Burying a backpacker. is the second episode of Season 3 of Taskmaster Australia and was first broadcast on Channel 10 on 1 October 2024. The episode was won by Mel Buttle.
Episode breakdown[]
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| Task | Description | Aaron Chen | Concetta Caristo | Mel Buttle | Peter Helliar | Rhys Nicholson |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prize: Cheekiest thing in a box. | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Team: Wearing your exercise ball vests, collect the seven odd shapes from around the Taskmaster Retreat and stack them into a perfectly square tower on the oblong. You may not tamper with or remove your exercise ball vests. | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 |
| Team: Also, one of you must whisper an original supportive sentence in the ear of a teammate every 30 seconds. | - | - | ||||
| 3 | Film the most emotional scene on this drone. You must not get closer than five metres from the drone during drone scene filming. | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| 4 | Hide these 10 witch's hats on the Taskmaster Retreat. | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| 5 | Live: Be humble as pie about your pie. Least humble about their pie will be eliminated. The first speaker will begin on Tom's whistle. | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Live: Be keen as mustard about your mustard. | - | |||||
| Live: Be cool as a cucumber about your cucumber. | - | |||||
| Live: Be smooth as silk about your silk. | - | |||||
| Total | 12 | 17 | 21 | 14 | 14 | |