The Impossible Jenga Move | MythBusters Jr.
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- Is it really possible to remove the solitary bottom block from a late-game Jenga tower?
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"This is the last chance"
*They fail*
"It's not over yet!"
@Captain Hwawrang come on phoenix, only you can do the impossible
*Me trying to get one more basket when the basketball court closes in 5 mins*
"Ah shit! Here we go again."
Its because Adam was about to reveal his 「ＫＩＬＬＥＲＱＵＥＥＮ」's third ability 「ＢＩＴＥＳＴＨＥＤＵＳＴ」
Yeah... I think I was the last millennial generation that didn’t get rewards for failing
Can we all appreciate the fact that Adam is giving these kids a chance to not only explore but let their skills be tested? I would have loved to be in their shoes when I was their age
Kids getting into science is so encouraging to watch.
Friends:Dude, there's no way you're gonna get that block
Me:*pulls out machine*
Asian: we don't need that machine. We have fingers
Activates Hokuto Shinken
uses visual sharigan to see the block's chakra. A shadow clone!
Lol
Hol up
Imagine bringing this machine to the “Family play night”.
gramma's gonna knock the tower over before it even started
@@Balpindo 🤣🤣
Original Nick and then the brick gets lodged in the wall from launching it with 120 psi
“Now I will never lose”
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The design of the rest of the tower matters a lot. If it is internally stable enough, it wont collapse.
Yeah but all the blocks are actually slightly different
Yeah i was looking at the footage the showed at most of the other tries a lot of the tower looked super unstable. the machine lever the last attempt had a much more stable base.
@@izzy123123123 The bottom half of the one at 4:20 was also super stable.
@@jeffc5974 The one at 4:20 is actually more stable overall than the final one. The final one had 2 adjacent layers of only a single block in the bottom 1/3 of the tower.
Everyone should have had the same tower construction for consistency to make sure the failure was the method and not just unfortunate tower construction.
@@SpeakingSpellSword Absolutely. Since the myth was about a late stage of the game, I bet none of them would have worked.
Tower: Gets completely destroyed.
Adam: *ThaT WAs ReALly CloSe*
Sadly Adam doesn't really know how to work with kids, but honestly, I don't blame him. It seems really awkward and uncomfortable.
It actually was imo
Jan Lewandowski because it was close, people are just stupid and dont have eyes
When you can date a meme 😂
Always Adam: being impossibly optimistic. XD
I remember playing Jenga with one of my friends in our school library. We got really deep into the game, and just when I thought it was definitely going to collapse when my friend took his turn, he pulled out a pen, swiped the bottom block with it, and just looked at me like it was nothing. Funny memory haha.
Girl: "pneumatic actuator, pneumatic actuator, pneumatic actuator"
Voiceover guy: "AN AIR POWERED PISTON"
i was looking for this comment.
Science to Zience.
you gotta dumb it down for the american audience
The first he starts laying out the rules about moving the block with only one hand,kid in green uses two hands 0:24
Piotr kukliński Not to forget the pneumatic actuator they use 12 seconds later ... ;)
I know
The kid in green doesn't seem to belong there, seems more like a SUPER lucky kid who was the runner up to the runner up of the winner who actually belonged there.
Kid is tiny. Therefore two kid hands is equivalent to one mega Tommy Banks the Doorbuster Unit Monster hand.
Salty Troll I, actually no kidding that’s my friend Elijah and that’s really rude he is way smarter than you. He was on the new because he made a game from a mint box
I've actually done this in a normal game, and everyone assumed I was god.
Infinity Google Productions same but I used a yardstick
@@grahameverett2676 lol, that's a way to do it.
@@grahameverett2676 I
Same
Lol I did to with my family. Haven’t played since.
I’ll never forget the absolutely insane game of Jenga in one of my college math courses. In a high stakes game one of my classmates chopped the block out from the bottom of the stack and the class. WENT. W I L D !! The professor from the floor below us came up the stairs to see what all the ruckus was about. Absolutely insane.
What were the stakes?
I can’t be the only one that laugh at this part 3:33 how disappointed he look and walk away 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I had to screen record that part lmaoo it was gold.
Adam will never get enough myth-busting. I can tell he enjoys this far more than any of the other cohorts ever did. I am glad to see him do this with kids.
1:30 that was awesome.. but it slowly pushed it away 😂😂
I would have *loved* to do science with them. Mythbusters is what made me a science fan and every new episode was such a learning experience for me
I did with a pencil me and my brothers went fucking ballistic. At first we were stunned taking a moment to process what had happened then we all started simultaneously cheering, I was clapping like a seal my dad was watching/judging us and my mom was scolding me cause it hit my youngest brother who was also cheering. It's one of the proudest moments of my life
All that could have been done by swiping the the tower with a 24inch ruler.
Or a pen
Or a flick.
Yeah a contraption swiping 75mph is really not that impressive.
Tie a thread to the tip of a baseball bat at one end and to the bottom piece at the other end and swing the bat... Make sure the thread is long just enough to provide time for the bat to reach maxm speed of swing...
But less cool 😂
6:53 Anybody else notice the arm almost came back and obliterated the tower?
So, after rewatching it with a much greater ppi and resolution, the actuator actually does come back and hit the blocks as they are coming back down. It barely changes the angle the bottom two are sitting
actually looked like it helped keep it balanced
That's literally what I saw/thought too. Its like that little love tap sent enough energy back up the tower to equalize it all with the right timing
@@alfaqs1d3wayz so its fake
@@pinsdoodles463 don't think so bud
@@alfaqs1d3wayz My thoughts exactly. If the arm had been allowed to move away more, would the tower have fallen...?
Cool solution, though. But does it count as 'only using one hand', I wonder...?
This is actually a lot easier than you might imagine haha. The trick is not to pull the bottom piece out in a direction perpendicular to the layer above it. If you pull parallel to the second layer, with a slight twist, it isolates most of the motion in the bottom 3-6 layers as opposed to the entire tower.
Fucking Jenga Judiciary over here
@@TY-jo4pgthat is not a sentence I ever expected to experience in my life, but I'm glad I did. 😂
When ur in the last stage of Jenga and Val pulls out her pneumatic actuator
00f
Her air powered piston
I love this comment
130th like
The blade bounced back and hit the next brick up as it was falling, and actually pushed it back in line slightly. I wonder if it doing so actually helped stabilize the tower.
I think it did
more like on the levels of 'almost knocked the tower down'.
Oh shit you're right! At the last millisecond, it bumped the new bottom block squarely back into place. I have a feeling they ran this test a bunch of times before it actually worked. Cus that was pure luck. Pretty interesting to watch. Almost like it was designed to knock the bottom piece out then bump the new bottom piece square in place.
If you look at the footage before she starts talking to camera you see it never touched it. Every other angle makes it look like it did because the camera is zoomed in which makes the depth of field shorter, but the blade was too far to bounce back and hit the tower.
Generality you seen what I seen. At .25 speed around 7:15 and 7:20 you can see it best. The back side of the bottom two blocks get knocked back a small amount. I’m going with helped cause it stayed standing.
No one:
Valarie: 👁️👄👁️ *"My PnEuMaTiC aCtUaToR"*
More like
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Valerie or Valarie
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@@Anisometry umm...
@@yeeturmcbeetur8197 LMFAOOO
"Important things like this" *is pulling a jenga block from a fish string*
the bungie one would work under a slightly different tower configuration
Science channel: *Builds actuator machine*
Me: grabs pen and flicks bottom block
Seriously you dont need this machine
My friend actually pulled this off one time in a real jenga game, it was astonishing.
Then he knocked it down when placing the piece on top.
I feel like I've seen this move done many times and worked. Why did anyone consider it impossible?
Ace Trades I do it a lot
Ace Trades I’ve done this before 😂
I do a lot and it annoys everyone I’m playing with
I just feel like you're all lying.
@@idkijs435 nah it's possible
“I already had a gray hair after like first grade”
Adam: “that is awesome!!” 😂😂
Piece of wood: *literally moves another piece of wood*
Valerie: “That was awesome”
Dying Meme right! This show is kinda cringy tbh.
When she said "my robotics experience" I was like honey, you're 15 years old
@@RNCHFND haha feckings kids, man
4:42 when you see that one friend you don't really like.....
The conclusion: the lever needs to kick the bottom block insanely fast. The first attempt, the lever was way too slow.
Hungry Guy yeah It slowed down when it hit the block and kinda got stuck
I wasn't even remotely surprised by that. The two main challenges to getting this to work is that the block has to be removed quickly enough that the next blocks fall flat. And, the vibrations that ripple up and down the tower need to be vertical to have any chance. Obviously, it's not easy, but the faster the bottom block is removed, the better chance you should have at that happening. But, even with that, it's likely to have a very high failure rate.
I'm a bit surprised that they didn't try knock it off with something similar in thickness to the blocks and having it bounce back after giving enough force to the block to knock it clear.
No a little faster byt more stronger
Um, so, I watched a nine-year-old do this with only one hand and these people need a machine?
Not just plausible.. i had a friend back when i was at university who did this on a REGULAR BASIS, i must have seen it 50+ times over the course of the first year alone!
You said only one hand .😶😶😶😶😶😶
6:07
at :25 sec as well
Yup so they should have came up with something that mimicked a hand
@@enzpogi143 you typically don't use all five fingers to pull a block....
When he sets up the late game jenga its less likely to fall because when you actually play the other pieces move and aren't perfectly supporting the tower
This generation is blessed to have this show, this looks so fun!
“Important things like this” ... let that sink in
"you might be wondering how many of theses ideas they come up with."
His answer, "they did"
?????
I think he means they came up with all of the ideas themself
@@mushroomdance7756 yeah. I do too, but it is just way grammatically incorrect/weird
How many things did you guys come up with?
*Yes*
Lol
They never tried the best case tower with all the layers being two planks, open in the middle, except for the one they're going to remove. Structural stability is an important variable to control for.
at 7:12 during the slow-motion replay, you can literally see how close the pneumatic actuator came to hitting the Jenga tower after knocking the bottom piece off and thereby ruining the whole experiment
5:50 That has nothing to do with the "experiment"...
7:47 PM
4/19/2019
Exactly!
@Pro Jey96 Yeah, they're competing on who has the best/only working solution, like they used to do on the real show.
4:41 Are you alive dude? plz, you are with Adam Savage!!!!
Kids never seem to be able to keep up with Adam's energy. Lol
kids get to do shit all the time. When ur older they become special again
The Jenga’s top part moves like an end of the swing, I think if you could manage that movement you could succeed with a lower speed
I've done this multiple times on normal sized sets and the big sets, you got to pull it horizontally out and not longways like they were doing, it allows the top blocks to settle quicker
Does anyone else feel weird while watching people celebrate by hugging and giving high fives?
Because of corona or your own anxieties?
@@unadventurer_ Corona. I've not shaken a hand for almost a year now. I'm not used to it anymore :-D
Nope
The composition of the tower's stacked pieces is everything. The crashes all occurred when there was a gap in a middle layer that was opposite the direction of the bottom piece's momentum, allowing the stack above that gap to rock backward. There were two such layers on the blue actuator at the end, which worked due to its speed. It failed on the big blocks because it had a brief pause between striking and exiting the stack (seen using 'pause, comma, period' frame advance), probably due to its weight. A more powerful actuator might have worked on the big block stack.
If the tower is stable enough for you to be able to bang on the table fairly hard without it collapsing, just take the bottom piece and while you bang a good firm shot on the table pull it as fast as you can.
"I already had gray hairs in grade one." "Ugh, thats awesome"
What?
First grade*
@@xedn no, it's either one.
Stop being the grammar police
@@hunterwilliams4890 No, it's first grade. He's directly quoting and the kid said "First grade".
Sounds like he had a rough first grade :(
I did too
The original myth busters was so much better
Nicholas Brando well this one has no Jamie sry if I spelled that wrong and it is more for kids
@@frazix654 thank you for proving my point Jamie is not in it either, making this one worse
I like Adam the most but Jamie does all of the explosions and science
Then go watch it
Nicholas Brando yeeeess!
In Elijah's tower pull that almost worked, there was an extra block in the bottom center that wasn't there for the super sized blocks. The same happened with Valerie except instead of 3 blocks she had 2 with one of them in the center. Those blocks effected the structural stability and integrity at the bottom therefore making it more likely to work than the other method.
Fun fact: "Samurai Jenga" as Adam calls it is basically already a game. There is a traditional japanese toy about knocking blocks out of a tower and you points for how centered the tower remains as it falls.
Well atleast the narrator is the same guy
yeah, and at least Adam is.. uhm.. he's there
So great to see kids get so involved and so excited! That was a lot of fun to watch! 😀
Adam is the fun dad, he’s always exited and jumping up in the air in joy
It’s sad but I can do this with a pencil and they had to use an actuator
Facts "IMPOSSIBLE JENGA BLOCK OWO"
Same
I watched my friend when we were about 9 do it with his hand. Seeing this video makes me cringe
Well it wouldn't be Mythbusters if they didn't ramp it up, plus its giving these kids a chance to use their skills
your hand does not move that fast,everyone sees how it's done and says "yeah i could do that" but actually doing it is harder
Try taking a pencil and pushing the bottom block as fast as possible you’ll then learn that it’s possible and a lot easier 😂
I can do that with just my hand
Wow it sure sounds easy! 🤦♂️
True
What happend to explosions and ginormous crashes
I miss those times.....
Same!!!!
Mr.Amazing Gaming
thank u
this is Jr. go to actual mythbusters
those are teenagers. Remember Adam has so much experience with explosive and similar things but they don't, and that will be very dangerous.
@@minhhuynk that's one reason to not make this show with kids. It just gets boring
No one :
Absolutely no one :
Elijah : That’s my fault
Also, the larger blocks may not have been sanded and smoothly as are the standard Jenga blocks, so the coefficient of friction would be different as well. However, the test really needed to be performed on the standard game for actual validity, regardless. I would assume the largest determining factor would be the construction of the rest of the tower and how stable the structure is at any given point. That would have much more variability in your results.
3:44 🤦🏽♂️( wait did you curse) now we are all going to die
Funny thing is, here, he's so concerned about cursing on camera even though he did it all the time on the real Mythbusters show. In actuality, I think he's more embarrassed about doing it around kids on camera.
"With one hand only, you remove a brick from a lower level and place it on top."
-Adam
0:24 CHEEEEEATERRRR!!!!
Edit: In light of recent evidence, I can confirm that only one hand was used in the removal of the brick. I stand by my joke but I withdraw my accusation. Jenga Justice is harsh but fair.
SXYORANGEJUICE lol
I thought that the whole video haha. I was thinking they should get a pro swords person to hit it with 1 hand 😂
It's an illusion on perspective & camera's depth of field, the hand behind the blocks appears closer but it's not. At 0:24 you see the distance where his hand really was.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
7:10 I just wanna say that in jenga, when will the second to last row ever be configured into that shape?
Forgot how much I love this show!
definitely doable move in Jenga.. just do it by hand. Requires certain setup though.
Can't you just flick both sides of it? I didn't see the episode but seems like something I'd have tested first before mechanical means
The blue thingy bob hits the block back into position to help it stay upright 7:11
The problem with the bike experiment is the force is not parallel to the bottom block. The trick is you have to pull it straight with parallel force (like the slingshot is almost parallel). 5:46 see it in slow-motion, the head of the string moved up first. (Playback speed x0.25)
They still have to put that piece back on top to make it official.
I did this once in an RS lesson (we played revision jenga lol) and I've been told by other that they've done it too, so I think they went a bit overboard
The weight is not the problem, the friction is the problem. Bigger area + bigger weight = much bigger friction.
This will transfer some of the kinetic energy of the bottom piece to the upper, making the tower fall
Adam Savage's excitement is so infectious.
I recall a person pulling off that stunt with a single bottom block with another single block above it. He bopped the end of the bottom block with his finger and was able to succeed.
Kids version of “can’t be done”
Hold my milk
Hold my piccolo
Player: "Hey, your turn now."
Me: "Let me get my bike real quick."
they changed the missing spaces at the top of previous towers and made the last top more solid w less movement
I used a common writing pen as a swing arm. Held the base in one hand and pulled the top with the other. On release, it struck the jenga block, and popped it out. The rest of the tower dropped and remained intack
Just use a high pressure air gun
Miss Jamie Hyneman so much...
3:33 That look of disappointment on Adam
depends of how stable the tower is.
When we play with friends, i would always purposely put my pieces in a way that make the tower more unstable, since they are many people playing, it more likely for someone else to break it before it is my turn again
i've seen it done with a dual finger flip
I’ve done it before.
But with my own hands
me too
Yeah like for real this ain't no myth all you have to do is quickly slide your finger across the table knocking the block out
same my family was in disbelief
Me too
Yea it’s really not that hard with a bit of practice or just luck u can easily get it.
One used potential energy store in rubber band,
One used kinetic energy in riding the bike,
One used both
Guys the bicycle test didnt work as the pulley that connected the chain from jenga to cycle was way higher than the table level.... so the block was pulled slightly upwards, this destroyed the tower. The pull must be perfectly horizontal
Adam explains that 'with one hand only', Elijah immediately uses two hands= facepalm
The new format is wicked! Keep it up team Mythbusters!!
Fun fact I got stupid good at doing this “impossible” move. You can flick the block out and if you’re allowed to use two hands it’s a bit easier, it doesn’t always work but it’s one of the biggest flexes in jenja and I pull it out whenever possible
My younger brother and I used to play pulling the bottom layers so that 4-6 single brick layers, and then pull the bottom layer on each turn to see how many turns it took before it collapsed. We managed 3 total single-bottom block removals consecutively before collapse.
actually it's not that so mythical because i have done it many times even without pneumatic pressure actuator what so ever. but i miss mythbusters 😔
kier benson babasoro what has happened to it?
Yea right
@@wyldegi well, i dont know if this helps but i just flicked the bottom part of it as hard and as fast i could so it wouldn't fall. make sure you flick both ends of the jenga piece.
kier benson babasoro oh okay thanks 😂 and sorry for the misunderstanding, but I meant Mythbusters. but thanks for the tip
@@wyldegi ah, i see. i don't know what happened to the mythbusters, ✌🏼
I’ve seen someone karate chop the bottom brick at school once and it worked
thay was stacked differently you need the same setup for all 3 tests
Jenga's were glued.
*THAT WAS LEGITNESS
I'm a bit annoyed that they actually break the rules of Jenga Adam states at the beginning of the video. With 1 hand, remove a piece and put it at the top.
They didn't put it at the top.
And didnt use 1 ✋
Well technically what they wanted to see is if it was possible to do it not if they can do it with their hand...
The impossible move is specifically the removal of the piece, not the placement. The placing is just like any other placing, however, the removing is the hardest part.
Can always go find it later and stack it on top.
*_This is the most intense jenga game I’ve ever seen_*
It's good that they involve the kids with all these experiments. They're really fun.
That air piston is reminding me of No Country For Old Men.
@@Kelson01 you know Javier Bardem?
My friend did that once in my class and everyone started flippin out of their minds
Well from the perspective of an Engineer the utterly effective factor was the arrangement of the Jenga itself
I made a jenga gun as a kid. I sawed the barrel off a spring loaded bb gun to where the rod stuck out when it was un cocked. Worked like a charm