi Love (when concluding her conversation in Swedish with Fred the Swede, after he called her 'super': "You tuper super.")
• Episode 9: Ardal O'Hanlon (wondering whether the owl scarecrow he purchased as his surprise delivery was either powered by the wind, or powered by winding it up ("It's wind-operated... at least I think it's wind^note as in WIN-d — powered by the air moving it; it might be wind^note as in WINE-d; turning a mechanism to activate it.")
• Episode 10: Judi Love (the band name adopted by the girls' team for the "record the best multi-track song" task, as suggested by Judi)

Judi Love has directly named more episodes than any other Taskmaster contestant, with 5.

Series Ranking

1. Winner: Sophie Duker (173 points)
2. Chris Ramsey (170 points)
3. Bridget Christie (157 points)
4. Ardal O'Hanlon (153 points)
5. Judi Love (142 points)

Although Judi Love was identified as the highest scoring last-place contestant in the episode by Alex, this is sadly inaccurate — Alice Levine in Series 6 earned ten points more than her. She is, however, the highest scoring last place contestant since the show moved to Channel 4.

Out of all Champions so far, Sophie took the longest time to win her first episode, this not occurring until Episode 6.