I can't even begin to imagine how efficient the Mitchell household is.
@TPHRyan2 жыл бұрын
Not very, they spend all their time arguing why the other should do something
@sodone45932 жыл бұрын
But they probably argue with efficiency
@kouathalla90402 жыл бұрын
@@sodone4593 I'd pay good penny to watch them efficiently argue.
@athirkell2 жыл бұрын
"The Mitchell household"? I assume you mean the Coren household. Or maybe possibly the Coren-Mitchell household if David's having a particularly assertive day.
@sodone45932 жыл бұрын
@@athirkell haha that's funny
@benjamintillema35722 жыл бұрын
4:35 I like how nonchalant Alan is when Victoria solved the riddle. Like, for him the task was "Sit in this room and do everything Victoria tells you to. You'll get to look like Charlie Chaplin and you can solve a jigsaw if you want."
@queenlives4ever2 жыл бұрын
I'd pay money to see David and Victoria solve some Escape Rooms
@kaiatlas72442 жыл бұрын
David would just complain at the pure existence of said escape room lmao
@OrgaNik_Music2 жыл бұрын
David would just endlessly complain how pointless and annoying it is while Victoria would solve the entire thing in record time.
@peachh60842 жыл бұрын
I can hear him now 😆
@shanustheanus2 жыл бұрын
@@peachh6084 how can they call this an escape room, when it is in fact a series of rooms, that you could easily say let me out and they'll let you out? What exactly are we escaping? A clock that's counting down? Well guess what! There's no escaping that! The count down to the end is inevitable for us all! We are all going to meet our end, at least here, when we do, they let us out. All we're escaping from is valuable time that we could have used in a more productive or enjoyable way than standing here behind a closed door. Also, who leaves clues for such a complicated lock in the same room as the lock? What's the point of having the lock? Just leave it open.
@peachh60842 жыл бұрын
@@shanustheanus 😂😂😂 This is gold!
@CryptP2 жыл бұрын
I like that she went 'well I've got half of the code deciphered here' and went about figuring out the other half without considering that Alan might have it
@TimoRutanen2 жыл бұрын
That was an english text with a substitution cipher without regrouping letters into standard length blocks. With ciphers like these, you can often times guess words like 'the', 'I', and 'is' and decipher it even without any clues. Also looking for the most common letters (Eothasin) you can often get started or even finished. Sometimes there are hiccups in the end where a word is missing one letter and it can be a few different ones. It was very efficient nonetheless. Finding the door with the rest of the jigsaw pieces was pretty nice.
@CryptP2 жыл бұрын
@@TimoRutanen I know, you can often figure out substitution ciphers on your own without any additional input help too. It was still impressive that she'd start working it out under pressure like that without looking for extra clues that mightve been left
@reddragon31322 жыл бұрын
@@CryptP What I find more entertaining is that she thought she was meant to be doing that - she didn't think Alan would have any other information. No way in a million years would Alex expect them to solve it without all the letters but for Victoria that would have been a perfectly reasonable request
@dubliam80642 жыл бұрын
Considering Victoria is very clever she would have assumed that the letter that had been said the most was an E since it's the most common letter in English
@dragthatsht2 жыл бұрын
She was given the location of Alan's task and thought, we won't be needing that.
@jamesmcnulty36972 жыл бұрын
The fact that Alan is told to look like Charlie Chaplain and at no point asks 'why' is so funny to me xD like he just puts it on and continues with the rest of the task lol
@Hezkezl2 жыл бұрын
They're veterans mate! They've both been on enough quiz shows, and they know what the point of THIS show is, so they both know that there are sometimes weird things that you'll be asked to do at any point and it just saves time to just do what's asked and save the questions for later.
@bulletvivace2 жыл бұрын
I just think he wanted to do it, so he just played along
@JonasHamill2 жыл бұрын
tbf even before he heard from Victoria he was sat there, wearing the hat, peeling off the plastic in oder to stick the moustache on. He was ready to dress up as Chaplin long before considering if he was meant to
@nvrmnde2 жыл бұрын
That was my favourite bit. Didn't question what was asked just went on and did what he was told. 😁
@mattsnyder47542 жыл бұрын
To be fair, if you’ve been told to solve a riddle alongside Victoria Mitchell, and she says “I need you to look like Charlie Chaplain.” Then you make yourself look like Charlie Chaplain.
@Cate_782 жыл бұрын
3:42 she's even correcting the puzzle's punctuation. "I bet there should be a comma." Love it. 😂
@jawstrock22152 жыл бұрын
well, in any cypher, ponctuation are dead giveaways, so they are usually ommited, space is another culprit that are tried to be removed, but that would make this task takes way too long ;)
@kurtsudheim8252 жыл бұрын
True fir grammar, but not good for puzzles like this, it can at times help you solze the phrase, when you should only have the words
@declan7812 жыл бұрын
i=o!
@ymac72452 жыл бұрын
@@declan781 z=v!
@andreaskarlsson5251 Жыл бұрын
@@declan781 e=mc squared
@robinnes26622 жыл бұрын
It honestly makes me howl that Victoria is busy successfully deciphering a code for letters she hasn’t even got access to at the same time as Alan is trying to work out how to put together a jigsaw that doesn’t have any corners.
@RogueWraith9092 жыл бұрын
Ever done a Skeleton Crossword? Similar concept and a really fun or frustrating challenge.
@Museofmemory2 жыл бұрын
New Sherlock reboot. Victoria as Holmes, Alan as Watson.
@TheBeetress2 жыл бұрын
F*** yes!
@veronicahamilton31742 жыл бұрын
I would pre-order three seasons!
@ellenseltz45482 жыл бұрын
I would watch the heck out of that.
@domj36982 жыл бұрын
Yes please that would be fucking brilliant
@TheBT2 жыл бұрын
I don't know, for some reason I think Alan would be great in a sherlock like role :D
@scottnunnemaker52092 жыл бұрын
Man she’s make a good boss. Clear concise communication and direction.
@roberthoward95002 жыл бұрын
and she does 98% of the work.
@peterclarke72402 жыл бұрын
I think I'd be terrified but strangely comforted at the thought that she was my boss... we'd just sort of accept that she was on a different intellectual plane than me, so her expectations of me would be realistically low, while I'd be too scared to do anything other than follow her instructions (which she'd ensure were crystal clear with no room for misinterpretation or confusion) to the letter. Sounds like the perfect job. Although I may have just inadvertently described the relationship between a supervillain and their favourite, albeit somewhat intellectually challenged, henchman... 🤔 Maybe I need to think about a career change...
@Drummer1000George2 жыл бұрын
Although, her team mate had a lot of the answers she spent time figuring out. To be fair that might have been Alan's fault for not mentioning it straight away.
@Karu_TC2 жыл бұрын
@@Drummer1000George He did mention it, tbh. "I think I've found the other jigsaw"
@CricketEngland2 жыл бұрын
Well that’s what you get when you host a highbrow quiz like “Only Connect”
@anyalazor79782 жыл бұрын
I think Alan was brilliant as well - while Victoria was putting together the puzzle, Alan was looking for his (it wasn't just on the table but hidden) so that's why he was behind on putting it together but he did the tasks given to him brilliantly! I think they were both amazing in this!
@lilac62572 жыл бұрын
Yeah thanks for mentioning!
@anderpanders62102 жыл бұрын
Haha I guess he gets put on the list of honorable mentions
@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg2 жыл бұрын
He had to find his part of the puzzle based on a clue which Victoria couldn't give him. Alan isn't getting nearly enough recognition for his problem solving here.
@Thisandthat89084 ай бұрын
she must have had enough letters figured out that she could get the riddle.
@michaelno186511 сағат бұрын
@@Thisandthat8908 I think it was also quite easy to guess the other letters with only having half of the alphabet since she has the riddle to cypher, just by common sense she can guess which letter is which example If she was given A= O P= H E= T then the given cypher is OHHUT = APP_E it's common sense that U will most likely be L, then go on from there, and the more letters you guess the fewer letters it is likely to be
@MrBuch1691692 жыл бұрын
I fell in love when Victoria asked, "How do you know that?!"
@Pernicion2 жыл бұрын
I fell in love when she won her first EPT tournament. She's absolutely brilliant.
@mattc35812 жыл бұрын
@@Pernicion She's very cool as a poker commentator too. Makes lots of sensible points, then when someone 6 bets their 5-7o preflop she is happy to say 'I have no idea what's going on here, everyone should have folded ages ago, they're all lunatics.'
@MomoKunDaYo2 жыл бұрын
I fell in live appreciating her on only connect, she has wit, charisma, and a large bust size
@kurtsudheim8252 жыл бұрын
She was so focused she didn't even hear alan day he'd found the other half of the puzzle
@Penquinn142 жыл бұрын
@@kurtsudheim825 a thing I think a lot of people are forgetting is that if you press the button on a walkie talkie while someone else is talking into theirs you can't hear it anymore. I think what happened was that Alan was explaining that he had a jigsaw with the letters on the back but only got to "I have a jigsaw puzzle" before she started to respond so that's all she would've heard and Alan wouldn't have heard her doing it either since he was already talking so they just ended up finishing their own statements to nothing in response
@mairibee2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love how much Alan and Victoria seemed to enjoy this task compared to the team of threes reception hahaha
@bobothn2 жыл бұрын
Alan got to pretend to be Chaplin, Victoria had a word puzzle. I am pretty sure that's what they would have been doing anyway if they weren't on taskmaster.
@amazingabby252 жыл бұрын
I think having a team two was an advantage here
@danielurban3416 Жыл бұрын
But they had no Revelations
@rebekahtablante3273 ай бұрын
Is the other teams video posted anywhere?
@CB-lw7ty2 жыл бұрын
I love how Alan is literally like: Do you have a code on the back of your puzzle and just because she tells him she's almost done he doesn't even bother to reply I've got one too lol
@cassindra4382 жыл бұрын
This has the same energy as Joe Thomas answering questions and doing maths quickly at the studio task
@krablord2 жыл бұрын
Do you remember what episode that was? Loved Joe Thomas but cant remember this for the life of me
@cassindra4382 жыл бұрын
@@krablord Season 8, episode 7
@Abigailk592 жыл бұрын
Do you know what the task was they were doing? I really want to find this.
@cassindra4382 жыл бұрын
@@Abigailk59 If you mean for Joe, it was the studio task. The final task at the end of the video where they go on the stage.
@mindicity38742 жыл бұрын
@@Abigailk59 It was the one where they had to pull strings to release numbered doors, and they didn't want to have the green egg drop on them.
@esteban2808892 жыл бұрын
This was built for her. If only there were more tasks like this for her
@rachelcookie3212 жыл бұрын
Should do an escape room.
@bigmike1155910 ай бұрын
They did have the bicycle task :)
@MedievalFolkDance2 жыл бұрын
There is absolutely no stopping the mind of a puzzle solver when given the slightest whiff of a riddle. It becomes a very personal challenge.
@TheNerdle422 жыл бұрын
I find it so funny that she didnt think Alan would have the other half of the code. She just realised she could work it out and assumed that was what she was meant to do.
@BambooCoffin2 жыл бұрын
"Very much a task drawn from the world of the customised inhaler" - Best line ever.
@this_too_shaII_pass2 жыл бұрын
I'm stupid, I don't get it, what does she mean by that?
@esobelisk31102 жыл бұрын
@@this_too_shaII_pass same
@BambooCoffin2 жыл бұрын
@@esobelisk3110 you need to have seen the full episode to get it really.
@esobelisk31102 жыл бұрын
@@BambooCoffin ahh, and I can’t watch the full episodes because they’re blocked in my country.
@caroldier64252 жыл бұрын
@@this_too_shaII_pass I've not seen the whole thing, but given that an inhaler is a medical device for delivering individual specific doses of medication, and to customise that further, you have the equivalent of a task devised/designed specifically for her
@portablethunderstorm24782 жыл бұрын
Victoria Coren Mitchell is who I wanna be when I grow up
@benthomas24582 жыл бұрын
Why wait
@billbauer97952 жыл бұрын
How old are you?
@Lumibear.2 жыл бұрын
Lucky David!
@LeornianCyng2 жыл бұрын
I knew Victoria would boss this and it’s still one of the best things I’ve ever seen. I listened to her on the podcast the other day.
@TheKielecki2 жыл бұрын
What podcast was she on?
@LeornianCyng2 жыл бұрын
@@TheKielecki Taskmaster podcast, it’s like an in depth behind the scenes look at that weeks episode. Only realised they did one lol.
@reginadejong91622 жыл бұрын
@@LeornianCyng Oh my God, now I have to rewatch all the episodes. Ah well hehe..
@alyssa094852 жыл бұрын
Everything Victoria did in this one is genius, but the way she clearly communicated everything she has on the table and describes everything she sees on the papers is AMAZING, that's exactly what you need when doing a co-op puzzle like this LOL and on top of that, she also gives clear instructions and uses her time efficiently, like she clearly explains the map to Alan while simultaneously solving her puzzle
@georgiegan2 жыл бұрын
Victoria almost solved the task with 50% of the codes provided. Alan pretty much just put on a Charlie Chaplin cosplay and sat there chillin, he did provide some of the codes from his side but not sure how much of it Victoria needed. Meanwhile the other team was having several revelations with no answers.
@wp12mv2 жыл бұрын
actually, she had access to 2/3s of the code. All the codes were in alphabetical order, and because she had the right half, she knew what the 3rd 1/3rd was, and the answers of the 2nd 1/3rd, from which it was easy to deduce 2/3s of all letters
@bobothn2 жыл бұрын
In alans defense he found the Charlie Chaplin cosplay about a half hour before desire found hers. He didn't end up being necessary but he was quick with his bits.
@aussiechris59042 жыл бұрын
bear in mind also, that this is edited for time on TV
@ninoska.noe.2 жыл бұрын
Alan is there for the cute relatable content lol
@allbrave87812 жыл бұрын
She actually did decipher 100%. I deciphered it using only the letters on Victoria's puzzle and her comments. The only 3 remaining letters she had to decipher were J, E, and T. She tells Alan E = Y and he confirms it, with the two words YOT and YOT'LL she needed no help working out T is U. Alan's only contribution was telling her J = C which was actually wrong, because C = J and J = F. You can confirm this yourself by looking at their halves at 3:25 and 3:46.
@strayo2 жыл бұрын
"We didn't think anyone could solve it with only half the jigsaw" Well with just a replacement cipher and a sentence that's quite long you could probably crack it without clues at all if you try a bit
@NathanSmith-om8ym2 жыл бұрын
Definitely, because that's exactly what I did. They showed the code in the setup VT, so I paused it and it took about 20mins for me to complete. It helped that the word taskmaster was in there twice, and the word Alex. Then I watched the task and felt smug for about a day.
@snowfloofcathug2 жыл бұрын
@@NathanSmith-om8ym I vote for you to continue feeling (a little) smug going forwards for it
@andyt2k2 жыл бұрын
@@NathanSmith-om8ym Did you include opening the envelopes, putting the puzzle together, waiting for someone to put on a hat and stash, directing someone to find their part, then solving the riddle
@MsHojat2 жыл бұрын
I've done exactly that. Solved a scramble-ciphered message without any key for a single letter.
@Burnhardt19852 жыл бұрын
@@MsHojat Agreed. These are not all that difficult. You just simply start with the words that are repeated. In a riddles case these are likely to be 'what' and 'and'. Or you go full Imitation Game, and start with something you know is going to be in there.
@boneyarsebogman2 жыл бұрын
I really hope they also upload the team of 3's attempt - that had me in floods of tears laughing
@wystxrr2 жыл бұрын
I mean Morgana actually getting her team to say submarine was very impressive
@pooroldnostradamus2 жыл бұрын
Hopefully the unedited version
@krablord2 жыл бұрын
@@pooroldnostradamus The unedited one can be released as Guz's studio album with those tunes
@sigira2 жыл бұрын
"Who the fuck is Veronica?!" had me (and Alex) rolling! I think Alex enjoyed sitting in on that one
@shadou12345672 жыл бұрын
@@pooroldnostradamus you want allmost 2 hours of Gus revelations?
@RickeGnool2 жыл бұрын
This is now one of ny all time favorite tasks. I loved everything from Victoria being so brilliant to Gus being disastrous.
@atrumluminarium2 жыл бұрын
"I have another revelation" 🤣
@emmybm152 жыл бұрын
The revelations just kept coming 😂
@billbauer97952 жыл бұрын
It would have been more interesting if all of the contestants were brilliant like Victoria.
@bugbear23572 жыл бұрын
Gus had many revelations
@jason_a_smith_gb2 жыл бұрын
One of my favourites are the balloons in morse code.
@jimmy_the_squid94562 жыл бұрын
When it's a logical task she's untouchable but when it's a silly task she crumbles
@Necron00b2 жыл бұрын
"Victoria Coren-Mitchell SMASHES this Riddle Task" - AKA One of the most alluring moments in Taskmaster history. haha
@221b-Maker-Street2 жыл бұрын
Cleverness is so sexy.
@erinpauley90472 жыл бұрын
Honestly Alan is just a large kid and I love it, he seems to have enjoyed the walkie talkie so much!
@mangalores-x_x2 жыл бұрын
He is also smarter than people think. He knows Victoria and plainly thought it more fun to let her run wild while being relaxed. Because it is better comedy.
@noplace3571 Жыл бұрын
Every time I come back to this I'm always so blown away by how clever she is
@TARDIStraveller969 ай бұрын
Same here. Victoria is so intelligent, it's mesmerising
@edydaou2 жыл бұрын
Don't get me wrong I love Victoria and she is brilliant, but for everyone saying Alan sat there and didn't do much. He asked Victoria if she had a code on the back of her puzzle she said yes but give me a minute she nearly deciphered it. She's the one who had the enigma.
@vacri542 жыл бұрын
Alan's side of the puzzle was also the 'passenger'/reactive side. Victoria's side was the 'driving' side - it had what to do with the hat, the first half of the jigsaw, and where to look for the other half of the puzzle. Apart from reading back the code, there wasn't much new information to feed back the other way.
@TARDIStraveller962 жыл бұрын
I adore VCM and getting to see her in her element is easily my favourite moment of the series so far. Well done to the pair of them, they smashed it
@Buterflie1292 жыл бұрын
Victoria solving the cipher with only half the puzzle reminds me of a time my friend and I solved a substitution cipher in an escape room without a code wheel which we never found… we were given a few letters as far as I recall and realised they were slipping two places backwards in the alphabet. The guy who came to get us out after we completed the escape room seemed impressed and confused - much like Alex appears here!
@pierreseneclauze80852 жыл бұрын
I remember that somebody in my class was passing note with the pigpen cypher. At the time didn't know about the cypher, and the class was boring as hell. Took me the two hour (without letter given). Pretty proud about myself on this one.
@waireads27122 жыл бұрын
At no point does Alan query why he needs to look like Charlie Chaplin or why doing so allows Victoria to look into an envelope.
@233Deadman2 жыл бұрын
It's almost like he knows what show he's on. If only all of the contestants were so wise.
@TheZotmeister2 жыл бұрын
"How do you know that?" XD I mean, if she had two more seconds, she could have PIECED that together herself. ...I'll get me coat.
@protocol62 жыл бұрын
Alex severely underestimated a person's ability to figure out what a phrase is when half the letters are missing. Gameshows like Wheel of Fortune suggest it can be done with a much lower percentage. I expect VCM did manage it in above average time but I think nearly everyone would have been able to do it if they'd thought to fill in all the letters they could.
@wystxrr2 жыл бұрын
She hosts only connect that has a missing vowels round, so I guess maybe you get some knowledge from it
@wp12mv2 жыл бұрын
actually, VCM had access to 2/3s of the code. she had the answers of the center 1/3rd, and because the letters were ordered alphabetically, she knew 2/3rds of the code
@protocol62 жыл бұрын
@@wp12mv Umm, yea. She had 53 out of 100 letters of the plaintext assuming she worked out 19 rather than just the 12 complete letters in the key. She'd only have had 35 out of 100 if she hadn't made use of the key being alphabetized. The text was a bit unlucky as far as letter frequencies go. She had 73% (or 46%) of the key which, by english frequency, should have given her around 68% (or 43%) of the letters.
@nataliaaiman252 жыл бұрын
not alan just sitting there waiting for victoria to solve the riddle 😂😂😂
@jacobpaint2 жыл бұрын
How can she be so clever and yet when Alan said he had the other half of the jigsaw she didn’t immediately realise that it probably has the other half of the code… and yet she still figured it out.
@rlmush2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps she did realise! I like to think that she just wanted to flex her deciphering skills. It’s not every day you’d get the opportunity
@RabscuttleRabbit2 жыл бұрын
It could be when Alan said "code" Victoria thought he meant a coded message rather than the other half of the key.
@xlukalee2 жыл бұрын
Alan didn't realize it immediately either, he looked around for something to decipher himself.
@NikolaiProkoschenko2 жыл бұрын
She said on the podcast she felt there's no challenge with all replacement pairs known, so it has been more or less deliberate or rather didn't matter at that point anyway apart from cross-checking a couple of guesses.
@wp12mv2 жыл бұрын
her half actually contained 2/3s of the code. She had access to the 3rd column, and the answers of the center column. Everything was ordered alphabetically, which means she could simply fill in the center column and know 2/3s of the code
@deanwylie98932 жыл бұрын
Amazing problem solving skills, determination and quick thinking on display. So good to watch, can't wait to see more. Nice work Alan.
@chinareds542 жыл бұрын
Victoria's cracking of the code reminds me of this online escape room I played, where they key was inside a box in the main room, and there was a coded message telling you how to get the code to open the box. The rest of the puzzle was to supposed to have you hunt around until you found the "translation stone" with the substitution key. I couldn't find the translation stone at first, but I guessed from the pattern of the letters that the first 3 words of the message were "TO OPEN BOX", and from there I managed to brute force the substitution key and solve the message.
@DrUmbreon2 жыл бұрын
You can see why she hosts Only Connect
@theplasmawolf2 жыл бұрын
I'm impressed by Victoria's puzzle solving, but she also blanked out Alan for a moment there, and Alan let her. at 3:53 he only had to interrupt her with "I've got the other half of the puzzle remember, with the rest of the cypher key."
@nvrmnde2 жыл бұрын
it's like he just gave up. She's in puzzle land, no point talking to her now. 😂
@TheMarcusoft2 жыл бұрын
Not sure if I'm watching taskmaster or a new remake of Sherlock 🤔 Alan does make a good Watson and Victoria is absolutely brilliant
@TheAlps362 жыл бұрын
Ooooh now I'm imagining a Sherlock reboot with her as the title character. Stephen Fry could even play Moriarty
@TheMarcusoft2 жыл бұрын
@@TheAlps36 i was thinking Fry as mycroft and Jimmy Carr as moriarty!
@emmybm152 жыл бұрын
@@TheMarcusoft wouldn't be the first time Fry has played Mycroft to be fair!
@TheAlps362 жыл бұрын
@@TheMarcusoft I dunno I don't think I could take Jimmy Carr playing a villain seriously
@sophiemacdonald36162 жыл бұрын
“It is very much a task drawn from the world of the customised inhaler” - totally accurate
@kida43132 жыл бұрын
At least Guz had a revelation!
@carlos_hb2 жыл бұрын
I don't think they ever revealed who the f* was Veronica
@bugbear23572 жыл бұрын
So many revelations. Who was Veronica, I wonder?
@marcus71952 жыл бұрын
Even putting the jigsaw together on a piece of paper so she can flip it easily was a level of genius I can only dream of
@digitool59442 жыл бұрын
Alan does the same
@grimmcrag87152 жыл бұрын
"it's very much a task drawn from the world of the custom inhaler" 😂
@andyt2k2 жыл бұрын
I like this, there's no sneaky trick or wacky craziness, you just have to be smart and organized and that's Victoria sorted
@embrace70522 жыл бұрын
This felt like watching a thriller, mystery movie. The plots interconnecting to each other which initially doesn't makes sense, that one character who tries to search for answers on their own ignoring their partner because there is miscommunication between them and then finally the dialogue where one says 'i just need to find this' and the other said 'do you mean this?' and boom they solved the case. The background music too was what mystery movies have.
@kellyhunter8249 Жыл бұрын
I love how Allan just doesn't think any of Victoria's requests or statements are odd lol. "Can you make yourself like Charlie Chaplin", oh yeah, sure
@em-do9ru2 жыл бұрын
alan really carried this challenge icl
@Buretsu2 жыл бұрын
Quite the revelation, that.
@jamezp12 жыл бұрын
Without j = c Victoria would still be there ngl
@dcworld10762 жыл бұрын
@@Buretsu there;s been another revelation
@arianaajbeaverhausen81752 жыл бұрын
The way I'd get someone to say submarine is to start singing "we all live in a yellow..." and wait for someone to finish the sentence. I'd excuse myself by saying "sorry, just got that song in my head there" 🤪 I'd be lost at trying to do the equations in Victoria and Alan's task though. 😄❤
@BlaizeFalconburger2 жыл бұрын
I've always been a fan of Old Goosebump Arm
@SpaceMonkeyBoi2 жыл бұрын
Alan: "you know, I'm somewhat of a Charlie Chaplin myself."
@Sunprism2 жыл бұрын
"Surely this won't be the longest task we ever filmed"
@hylianchriss2 жыл бұрын
Gotta admit though, when she started reading the riddle and the first line was "What is greater than the Taskmaster..." I immediately thought "NOTHING" because Alex Horne is behind the task, and therefore riddle, in his endless worship of Greg. That first line solidified the answer a bit too early and easily, but still very entertaining watching Victoria work on deciphering the puzzle code!
@EnteiFire42 жыл бұрын
The last sentence of the riddle is pretty well-known, too.
@sixjhontongalamar979 Жыл бұрын
Already knew it because there's an actual riddle where Alex probably based it on. Instead of Taskmaster it was "God", and instead of Alex it was "the devil" or "evil deities". The riddle goes along the lines of, "More just than the gods. More evil than evil deities. The rich needs me. The poor needs me not. If you eat me, you'll die."
@levi19292 жыл бұрын
That. Was. HAWT! Victoria is so clever! I’m so jealous of David right now!
@MichaelM282 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad Victoria and Alan were paired together
@wystxrr2 жыл бұрын
Okay this was incredible
@bondfool2 жыл бұрын
I would really love to hear a member of the other team talk about their experience watching this. I would have broken out in a cold sweat.
@firerednaxela2 жыл бұрын
I just had a revelation watching this video...
@Cheskaz Жыл бұрын
There's an alternate universe where Victoria and Desiree were paired for the team tasks and they were astounding
@deanholloway77552 жыл бұрын
Beauty and brains with great humour. David is a lucky man and he knows it. Perfect pair.
@JoffJk2 жыл бұрын
Having Alan in the title of this video is very generous 😉
@imogen52182 жыл бұрын
I would like David Mitchell, Claudia Winkleman, Miranda Hart and any of the Idiot Six on this show.
@darkglasses872 жыл бұрын
Claudia would be amazing!
@mnemosyned2 жыл бұрын
Holy crap, yes. Bonus if all on the same series.
@233Deadman2 жыл бұрын
David said that he doesn't want to do it because puzzles like this infuriate him and he doesn't think he'd have fun.
@imogen52182 жыл бұрын
Also think Sarah Millican or Michael McIntyre would be great
@SennaAugustus2 жыл бұрын
Imagine Victoria's speed if she just ignored Alan completely and just used her half cipher. It was a waste of time finding the Charlie Chaplin and everything.
@TimoRutanen2 жыл бұрын
The ciphered text was behind Charlie Chaplin though so that part can't be skipped.
@MisterAppleEsq2 жыл бұрын
@@TimoRutanen Nope, it was on the table, only the map needed Charlie Chaplin.
@AdmiralJota2 жыл бұрын
It was a waste of time doing her half of the jigsaw. I'm sure she could have done the cipher easily without it.
@NikolaiProkoschenko2 жыл бұрын
I have to wonder what the tangerine and the bell has been there for.
@beth12svist2 жыл бұрын
@@NikolaiProkoschenko Red herrings?
@EmoxxxEmmaxxxBryan Жыл бұрын
Of course Victoria killed it she’s freaking brilliant
@AlexSwePR2 жыл бұрын
Seriously hope you'll release some of the not seen footage of the other team's frustration!
@bobothn2 жыл бұрын
Thats what I don't like about these clips. This was impressive but lacks so much when you don't see the other team struggling with it.
@MateusSFigueiredo2 жыл бұрын
@@bobothn I'm just happy they also release the full episodes eventually
@Ibdabadman2 жыл бұрын
We need to see Mitchell and Webb in one of these at the same time. Now that would be hilarious 😂
@tuuli4002 Жыл бұрын
Victoria is dechipering the code and meanwhile David: "I've got a pen" XD
@toasthall70272 жыл бұрын
I would happily watch Victoria do more riddles like this.
@kholdanstaalstorm68812 жыл бұрын
Wow, that was really impressive! With almost only their appearance on QI to go from, this was a really different side to see from them both!
@233Deadman2 жыл бұрын
Victoria does also host one of the most fiendishly difficult quiz shows on tv with Only Connect.
@kholdanstaalstorm68812 жыл бұрын
@@233Deadman I've heard of it from QI and some other places, but haven't seen any episodes yet. 😕
@paperlacejane2 жыл бұрын
She's good at making... connections.
@rorymackie40162 жыл бұрын
Nice to see 'Ol Goosebump Arm doing well.
@JosephE-yd6ks2 жыл бұрын
Victoria seems like someone who would've done well in mi5
@gmf1212662 жыл бұрын
Victoria would have been a codebreaker at Bletchley Park if she had been born 60 years earlier.
@ericgan1232 жыл бұрын
I wonder what will happen if Victoria and Alan switch places.
@mindicity38742 жыл бұрын
5:22 - She may have had half the jigsaw, but she had 3/4 of the cypher, because she had the answers to H-N, and she likely would have seen quite quickly that the entire puzzle key had the alphabet in sequential order. I can see why she didn't think that perhaps Alan had the other half of the puzzle - it's quite doable with the half she had. In retrospect, the puzzle probably should have had one more column of pieces, left blank, and that's where the puzzle should have been broken in half. Still proud of her. Absolutely smashed it.
@allbrave87812 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, Alan's contribution is actually even more hilarious! I used Victoria's half of the puzzle and her comments, to work out exactly how much she had deciphered before Alan "helped," and the only letters she hadn't deciphered yet were J, E, and T. She says to Alan "E = Y" meaning she also got that without his help. She had solved everything but the final line which now looked like this "AND IC YOT EAT IT YOT'LL DIE." She would obviously need no help working out T = U. "IC" is not a typo. Alan's only contribution, saying J = C, was wrong, because actually J = F. Alan's only contribution was actually a hindrance to Victoria.
@MikeMJPMUNCH2 жыл бұрын
So Victoria is basically the real life Jonathan Creek
@brydon5721 Жыл бұрын
Victoria is one very smart cookie.
@grim-upnorth2 жыл бұрын
She's amazing, brains AND beauty... This just made her even more attractive to me
@hildurmildur2 жыл бұрын
Victoria Coren-Mitchell is Queen of the Universe, but we already knew that. This is just further proof. 🧡
@darinfoat84102 жыл бұрын
This is one of my favorite series of Taskmaster. They're all so much fun. And I just like Victoria more with every episode.
@CharlestonAES2 жыл бұрын
For those of us that live in a region where we can't get the full episodes, it really sucks that this edit didn't include the other team's efforts
@221b-Maker-Street2 жыл бұрын
Use a VPN?
@markjackson38512 ай бұрын
Also the additional skill shown by Victoria, was that she could do the jigsaw at the same time as directing Alan around his room.......absolute Genius
@junezhang6267Ай бұрын
DAMN it’s honestly a joy watching smart people doing things they are good at
@hairyheartsmith85132 жыл бұрын
Please make the episodes available in the US again. This is a fantastic show and I very much miss watching it.
@233Deadman2 жыл бұрын
That's probably because the original network over here sold it to another channel.
@TheMultiGamerOfficial2 жыл бұрын
Nobody's asking what Alan's bell and orange was for.
@LaLaLaAllDayLong2 жыл бұрын
She’s so smart I love her
@davidshi4512 жыл бұрын
Honestly I'm most impressed that she answered the riddle! Definitely her forte.
@sjs96982 жыл бұрын
there's a very commonly known riddle (in england, at least) that has 'nothing' as the answer, even i (who am genuinely awful at riddles) managed to solve this one quite fast as it has basically the format of the popular one - the deciphered riddle is itself is enciphered :D
@RO8s2 жыл бұрын
Didn't need to ask Tim Henman at all!
@zastorlexa98002 жыл бұрын
Intelligent woman. Always been impressed by her.
@spaceo85682 жыл бұрын
As soon as I saw the bowler hat. It's that painting of the guy with the hat and the orange covering his face. Thomas crown affair sh*t.
@EdgyShooter2 жыл бұрын
Damn that was an enjoyable experience
@juanjocss2 жыл бұрын
One of the best tasks I've ever seen in the show
@CV-lm7pv2 жыл бұрын
She didn't even complain about having half the code. She was already trying to figure out the missing letters 🤣
@SDayle2 жыл бұрын
Alan is adorable with those mustache. XD
@TheCornBanana2 жыл бұрын
She's having all sorts of fun there
@forgottenfamily9 ай бұрын
So mulling this over, I actually think this cipher is gettable without the puzzle. The big key is guessing that Alex would include "Taskmaster" somewhere. 10 letter words are not common so you'd be able to identify it quickly (in fact, there's no other candidates in the riddle). If you are unwilling to make that guess, yeah, gotta go with the puzzle This makes the first sentence: __AT _S _REATER T_A_ T_E TASKMASTER the 5th word isn't hard to guess as "the" giving you an h. "_HAT" is clearly "what", "_reater" is easy to get as "greater", "tha_" to "than" isn't hard, 3 options for the second word: as, is, us. Is makes sense From there, it gets easy. M_RE gives you the o, NEE_S gives you d, the final sentence has no noun but twice the same "_O_" appears allowing for "you". This leave E_I_, DE_I_ and A_E_ as the only words remaining. I'm sure some might find evil and devil easier but the other sentence contrasts against the subsequent for the Taskmaster making Alex identifiable, either way the L makes the other words easy to identify.
@vgaportauthority99322 жыл бұрын
That's pretty impressive. Victoria is sharp, it's awesome watching her play poker.
@redelfshotthefood82132 жыл бұрын
As a fellow puzzle geek, I reveled in VCM’s leaps.