Play at home
Taskmaster tasks you can set at home, with what you need and any changes to make them work. Most prize tasks make a good party game: everyone brings their best thing and one person judges. We're working through the series, so more tasks will be added.
Series 1
Most unusual item
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Most impressive item
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Most meaningful item
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
What is Frank Skinner's age in minutes?
- Needs tweaks
- 8+
- Indoors
- 2 min
Tweak: Use the age of someone in the room; no calculators.
You need: paper, pen
Most beautiful item
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Get to 11 points as fast as possible
- Needs tweaks
- All ages
- Garden
- 15 min
Tweak: Play any bat-and-ball game; first team to reach 11 points by any interpretation of the rules wins.
You need: any bat or racket, ball
Most valuable item
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Most satisfying item
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Series 2
Most important document
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Trendiest item of clothing
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Best dinner party guest
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Coolest blue thing
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Set a fun task
- Needs tweaks
- 8+
- Indoors
- 30 min
Tweak: Each player secretly writes a one-minute task; everyone does them and guesses who set which.
You need: paper, pens
Best piece of memorabilia
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Make the best stop-motion film starring this potato
- Needs tweaks
- All ages
- Indoors
- 30 min
Tweak: Cut the time from one hour to 30 minutes.
You need: phone, potato
Series 3
Most flamboyant clock
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Heaviest item that can fit in a shoebox
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Best battery-operated item
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Shiniest thing
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Make the most special effect
- Needs tweaks
- 8+
- Indoors or garden
- 30 min
Tweak: Cut to 30 minutes and ban fire, smoke and anything explosive.
You need: phone, household items
The photo of the most handsome relative
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Series 4
Most interesting autograph on the most interesting vegetable
- Needs tweaks
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
Tweak: Get anyone outside the game (a neighbour, a grandparent) to sign it.
You need: a vegetable, a pen
Most boastful item
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Best membership/subscription
- Needs tweaks
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
Tweak: Library cards, club badges and loyalty cards all count.
You need: anything from around the house
Most surprising picture of themselves
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Cutest thing
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Put on the wetsuit, flippers, face mask and snorkel
- Needs tweaks
- All ages
- Indoors
- 10 min
Tweak: A friend on a video call stands in for the Swede; swap the wetsuit and flippers for layers of dressing-up clothes.
Prep: Arrange a friend to be on a video call, and lay out the dressing-up clothes.
You need: laptop or phone video call, dressing-up clothes, swim goggles
Best sheep-related item
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Best chair
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Most cash
- Needs tweaks
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
Tweak: Use coins from piggy banks or play money, and give it all back.
You need: anything from around the house
Series 5
Something that makes the most excellent noise
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Hippest item of headwear
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Paint the most recognisable animal, vegetable, or mineral
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors
- 5 min
Prep: An adult cuts a face-sized hole in a large sheet of cardboard beforehand.
You need: large cardboard with a face hole, washable face paint or poster paint
The thing they're actually proudest of
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Most extraordinary souvenir
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Most high-octane item
- Needs tweaks
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
Tweak: No fuel, aerosols or anything flammable.
You need: anything from around the house
Best thing they've made themselves
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Have your photo taken with this golden pineapple in other esteemed company
- Needs tweaks
- Great for 3–7
- Park or street
- Takes days
Tweak: Photograph a pineapple (or any mascot) with the most impressive people and places you meet over a week or a holiday.
You need: a pineapple or any mascot, phone camera
Most surprisingly expensive item
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Most awkward item for somebody else to take home
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
COC
The thing that genuinely causes them the most embarrassment
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Perform a miracle
- Needs tweaks
- 8+
- Indoors or garden
- 20 min
Tweak: Cut the time to 20 minutes.
You need: anything
Best thing
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Record the highest total of steps on your pedometer
- Needs tweaks
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors
- 2 min
Tweak: Use phones' step counters and clear the room of anything to trip over.
You need: phones with step counters, blindfolds or scarves
Series 6
Best liquid
- Needs tweaks
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
Tweak: No alcohol or cleaning products.
You need: anything from around the house
Best hairy thing that isn't alive
- Ready to play
- Great for 3–7
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Most magnificent day trip
- Ready to play
- 8+
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house
Most thought-provoking thing
- Ready to play
- All ages
- Indoors or garden
- 10 min
You need: anything from around the house