Taskmaster Australia Series 2, Episode 6 - 'Everyone here is a nerd.'

[@gonzy_estavez]

Never, in the histroy of taskmaster, has somebody lost 2 rounds because of the same task. Jenny will go down in history for this

[@silvanstamm8068]

​@@ChexMixTheSpot mike wozniak also had 3 DQy in 1 ep

[@iliketrains3495]

@@silvanstamm8068 also Sue Perkins and Richard Osman, though when Richard did it there were 6 tasks, including Jon Richardson's special task (also not all of them were DQs per se)

[@Qri0]

nauuuuuur!

[@andrewesdaile9484]

Surely though failing the same task twice is a fluke though as it will never happen again 🤔

[@andresfontalvo17]

Nothing could've prepared me for duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, goose 2: legends fail twice

[@somecells]

Jenny over-complicating a simple beginner logic puzzle after being all scientific about her taste test is deeply hilarious and very taskmaster.

[@namayra299]

Reminds me of Victoria flunking the riddles task!

[@ChickVanCluck]

@@namayra299 She didn't, she absolutely smashed the riddles task, you must be confusing it for something else

[@namayra299]

@@ChickVanCluck i meant the task where it was something like don't do the task and it was a bunch of negatives clubbed together.

[@dhruvaaeer7608]

I lost it when Jenny said, "If number two was protecting Number Ten and lying to me." 🤣🤣 Like what in Sherlock Holmes was that-😂

[@JustBen81]

She was close to a viable solution for cases when you can't ask something you know the answer fo: asking a duck if anither duck if the oposing team would sell the duck you ask is liar. If the duck you're asking is a liar then the second duck would be telling the truth and say yes, but your duck would lie and say no. If the duck your asking speaks the truth the second duck would be a liar and say yes as well, but your duck would say yes to. So liars would answer the question with no, truth sayers with yes. I remembered that there is a solution along these lines, paused, figured it out only to have Lloyd and Will find a much simpler solution. Jenny probably remembered the same thing I did but was slightly more stressed than i am on my couch.

[@elderswanderingcircus2341]

​@@JustBen81 Gatekeeper puzzle only works with 2 characters tough. After asking the first question to know the truthful ducks, maximum number of questions would be 11 if you are really unlucky. Asking if the goose is in their group eliminates 5 with the second question. Then you could do the shoe task thing and go is goose higher/lower than this. Divisible by 4 was great cause at worst it eliminates 2 at best it eliminates 3 out of remaining 5, its better than try to eliminate half. then you ask either 2 more questions or 1. 4-5 questions total. Someone who asked the truth question first and then asked each duck seperately can actually get lucky and find with 2 questions at %10 chance and 3 questions at %20 chance and 4 with %30. Not that bad odds if you wanna gamble.

[@JustBen81]

@@elderswanderingcircus2341 the groups work like one character in regards to the first question. But asking a question you know the answer to like the others did is simpler.

[@Andrew-ih7yh]

“Eleventh of September” “That was a fluke to you?” What a great interaction 😂

[@47Jaspers]

Watch Jenny's body language as Anne is explaining her experience in the duck/goose task. She knows what's coming up. She knows Anne's coming off this task smelling like roses.

[@WonderWhatHappened]

I'm really liking Lloyd's approach to everything.

[@lordbuddybear]

Wil was robbed, him correctly guessing the remaining seconds was pure bliss

[@genericname2747]

Omg the fabled Zebra throw from the intro

[@ROOKTABULA]

"fabled"?? 🙄

[@genericname2747]

@@ROOKTABULA Sorry, should've said legendary

[@jessesutton7985]

This was incredible. Felt actual pain for Jenny, I think she went home and re-evaluated her entire life.

[@frankc.357]

That was the cutest prize task of any version of Taskmaster I've ever seen.

[@MusicalJackknife]

I just found it more annoying, because obviously they can't actually be prizes, and they're obviously lying as well, or at least one of them is, or else they'd be married.

[@biologicalhunter520]

I think that's really simplifying marriage and that you're taking a silly game show too seriously​@@MusicalJackknife

[@rkah6187]

It was cute but I don't like it when the prizes aren't actually prizes. I feel like it was better in early Taskmaster series when contestants actually brought in something with value to it, instead of someone's ten year-old toothbrush.

[@biologicalhunter520]

@@rkah6187 you mean the things of value that were almost always given back? Like the car?

[@ToyInsanity]

Worst excuse for a prize package I have ever seen. They don't even try anymore.

[@youremakingprogress144]

Jenny getting disqualified in three tasks in one episode. That's got to be some kind of record.

[@iliketrains3495]

In the UK series, Mike Wozniak, Sue Perkins and Richard Osman also got 0 in three tasks in the same episode, and with Mike and Sue, it was all of the taped tasks in the episode.

[@PokerJoker811]

Con the Fruiterer, for those curious, was a comedy sketch character, mainly from the 90s, depicting a Greek immigrant (of which Australia has a surprisingly large community) running a fruit stand with strong opinions on Australian current events and how it relates to his family. Very heavy on stereotypes.

[@thabic2019]

Lloyd calling Tom a 'twink' is so funny to me

[@wisedred]

what does it mean?

[@b3z3jm3nny]

@@wisedreda boyish-looking svelte gay man with no body hair

[@tatersoup]

He's calling him a different T word every time 😂

[@gothorama]

@@tatersoup Tiramisu

[@kryhigh9302]

17:18

[@Dztbrawler]

Lloyd is really crushing it. I really am enjoying him the most this season, he's so fun!

[@awastedcow]

Honestly, I think Taskmaster Australia is my fave. Everyone is so funny, Tom has been my favorite assistant and he's super fun to watch as well.

[@matheusnunes970]

The assistant tom is great. The taskmaster tom is so annoying. He feels like a boring DM that wants to destroy the players.

[@SimonFrack]

@@matheusnunes970Greg is the best TM by far imo.

[@bungalo50]

@@matheusnunes970 That's the best part imho lol, the points are meaningless anyway

[@Pandameter13]

@@matheusnunes970 He's a bully who mistakes criticism for comedy. A child with daddy issues

[@matheusnunes970]

@@Pandameter13 indeed. Roasting others can work, as shown by greg. But this au taskmaster is not it.

[@gothorama]

finally Tom understands how Alex felt when Bridget was doing the shoe task 🤣🤣

[@ruffshots]

My exact reaction, the only two instances I can recall when the assistant visibly (audibly) lost their patience

[@Nano0k]

But surely she could hold more than one duck at a time…

[@iliketrains3495]

@@Nano0k or take the fish tanks out of the room

[@TarunoNafs]

But Jenny's was surely more pleasant?

[@xingcat]

Josh and Jenny fighting over the taste test while everyone just got a little bored tickled me, for some reason.

[@helen1594]

Really only Ann, Lloyd and Will were sufficiently entertained and enjoying it from what I can see

[@klandgraf6956]

Anne going to “sleep” was sending me 😂😂😂😂

[@R.J._Lewis]

A huge fan of Jenny Tian, it turns out.

[@bendystrawz2832]

I like her more with each new episode I see! Great comedy :D

[@TheMovieSequelDude49]

Ironically, Josh's "Duck Duck Goose" task was a better fluke than his actual fluke task.

[@MakimaMelee]

Did Jenny just dethrone Desiree Burch for worst attempt at a task ever, not only once, but twice, and ALMOST a third? LOL Historical stuff here.

[@bendystrawz2832]

40:27 I gotta back Josh on this one. The zebra toss was one of things I actually noticed before this task. It justified cutting the soundtrack!

[@Chocomint_Queen]

But is that a _fluke_ ? I would argue that declaring you're going to try and do something entertaining, trying to do something entertaining, and successfully doing something so entertaining it makes the opening credits, is the exact opposite of a fluke.

[@alblin]

Tom tossing out Josh's fluke for absolutely no points was wild to me. I love the open credits and the zebra is definitely a highlight since the music cuts away.

[@alblin]

​@@Chocomint_QueenI mean, in that case, didn't Lloyd try and stick a knife on the target and Anne try and catch the fruit? If anything, Josh's was more of a fluke because the zebra was the first thing he tried out of many other things.

[@SimonFrack]

13:00 Jenny owned him when she brought up scientific variables 🎉🎉🎉

[@OwlRTA]

Spoilers: Jenny failing the same task twice in one episode is an all-timer lmao

[@ladyreverie7027]

Jenny has me HOWLING that was one of the funniest "failures" in show history and goes to show how really the point is to make the audience laugh not succeed in the task and she really did that! Amazing, brilliantly overcomplicated so it loops around back onto stupidity - incredible comedy.

[@CrystalisQ]

I like how the Taskmaster seems to be coming into his prime in the role now, with giving the contestants grief and not taking their attempts to turn failure into points

[@bobtheskutterbot]

Agreed! Tom felt on form here. Baiting Josh appears to be Tom's favourite activity....

[@nununya6455]

Josh : anything in the universe Tom: *kitchen 12:41😂😂😂

[@AsmaSky]

I wanna see the footage of Loyd calling Tom a different name each time he sees him (Tiramisu)

[@Violaetor]

"I *rarely* wear a g-string." - Lesser Tom

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

I read this as he said it.

[@squishyshelli]

So did they make Josh Widdicombe come count the hundreds and thousands? 😂

[@lucas_lipp]

Late reply, but I'm assuming they just weighed it, subtracted the weight of the glasses and then divided it by the weight of an average [name of the things in the glasses]

[@morphunkown]

"You know when you go into a parallel universe..." - Anne Edmonds

[@ayekai7506]

wil and tom's interrogation in the caravan is one of my fav assistant--contestant interactions! they play off each other so well

[@jamcdonald120]

this is the first time I have heard (and realized I heard) the young Australian "Nauuuur!" pronunciation of No. and now I cant unhear it.

[@smalltowngirlAnna]

"Oh you want me to guess? Let me guess" - that's it. That's the autism, babes.

[@ericbarr734]

This may have been the best episode of the season. There are so many good TM episodes but this was hilarious

[@specters_art]

Jenny is a true Taskmaster classic. Love her throughout the series but these duck tasks were the highlight.

[@olivervickman638]

Honestly one of the best sets of tasks of all time

[@CaravelClerihew]

That duck task will go up there with the greats, like last season's password task.

[@jamiedallen5228]

How did they miss calling it a “Ducktionary”? 😂

[@Johnablah]

_*tries to guess Tom's birthday_ _*says date of a national tragedy_ Checks out.

[@Kleopold94]

This episode made me believe Jenny and Nina from season 1 would be great friends

[@fgjhham89]

From the betrail of last episode, to this episode's prize task, I have to say Anne and Loyd are a very cute couple.

[@ninestories2]

I guess "hundreds and thousands" refers to what are plainly called "sprinkles" in the US (formally "nonpareils") as in the decorative topping

[@Chocomint_Queen]

Nonpareil are spherical, as are hundreds & thousands, while sprinkles are usually (but not always) thin rods.

[@BigDaddy-vk6rv]

Josh getting #8 was just perfectly entertaining!

[@joen0411]

Most kids stick their finger in a pot of boiling water once. Jenny probably did it twice

[@rararepelsteeltje]

It wasn't boiling yet, though

[@corystarkiller]

Jenny had me crying with laughter. This is one of the classic series. The entire cast is great.

[@ahlamalta]

I went from having no clue that Lloyd and Ann were married the entire season, to feeling like they're the cutest couple in the world.

[@redgreen82]

They're not actually married. That's why Tom talked about them having all their time together to do it but it hasn't happened yet.

[@benzaiten933]

There it is, Jenny's legendary duck task!

[@jjjones336]

Jenny just made me fall in love with her science rant…

[@pahasiga]

Had she pointed out that Josh actually used taste AND touch maybe she would have gotten him disqualified.

[@mxmschae]

I must say that having two people in a relationship in this game makes for a great dynamic!

[@genericname2747]

We need more contestants with connections to each other

[@ZoahPorre]

Same for TM NZ where Paul Williams was the assistant and his brother was a contestant. that was gold.

[@eduardoramirez969]

Love seeing Josh get legit excited about tasks

[@tamoorfromthe5ive]

I think this was the greatest and also the cutest prize task in all combined Taskmaster history

[@alblin]

Tom tossing out Josh's fluke for absolutely no points was wild to me. I love the open credits and the zebra is definitely a highlight since the music cuts away.

[@momon969]

11:45 Best little moment, Tom the Lesser finding another lid under the lid.

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

He’s so expressive!

[@gautamparag496]

Jenny's Duck Duck was Epic !

[@kiratoxopeus732]

Josh deserved better

[@alblin]

Tom tossing out Josh's fluke for absolutely no points was wild to me. I love the open credits and the zebra is definitely a highlight since the music cuts away.

[@keeganapsey9238]

It's very funny that the zebra got zero points for being a fluke when it's literally the one moment I was looking forward to the most.

[@lforlight]

A way to solve the ducks and geese: * In riddles of always truth/always lie, you can ask either one "what would you answer if I asked you [yes/no question]?" and it'd cancel out any lie, resulting in a truth answer no matter who you all. If you ask a lying duck whether it's a duck, it'd say no. If you ask it about its answer to the question of whether it's a duck, it'd lie about the no and say yes. This technique can save you previous questions that would otherwise be wasted to establish who's telling the truth and who is lying. ** Do a binary search, splitting the group in half and asking which half the goose is in. Let's say it's #3: 1. "Number one, what would you answer if I asked you whether the goose is in the numbers 1 to 5?" Single quack, yes. 2. "Number two, what would you answer if I asked you whether the goose is in the numbers 1 to 3?" Single quack, yes. 3. "Number three, what would you answer if I asked you whether the goose is in the numbers 1 and 2?" Two quacks, no. Accuse 3. This search will give you the answer within log2(n) rounded up questions: 0 questions for 1 duck (automatically a goose), 1 question to tell apart 2 ducks, up to 2 questions for 3, definitely 2 questions for 4. Up to 3 questions for 5 to 7, 3 questions for 8 ducks. Then 3 to 4 questions for a number of ducks between 9 and 15, which is the case in this task, depending on how the uneven split lands.

[@kewlwarez]

In this case however you can just ask, as Lloyd did whether it was wearing a red or blue bowtie and you'd also know the answer, so this would not save any questions.

[@lforlight]

@@kewlwarez Asking a definitive question to tell apart the truth speakers from the liars is a waste of a question. As I explained my technique, you don't actually need to know who's lying and who isn't.

[@kewlwarez]

@@lforlight You don't, but you're not saving on the number of questions asked, so it's perhaps more elegant to do it your way, but not more efficient.

[@lforlight]

@@kewlwarez 1. Lloyd's first question to establish who's lying was redundant, and therefore wasteful. 2. Asking which color the goose wears is the same as asking in which half of the bunch the goose is. Since the colors seem to alternate, it's like asking whether it's an even or odd number. He was left with numbers 2 4 6 8 and 10. 3. Divisible by 4 was the second "halving". That left him with 4 and 8. 4. Asking about 8 was the last halving. Had the number been 2 6 or 10, he'd require a fifth question. So 4 to 5 questions, instead of the optimal 3 to 4 I proposed by ditching the first question.

[@genocidestomper]

This episode might be up there in the all time best episodes. Even the shag at the end with Wil's face

[@Dolgubon]

The duck duck goose game is a variant of a Knights and Knaves style of puzzles. If you format the questions as "What would a duck on the other team answer to the question X" the answer will always be a lie. So you can skip establishing which team are liars, and do a binary search, for an optimal solution of 4 questions.

[@MusicalJackknife]

True. What complicates things further is if you don't know which answer is yes and which is no (like if you didn't see the dictionary). It took me a while, but I finally formulated a way to answer that in one question.

[@SharienGaming]

i posted basically the same thing a couple minutes ago XD though with more explanation - also 4 is the optimal worst case solution... you might get lucky with the splits, since the number of ducks is not a power of 2, so at some point you will have uneven splits and as such the chance that your binary search eliminates the larger half of the searchspace - you can actually do it in 3 questions if you get lucky

[@MKBergen]

More interesting to me is that this type of riddles that I've heard always have 1 liar and 1 truthteller, but here is a bunch of individual ones. Meaning you can go to duck 1 and just ask, is duck 3 the goose? 5? 7? And then repeat for the other team. Whichever one the duck responds differently to than the other teammembers, is the goose. It's not 'optimal' but it is simple and wouldn't even require you to know what means yes/no OR which team is lying. And you'd only be asking the ducks questions about each other, as was Jenny's imagined rule.

[@SharienGaming]

@@MKBergen there was a limitation that each duck can only be asked one question and questions arent allowed to be repeated (though likely only exact repeats are forbidden) but yeah you could do a brute force solution like this if you find a way around the above rules (im pretty sure those rules are there to prevent this exact approach)

[@MusicalJackknife]

@@MKBergen I actually do think that would work, that you might need all 10 questions of course.

[@pataylor7164]

That second attempt at the duck duck goose game by Jenny was outstanding.

[@Dirtydeets95]

The girls trying to figure out that duck task is me living my daily life

[@Friendlysociopath]

Will might not be winning this series but damned if he's not having the time of his life laughing at everyone else *also* not winning it.

[@FantomMind]

Jenny had me rolling this episode. My goodness that was funny.

[@klandgraf6956]

You know I never thought anything would top Danielle’s password moment but Jenny has succeeded

[@mythnam]

I only just noticed that Lesser Tom's chair is Australia themed.

[@shhhhhhhhhhhhh]

i just love how animated Tom's face is 😂

[@lawrencecalablaster568]

The horny face from the last one was extraordinary.

[@ruffshots]

Would have been far funnier if Tom gave separate points to Ann and Lloyd for bringing each other in for the prize task.

[@MusicalJackknife]

Or he could have done the first ever double disqualification for a prize task, because if they wanted to marry each other, they would have, so bringing each other in automatically means they don't fit the brief.

[@iliketrains3495]

@@MusicalJackknife In UK Series 7 Jessica Knappett and Rhod Gilbert both got disqualified from the 'best 90's thing' prize task as their prizes weren't from the 90s

[@Rain_MG]

I think Lloyd did the duck task faster than an optimal algorithm would, since I think the optimal algorithm here is a binary search

[@zoa9720]

Yeah, except you need to "waste" the first question on figuring out who the liars are. Maybe there's a question that can half the number and find the liars.

[@Rain_MG]

@@zoa9720 I think the "wasted" question is inevitable Like you can make assumptions and work for a better best case scenario but it would waste more questions on average

[@LuisGustavoBD]

I think he did it optimally. First you determine which team is which, then you determine on which team the goose is. At this point, you've narrowed it down to five possible candidates with two questions. Then I'm pretty sure you can find the goose with two more questions, for instance, you ask if the goose number is even/odd, and use another question to figure out which it is from the remaining candidates. Of course this would depend on how the numbers are sorted out on each team , but I'm pretty confident you could reliably think of two smart questions to find the goose among five numbers from 1-10.

[@saemsodjesft8901]

You can eliminate the truth/lie distinction by asking a duck on one team what a duck on the other team would answer. Either way, the answer will be a lie. Then a binary search is optimal: you can guarantee finding the goose with four questions (or three if you get lucky.)

[@judo_ashtray]

​@saemsodjesft8901and Lloyd got lucky with that divisible by 4 question.

[@eyeonus]

duck ... duck goose questions: (any duck will do for any question) Q1 would the other gang say that the goose is wearing a blue bowtie? A1 yes (answer rules out ducks 1, 3, 5, 7) Q2 would the other gang say that the goose is one of the ducks numbered 1 through 4 A2 yes (answer rules out ducks 2, 4) Q3 would the other gang say that the goose is number 8? Q3 no (answer rules out duck 6) result: Accuse 8

[@kjdekker]

Where I was raised we played Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Grey Duck.

[@arin2747]

have you watched Taskmaster Minnesota?? it's fan-made on youtube and it actually legitimately fantastic!!!

[@SharienGaming]

i love how jenny is breaking tom in the goose task XD

[@chefrowlet]

the NAKED EXASPERATION in Lesser Tom's whole being during Jenny's duck task... oh to see Little Alex Horne's unflappable persona get broken over a proverbial knee in such a way

[@iHEARTice94]

I think Jenny was the epitome of overthinking in the duck/goose task.

[@kellyheidel4337]

Thank you, Taskmaster! This is just the pick-me-up I needed!

[@variousfungalnames]

I find the zebra toss very entertaining. I also know there is no way to change the scores now.

[@tubblebub]

Shithouse said with an Australian accent is my new favorite thing.

[@KathleenFeliciano]

The outfit!!! It's time for Jenny's duck duck goose😂😂

[@LuvMagic77]

I loved when she said Channel 10 will pay for it. 😂 That’s the way to do it girl!

[@goldenpony822]

40:40 I most often heartily disagree with Josh but taskmaster's intro is really fun. Prpbably the highest chance of rewatch among intros in general.

[@jamiecahill8152]

40:06 honey 😔

[@fooolsun4917]

I saw the Jenny goose task on tiktok and it's what made me finally watch taskmaster, I'm so glad to finally watch the whole episode, and I loved it! The prize task was so cute too (same as the ending). The only thing I didn't like was Josh getting his fluke disqualified, since the first episode I've seen people commenting on how funny the zebra clip is, it's entertaining!

[@ofsinope]

Regarding Josh's performance on the duck-duck-goose task: It actually does not matter whether one quack means yes or one quack means no. The puzzle works out identically either way. It only swaps which gang of birds you think are the liars. So in fact nobody needed to read the dictionary.

[@bop9057]

This is the best season of task master ever!!

[@MorganBondelid]

I want to see a clip video of Anne Edmonds and Jo Brand (UK series 9) being OVER IT.

[@miniclip13sa]

Jenny getting 3 DQs in a single episode, two of them being the same task, is monumental

[@micky2be]

Throwing the knife on a 20 on his 20th attempt, that's pure fluke there. He could have stopped right away

[@singenstattatmen5096]

Wish they hadn't put a time limit on the last task so everyone would have had to struggle on through to the very end.^^

[@janrees4887]

Ann is a mom. Finding things is part of the job 😂

[@janrees4887]

And the parents were also able to do things with their hands full. Josh doing it was a fluke 😂

[@justinmanser7525]

8 is the Goose is the name of that game from now on....Of course I can see it leading to drinking games around the Southern Hemisphere getting really out of hand but hey, they're used to being upside down anyways. Great episode!

[@georgesos]

Josh,this is for you ❤❤❤

[@evinisradical]

Okay just digging in, please tell me they at some point deal with the fact that Josh is dressed as Spongebob

[@Ashezth]

they missed out on calling it a Ducktionary

[@davidconnell1959]

Josh is so cute with his cozy knit over top of his shiny clothes. Everybody is extra bright and upbeat today.

[@Chuefieng]

If you could lose two tasks in the same episode, could you win two tasks in the same episodes?

[@mikey__t]

crazy that wil trying to guess toms birthday by starting with september 11th was actually only 3 days off (just googled, it's sept 14)

[@Member3285]

Jenny just gained like 1,000,000,000 cool points! I love science, and she knows things!

[@maslo9427]

josh was SO robbed with the fluke task, like cmon xdddd

[@zhuofanzhang9974]

The total score looks like a mirrored version of UK Series 17 right now

[@fizzify3000]

aww I was kinda hoping Lloyd would suprise us and Anne at the end there

[@NadiaEldemerdash]

I honestly assumed that’s where that whole task was going tbh, and then at the end when she was up there with him I thought oh here it comes, but alas. It would’ve been super cute but I can also see where it might feel a bit much