Build The Highest Cardboard Box Tower | Full Task | Taskmaster
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- From series 7, James Acaster, Jessica Knappett, Kerry Godliman, Phil Wang, and Rhod Gilbert attempt to build the highest cardboard box in under 5 minutes.
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In this Broadcast Award-winning, BAFTA and Emmy Award-nominated entertainment show, Taskmaster tyrant Greg Davies (Man Down, Cuckoo), with the help of his loyal assistant Alex Horne (The Horne Section and the show’s creator), sets out to test the wiles, wit and wisdom of five hyper-competitive comedians.
Comedians that have risked life, limb, and dignity in the hope of making the Taskmaster proud so far include: Frank Skinner (The Frank Skinner Show), Mel Giedroyc (The Great British Bake Off), Romesh Ranganathan (Asian Provocateur), Hugh Dennis (Outnumbered), Sally Phillips (Bridget Jones’ Diary), Rose Matafeo (Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2018), and Russell Howard (The Russell Howard Hour). Unaware of what awaits them in each wax-sealed envelope, only one competitor can become the victorious owner of His Royal Task-ness’ golden head and be crowned the next Taskmaster Champion. - Komedie
Phil having completed an engineering degree and having the worst tower by the end because he tried and failed to skirt the rules really speaks to me as an engineering student...
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
That Rhod and Phil exchange was absolute gold. This season had the best banter between contestants.
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** 🥰
That hurt watching him throw the box and not the roll of tape.
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
Man, that reaction from Godliman to James' attempt at cheating the system was great
She sounded genuinely confused and worried whether her normal solution was just insane
It wouldn't be as funny without her bewildered questions to both Greg and Jess.
"Are you sure you were *employed* at this hospital?"
"Nooooo!"
The one thing I do truly enjoy about this show is having the ability to think about how I would do things and see if any of the contestants follow my train of thought.
And then I scream at my phone
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
The first taste of Acasterian madness was his attempt at making a tower by throwing a box to the top of a tree
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
Used to work night shift at a small grocery store a bit of advice if anyone wants to build a box tower. First stack as high as you can reach then you have to lift and put your stack ontop of the new boxes. Careful to lift evenly/smoothly but given some practice the ceiling is the limit
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.
Rhod letting slip some bedroom talk when he exclaimed, 'Get it in amongst the foliage.'
Love the task shaped like a box! No detail is too small for this show.
I must say, the winner made a tower but by his own admission, he never made a single "box" so it wasn't a tower of cardboard "boxes"
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".
james holding the box up and going "measure it" is the funniest shit ever
he's right, when you open the door it's not a car, it's ajar
😂😂😂 I love it. Definitely telling this to my friend who loves puns
My favorite part about watching these kinds of tasks is I immediately go "Right, I could make a really good one of those!" But then realize that it being made *well* wouldn't be nearly as funny.
James throwing the rope into the bush and then the box while struggle frantically is still so hilarious
4:30 the genuine confusion in Alex's voice when he admits he doesn't know what James was doing just makes this all so much better.
When something happened and it happened it was all so much better
I can't believe they get us to watch literally any video they upload even if we've already seen the task multiple times 🤣
This is my favorite group of contestants in the entire show.
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
This is some of the best banter I've heard on this show. And there's some strong competition out there.
To be fair to James, the brief asked for the HIGHEST tower, not the tallest. All towers placed on the ground are at the same height...
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.
I love that this was the first task we saw, and already tells you so much about each contestant.
I can't believe that Kerry Godliman keeps the trophy in her shed.
Technically, Phil's right. A car with its door open becomes a vessel capable of movement at speeds exceeding 50 mph.
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".
Meanwhile Ramesh would say: "There was NO BOX mate!"
I know how every single task turns out, but when these videos pop up in my feed I’m as excited as the first time I watched them
This is quite probably the funniest one of these episodes.
"My Eyes Are Cirles" has the best James Acaster moment of the series!
Task: "Build the highest tower"
Rules: "You have five minutes from when your first box is assembled, and a maximum time of twenty minutes, starting now."
Definition of a tower: " A tall narrow building, either freestanding or forming part of a building, such as a church or a castle."
James had the right idea I think, if he got up the tree and attached something to it, like maybe one of those boxes, it's forming part of a building, like a tower on a castle.
"You sure you were _employed_ at this hospital?"
(weakly) "no…"
i guess they call him phil wang for a reason
To be honest, "put it up in the tree" was my first thought as well. The HIGHEST tower, not the TALLEST tower.
Thanks for reminding me why I count this as one of my favourite seasons. (along with 5 and 11). Chemistry between people was top notch
If ever there was a task that was meant to be for Romesh Ranganathan this was it... without any boxes of course.
Jess clearly had training with making boxes from her time working in hospital
Simply astonished that no-one made an '"It's just a little prick" joke about Phil's vulnerability to holly...
Tape-rope method revised: throw the roll over a branch, make a pulley with both sides of rope reaching the ground, tape a box tower to the rope and pull it up onto the branch
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
It can't be an open box if it has never been a closed box before. If an unassembled box is a box then they were all already boxes when they laid flat in that pile.
I might just be in a good mood, but this seems like one of the funniest episodes I've seen
Lay the non-assembled not yet boxes in a line so the edges that will be one side of the tower are touching then use tape to secure them together. Then you just have to pop them open, tape the flaps closed in one long piece of tape. Same on the other side. Roll over and tape the last side as much as you can. Then get Alex to help you but steadying it as you erect one end. Using tape attached the end that will be the top would be easiest, then just kinda pull
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
take 2 unfolded boxes, get out of the woods, go to the nearest building with an elevator, you have 20 minutes to do so!
Go up to the top floor to ensure you are standing higher than any box tower your compettitors could have made under perfect circumstances.
Now fold both boxes and place them on top of eachother.
for a show where you are rewarded for reading between the lines, that was not so hard now was it?
i mean, theres contestants getting in a car going to a STORE named gap, instead of looking for a physical gap nearby.
Funnily enough the task said the timer starts when you "assemble" your first box. The word assemble, by definition, means brining together two or more items to make something. Thus a box can't be "assembled" without tape and the clock shouldn't start with any folded box.
Having won an almost identical contest years ago, here's how I did it:
Stack 2 boxes. Secure them with tape (don't need lot). This is your main tower.
Stack 2 more boxes in a mini tower (with tape).
Grab main tower from the bottom and put on top of mini tower (with tape). This is now your main tower.
Repeat steps 2 & 3 until time runs out.
Doesn't matter how tall your main tower is since you're only working with the bottom of it.
I feel like building a stable first tower like Jessica's and then leaving it as a backup while you build a separate less stable crazy box is the play.
I mean a collapsed box is also a box! The rules said first assembled box!
It's like Countdown meets Saw
So what we learn here it's very important to read carefully and then act.
Honestly, James was on to something. The task said "highest tower" not "tallest tower". So, if he had made an actual tower instead of just a box, and then hoisted it into the air, he could've won. Sort of.
Honestly just putting a box at the top of a tree would’ve been my approach. He just can’t climb apparently
Finally some James Acaster
"That is more of a tower than what you did to him" was perfect
This might be the best clip
James and Rhod are gold LMAO
To be clear, the task *did not* specify that you had to use the cardboard boxes as your tower. I would have just climbed one of the trees and put a rock on one of its branches. I made a tower from some wood and a rock.
Oh wow, I didn’t catch that!
Did Rhod actually have a cardboard box in is tower? If it's not considered a cardboard box before it's assembled then surely a tower of non-assembled sheets for cardboard boxes can't be a cardboard box tower, since it is not even partially made from cardboard boxes.
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.
Make all boxes except 1 side of each. Tape up bottom, so that all boxes are in a row on the ground. Tape sides too. Get tops (open sides) of boxes ready for folding. Quickly tape last side up and raise the entire thing up.
James could have tied a stone to the ”rope” and after that throw it over a branch.
Bingo, or if there aren’t any around, the roll itself
Hello! They should have taped the boxes all together lying flat, then stood it up!
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.
Missed out on, when a car door is open it's no longer a car because it's a jar
3:11 the camera crews elbow xD
That's little Alex hornes elbow
@@eadaoinmurphy20 ;;p
@@eadaoinmurphy20 it’s on the left side of the screen
Lovely beech tree in the background!
Rhod:Stabbing little shit!!!🤣🤣🤣
It's not a box because it's open? A car isn't a car when you open the door? That was a line of argument doomed to failure from the start.
lay the boxes out sideways on the ground, tape them together, tilt the whole thing upright...
To be perfectly fair to James Acaster, if he was able to get a single box up like 100 feet. It would be the highest tower. It wouldn't be the tallest, but it would be the highest. Very fine distinction. After all, if a like small biplane was flying at a couple hundred feet while a large jumbo jet was still on the runway, the biplane would be higher, while the jumbo jest would be taller.
I was half expecting some major preparations here (ie some kind of scaffolding, before even starting at the first box) . I think I would have brought something that I could climb on and also partly lean my tower on ... but knowing me I'd make it fall near the end anyway
“you got forty seconds” fucking killed me
I think I would have built it horizontally, on the ground, then taped the boxes together and raised it upright.
Spread the flattened boxes out a bit, build as many as you can in 2 minutes just using the method of folding the flaps in to each other, don't bother with the tape to save time. Then as you stack them, tape the boxes to each other and maybe tear some boxes up to make side braces for the joins. Once you can't reach the top then you have to lift the entire tower on top of existing boxes and repeat. Push the tower up from the bottom basically.
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~!
I was thinking someone would make essentially a house of cards
should have made a bunch of boxes, put them horizontal on the ground, taped them together and around the whole tower's length, then stood it upright.
6:22 I'd say that's a box. I get his thinking but when you put something in a box it's not closed, it's what he had.
I hope they donated the leftover cardboard somewhere like BoxGiver
I could have 2 stacks of five boxes picked up on stack and sit it on top of the other with a little piece of tape holding them all together. Easy peasy what a sleazy. I worked in a factory where I made thousands of boxes and stacked them
Does anyone happen to know the name of the music being played from 9:23 - 10:45 ? Specifically what is playing at 9:58
Since Rhod stated he didn't make a box, then technically he didn't build a box tower.
The best approach would be to build all the boxes lay them horizontally side by side. Now use the tape and stick all the four side in, one strip for one side. Then make a rope out of the remaining tape, stick one end firmly to the the box train and tie a heavy stone on the other, now throw the stone over a tree branch and pull.
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~!
It never said the tower had to be standing, did it?
Definition of tower comes into play here
The task was to build a tower of boxes, not a wall of boxes
Unless they started the clock once everyone else finished the bottom of their boxes but not the top, then I side with Phil.
Before watching, I would tape them flat up the tree. Tape them first, then pry them against the tree with a lot of tape
If we accept that its not a box if both ends are open, then the winner did not have a box tower, he had a cardboard tower.
Find a long straight stick and just put boxes around it. Then stand it up.
Does anyone know the piano song that plays when James is at the end of building his tower?
a box can have 5 sides, only a cube needs 6
Can't be a box tower if none of the boxes are closed
If Rod never assembled any boxes by the end of the task, it can't really be a cardboard box tower.
That wasn't the challenge, in fact cardboard was never mentioned, the challenge was to "Build the highest tower" the cardboard could be considered a red herring, meant to trick and distract you, making you jump to the conclusion you have to use the cardboard. The rules of the challenge however state "you have five minutes from when your first box is assembled, and a maximum time of twenty minutes, starting now."
So the rules assume you will use the cardboard, and boxes being the most obvious way to make a tower with cardboard, but it never said you have to build the tower with cardboard boxes.
James is so intelligent...
Computr says...nooo
I our house we refer to cardboard boxes as boxes even though they are not assembled yet - because thats what they are...
This is the first time i feel a lot smarter, i mean u can stack the tower on a box rather than stacking boxes on the tower
That's pretty good, but the issue is the boxes without the flaps closed are hollow tubes that want to fold down flat, if you fold the flaps and make a box, you only have 5 mins from that point, if you want to keep as much time as possible you don't make a box, (could possibly use it to extend time though, unclear however) but all you need to do is make a long tube, put strips inside wedged in the corners making two hollow space triangles for structure, then tape them together seal the bottom, and tape the top, without cutting the tape (important) get Alex to hold the bottom, and pull the tape attached to the top, and that's your tower.
I'm watching this to improve at Baldur's Gate.
Well as far as rules, Rhod never actually built a box. So tecnically his time never started?
If Wang has an engineering degree, then... Oh, wait... He went to Cambridge. Never mind.
My approach would have been:
Build and stack two boxes and tape them firmly together.
Make a 3rd box and then lift the two taped boxes onto the 3rd box.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
The smart play would be to use 19 minutes and 30 seconds. Then make your first box.
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.
"5 minutes from when you first assemble the box"... I would have gone back to HQ, grabbed a ladder lots of gaffer tape, and scissors. and never assemble a single box. until i was complete.
...but only 20 minutes in total. So you would have had to accomplish all that within 20 minutes.
Why isn’t Series 9 on the channel? I’m in the US and I can’t find it elsewhere either.
I’m assuming it’s because, like all TV shows, they want you to go subscribe to their streaming service.
In fact, I’m surprised they have put so many of the seasons on CZcams. Although, it think it’s a brilliant idea, and more shows, that are lesser known, should do it.
When they first started putting whole seasons on CZcams the show wasn’t nearly as popular. And I think a big reason why the show has blown up so much is from people finding it on CZcams.
It’s even popular in the US now! Which is crazy, because I don’t even know who most of the contestants are until I see them on this show!
@@Dranka5 but there’s no way to watch it in the US
Wang’s outfit this entire season really distracts me, because what was he thinking?
When is the next season coming out?
I read somewhere this autumn.
@@Mubashir_AK Yes. I forgot exactly what month
@@Mubashir_AK honestly, can’t wait
So go 19 minutes without a box. Then make a box and go another 5 minutes. Would that have worked?
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
This is such an excellent show. I'm in the US, so as far as I know, my options to watch it are limited. The US version of Taskmaster was absolute garbage.
Assemble a box, secure the box, use the tape to attach 2 of them and jus make one more, add tape to attach the other two on top of this, again with the next, and the next, etc.
You shouldnt have a problem with that to defeat this people.
A box has six sides.
If it was me in the task I would have made Alex create the boxes while I stacked them and when it got to high to reach I would have asked him to put a box under the tower while I lifted the tower up. Ez w
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.