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Taskmaster's hide-and-seek task turns viewers into decoy designers

Arrow-based distractions get the audience plotting, while the new full episode sends Isy Suttie aboard a steam train.

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Taskmaster Story of October 18, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Hiding in plain sight. #taskmaster

Everyone has a hiding strategy. Under "Hiding in plain sight. #taskmaster", viewers are proposing decoy clusters, swapping places between rounds and simply walking far enough away that Alex Horne couldn't reach them in time. The task has escaped the screen and become a small planning exercise in the comments.

The clip is Taskmaster's most-watched new upload of the week, with roughly 3.6 million views, and it also carries the channel's strongest daily momentum. Matt Lucas putting an arrow upside down gets particular attention. Elsewhere, commenters debate how the arrows should have been positioned to suggest that someone was concealed behind an object, rather than just decorating it.

There were nine uploads altogether, including another helping of season outtakes and "Snag the snake. #taskmaster", which is also among the channel's busiest videos right now. The new full episode supplies a broader assortment of unlikely assignments: Nina Conti tries to fool Greg Davies with bananas and a spoon, Matt spots a cow behind a barrel, and Isy Suttie has an encounter with a steam-train conductor called Jeff. The description also promises a returning Taskmaster legend, without naming them.

The channel added about 10,000 subscribers over the week, and daily viewing is running above its usual level. Among nearby game-show and reality channels, Taskmaster had the largest weekly view gain. Its full episode is drawing substantial daily attention too, giving the longer installment a place alongside all those pocket-sized distractions.

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What viewers say

Matt putting an arrow upside down killed me, lol
@iliketrains4813See it on YouTube
1st round, place 5 decoys together very clearly.
Alex will have a look and see that it is decoys.
2nd round remove one decoy and place yourself there, Alex has already looked there so you should be safe.
@RexRegisPeterSee it on YouTube
My plan: hide the decoys in places you would hide. Keep changing places every round.
@gagarwal916See it on YouTube

5 more comments

My first thought was "I hope somebody will just walk through the gate and hide outside". Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
@cliostronk2667See it on YouTube
Honestly not a bad move hiding under the shed
@jessa1895See it on YouTube
I don’t understand why people kept taping the arrows in front of/on top of things. Wasn’t the whole point to tape the arrows behind/below things, to make it look like a person could be hidden? The tape arrows were supposed to be decoys for the headband arrow……..
@annaseibert9493See it on YouTube
Nardole piloted the TARDIS wrong and is now forced to do side quests
@izbyonokSee it on YouTube
Just start walking away, no distance is specified
@charliekendall7511See it on YouTube