MrBeast broke an astonishing 44 records during filming for Amazon’s Beast Games
Jimmy Donaldson – aka MrBeast – claimed Beast Games was the “largest game show in history” in an interview a few months ago, saying that the 1,000 contestants competing for a $5 million prize would be the biggest ever awarded for an unscripted reality show on TV!
The title was previously held by Squid Game: The Challenge’s prize of $4.56 million
Full list or record titles below:
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 (£3,845,000)
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
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 ($1,809,500) in 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 – 1107 (107 cams + 1000 GoPros)
20. Most expensive prize/item intentionally destroyed on a competitive reality TV show – $26,490