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

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

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

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

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

To show how slow Jenny was in the goose task, in the password task Lesser Tom mentioned, it took Danielle 503 guesses in 1 hour and 54 minutes. It took Jenny 1 hour and 26 minutes to ask 5 questions and she got it wrong.

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

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.

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

A huge fan of Jenny Tian, it turns out.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Omg the fabled Zebra throw from the intro

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Jenny's Duck Duck was Epic !

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

Honestly one of the best sets of tasks of all time

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

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

Josh getting #8 was just perfectly entertaining!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Josh deserved better

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

There it is, Jenny's legendary duck task!

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

I was siding with Josh on the opening credits argument until Tom pointed out that a lot of people skip the credits and damn im one of those people. Sorry Josh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Taskmaster's needling and (possible?) disdain for the narcissist is hilarious. 😂🤣

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

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

so... the duck duck goose task - wouldnt the optimal solution be a combination of binary search and the solution to the two guardians puzzle? so essentially asking one of the ducks "what would the other team answer to the question: is the goose between numbers 1 and 5" assuming the goose is number 8 then: if the asked duck is a liar it would answer yes (the true answer to the inner question is no, and the other team would truthfully answer no, so the liar answers yes) if the asked duck is a truther it would also answer yes (true answer is still no, and the other team would lie and say yes, so the truthful ducks will answer yes here) and the same works for basically any questions (so this skips having to figure out which team is which) from there you only have to halve the remaining field with each question - so start with 1-5, (getting a yes, which means not in that range) then try 6-7 and get another yes, so its in the 8-10 range... at that point you can ask for singles, so in the worst case scenario of always hitting the larger "half" of the split, you can do it in 4 questions guaranteed (assuming you asked about 9 and 10, you dont need to ask about 8, because you then know you can just accuse 8 immediatly) if you hit ideal splits, you can do it in 3 questions (1-5 yes, 6-8 no,6-7 yes for example would then mark 8 as the goose)

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

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

Have none of these contestants ever seen the movie Labyrinth? The duck one should have been much easier than it was if they had seen that. By doing questions about what would the other teams duck answer and then reversing the answer would have gotten to the answer very quickly

Josh,this is for you ❤❤❤

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

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.

Josh is me. Marriage doesn't appeal to me, but hydration always does!

Imagine you're playing Among Ducks. Everyone else is also a goose. And everyone knows you're the impostor. How does that work?

they missed out on calling it a Ducktionary

Nerd and Jennie can never be in the same sentence ever again 😂

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

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

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

I honestly think that 4 questions might have been the optimal way of figuring out which duck is actually a goose. I'd have done it this way: One question to figure out which team tells the truth. One question about which team the goose is on eliminating half the ducks. One question about odd or even therefore eliminating half of the ducks again. And then asking if one specific duck is the duck if no you pick the other one that should be left (or maybe two would be left at which point it would be a 50/50 gamble).

Lloyd got a bit lucky since he did "waste" a question but that's actually the fastest you can deterministically narrow down from 10 to 1 with only yes or no questions. If he had skipped the "determine whether it's lying or not" step by simply always asking "if you were an opposite-colored duck, would you say that ?" and taking the opposite result, his choice of question order would've gotten him the answer in 3 tries, which is faster than can be deterministically guaranteed!

Taskmasters points can't be argued with so I won't, but sheesh, if I was on that throne, I would have zero pointed the lovely couple unless the episodes winner gets to take both of them home for a menage-a-trois. It just feels like it defeats the point of that part of the show ('bring weird shit for the winner to bring home') when whatever it is isn't an actual thing they can take home. For me, Jenny was my winner this episode. She failed incredibly hard, but she was the most entertaining, so even though she lost, she's the biggest winner of them all.

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

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

This is the best season of task master ever!!

You know which scenes they put right as the skip button appears ? The most entertaining one, so you do not skip.

How cool would've it been if Lloyd proposed to Ann on the episode? Like during the prize task or even better when he was getting his prizes?

"HEY FUN BOY!"

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

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!

The best thing ever would have been if they got engaged on taskmaster.

he used malaise correctly, but said he wasn't?

It took me a while, but I finally found a question that would let you determine which answer means yes and which means no, if you didn't look at the dictionary. If you ask the question "Does a double-quack mean 'yes'?" The ducks that tell the truth will always quack twice and the liars will quack once!

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.^^

Tom the taskmaster makes it challenging to enjoy taskmaster Australia

It scares me that he does not have a case on his iPad while walking around outside. How does it not slip out of his hands?

Are we not going to talk about Toms "finally some male comedians can make some accusations?" I means thats borderline begging to get cancelled - let alone Joshs face?😂

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!

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!

Locals, what the hell is red powder?