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| 9 x 7. • Cows are made of milk. • Thompson. • Hey mate. • Bats, bats, hang up. • Is that number got curves? • Drier than you think, chalk. • Am I an idiom? • A 1970s camping kettle. • Supping from the fountain. | ||||||
Series 20 was the twentieth series of Taskmaster that aired on Channel 4 from 11 September to 13 November 2025. It featured Ania Magliano, Maisie Adam, Phil Ellis, Reece Shearsmith, and Sanjeev Bhaskar as contestants, and was won by Maisie Adam. This series had an agricultural theme, and location tasks primarily took place at Sandown Park Racecourse.
This was the final series recorded at Pinewood Studios before the closure of their television wing in 2025. This was, to date, the closest series in the history of the UK show, with the series requiring the show's first ever series tiebreak, which was also a three-way tiebreak.
Series breakdown[]
| Task | Description | Ania Magliano | Maisie Adam | Phil Ellis | Reece Shearsmith | Sanjeev Bhaskar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 1: 9 x 7. (11 September 2025) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: A very soft thing which would be most beneficial for Greg Davies. | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2 | Honk the horn. | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | Roll an object onto the target. You must release your object from behind this line. You may not move the line or target and you may not affect your object after release. You must use the first type of object you touch and can have three attempts with that type of object, and must not go within Greg's height of the target. | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 4 | Do something behind this curtain that sounds disgusting but is actually really nice. | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | Live: End up on your spot. You must obey the Taskmaster's instructions. | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 15 | 19 | 16 | 13 | 12 | |
| Episode 2: Cows are made of milk. (18 September 2025) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: The object that is hardest to describe. | 3 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 2 | Identify Alex's five things. You may only use one sense. If you choose hearing, you get five points per item; smell, four points; taste, three points; touch, two points; sight, one point. | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 3 | Write a superpower on the little clipboard. | - | - | - | - | - |
| Team: Each team member must hook a duck, silently read the duck's superpower, then use that superpower for the next task in 10 minutes from now. At no point may you tell your teammates your superpower. | DQ | DQ | DQ | DQ | DQ | |
| Team: Remove the most flour from the tray without touching flour with your hands or moving Little Little Alex Horne. If Little Little Alex Horne moves at any point, you are disqualified. You must take it in turns to remove flour, and you must employ your superpowers. | ||||||
| Bonus for the contestant who employs their superpower most effectively. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | Take the most surprising thing out of this bag. | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 5 | Live: Guess how many things the Taskmaster's assistant has on him. Worst answer is eliminated. | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Bonus if you are exactly 10 out at any time. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| Total | 15 | 14 | 9 | 22 | 9 | |
| Episode 3: Thompson. (25 September 2025) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: The thing you were least likely to bring in from your home. | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 2 | Make the most accurate little model of the Chesham United mascot. You may only see what is inside two of the toilet tents. Go Generals. | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 3 | Team: Discover the name of the person in the lab. You must take it in turns to ask one question and the person may only say yes or no. The other team members must remain in this room until the questioner returns. Each person in your team must address the person in the lab by the correct name before the task is complete. | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 4 | Create your own Snakes and Steps board. You must add one snake and one set of steps. You must also add one mystery box. The instruction inside the mystery box is up to you. | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Win Snakes and Steps. Players will move from youngest to oldest. You must throw the dice properly each time and you must not tamper with the die. If you land on the head of a snake, you must slither down to its tail. If you land at the base of a step, you must climb it. If you land on the mystery box, you must do what it says. | ||||||
| 5 | Live: Turn your cup triangle completely upside down. Your upside-down cup triangle must be free-standing and you must obey the instructions written on each layer. If any cups fall, you must completely start again. You may not affect other people's cup triangles. | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 18 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 15 | |
| Episode 4: Hey mate. (2 October 2025) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: The present that would most make you say this if you received it on your birthday: "Oh, that's just the most gorgeous gift ever!". | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | What number has Alex written down? You may ask no more than 20 questions. Alex may only say yes or no, and you must be increasingly surprised by every answer. | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Team: Make a love heart using your body, the body of your teammates and any other items of your choosing. | 5 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
| 4 | Win the horse race. You must do one of the following things: Eat something without looking at the food, spin the wheel at least 720 degrees, throw a dart at the dartboard. If you eat an olive, your horse will advance two steps. If you eat a grape, your horse will retreat three steps. If you throw a dart in an olive, your horse will advance five steps. If you throw a dart in a grape, your horse will retreat eight steps. If the wheel lands on an olive, your horse will advance 10 steps. If the wheel lands on a grape, your horse will retreat 15 steps. You must stay on the spot and you must not move the spot. | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | Live: Fill out your form. | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Live: Either convince the Taskmaster you have written something other than what you have written or exactly what you have written. If you fail to deceive the Taskmaster, you are eliminated. | ||||||
| T | Remove your shower cap by inflating the balloon. | ✔ | - | - | - | ✘ |
| Total | 19 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 19 | |
| Episode 5: Bats, bats, hang up. (9 October 2025) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: A possession that would most confuse a future archaeologist if you were buried holding it. | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | Pull something from that red green onto this red green using this string. Throughout your pull, you must remain on this red green. Your thing must travel through or over all the obstacles. | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | Team: Make things genuinely awkward. | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| 4 | Do the most accurate finger painting of the person on the other end of the phone. You may only use four-letter words when speaking to them and every other reply will be a lie. | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| 5 | Live: Eat the lamé duck or don't eat the lamé duck. If you are the only person to eat the lamé duck, you win five points and everybody else loses one point. If more than one person eats the lamé duck, all lamé duck eaters lose three points and the lamé duck refusers gain three points. If no one eats the lamé duck, you must each give Greg £25. If everyone eats the lamé duck, Alex will give you each £25. | -3 | -3 | 3 | 3 | -3 |
| Total | 11 | 7 | 18 | 14 | 12 | |
| Episode 6: Is that number got curves? (16 October 2025) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: The thing Greg would most like to see Alex wearing. | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 2 | Cut a single string to cause the greatest effect. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | Write an autobiographical 10-word story. | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| Communicate your story to the Taskmaster. You may not leave the bridge. | ||||||
| 4 | Wear the flippers correctly. | 5 | 4 | DQ | DQ | DQ |
| Every time you say "flipper", "flippers" or "flower", your time is halved. Every time one of your feet leaves the circle, your time is halved. Every time you laugh, your time is halved. You must put the flippers on within 10 actual minutes of entering this room or you will be disqualified. After reading this, you must immediately return to the circle and the flippers must be where they were when you entered this room. | ||||||
| 5 | Live: Find the age of the mystery person. You must stay on your seats at all times. You may ask one question at a time, going from oldest to youngest and you may only say two numbers each. The person may only say yes or no. | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 13 | 12 | 16 | 8 | 14 | |
| Episode 7: Drier than you think, chalk. (23 October 2025) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing you can either ride or rip. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2 | Team: Steal the statue of Archimedes. | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | Dribble a technicolour picture of your hero. Your technicolour picture must only be made from things that have travelled directly from your mouth to the tray through the air and cannot be tampered with post-dribble. | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| 4 | Get exactly 63 points by bopping Alex on the head. You must shout a different type of food on each bop to register the bop. If you bop anyone other than Alex, five bops will be deducted from your total score. You must stay in the hutch. | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Live: Avoid the Taskmaster's big ball. You must stand on the circle but you must not step on any gold. You must be facing and staring at the Taskmaster sign at all times and after the Taskmaster releases his big ball, you may each take one step. The first person touched by the Taskmaster's big ball each round is eliminated. | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Total | 20 | 17 | 17 | 13 | 18 | |
| Episode 8: Am I an idiom? (30 October 2025) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best thing that has a surprise aspect to it. | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2 | Go and sit in the entrance lobby on Alex's horn and return on Alex's whistle. Every time you return, you must answer Alex's question within 30 seconds. You cannot change your answer. Alex will ask you 10 questions. | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | Paint the best picture of one animal sitting on top of another animal. You must paint on the paper below. You must not leave the balcony. | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
| 4 | You must read each of these instructions out and do them immediately. Stand on one leg and keep standing on one leg. Put one finger in your ear and keep it there. Put your other hand on your head and keep it there. Pull an extreme facial expression and keep that expression on your face. | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Say the most five-letter words. If anyone uses the same five-letter words as you, five words will be lost from both your totals. | ||||||
| 5 | Team Live: Demonstrate to the Taskmaster the idiom demonstrated to you by your teammate. All team members must remain silent and on their spots during a round. | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Total | 14 | 16 | 12 | 17 | 13 | |
| Episode 9: A 1970s camping kettle. (6 November 2025) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Most respected item that retains its credibility when you talk about it in a high-pitched voice. | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2 | Build a tower of bricks on this trolley, then push it down the slope. You may not touch the trolley after it passes the start line. As well as bricks, all the contents of one of these bins must be part of your tower, but nothing else. You may only look inside the bins once, and only for as long as you can scream. You must replace each lid before looking in the next bin. You have three attempts, during which you must also scream. | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | Make your jockey weigh almost exactly the same as Alex. If your jockey weighs more than Alex, you are disqualified. You may only get two readings from the scales. | 4 | 3 | 5 | DQ | 1 |
| Bonus: Sexiest jockey. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 4 | Make the most fantastic 15-second film featuring your face in full frame. | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| 5 | Live: Become the person the Taskmaster shouts. You will have one minute to draw yourself a new bottom of your face and body. Also, you must bob up and down throughout your attempt. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| Total | 16 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 15 | |
| Episode 10: Supping from the fountain. (13 November 2025) | ||||||
| 1 | Prize: Best tube. | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| 2 | Team: Make exactly the same-looking drinks as your teammate's drinks. Your entire team may only open two doors. | DQ | 5 | DQ | 5 | DQ |
| 3 | Drink almost all the apple juice. You must not touch the cup and the cup must not move. | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | Make water squirt out of you in a surprising way. Alex will guess whence the water will squirt. For every incorrect guess, you may squirt him for one second at the end of the task. | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Live: Respond to the Taskmaster correctly. When he says "wibble", you say "bibble". When he says "bibble", you say "bam". When he says "bam", you say "wibble bibble bam". If you dither or err, you are eliminated. | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 4 |
| Total | 10 | 17 | 12 | 16 | 16 | |
| T | Live: How many letter Ts are there in the portrait of Alex and Greg in the living room? | ✘ | ✔ | ✘ | - | - |
| Grand Total | 151 | 151 | 151 | 148 | 143 | |
Trivia[]
- The interview task for this series was Beat Alex at table tennis while being interviewed by him.
- The contestants of this series were vaguely teased by Alex Horne prior to their announcement. In an interview, Alex confirmed that an upcoming series had contestants each aged in a different decade: one is in their 20s, one in their 30s, one in their 40s, one in their 50s, and one in their 60s.[1]
- Coincidentally, as well as the usual alphabetical order, the contestants are also sat in increasing order of age.
- This is the first series…
- …to have a portrait that features Alex, and the first since Series 16 to contain the house in said portrait.
- …to have the two teams be the odd numbered seats vs the even numbered seats.
- …to feature a task with contestants arranged in different teams that is not a live task.
- …to not feature a special promotional task on Taskmaster social media to coincide with the release of the first five episodes since Series 17. Instead, brief interviews with the contestants about their outfits were released.
- …since Series 12 to have episodes uploaded to YouTube on the same day as it is aired on Channel 4, rather than being uploaded the next day. This was the first series to have its trailer uploaded to the Channel 4 streaming app; it was uploaded on 29 August and was taken down 14 days after.
- For the finale of this series, Supping from the fountain., contestants dressed up like pirates for the studio segments, making this the third series in which contestants all wore matching outfits for the finale after Series 9 (tuxedos) and Series 15 (the Beatles).
Videos[]
Taskmaster Season 20 Line-up REVEALED - Coming Soon
Season 20 Outtakes - Part 1 - Taskmaster
Season 20 Outtakes - Part 2 - Taskmaster
Season 20 Outtakes - Part 3 - Taskmaster