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The fastest duck. is the 2021 one-off New Year's special that first aired on 1 January 2021 on Channel 4. The episode was won by Shirley Ballas.
Episode Title[]
"The fastest duck" was how Alex Horne described the duck made by Nicola Coughlan during the Sculpt the scene on the other side of this wall task.
Alternate Titles[]
- On Denmark's TV2 Play streaming platform, this episode is titled 'Den hurtigste and', which translates as 'The fastest duck'.
- On Finland's MTV Katsomo streaming platform, this episode is titled 'Uuden vuoden kujeet 1', which translates as 'New Year's larks 1'.
- On Norway's Discovery+ Norge streaming platform, this episode is titled 'Den raskeste anda', which translates as 'The fastest duck'. Note: this Norwegian translation of the title only appears in the subtitles for the episode, whereas the episode title listed on the platform is the original English title.
Episode breakdown[]
Spoilers!
This section contains spoilers.
| Task | Description | John Hannah | Krishnan Guru-Murthy | Nicola Coughlan | Rylan Clark-Neal | Shirley Ballas |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prize: Best thing to bring to a party. | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| 2 | Get the biggest thing through the doughnut without breaking the doughnut. | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
| 3 | Sculpt the scene on the other side of this wall. | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 4 | Build the lightest tower on this set of scales. You may not move the scales or tape anything to them, and you may not tamper with or block the fan. The fan will be on for 1 minute every other minute. Your tower must be taller than a wolf and stand by itself for 10 seconds. | 5 | 4 | 0 | DQ | 3 |
| Bonus: Every time Alex rings his little bell, you have to pretend you've had a brilliant idea. | – | – | – | 0 | – | |
| 5 | Live: Without your fellow contestants seeing, select one object from your box. If you select the same object as one of your fellow contestants, you will both lose 1 actual point. | -1 | -1 | -1 | 0 | -1 |
| Live: Strike the most balls into the bath with your object. If any of your balls touch the Taskmaster, you lose 1 actual point. | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | |
| Total | 10 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 17 | |
External links[]
| This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia's article "List of Taskmaster episodes" (view authors here). | 
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