Amazon Prime’s Beast Games, a creation by YouTube star MrBeast has smashed 44 Guinness World Records making it the TV show with the most broken records!
The show pits 2,000 contestants against each other for a huge $5 million top prize changing the game-show landscape with its crazy challenges, big payouts and shocking eliminations. From giving out the biggest cash prize on a reality show to dropping the most people through trap doors, Beast Games took scale and spectacle to new heights.
$5,000,000 Prize
— MrBeast (@MrBeast) December 16, 2024
50 World Records broken
1,000 Contestants duking it out
Biggest sets in entertainment history
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It attracted over 50 million viewers in just 25 days becoming Amazon’s second-biggest hit of 2024 released on 19th December. Here’s a list of all 44 records!
List of 44 Guinness World Records Broken During Beast Games:
| # | Guinness World Record | Count / Value |
| 1 | Fastest time to lift a boulder with a pulley (team) | 17.27 seconds |
| 2 | Largest game of mystery briefcase opening | 1,583 people |
| 3 | Most people opening mystery briefcases simultaneously | 407 people |
| 4 | Largest game of “flag sprint” | 2,000 people |
| 5 | Largest game of team betrayal | 1,100 people |
| 6 | Largest physical cash prize on set for a competitive reality show | $5,000,000 |
| 7 | Most participants in a single competitive reality show season | 2,000 people |
| 8 | Largest display of cardboard cutouts of the same character | 50,000 cutouts |
| 9 | Most participants eliminated in one episode of a competitive reality show | 1,000 people |
| 10 | Most cinema cameras used in a single competitive reality show season | 43 cameras |
| 11 | Largest area of land won on a competitive reality TV show | 67 acres (270,120.31 m²) |
| 12 | Most expensive non-cash prize won on a competitive reality TV show | $1.8 million (Pearl Islands, Panama) |
| 13 | Largest area of scaffolding used for a single set on a TV show | 68,523.59 ft² (6,366.05 m²) |
| 14 | Most foam cubes used on the set of a competitive reality TV show | 250,000 cubes |
| 15 | Most trap doors used on a single set of a TV show | 1,000 trap doors |
| 16 | Most people simultaneously dropped through trap doors | 83 people |
| 17 | Most people dropped consecutively through trap doors | 83 people |
| 18 | Largest pong cup | 10 ft (3.04 m) |
| 19 | Most cameras recording simultaneously on a competitive reality TV show | 1,107 cameras (107 cams + 1,000 GoPros) |
| 20 | Most expensive prize/item intentionally destroyed on a competitive reality TV show | $26,490 |
| 21 | Most prize money turned down on a competitive reality TV show | $1,000,000 |
| 22 | Highest amount of money won/lost on a coin toss on a competitive reality show | $5,000,000 |
| 23 | Tallest towers used in a competitive reality show | 75 ft 11.62 in |
| 24 | Most motion cams used on a single challenge on a TV show | 1,000 motion cams |
| 25 | Most competitors mic’d up on a competitive reality TV show | 1,000 microphones |
| 26 | Most expensive season of a competitive reality TV show | $100,000,000 |
| 27 | Fastest monster truck pull by a team | 15 min 14.25 sec |
| 28 | Largest story producer team for a competitive reality TV show | 63 people |
| 29 | Most challenge testers on set of a competitive reality TV show | 198 testers |
| 30 | Largest subsidiary prize fund on a competitive reality TV show | $1,000,000 |
| 31 | Most tablets used in a challenge on a competitive reality TV show | 1,000 tablets |
| 32 | Most pneumatic pistons used on the set of a competitive reality TV show | 3,000 pistons |
| 33 | Most LED light strips used on a competitive reality TV show | 1,000 strips |
| 34 | Highest drop of a ball into an oversized target | 39 ft (11.88 m) |
| 35 | Most money used in a cash grab on a competitive reality TV show | $1,000,000 |
| 36 | Most balls used in a single episode on a competitive reality TV show | 5,000 balls |
| 37 | Most lavalier microphones recording simultaneously in a single episode of a competitive reality TV show | 1,000 microphones |
| 38 | Most costume fittings for a competitive reality TV show | 1,000 fittings |
| 39 | Fastest time to costume fit 1,000 people on a competitive reality TV show | 72 hours |
| 40 | Youngest series director of a $100 million competitive reality TV show | Tyler Conklin (26 years, 60 days) |
| 41 | Most in-game bribes awarded on a competitive reality TV show | $6,719,996 |
| 42 | Most in-game bribes turned down on a competitive reality TV show | $1,809,767 |
| 43 | Largest prize fund awarded for a competitive reality TV show | $10,000,000 |
| 44 | Most money won in a single episode of a competitive reality TV show | $2,020,000 |
