If you got this right, get out more! #taskmaster

[Grayman]

Greg basically said "touch grass".

[BM-yydb]

Honestly, I wouldn't even do the mental arithmetics when given this task. I'd instantly ring the bell. 50/50 chance of top points and I get to ring a big bell.

[JayPhonomancer]

Guz's reaction when Alex reveals the final answer is priceless. Followed by Victoria quietly seething at being caught out 😂

[marinvracevic]

I felt so bad for Victoria hahaha, that was her wheelhouse, her time to shine, her confidence also there when she repeated it in the studio...but then

[cptbaker]

"if you got that right at home, get out more." Is the nicest way of say "fucking nerd".

[Taolan]

I definitely got that right at home, and I most definitely need to get out more.

[FromOrbit]

This is actually an interesting linguistics point! Double negatives cancelling each other out is the understanding in most English dialects, but isn't true in every language. In some languages, double negatives increase how negative it is, so saying something is "not not good" is equivalent to saying its "very not good." You can see this in AAVE (African-American Vernacular English) where the phrase "I ain't never" does not mean "I have, " but emphasizes how the person has never done that thing.

This is a test that wouldn't work in every language or dialect!

[mayascriptor]

I actually did get it, and Greg is right, I should get out more 😪

[punxsydawn]

The "do the opposite" got me

[elliewhite]

"And if you got that at home you need to get out of the house more"
I'm not on the show Greg I don't need to listen to your instructions....I should but I don't have to

[tarasensei]

I immediately thought that I need Susie Dent to explain it.

[TimPortantno]

The opposite is:
"You can't, under all circumstances, avoid making the bell ring"

[brazen_helm]

I would argue that not making the bell not ring is not the same as making the bell ring, it's not preventing the bell from ringing. So the instruction comes out in the end as "Do the opposite of preventing the bell from ringing." And I think it's up to interpretation whether you need to ring the bell to be opposite to preventing the bell from ringing, or if you merely need to allow it to be rung if someone else tries.

[brightwolfz]

If you want to get cheeky with the answer. The opposite of "You must" is up for interpretation. You must can mean I am forced to which the opposite of that is I may choose to. Then the sentence becomes "I may choose to..." then all the double negatives dont matter because no matter what I do I choose to either ring it or not ring it fufilling the objective.

[Samuel-kuqb]

My dyslexic ass had to write it down and do the actual maths in stages😂 but I did get it right!

[ZJasmineDragon]

I never understood how this was a challenge. You just cross out every two negatives.

[thomasbruinsma]

I was so proud of catching that, Greg.

[cejayidc]

So the blonde girl who repeated it in the studio essentially got it right, but also forgot about doing the opposite

[klara]

I solved it a bit differently. From the beginning you acknowledge the saying "do the opposite" and you just reverse all the words right from the start as he's reading it. You end up with "you mustn't avoid to make the bell ring" aka you have to ring the bell :) then you don't have to do the whole complicated crossing out thing

[zorod]

I would have gotten a pen and crossed out the pairs of negatives until I got a single or no negatives.