Season 1 was the first season of Taskmaster NZ and first aired on TVNZ 2 from 21 October to 23 December 2020. The season featured Angella Dravid, Brynley Stent, Guy Williams, Leigh Hart and Madeleine Sami as contestants and was won by Angella Dravid.
Season breakdown[]
| Task | Description | Angella Dravid | Brynley Stent | Guy Williams | Leigh Hart | Madeleine Sami |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 1: Gluten Free. (21 October 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing you can't live without. | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | Take a letter. | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Make a sculpture of something starting with your letter, only using items starting with your letter. | ||||||
| 3 | Create the fanciest cocktail using ingredients that rhyme with each other. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| Bonus: Serve the cocktail in a vessel that also rhymes. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 4 | Choose a piece of fruit and hit it as far as possible with your choice of bread. You must use the first bread and first fruit you touch. | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 5 | Live: Pack a suitcase as closely to 23kg as possible. If you go over 23kg you will be disqualified. | 5 | 4 | DQ | 3 | DQ |
| Bonus: Most appropriately packed suitcase. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 11 | 18 | 14 | 17 | 15 | |
| Episode 2: A Political Hotcake. (28 October 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing within a thing. | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1.5 |
| 2 | Keep the balloon in the air the longest. You may strike the balloon but you may not hold it. Every strike must be with a unique object. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | Smash a vase as fast and dramatically as possible. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reassemble the vase to its original condition | 4 | DQ | DQ | DQ | 5 | |
| 4 | Throw a dart at the map and hit a country. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Write and perform a new national anthem for your country. | ||||||
| 5 | Live: Draw a map of New Zealand using yeast spread. | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| Total | 17 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 18.5 | |
| Episode 3: D.A.P. (4 November 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Least useful item. | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| 2 | Make this tree sexy. | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Team: Catch a grape with a tuba. You may not throw the grape. | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Bonus: Play a tune on the tuba while catching the grape. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Pack this piñata with the most surprising filling. | 5 | 2 | -1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Live: Write down a sport, an animal and a colour. | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Live: Strike a pose to represent your sport, animal and colour. | ||||||
| Total | 12 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 18 | |
| Episode 4: I'm Queer, I'm Here. (11 November 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best gift for an enemy. | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2 | Hide one of these vegetables completely inside another. If you use the same vegetable combination as someone else, you will both be disqualified. | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Team: Create a 90 second one-shot film. You must all appear in the film. One of you must hold the camera at all times. Your film must include three speaking characters, an impressive stunt and credits. You have one take. | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Make this Mum proud. | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Live: Write the Taskmaster an anonymous poem. If the Taskmaster correctly guesses who wrote your poem, you lose your points. | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 17 | 11 | 19 | 7 | 16 | |
| Episode 5: Unhealth must be dead. (18 November 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most beloved family heirloom. | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | Blow this egg the furthest from the table. If the egg breaks, your attempt will end. | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Be as unhealthy as possible. You have 10 seconds from when you shout "Let's get this party started!". | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | Do the most impressive thing hands-free. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 | Live: Spell the longest word using alphabet soup. | DQ | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| Total | 18 | 19 | 11 | 11 | 15 | |
| Episode 6: The problem is me. (25 November 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Thing that scares you the most. | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2 | Make the biggest thing disappear. | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 3 | Team: Gather your tools and bring them to your area. | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| Team: Transfer as much soup as possible from the blue vat to the yellow vat using only your own tools. You may not leave your area or move the vats. | ||||||
| 4 | Leave the room. Your time started when Paul left the room. | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 5 | Live: Wearing your blindfold, pop up before the toast. You may only pop up once. If you pop up after the toast, you will be disqualified. | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Total | 23 | 7 | 14 | 16 | 14 | |
| Episode 7: An Intervention. (2 December 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Worst thing to show the Taskmaster. | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 2 | Find Paul and hit him with this frisbee. You may not walk or run while holding the frisbee. Every time you throw the frisbee, you must put on an additional item of clothing. | DQ | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | Go on the most convincing fake holiday. | 5 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | Convincingly paint the Taskmaster like a 5-year-old. | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Live: Sculpt the third most impressive dog using this clay. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Total | 15 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 12 | |
| Episode 8: Sweaty socks and depression. (9 December 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most amazing-sounding thing, until you see it. | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Get someone you went to primary school with on the phone. | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | Deduce the flavours of these dips. | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Wear the most outlandish costume under your outfit during the studio show for episode 8. Your costume must be completely concealed under your outfit. | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Correctly place the keys back on this keyboard as accurately as possible. You may not leave the room. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Using your keyboard, type a lovely message to the Taskmaster. You may not look at the computer's screen. You still may not leave the room. | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6 | Live: Text a compliment to one of your fellow contestants. You may not text yourself. Everyone who doesn't receive a text is eliminated. | DQ | 0 | 5 | DQ | DQ |
| Live: Text the Taskmaster. Fastest wins. | ||||||
| Total | 21 | 15 | 18 | 8 | 17 | |
| Episode 9: Astro blasters. (16 December 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most poorly-aged thing. | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2 | Completely colour this whiteboard. | 5 | 4 | DQ | 3 | 2 |
| 3 | Team: Create the most amusing amusement park ride. Paul must be able to ride the ride. | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| 4 | Make the most surprisingly pleasant sausage using seven ingredients, one beginning with each letter of the word "sausage". | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| S | Pass this mathematics exam. | – | – | 1 | – | – |
| 5 | Live: Do the most press-ups and/or find the most words in this word search. Each found word is equivalent to two press-ups. | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Total | 16 | 16 | 13 | 21 | 13 | |
| Episode 10: My Uncle John. (23 December 2020) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best DIY. | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Commit a crime. You may not break the law. | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 3 | Team: Handcuff yourselves together at the wrist, then score 10 "points". | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | Make the best desert. | DQ | 5 | DQ | DQ | DQ |
| 5 | Live: Karate chop the thickest spaghetti log. You have one attempt to cleanly chop your entire log. | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| Total | 8 | 13 | 15 | 12 | 16 | |
| Grand Total | 158 | 142 | 131 | 134 | 154.5 | |