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Order a pizza without using certain words

Pizza box sitting on the living room table next to an old-fashioned rotary phone.

Task types:

Solo

Filmed

Mental

Social

Objective

Single brief

Adapted

Mastertasks:

Order something without using certain words

Locations:

Taskmaster House (UK)

Spaces:

The Living Room (Taskmaster UK)

Bonus points?

Yes

Task brief

The task brief is found inside a plain pizza box on the table in the living room. The brief for the task is as follows:

Order the following pizza for the Taskmaster: an extra large vegetarian pizza with pepperoni and bacon, without tomato and cheese.

You may not use the following words: extra; large; vegetarian; pizza; pepperoni; bacon; tomato; cheese.

You get a bonus point if you can make the pizza person say the word 'bubbles'.

Task notes

Also on the table, there is an old-fashioned rotary phone.
A silent alarm in the form of a lightbulb is positioned on the table in front of the contestants, and lights up any time they use one of the forbidden words.
However, the contestants' use of the supposedly forbidden words actually has no effect at all on how the points are assigned in this task - it is instead based entirely on how accurate the order collected from the pizza restaurants was. This hardly seems fair, since the restaurant workers apparently made faults in preparing some of the orders despite reasonably clear instructions from the contestants.
This was the second time this task had been used. A version recorded with the cast of series 1 was not included in any of the episodes, but a highlights video was posted on the UKTV YouTube channel to promote the show, in 2015.