A brand-new Taskmaster game with all-new tasks. The Secret Series Game invites you and your family and friends to take part in your own series of Taskmaster games at home. Carry the scores from each individual game forward into the next until you complete 10 'episodes' to crown an overall Series Winner! Who will be the ultimate champion? Paul Thomason spends a creative, fun and competitive afternoon playing Taskmaster which brings all the silliness of the TV show to your front room.

Limiting the game to Garden Tasks would be ideal for the current situation where people are restricted to meeting outdoorsThe original board gamebrings the very essence of theshow to the comfort of your own home. Compete with your friends and family in a series of ludicrous tasks to be crowned Taskmaster Champion. Judge or be judged. It's time to summon your inner Taskmaster. Contents: Game board, rules sheet, scoreboard playing pieces, wipe-clean pen, Taskmaster trophy and 200 task cards, including video tasks from Alex Horne himself. Like I said, the QR code integration is very welcome. All the components help to make you feel like you are playing the game. And then there’s adorably naff John Kearns, whose bewildered little face gave the impression that every task was genuinely hurting his brain. His did earn an instant series highlight, however, when he successfully sabotaged a team task without either of his teammates noticing. LVG 5. Series Eleven As first runs go, Taskmaster Series 1 is a perfect introduction to why the show has become such a roaring success, and that’s really down to the cast. Roisin Conaty was lovably naff, whereas Tim Key was so fearlessly competitive he broke all the rules, stooping low enough to lie about shooting a TV show for Comic Relief to win a task ( yes, really!). The combination of quietly furious Romesh Ranganathan and dry-witted Frank Skinner gave us the beautiful moment where, during a task about throwing a tea bag into a cup from the greatest distance, Frank Skinner jokes ‘someone will spend the first 45 minutes realising it’s easier when they’re wet’ and the scene cuts to an infuriated Romesh discovering just that.

The problem is those two key moments overshadow most of the rest of the series. We will give serious bonus points to Katherine Ryan’s genius method of extracting answers from a Swedish person and Doc Brown’s hiphop reimagining of ‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5, once I caught a fish alive.’ LVG 8. Series One Each player is given a Secret Task card to begin with and they need to surreptitiously follow the instructions throughout the game without the other players guessing their task. How could I be so blind as to not notice my wife stroking a cushion as if it were a pet for a full hour? The game comes with a game board, rules sheet, pen, paper, playing pieces, Taskmaster trophy and a couple of hundred all important task cards. Taskmaster The Board Game The Taskmaster board game does an incredible job of recreating the television show in your home. This is certainly the best game I have played based on a television show. That said, they do tend to be a bit naff and so that may not be the greatest accolade I could offer. So to this I will add, that Taskmaster is a great party game and holds up to others even without the tv tie-in. The game is a brilliant reiteration of the onscreen version, and if you are willing to be a bit silly and embrace the ludicrous challenges, you will be laughing out loud while playing this game. I really like creating my own avatar too.It also could be a bit weird having friends in your house, rummage through your fridge or drawers trying to complete a task. I was okay with it, but imagine some may be self-conscious around that. The players whose house it is do have a bit of an advantage as they will know where some things are, or what might be available. Players take turns performing the Davies role of Taskmaster although there is the option of one person being the sole arbiter of awarding points if they are unwilling to partake in the challenges, are feeling unsure about joining in too fully, or if they are just power hungry. Taskmaster Trophy Task: Taskmaster The Board Game Although Jo Brand spent most of her time in the CBA club, she also had moments of sheer brilliance (scream-singing Jerusalem down the phone to Alex as an egg timer) and other series highlights were Ed Gamble’s meltdowns and Rose Matafeo’s outstanding rootin’ tootin’ Taskmaster theme. ED 6. Series Fourteen

You also have a secret task that you try to do throughout the game. (Mine was pet an inanimate object like it was a pet.) If you manage to get through the game unobserved, you get a bonus three points. If anyone catches you when it’s time to guess and describes your task, they get three points. Finally, you all take part in the “Final Task,” either reading the task or scanning the QR code so Alex Horne reads it for you. Whoever has the most points at the end is the winner!

Final thoughts on Taskmaster The Board Game

It must have been the ultimate task for board game producers, Ginger Fox but somehow they’ve managed to transfer the daftness, randomness and enjoyable elements of the TV show, Taskmaster into a format that allows you to undertake various tasks using items found in and around the home. Ever fancied being a towering ex-school teacher turned comic sat in a big gold chair hosting a celebrity panel game show? Well, now is your chance, as there is a Taskmaster party game! Unless you don’t have a gold chair in the house, because sadly, this game does not come with a throne. If you’ve ever seen any sort of TV show where contestants run around doing things, you’ve probably thought “I could do better than that.” Well, now’s your chance! The Taskmaster TV show came fully formed from Alex Horne’s brain, providing us all with a chance to enjoy with the subjective whims of Greg Davies. And now there’s a board game, so that you can enjoy the subjective whims of your friends and family! So strap in, let’s talk about the Taskmaster Board Game! All The Information Is On The Task It is based upon the long-running BAFTA award winning TV comedy quiz show starring Greg Davies (stand-up comedian and actor best known as the headmaster from “The Inbetweeners”) and its creator Alex Horne (band-leader of The Horne Section) currently enjoying its 10th series on Channel 4 following the successful move from Dave. But it almost doesn’t even matter who the contestants are. If the cast is a bit underpowered, Taskmaster gets by on silly charm and on knowing the pleasures of simple games. Some of its finest moments have come from only slightly embellishing the office pastime of throwing balled-up pieces of paper into a wastebasket – and here, the best game is an old-fashioned round of hide and seek variant Grandma’s footsteps, albeit one played in a railway museum and featuring Horne, the spotter, standing on a bridge wearing a helmet covered in fairy lights. It is funny when Lou Sanders squeezes into a bin and shuffles forward pretending to be part of the landscape, but it is even better when Joe Thomas just plays wholeheartedly and fully sprints from one hiding place to another, narrowly making it before Horne pops up again to try to catch him.

Greg Davies and Little Alex Horne bring you a Taskmaster Board Game based off of their award-winning show. The aim of the game is to finish with the most points but getting those points may require you to think outside the box and try to be clever with your tasks. On the board are piles of tasks. Four piles each correspond to a different location – the kitchen, living room, lab, and garden. Alongside these, there are secret tasks and final tasks, meaning in all, there are 200 different task cards! Before each game, decide on how many tasks you want to complete, and then, each round, it is up to the Taskmaster to decide from which of the four location piles to choose the task. Each player will have a secret task to carry out during the whole game, and if the game ends without that task being detected, the player will get 3 bonus points. Advert: we were gifted this game by Ginger Fox Games, this has not affected our opinion in any way.

Key Facts

The rules of the game are pretty straight forward. Players take it in turns to be the Taskmaster, putting the gilded head of Greg Davies in one of four locations – Garden, Lab, Kitchen and Living Room, and drawing a task to provide to their fellow contestants. You have to read all of the instructions and that’s pretty much it. From there on in, it’s the Taskmaster’s call. Even the points scoring is arbitrary, with the Taskmaster able to dole out points for whatever reason they want. The Taskmaster (either a rotating role, or a permanent game-long role) decides how to awards points. A points scheme based on the number of players (for example, if there are 4 players taking part in a task, the winner gets 4 points, 2nd place 3 points, and so on) is sensible. However, the Taskmaster has the final say and can give points however they choose to, and their word is final. Once a challenge is completed the current Taskmaster casts their judgment on the winner. They have the right to be arbitrary. Generally points are awarded equal to the player count, so in a five player game, first place gets five points, second place gets four and so on.