Posted by Simon at June 11, 2005 12:21 PM

Housemates were finally let out of the bedroom at just before 11:40am, where they found dozens of huge boxes with safety warnings on them and photos of the housemates.

Makosi read out details of the task, which will see the winner win a Luxury 3-course meal every night for three nights, along with access to a fully stocked food and drink fridge.

To win, they have to climb under their box, and stay there as long as they can. The person that stays in their box for the longest is the winner - surely quite simple. But it can't be that easy... Big Brother must have something which is nasty or evil or difficult about it.

Maybe the box has been rigged with some sort of prank tricks, gunge, stink bombs, or some other Big Brother style foolery. Each housemate has an "emergency kit" with various items including a bottle of water, compass, flag, and housemates that have boxes located in the garden have been told that they have eyeholes which are covered up which if the weather turns bad then they will be told to remove the patches and shuffle inside the house. Sounds mad!

Housmates also have a head-mounted torch so as they can see what they're doing inside the big dark boxes. Viewers however don't appear to be able to see what's going on under each box...

Is this some of the funniest BB ever
Surely this is going to be some of the funniest Big Brother ever. Housemates haven't got a clue what any of it's about, and some of them are obviously split from others due to a few being out in the garden. Vanessa's not even back from Hospital after injuring her foot last night.

So Science decided he was going to shuffle about in his box to get to a different part of the room, and moved past Max, bashing in to his box in the way whilst Kemal and Derek were talking to each other between their boxes.

Max then moved his box next to Saskia, bashing in to her with quite a thud where he spoke with her, although he's forgot to get his microphone from the bed and so everything he says is muffled, probably meaning he'll be first out of the box if Big Brother makes him to go and get it.

--- [video of the task as it started]

Science first out
Science didn't last long in the box, claiming that "Science can not be contained", and soon went around pouring water through the holes in the top of other housemates boxes. He also walked around drumming on boxes and generally causing annoyance.

He seemed to be causing great annoyance to housemates, especially Roberto. Meanwhile Kemal had moved out in to the garden under his box, and had climbed on top of Makosi's, in what surely meant he'd failed the task too. Science then came along and removed the box from above Kemal, which made Kemal quite anti-Science, and started to throw glasses of water at him.

Vanessa returns, with Sandwiches
Science appears to have been telling the truth saying that there were Bacon Sandwiches in the Diary Room, as Vanessa has just returned from the hospital on crutches after last night's fall, and asked Science and Kemal to help her bring out a tray which had toast and jam on it, and a big basket of Bacon Sandwiches, which can only be given to housemates once they've left their box, and can't be given to any housemates that are in their box.

Sam was next out of her box, after quite a long gap between Makosi being turfed out of his. She walked in to the Kitchen, ignoring questions from Derek about who it was, and walked to the fridge, and found the Bacon Sandwiches, saying "thank god!" to herself as she took one.

Hello mum...
To make housemates want to get out of their box to see what's going on, Big Brother has been playing messages from home, with Anthony's mum appearing on the plasma screen and talking to him. However Anthony's determined to win this task and didn't budge, although did shout "hello mum".

At 5:30pm Anthony was saying he reckons he could easily go in to the early hours of the morning, but then no doubt all the others - including Maxwell and Craig - would claim exactly the same thing, as they all seem to really want to win.

Will they ever come out?
At 7:50pm (around 8 hours after starting) there's still a few housemates going strong - Derek and Roberto are inside the house near the kitchen and diary room door, whilst Anthony, Craig and Makosi are still all inside their boxes on the cold concrete by the shower and pool in the garden.

Other housemates are sitting in the lounge chatting, although Science and Kemal are cooking from what they've got left of this week's shopping, and Vanessa is chatting with them whilst having one of the bacon sandwiches warmed up in the cooker. Kemal has also poured oil in through one of the holes in Roberto's box, but didn't admit to it.

However foul-play really came in to force at around 8pm when both Maxwell and Kemal started to spoon in runny icecream. They eventually started to pour it straight out of the bowl, and Roberto assumed (rightly) that it was Maxwell, although really Kemal was doing much more and continued to do so, before throwing some other food and a glass full of water right over the box.

Take a break
At 11:30pm Big Brother announced a compulsary 10 minute break for the remaining 5 housemates - Derek, Roberto, Craig, Anthony and Makosi.

and in to Day 17 they go...