Victoria Coren-Mitchell SMASHES this Riddle Task | Taskmaster

[@benjamintillema3572]

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."

[@CryptP]

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

[@TimoRutanen]

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.

[@CryptP]

@@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

[@reddragon3132]

@@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

[@dubliam8064]

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

[@dragthatsht]

She was given the location of Alan's task and thought, we won't be needing that.

[@kouathalla9040]

I can't even begin to imagine how efficient the Mitchell household is.

[@TPHRyan]

Not very, they spend all their time arguing why the other should do something

[@sodone4593]

But they probably argue with efficiency

[@kouathalla9040]

@@sodone4593 I'd pay good penny to watch them efficiently argue.

[@athirkell]

"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.

[@sodone4593]

@@athirkell haha that's funny

[@jamesmcnulty3697]

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

[@Hezkezl]

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.

[@bulletvivace]

I just think he wanted to do it, so he just played along

[@JonasHamill]

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

[@nvrmnde]

That was my favourite bit. Didn't question what was asked just went on and did what he was told. 😁

[@mattsnyder4754]

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.

[@queenlives4ever]

I'd pay money to see David and Victoria solve some Escape Rooms

[@kaiatlas7244]

David would just complain at the pure existence of said escape room lmao

[@OrgaNik_Music]

David would just endlessly complain how pointless and annoying it is while Victoria would solve the entire thing in record time.

[@peachh6084]

I can hear him now 😆

[@shanustheanus]

@@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.

[@peachh6084]

@@shanustheanus 😂😂😂 This is gold!

[@robinnes2662]

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.

[@RogueWraith909]

Ever done a Skeleton Crossword? Similar concept and a really fun or frustrating challenge.

[@Cate_78]

3:42 she's even correcting the puzzle's punctuation. "I bet there should be a comma." Love it. 😂

[@jawstrock2215]

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 ;)

[@kurtsudheim825]

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

[@declan781]

i=o!

[@ymac7245]

@@declan781 z=v!

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

​@@declan781 e=mc squared

[@Museofmemory]

New Sherlock reboot. Victoria as Holmes, Alan as Watson.

[@TheBeetress]

F*** yes!

[@veronicahamilton3174]

I would pre-order three seasons!

[@ellenseltz4548]

I would watch the heck out of that.

[@domj3698]

Yes please that would be fucking brilliant

[@TheBT]

I don't know, for some reason I think Alan would be great in a sherlock like role :D

[@mairibee]

Absolutely love how much Alan and Victoria seemed to enjoy this task compared to the team of threes reception hahaha

[@bobothn]

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.

[@amazingabby25]

I think having a team two was an advantage here

[@danielurban3416]

But they had no Revelations

[@rebekahtablante327]

Is the other teams video posted anywhere?

[@CB-lw7ty]

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

[@scottnunnemaker5209]

Man she’s make a good boss. Clear concise communication and direction.

[@roberthoward9500]

and she does 98% of the work.

[@peterclarke7240]

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...

[@Drummer1000George]

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_TC]

@@Drummer1000George He did mention it, tbh. "I think I've found the other jigsaw"

[@CricketEngland]

Well that’s what you get when you host a highbrow quiz like “Only Connect”

[@MrBuch169169]

I fell in love when Victoria asked, "How do you know that?!"

[@Pernicion]

I fell in love when she won her first EPT tournament. She's absolutely brilliant.

[@mattc3581]

@@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.'

[@MomoKunDaYo]

I fell in live appreciating her on only connect, she has wit, charisma, and a large bust size

[@kurtsudheim825]

She was so focused she didn't even hear alan day he'd found the other half of the puzzle

[@Penquinn14]

@@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

[@anyalazor7978]

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!

[@lilac6257]

Yeah thanks for mentioning!

[@anderpanders6210]

Haha I guess he gets put on the list of honorable mentions

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

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.

[@Thisandthat8908]

she must have had enough letters figured out that she could get the riddle.

[@michaelno1865]

​@@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

[@MedievalFolkDance]

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.

[@TheNerdle42]

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.

[@cassindra438]

This has the same energy as Joe Thomas answering questions and doing maths quickly at the studio task

[@krablord]

Do you remember what episode that was? Loved Joe Thomas but cant remember this for the life of me

[@cassindra438]

@@krablord Season 8, episode 7

[@Abigailk59]

Do you know what the task was they were doing? I really want to find this.

[@cassindra438]

@@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.

[@mindicity3874]

@@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.

[@esteban280889]

This was built for her. If only there were more tasks like this for her

[@rachelcookie321]

Should do an escape room.

[@bigmike11559]

They did have the bicycle task :)

[@gothorama]

from the world of the customized inhaler

[@portablethunderstorm2478]

Victoria Coren Mitchell is who I wanna be when I grow up

[@benthomas2458]

Why wait

[@billbauer9795]

How old are you?

[@Lumibear.]

Lucky David!

[@ralalbatross]

Someone who can't read a basic architectural diagram? :)

[@alyssa09485]

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

[@BambooCoffin]

"Very much a task drawn from the world of the customised inhaler" - Best line ever.

[@this_too_shaII_pass]

I'm stupid, I don't get it, what does she mean by that?

[@esobelisk3110]

@@this_too_shaII_pass same

[@BambooCoffin]

@@esobelisk3110 you need to have seen the full episode to get it really.

[@esobelisk3110]

@@BambooCoffin ahh, and I can’t watch the full episodes because they’re blocked in my country.

[@caroldier6425]

@@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

[@Leornianæfre]

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.

[@TheKielecki]

What podcast was she on?

[@Leornianæfre]

@@TheKielecki Taskmaster podcast, it’s like an in depth behind the scenes look at that weeks episode. Only realised they did one lol.

[@reginadejong9162]

@@Leornianæfre Oh my God, now I have to rewatch all the episodes. Ah well hehe..

[@boneyarsebogman]

I really hope they also upload the team of 3's attempt - that had me in floods of tears laughing

[@wystxrr]

I mean Morgana actually getting her team to say submarine was very impressive

[@pooroldnostradamus]

Hopefully the unedited version

[@krablord]

@@pooroldnostradamus The unedited one can be released as Guz's studio album with those tunes

[@sigira]

"Who the fuck is Veronica?!" had me (and Alex) rolling! I think Alex enjoyed sitting in on that one

[@shadou1234567]

@@pooroldnostradamus you want allmost 2 hours of Gus revelations?

[@RickeGnool]

This is now one of ny all time favorite tasks. I loved everything from Victoria being so brilliant to Gus being disastrous.

[@atrumluminarium]

"I have another revelation" 🤣

[@emmybm15]

The revelations just kept coming 😂

[@billbauer9795]

It would have been more interesting if all of the contestants were brilliant like Victoria.

[@bugbear2357]

Gus had many revelations

[@jason_a_smith_gb]

One of my favourites are the balloons in morse code.

[@EnycmaPie]

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.

[@wp12mv]

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

[@bobothn]

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.

[@aussiechris5904]

bear in mind also, that this is edited for time on TV

[@ninoska.noe.]

Alan is there for the cute relatable content lol

[@allbrave8781]

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.

[@jimmy_the_squid9456]

When it's a logical task she's untouchable but when it's a silly task she crumbles

[@strayo]

"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-om8ym]

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.

[@snowfloofcathug]

@@NathanSmith-om8ym I vote for you to continue feeling (a little) smug going forwards for it

[@andyt2k]

@@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

[@MsHojat]

I've done exactly that. Solved a scramble-ciphered message without any key for a single letter.

[@Burnhardt1985]

@@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.

[@noplace3571]

Every time I come back to this I'm always so blown away by how clever she is

[@TARDIStraveller96]

Same here. Victoria is so intelligent, it's mesmerising

[@nataliaaiman25]

not alan just sitting there waiting for victoria to solve the riddle 😂😂😂

[@erinpauley9047]

Honestly Alan is just a large kid and I love it, he seems to have enjoyed the walkie talkie so much!

[@mangalores-x_x]

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.

[@Necron00b]

"Victoria Coren-Mitchell SMASHES this Riddle Task" - AKA One of the most alluring moments in Taskmaster history. haha

[@221b-Maker-Street]

Cleverness is so sexy.

[@TARDIStraveller96]

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

[@edydaou]

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.

[@vacri54]

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.

[@deanwylie9893]

Amazing problem solving skills, determination and quick thinking on display. So good to watch, can't wait to see more. Nice work Alan.

[@Buterflie129]

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!

[@pierreseneclauze8085]

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.

[@theplasmawolf]

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."

[@nvrmnde]

it's like he just gave up. She's in puzzle land, no point talking to her now. 😂

[@jacobpaint]

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.

[@rlmush]

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

[@RabscuttleRabbit]

It could be when Alan said "code" Victoria thought he meant a coded message rather than the other half of the key.

[@xlukalee]

Alan didn't realize it immediately either, he looked around for something to decipher himself.

[@NikolaiProkoschenko]

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.

[@wp12mv]

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

[@chinareds54]

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.

[@sophiemacdonald3616]

“It is very much a task drawn from the world of the customised inhaler” - totally accurate

[@DrUmbreon]

You can see why she hosts Only Connect

[@waireads2712]

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.

[@233Deadman]

It's almost like he knows what show he's on. If only all of the contestants were so wise.

[@embrace7052]

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.

[@andyt2k]

I like this, there's no sneaky trick or wacky craziness, you just have to be smart and organized and that's Victoria sorted

[@Sunprism]

"Surely this won't be the longest task we ever filmed"

[@protocol6]

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.

[@wystxrr]

She hosts only connect that has a missing vowels round, so I guess maybe you get some knowledge from it

[@wp12mv]

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

[@protocol6]

@@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.

[@marcus7195]

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

[@digitool5944]

Alan does the same

[@TheMarcusoft]

Not sure if I'm watching taskmaster or a new remake of Sherlock 🤔 Alan does make a good Watson and Victoria is absolutely brilliant

[@TheAlps36]

Ooooh now I'm imagining a Sherlock reboot with her as the title character. Stephen Fry could even play Moriarty

[@TheMarcusoft]

@@TheAlps36 i was thinking Fry as mycroft and Jimmy Carr as moriarty!

[@emmybm15]

@@TheMarcusoft wouldn't be the first time Fry has played Mycroft to be fair!

[@TheAlps36]

@@TheMarcusoft I dunno I don't think I could take Jimmy Carr playing a villain seriously

[@TheZotmeister]

"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.

[@arianaajbeaverhausen8175]

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. 😄❤

[@bondfool]

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.

[@Cheskaz]

There's an alternate universe where Victoria and Desiree were paired for the team tasks and they were astounding

[@tulliusexmisc2191]

One of my favourite team performances ever. Alan totally nailed his half: to look like Charlie Chaplin and not interrupt the genius at work.

[@MichaelM28]

I'm so glad Victoria and Alan were paired together

[@em-do9ru]

alan really carried this challenge icl

[@Buretsu]

Quite the revelation, that.

[@jamezp1]

Without j = c Victoria would still be there ngl

[@dcworld1076]

@@Buretsu there;s been another revelation

[@kida4313]

At least Guz had a revelation!

[@carlos_hb]

I don't think they ever revealed who the f* was Veronica

[@bugbear2357]

So many revelations. Who was Veronica, I wonder?

[@firerednaxela]

I just had a revelation watching this video...

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

Alan: "you know, I'm somewhat of a Charlie Chaplin myself."

[@levi1929]

That. Was. HAWT! Victoria is so clever! I’m so jealous of David right now!

[@SennaAugustus]

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.

[@TimoRutanen]

The ciphered text was behind Charlie Chaplin though so that part can't be skipped.

[@MisterAppleEsq]

@@TimoRutanen Nope, it was on the table, only the map needed Charlie Chaplin.

[@AdmiralJota]

It was a waste of time doing her half of the jigsaw. I'm sure she could have done the cipher easily without it.

[@NikolaiProkoschenko]

I have to wonder what the tangerine and the bell has been there for.

[@beth12svist]

@@NikolaiProkoschenko Red herrings?

[@kellyhunter8249]

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

[@BlaizeFalconburger]

I've always been a fan of Old Goosebump Arm

[@hylianchriss]

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!

[@EnteiFire4]

The last sentence of the riddle is pretty well-known, too.

[@sixjhontongalamar979]

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."

[@wystxrr]

Okay this was incredible

[@deanholloway7755]

Beauty and brains with great humour. David is a lucky man and he knows it. Perfect pair.

[@Ibdabadman]

We need to see Mitchell and Webb in one of these at the same time. Now that would be hilarious 😂

[@mindicity3874]

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.

[@AlexSwePR]

Seriously hope you'll release some of the not seen footage of the other team's frustration!

[@bobothn]

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.

[@MateusSFigueiredo]

@@bobothn I'm just happy they also release the full episodes eventually

[@JoffJk]

Having Alan in the title of this video is very generous 😉

[@davidshi451]

Honestly I'm most impressed that she answered the riddle! Definitely her forte.

[@sjs9698]

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

[@RO8s]

Didn't need to ask Tim Henman at all!

[@hairyheartsmith8513]

Please make the episodes available in the US again. This is a fantastic show and I very much miss watching it.

[@233Deadman]

That's probably because the original network over here sold it to another channel.

[@CV-lm7pv]

She didn't even complain about having half the code. She was already trying to figure out the missing letters 🤣

[@N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

Victoria's intelligence is legitimately frightening.

[@CharlestonAES]

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-Street]

Use a VPN?

[@imogen5218]

I would like David Mitchell, Claudia Winkleman, Miranda Hart and any of the Idiot Six on this show.

[@darkglasses87]

Claudia would be amazing!

[@mnemosyned]

Holy crap, yes. Bonus if all on the same series.

[@233Deadman]

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.

[@imogen5218]

Also think Sarah Millican or Michael McIntyre would be great

[@toasthall7027]

I would happily watch Victoria do more riddles like this.

[@spielboy6931]

The main help is that the words are blocked out. If you assume the first 2 words are 'what is' ... which is how most riddles start ... you can pretty well get the rest of of the letter substitutions without the jigsaw 'decoder'

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

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!

[@233Deadman]

Victoria does also host one of the most fiendishly difficult quiz shows on tv with Only Connect.

[@kholdanstaalstorm6881]

@@233Deadman I've heard of it from QI and some other places, but haven't seen any episodes yet. 😕

[@hildurmildur]

Victoria Coren-Mitchell is Queen of the Universe, but we already knew that. This is just further proof. 🧡

[@codetaku]

Oh my god you got Victoria on a season?! Gotta go binge the whole season now....

[@rorymackie4016]

Nice to see 'Ol Goosebump Arm doing well.

[@darinfoat8410]

This is one of my favorite series of Taskmaster. They're all so much fun. And I just like Victoria more with every episode.

[@mimsredjelly]

Absolute queen.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

As a fellow puzzle geek, I reveled in VCM’s leaps.

[@Hattes]

I was already a pretty big fan of Victoria but now I've officially upgraded to huge fan

[@juanjocss]

One of the best tasks I've ever seen in the show

[@lindsaypeets6104]

I desperately want to see a clip compilation called "the plight of women" just showing all the times female contestant have carried their team. Like when Lisa Tarbuck just started hopping on her own ages before her teammates listened to her, or Desiree getting Alex to just grab the task from Gus!

[@mejustme6325]

Oh I have to find the Liza clip now, so funny. Thank you for reminding me!

[@Raida7]

I want to see more of just these two doing puzzles

[@kassistwisted]

Ive never been so proud of Victoria!

[@DoubleTrouble-li5wi]

This is a pleasure to watch!

[@TheCornBanana]

She's having all sorts of fun there

[@whollymindless]

That was amazing work.

[@zastorlexa9800]

Intelligent woman. Always been impressed by her.

[@JosephE-yd6ks]

Victoria seems like someone who would've done well in mi5

[@LaLaLaAllDayLong]

She’s so smart I love her

[@baoboumusic]

I didn't know I could be more in love with Victoria but she did it again.

[@luisaraiza3400]

I thought the title meant she physically smashed through some part of the riddle, but this was much more enjoyable

[@Owlbot]

She crushed that task so effectively that no one knew how to respond LMAO That was like "score as many points as you can" and the contestant was Michael Jordan... "oh okay..."

[@vgaportauthority9932]

That's pretty impressive. Victoria is sharp, it's awesome watching her play poker.

[@jamie6770]

The way Victoria nails this just shows why she is also so good at poker

[@MikeMJPMUNCH]

So Victoria is basically the real life Jonathan Creek

[@brydon5721]

Victoria is one very smart cookie.