TaskMaster Book: Warm-Up Tasks: Tasks 1 - 10

I'm not sure why you're here, unless you're Greg Davies' Assistant Alex Horne to judge me towards the nationwide competition for the #taskmasterbook, but as you're here, please enjoy. It's a shame there's no points for run on sentences because I'm really good at those.

Any who, it's been so much fun doing these tasks and jammo putting this concise-as-possible blog together!

NB: In an attempt to follow the format of the show, we try to stick to 5 points. This means in situations with 5+ people present, some contestants will be awarded the same number of points

Chapter 1

Warm up tasks

Task 1: Self-portrait

Performed at our TaskMaster party (17th Feb, 2019)

5 Points - Claire!
4 Points - Harry
3 Points - Jonathan & Martin
2 Points - Sian
1 Point - Amrit

Task 2: 5 Letter Words

Performed at our TaskMaster party (17th Feb, 2019)

NB: Our words were written, not spoken, so as to be performed together

5 Points - Sharon (54) Martin (52)
4 Points - Jonathan (45) Claire (43) Harry (40)
3 Points - Alan (36) Sian (35)
1 Point - Amrit (16)

Task 3: Touching Trees

Performed at our TaskMaster party (17th Feb, 2019)

5 Points - Martin (20 seconds)
4 Points - Amrit (23 seconds)
3 Points - Jonathan (25 seconds)
2 Points - Sian (1 minute 25 seconds) / Harry (1 minute 30 seconds)
1 Point - Claire (4 minutes 40 seconds)

Task 4: Bread in a Toaster

Performed at our TaskMaster party (17th Feb, 2019)

NB: This task was adapted to be more environmentally friendly. We threw coasters into a box to the dimensions of a toaster.

5 Points - Amrit (3 throws) Sharon (3 throws)
4 Points - Jonathan (4 throws) Claire (4 throws)
3 Points - Alan (8 throws)
2 Points - Sian (9 throws)
1 Point - Martin (16 throws)

Task 5: Alphabetical Clothing

Performed at our TaskMaster party (17th Feb, 2019)

NB: Our words were written, not spoken, so as to be performed together

5 Points - Alan (18)
4 Points - Claire (15) Harry (14)
3 Points - Martin (12) Sharon (12)
2 Points - Jonathan (10) Amrit (10)
1 Point - Sian (7)

Task 6: Ripping Circles

Performed at our TaskMaster party (17th Feb, 2019)

5 Points - Jonathan (Used a can and a knife)
4 Points - Sian (folded, ripped)
3 Points - Claire (Circular, roughly 1.5")
2 Points - Martin (Too big: 4+")
1 Point - Amrit (Oval)

Task 7: Tear in the Hole

Performed solo at individual dwellings by those who didn't loose their holes

5 Points - Martin (2 minutes; stuck his eye through the hole)
4 Points - Sian (2 minutes 45 seconds; cried watching Lewis Capaldi's music video Someone You Loved)
0 Points - Claire (3 minutes; disqualified for dropping water into her eye)

Task 8: 100 dots

Performed at our TaskMaster party (17th Feb, 2019)

5 Points - Martin! (Spat chocolate powder over the page!)
4 Points - Harry (14 seconds - no tricks. Per skill with a pen.)
3 Points - Amrit (21 seconds)
2 Points - Jonathan (39 seconds - combined pens)
1 Point - Claire (1 minute 15 seconds - combined) Sian (1 minute 21 seconds)

Task 9: Join the Dots

Performed at our TaskMaster party (17th Feb, 2019)

5 Points - Martin
4 Points - Jonathan
3 Points - Claire / Sian
2 Points - Harry
1 Point - Amrit

3 Points: Sian: A flower pot man: Sian drew circles around each set of 10 dots so as to keep count - adding to total time and resulting in the need to tipex those lines out: 3 Points.

WINNER: 5 Points: Martin: "THE BEST PICTURE" King of Pop - played up to our in-house TaskMaster's love for MJ!

4 Points: Jonathan: a snowy, sunny scene of a Gorilla getting hit by a UFO

3 Points: Claire: a snake, hissing.

2 Points: Harry: 2019 gun, stick man, and muscle with a smiley face

1 Point: Amrit: A grid.

Task 10: No Internet

The TaskMaster party contestants (17th Feb, 2019) continued this task at home

5 Points - Sharon! (17 hours)
4 Points - Sian (15 hours) Alan (15 hours)
3 Points - Martin (12 hours)
2 Points - Jonathan (3 hours)
1 Point - Harry (~1 hour) Claire (30 minutes)
0 Points - Amrit (didn't play)

Scores Update

Position	Contestant	No. played	Score
1st	Martin	10	37
2nd	Jonathan	9	29
Joint 3rd	Sian / Claire	10	26
4th	Harry	7	21
Joint 5th	Amrit / Sharon	9 / 4	18
6th	Alan	4	15