Minute to win it (Challenges)
The NBC reality game show consists of hour long episodes where competitors face 10 challenges in a chance to win $1 million dollars. Each game has a 60 second time limit and failure to finish the task may call for elimination.
Challenges
Magic Carpet Ride
Sitting on a bathroom floor mat, use an inchworm technique to move around various obstacles.
Speed Eraser
Bottoms Up
A yoyo is attached like a tail onto the contestant. The contestant must use the yoyo to knock six cans off their perches without using hands.
Bulb Balance
Hanky Panky
Using only one hand, the competitor must pull tissues out of a tissue box one at a time until the box is empty.
Paper Scraper
Loner
On the Nose
The Nutstacker
Player must stack 10 screw nuts that are on a chopstick on top of one another in sixty seconds.
Whack Job
This Blows
Player must blow up a balloon and use the escaping air to blow fifteen cups off a table.
Fish Head
In this challenge a blindfolded contestent must put a lampshade on top of their head using only a fishing rod. Without the ability to see one loses all sense of perception and placement is difficult.
Penny Hose
What a Racquet
Knock it Off
Ping Tac Toe
Paper Dragon
Blind Ball
The contestant must find toy balls while blindfolded. After spinning around three times, the contestant attempts to find and grab two out of four toy balls that are positioned atop four cardboard cylinders of varying heights. Once the First One is found, they must hold onto it and find the second one. If they knock over more than one ball, the game is over.
Double Trouble
Cantagious
High Roller
Drop, Sink & Clink
Three water filled fish bowls are aligned on stage. The player must drop a quarter into a shot glass placed at the bottom of each bowl.
Stick the Landing
Whippersnapper
Breakfast Scramble
Candy Elevator
The contestant must pull a candy elevator, built using two pencils and two strings, up to their mouth by placing the two strings behind their ears. The contestant must then eat the candy on the elevator in order to win it.
Separation Anxiety
Hangover
Don't Blow the Joker
Five decks of cards are placed upon five empty bottles. The contestant must attempt to blow 51 of the 52 cards off the bottle. They must do this only once, but have five chances.
Wheel of a Deal
The contestant has 20 cards laid face down on a table, with five smaller tables around the perimeter in a circle (forming a wheel). One at a time, the contestant must pick up the cards and sort them in to five separate piles based on face value (10, Jack, Queen, King, and Ace). One pile must be place on each of the five surrounding tables.
Keep it Up
Pitch Black
Sticky Balls
Elephant March
Suck it Up
Bucket Head
Card Ninja
Johnny Applestack
The competitor must stack five red delicious apples on top of each other. The stack must remain free-standing for five seconds. If the stack falls they may rebuild. Better, faster, stronger.
Tipsy
Office Dominoes
Stack Attack
Tweeze Me
Nimble Thimble
Hangnails
Defying Gravity
Dizzy Mummy
Go the Distance
Triple Pong Plop
In this challenge the contestent bounces ping pong balls along three 11 inch dinner plates and land at least three in the fish bowl on the other side. Balls bouncing on the flat part of the plates will move more consistently down the line. Balls landing on the raised edges of the plates however will bounce in various directions.
By a Thread
a sewing needle is a sharp steel pin designed to weave thread through fabric. In this challenge 10 needles starting with the largest and gradualing geting smaller will face upward. Relying on a steady hand and key eye the contestent will guide one end of the thread through each of these tiny holes.
Bite Me
Five paper bags are opened up on the ground 4' apart. The bags are each cut down to different heights: 10", 8", 6", 4", 2". Contestants, using only their mouths, must put all five bags onto five podiums. No part of the contestant's body may touch the ground except for the feet.
How's it Hangin'
Face the Cookie
The competitor has to move 3 Oreo cookies from their forehead and wiggle to their mouth in 60 seconds.
Shown on the March 12th 2010 "Live with Regis and Kelly" show. Both Kelly and Anderson Cooper lost, but Cooper was able to get 2 cookies in.
Mega Bubble
The contestant must blow a gigantic bubble, they must then blow the bubble across stage and into a hoop using only the air in their lungs.
Junk in the Trunk
A belt with an empty tissue box is attached around the competitor's waist and positioned against the contestant's back with the hole facing outwards. Ping-pong balls are placed inside the tissue box and the competitor must jump and wiggle to shake the balls out of the box without letting his hands touch the ground. All balls must be out of the box to complete the challenge.
Spin Doctor
in this challenge the contestent must use one finger to stop the spinning dime in an upright position. The edge of a dime is 1.3 millimeters thus focus on precision. The total of 10 dimes must be stopped.
Caddy Stack
Punch your Lights Out
The contestant must throw beanbags at a group of push-lights arrayed in a pyramid shape. The aim is to turn off all six lights in less than a minute.
Rapid Fire
The competitor must shoot rubber bands in an attempt to knock a pyramid of 6 soda cans off of a table within 60 seconds.
Mouth to Mouth
Movin On Up
Contestant is given a stack of 39 blue plastic cups with a red cup on the bottom. He must race to move the one red cup to the top and back to the bottom by holding the stack and continuously moving the cups, one by one, from the top to the bottom through the entire stack.
Egg Roll
Contestant must move three eggs across the floor and into a target area only by "fanning" the eggs with an empty pizza box.
Bobble Head
A pedometer is attached to the competitor's head and he must move his head to rack up a total number of steps to complete the game.