In the task where they had to count the seats in the cinema Andy Zaltzman says “one” while he’s talking. That should have been his accepted answer.
Harsh but fair. Surprised Alex didn’t pick up on this
It changed the winner of the series from Jack to Andy.
Someone in the YouTube comments did a deep dive and found out it wouldn’t have changed anything. In the worst case for Andy, he would’ve been bumped down to third for the task and still won overall.
That is a very deep dive! Thanks for sharing, and I stand corrected.
Ha! I thought the same thing and looked up the definition and “one”, unlike “three”, has meanings which are not related to the number:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/moment
I guess they didn’t want to spend the ten minutes it would take Alex and Andy to have an unskippable grammar nerd cutscene!
I’m actually not sure if I would’ve called or not to be honest. I guess I’m hindsight the wording of the task would have needed to be more precise (“say anything that can be interpreted as a number”).
