“A loaf of bread on the very day it stops being fresh and starts being toast”

Winner

Karl

85.31 points

“Wooden board, striped suitcase lurking behind. Everyone looks ready to leave but the main subject.”

The standings

Karl takes the crown off Tom.

Reads the Judge’s Mind, over the last 10 rounds.

Every shot 9 scored

Best first · #rank · How close, out of 100 · Gold won

#01 71

85.31 pts

Wooden board, striped suitcase lurking behind. Everyone looks ready to leave but the main subject.
#02 62

— currently top of the standings

75.73 pts

A striped twist tie and a frosted shelf, and the whole thing looks very sure of its room.
#03 46

49.55 pts

Phone camera, an outdoor lunch. The artist left a bite mark as a signature and the table slats as a frame.
#04 First up 29

— currently top of the standings

42.85 pts

The most heavily supervised chopping block in the entire history of kitchen counters.
#05 31

37.92 pts

Plenty of spread on this shelf. Not one thing to spread it on.
#06 27

33.43 pts

Here, in the pale light of a beige wall, the jar is held aloft, brimming with a confidence the lid cannot back.
#07 24

31.65 pts

Jar: nearly scraped clean. Knife: on standby. Speckled countertop: the only one not sticky.
#08 22

28.39 pts

Mild at 20.2 degrees, humidity steady, with a smug little face forecasting nothing at all.
#09 14

18.02 pts

One star. Wood-panelled ceiling arrived in excellent condition, and the curtain photobombed.

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