Earlier this semester, in my household we started watching the British tv show Taskmaster (via YouTube). It's a silly show where each season a group of comedians performs a series of ridiculous tasks in the pursuit of pointless prizes, overseen by the Task Master Greg Davies and his assistant Alex Horne.
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This video clip of one of the most popular tasks from the series gives you a pretty good sense of how the show works: the five contestants receive their tasks, have a bit of time to plan and execute the tasks, then the Task Master awards points based on whatever esoteric and quirky principles he decides to apply.
On Sunday, Alex Horne took to Twitter to announce that they'd be starting an at-home version of Taskmaster for people to play during these times of quarantine and social distancing called #hometasking:
#hometasking begins - in your homes - at 9am tomorrow.
Some details here:https://t.co/WWMiQRxNV1
Make good choices x
— Alex Horne (@AlexHorne) March 22, 2020
Then yesterday, he announced hometasking no.1:
It's time for #hometasking no.1!
Post your attempt with the hashtag #hometasking here.
Please keep your clip under one minute long. My favourite ones will be part of a montage on https://t.co/aC7SL94Ic3 soon...
The Taskmaster's decision is final.
Good luck! pic.twitter.com/9lbu5mC6vU
— Alex Horne (@AlexHorne) March 23, 2020
Throw a piece of paper into a bin. Most spectacular throw wins. The deadline for completing this first task ends about the time we'll be finishing up class today.
Check out some of the submissions from people all over the place to this seemingly very simple task by going through the #hometasking hashtag on Twitter.
3/25/2020 Edited to add:
Watch the video below to see a compilation of some of the best responses, with the top ten winners at the end.
