Build The Highest Cardboard Box Tower | Full Task | Taskmaster 

And this was the first episode of the season.. I always get back to series 7, wonderful cast!

"Oh, oh dear! That's what comes of being an absolute totter!" LMFAO

@@Aethgeir tosser** 🥰

Rhod is always great. So is Wang.

It wouldn't be as funny without her bewildered questions to both Greg and Jess.

Ikr

Frrrrr bro I was like 🤦

my guy had the right idea, just not the right execution

Tie the tape around a rock on one side to have weight to your throw man!

@@grimmer-rd1mm Or just not unroll it all the way and throw the roll XD

Do you often have to build box towers or what

@@themug406 box towers, no. Attempting to skirt rules with technicalities and then getting wrecked for it? Oh, yes. We call it squirrelling and it's an engineering student's greatest folly.

@@ratlord_aliengineers tryna lawyer

wait that's such an amazing solution

This is the answer but in the episode's scenario, you also throw the tape over the tree branch and thread it down the middle of the boxes to provide lateral stabilization.

Easier way. Lay the cardboard end to end, open them to make tubes, use some of the cardboard by tearing it to use it as honeycomb for internal structure to prevent if from wanting to fold back flat (wedging strips from one corner to the opposite, forcing it to remain squared), then once you run out of cardboard tape it together and hoist it up with the tape attached to the top end and use Alex as an anchor for the bottom to allow you to hoist it up rather than drag it on the ground, and ta-da~!

@@ToxicAudri Easiest solution was probably actually to simply turn the four-sided boxes carboard into 3-sided triangular prisms by caving in one of the sides and using tape to keep its form, then stacking those.

I am with Rhod. A single box wouldnt be a tower, otherwise any building would be a “tower”

@@galaxspace1 And yet they counted his 1 box as a tower.

@@galaxspace1 This is just wrong though, the base definition is just a tall structure. Everything can be a tower depending on perspective so he would of been right.

Ironically he almost had the best way of doing the task. He's the only one that actually used the tape. What he should have done was - 1. Attached the tape to a rock 2. Unravel as much tape as possible from the roll and cover it in dirt or fold it in half so it's no longer sticky. 3. Throw the rock over the branch 4. Assemble multiple boxes but leave the tops open so it didn't count against his time. They said it counts but I disagree. 5. Close first box. (clock starts) 5. Thread the tape-rope through the center of both ends of the box. 6. Close the second box and thread the rope through that too. 7. Lift the first box and slide the second box underneath it. 8. Repeat last three steps until the time expires. In the end you have a tower of assembled boxes that's laterally stabilized by the rope running through them all.

​​@@drake7993 Pedantic, but its would have not would of

Yeah that's one of my favorite parts.

This show is proof that just because someone has a British accent does not mean they are intelligent. Infact I am beginning to think all the smooth brains never got on the boat to America, no wonder they lost the war.

@@HansWaldenmaier cmon dont get racist all of a sudden

@@zeuxlaught2797 ah yes racist against the British, who would've thought

@@HansWaldenmaier I garuntee beyond all doubt if you were put in a time crunch on the spot like that you'd be worse. Difference is they actually go outside

😂😂😂 I love it. Definitely telling this to my friend who loves puns

Didn't need to be. 0:33 "Build the highest tower!" Not 'of cardboard boxes'.

@@bossel But then Rhod would have at least been second. So we go back to. Phil didn't make a box tower so should be down in last with Rhod :P

@@redholm Phil got knocked down because he assembled his box, so he only had 5 minutes remaining after that, and at that point still only had a box. Since Rhod never made a box, he never triggered this time limit and so had 20 minutes to build a tower. Technically the tower didn't have to be made of boxes.

@@Fucisko Sergio S is 100% correct. Either both were boxes or neither were boxes. IMO, a fully assembled box includes both sides being folded over one another so it's securely closed, which never happened.

@@OsrsNooby I'd say box without a lid is still a box. You can put stuff into what Phil made and safely carry it around, you can't do that with Rhod's "box".

No, it was clearly established that a single box constitutes a tower, thus the top box of every structure would be the height of the tower. This leads to the exact same result

@@abusethesun it would be the height of the tower, however, the highest mountain in the world is not the tallest. Let that sink in for a bit.

I googled "height vs tall" and got this. "'Tall' is a word that refers to the height of a person or an object. So, when someone asks you how 'tall' you are, they are asking for your height in inches, feet or centimetres. The same is correct for a building or a mountain. 'Tall' can also be used when comparing height."

@@brycecook6834 well done. Now you have to attempt to wrap your brain around that asking the height of something and how high they are are different questions.

@@Senorpoontang it’s the difference between me being six feet tall and my ‘height’ (more like location) being one thousand feet above sea level. Am I right or am I stupid? Probably stupid, but I refuse to check.

Series 7 has the best cast with the most personality!

I can't decide. I liked everyone but Phil. But some of the other groups are pretty good to

Kerry(?) Was awful though, maybe the only one to be worse than Lolly

When something happened and it happened it was all so much better

Some cars can't move if a door is open, and if it can't move it's not a car.

Not true, a broken car is still a car

@@cartwheelegg9479 no its a broken car

@@cartwheelegg9479 then the time already need to start in the beginning, its technically a box, just flat.

@@kujojacobo That's a subset of "car".

"My Eyes Are Cirles" has the best James Acaster moment of the series!

Nothing in the rules said it had to be a box tower

I read that sentence and the left side of my face went numb trying to work it out.

@@MrJunga Hmm, right, should have rewatched them reading the task, my comment was based on the video title

My thought exactly.

Honestly just putting a box at the top of a tree would’ve been my approach. He just can’t climb apparently

The issue with that is because they have no internal structure, they will want to fold back flat, you need some internal structure, you can do that easily by using some of the cardboard, tear pieces to wedge it from one corner diagonally to the other, making two hollow triangles inside with one strip, then basically do what you say, tape it together, use tape on the top to hoist, get Alex to act as an anchor to allow you to hoist it up, and you got your tower, and it shouldn't collapse back down flat like Rod's did when he was trying to stand his up.

Erect

Oh wow, I didn’t catch that!

Even better, thread the tape through several boxes, have the tree hold the top few boxes, stack boxes as high as you can under the dangling boxes until the meet

Bingo, or if there aren’t any around, the roll itself

Wouldn't have worked well, Rod's attempt proved that, his collapsed flat at one point when he was trying to stand it up, he had the right idea with internal structure, but could have done it with a strip of cardboard inside, wedged between two opposite corners, making two hollow triangles inside the square tube, that would have given it all the structure it needed to keep it from folding back down flat. Otherwise, same process as you say.

@@ToxicAudri Not necessary. All they needed to do was weave the flaps such that the ones outside or inside are opposite each other. it'd take a bit longer because you aren't claiming the height of the flaps as part of the tower, but it's super sturdy. Also, as long as you don't fold any flaps over, you get the full time. Build it horizontally, stand it up when you're done, BOOM, chicken dinner.

Definition of tower comes into play here

The task was to build a tower of boxes, not a wall of boxes

No, I don't think this would be allowed, rules state you have a maximum of 20 minutes, if you build a box, it cuts that down to 5 minutes, likely out of that 20.

@@ToxicAudri makes sense

...but only 20 minutes in total. So you would have had to accomplish all that within 20 minutes.

I read somewhere this autumn.

@@Mubashir_AK Yes. I forgot exactly what month

@@Mubashir_AK honestly, can’t wait

Didn't have to make a box, the rules just state that once you make a box, you have 5 mins, out of a maximum of 20 if you don't make a box, the challenge itself was to "build the highest tower" never said it had to be a box tower.

That's little Alex hornes elbow

@@eadaoinmurphy20 ;;p

@@eadaoinmurphy20 it’s on the left side of the screen

Better way would be to lay the cardboard end to end, open them to make tubes, use some of the cardboard by tearing it to use it as honeycomb for internal structure to prevent if from wanting to fold back flat (wedging strips from one corner to the opposite, forcing it to remain squared), then once you run out of cardboard or start running low on time, you tape it together and hoist it up with the tape attached to the top end and use Alex as an anchor for the bottom to allow you to hoist it up, and ta-da~!

No, I don't think so, the rules state "you have five minutes from when YOUR first box is assembled" Never says when YOU assemble your first box, otherwise that might have worked, if Alex makes the box, that's YOUR first box assembled. So really making a box is clearly not what you want to do right off the bat unless you already know how you're going to do it, but the challenge never said you had to build a cardboard tower, or a box tower, it just stated you had to build the highest tower. It's all about playing with what is and isn't stated in the challenge and rules. The only requirement is that you have to "build" it. Which if I put a log over a narrow river, I built a bridge, as simple as you get for "building" is just putting two things together in some way, tree plus whatever you want to act as the top of your tower, the box in a tree idea could work. The issue was climbing it, thus the tape rope that failed because the first guy couldn't get it in the tree. If he was able to get in the tree he could get the cardboard up in the tree with him with Alex's help and place it on a branch and tape it to the branch, making it into a box would only add to the total height.

The rules state a maximum of 20 minutes, I don't think they will allow you to extend your time by 5 extra minutes, 20 minutes is the most you get.

After you build the first box, you have 5 mins. Not enough time to build them all. The trick would be to lay the cardboard end to end, open them to make tubes, then tape it together, could even use some of the cardboard by tearing it to use it as honeycomb for internal structure to prevent if from wanting to fold back flat (wedging strips from one corner to the opposite, forcing it to remain squared), then once you run out of cardboard you hoist it up with the tape attached to the top end and use Alex as an anchor for the bottom to allow you to hoist it up, and ta-da~!