I worked at an amusement park. One day there was a terrible earthquake. The entire park was leveled to the ground. The only thing left standing were those milk bottles.

I hate and love this

Hmm, CALCUELATING……………………..

Lmao

LOL 😂🤣😂🤣

But then again, I could be wrong, I’ve only went to a carnival 3-5 times

At the PNE in Vancouver, I won one of the huge prizes at one of their "impossible" games. They had a weighted baseball that flew like a knuckleball, and you had to break plexiglass bottles. I didn't tell them before hand I was a pitcher who threw an amazing knuckleball. Needless to say after I missed my first throw and realized the pattern, things didn't go the way the carnie expected. I still have my 6 foot tall penguin to this day.

I went to the PNE at vancouver and they just took all my money like that 😢

Oooooo, you beat a carnie------your claim to fame in life 🙄

Love that for you.

That’s amazing.

Wow!! Your very lucky!

Lol your wife’s reaction was great! Thanks for explaining this so thoroughly. I knew they were scams but this tells exactly why.

Very seldom do I *really* laugh out loud, but that was one of them!

Another thing I noticed that you didn’t see/mention: the standard three point shot that most people are used to is a high school distance. That is measured at 19 ft 9 inches. The NBA three point is 23 ft 9 inches. So having a carnival shot at 28 ft is approaching half court. It’s VERY difficult for most people to make. Just something I noticed. Great vid!

This guy explains things better than a "trained" teacher in less than 10 minutes. Some of my teachers don't even get to explain something like that in a 1 hour lesson.

@Z7Games Some do

Being likeable and charismatic helps. We all had to try to learn things from people who had neither of these qualities.

He was a NASA Engineer for 7 years...

This is all about psychology. He explains something people are interested in and doesn't need foundation or practice to grasp the concept

Meanwhile that's an hour wasted that you could have spent working on stuff that you now have to take home.

This guy explains things more clearly than my teacher...

well is your teacher a nasa engineer

Cause it’s a script

The difference between a passion and a job

Same

Lol

It's heartbreaking to know that most things you enjoyed as a kid were meant to trick you and manipulate you

Preparation for adult life.

@Lesko Brandon unfortunately yes, I must have missed the memo

Welcome to life. You must be new here.

What like Santa, The Tooth Fairy & The Easter Bunny?

You're wife's reaction was priceless! Make sure you keep that clip available the next time the carnival comes to town. 😉

Theres a great affair that you can share- when the Fair comes to YOUR TOWN!!

*your

Mark, you are hilarious, full of science, a great entertainer, and maybe the best science YouTuber around. Except maybe Physics Girl. She's not hilarious but she does Great Physics! Thank you, Mark. Bring back the squirrels!

Important to keep in mind the reason the prizes are so cheap for them is cause they buy in large volumes. If you were to just buy one it would cost you a lot more.

Having the speed gun under clocked isn't "borderline fraudulent". It's straight up fraudulent and hopefully they get sued over it

@Matthew Miller Speed guns come with a set of tuning forks to calibrate, they do not need to be sent anywhere for the process to be completed.

@Lonks Lonkolious The rides are always the best part! I don't know if they over charge those but if they do it's well worth it anyways. I used to brag all the time when I was little about riding all the rides in one day, there was a surprising amount and most kids my age were scared to death of riding them.

People tried and court rule in favor of the carnival so it's not illegal as long as you make money

@M Patrick lmao you're just mad that younger people don't want to feel scammed

Yeah That one was just straight up fraud and someone that regulates such things should be investigating that booth and fining someone.

I’ve seen a guy walk up the ladder standing on two legs (we thought he was David Blaine) so what this guy says about thinking of it as a tightrope really checks out.

I've seen the same thing. A friend's dad who was a Marine. It was like he was merely walking up a flight of stairs.

An interesting different take on scams. I've always wondered why these games were so difficult.

I suppose you would like a participation trophy. 😆

mark rober is one of those people who if they were asked, "whats 1 + 1", he would explain the whole standard mathamatical system. Dont take this as an insult, love ur vids

I enjoy how you explain things so clearly and intelligently. Thank you.

This guy should straight up teach physics for all the poor hs kids who are stuck at home getting a terrible online education rn. He’s definitely better than the physics teacher I had

Didnt understand physics at all and watching him im just like woah didnt know that

He did dat

He actually was coming out with videos titled science class during this COVID

cl2239 your right

ya I can imagine the great lessons I'd come up with if I produced one 11 min lesson a month and had proper funding

i did the rope ladder with ease, not because i kept stable all throughout it, i just held on when i flipped and climbed to the top being upside down

@Strawberri •.• rules differ at each one but in general it's not allowed

@Strawberri •.• not on this one though

Thats what i thought lol why can u just climb upside down

@Robert Gordon if its illegal but you dont get caught its not illegal

You are amazing at explaining things. Even words I didn’t know I felt like with your sentence structure I didn’t have to rewind to understand something. 👌

One line from that article about the guy who lost all his money on games stood out to me, considering the serious tone of the article: "Gribbohm, who managed to win a stuffed banana with dreadlocks before dropping $2,600....."

I took a ridiculous amount of vicarious pleasure in watching him absolutely CRUSH those throwing games. ⚾💖

Mark: The ladder climb is near impossible Phat Gus: ...hold my walnut

@Alexander Craig she was renamed back to phat gus! :D

@mollie Nah, they Totally “Consented” to being called Phat Gus again 😆

to be fair he basically flew across the ladder

I have about the same probability to win that ring toss as I do of being able to dunk on that basketball goal. And I can no longer dunk

Even though they are scams. Its just the fun you are paying for x) love it

Like the casino

I have literally learned more than what I have learned in school(7 years) and I've only been watching you for 2 years lol

I love these videos of yours, and this ending was hilarious 🤣❤️

Idk how many times I've watched this but this video managed to entertain me every single time

He taught me more in 11 minutes than my science teacher did in 10 months

@Desiree Chavez well aren’t you lucky

Gary Oak you must not understand how a joke works

BigboyChungus true

So really we have a whole bunch of people who can't understand when a person is being sarcastic. One more time everyone Bigboy Chungus was making a joke here!!!!!

@Amitaliri adsense?

i literally learned how center of mass works while watching this when it came out this man’s explanations are so simple

As someone who goes to boardwalk regularly, it was nice knowing I’ve been to the same places as mark.

The key to ring toss is to throw two rings stacked on one another. The first ring hits the bottle and then hits the second ring stacked on top and the first ring will stay on the bottle. This is why the rules state "you can only throw one ring at a time"

I actually won the basketball one in my third shot and first try! I was so happy and bragged a bit just because i already knew most of these are just scams 🤣

i won the “tight rope” game at great America and they had to take a picture of me so I couldn’t win until a month later lol

Yea it’s actually not to hard if you have the chance to practice on the same thing elsewhere, in my case there is one of these at a park I like to go to and when I saw it and attempted it there I won first try

Lmao

Gotta get the team rocket disguises.

@Christy Au lol

Wow

Single handedly putting carnival games out of commission lmao I love it

I want this guy to be my childhood teacher . I would have chosen a different profession by now .

This has taught me a lot not just about the carnival but about myself 😂

the idea of going to a carnival with literally an MLB pitcher is just priceless.

"The bigger a prize is,the more probable that is scam" This is a life lesson.

So if someone promises me an eternity of happiness if I live my life in a certain way? Uh.... ?

It's obvious even a 5 years old kid knows that xD

A typical lottery: The bigger the prize, the less probability it is to win. But at the same time: Bigger prizes makes more people want to win as well. Just watch when the lottery have extra high prizes.

Amen

@Lau Boon Bee like the ones that give you a little plastic bug or something as a prize that probably costs maybe a few cents per one at max

When I was like 5, my brother was trying as hard as he could to win the ring toss. He spent like 10 dollars and one nothing. Then I asked my parents if could try threw one ring and won the big pride which was a full sized blue guitar

Classic brother move

I understood more physics concepts from this video than I did 4 years in college

9:41 that kid's expression was priceless! 😂

A great video supported by an amazing hilarious ending!!! "Why?" 😂 Priceless. 😀

I have a 100% win strategy on the baseball one. Aim for the carnie's head, grab a prize while they're down.

even easier with the bb's!

Stanley Pines Copyright

Same for the Sharpshooter, but you cut the star out.

Yessssss

Bet he won’t crowd the carnies box next at bat 🤕 lol The oddities team might come out the tent and fight tho

I love how your friend matt cleaned out the games :)

It's so weird for me calling that a relatively small park when that's the size of the largest amusement park in my country 😐

our local carnival has ellipsoid basketball hoops, impossible to tell from the usual throwing spot. They’re so narrow in that dimension that you basically have to hit the hoop perfectly from directly above, so a very high throw!

I always manage to get up on those ladders, I just lay down on them and drag myself up. Works every time

I have learned more science from mark in this one video than my whole school career

School shoud be ban

My science teacher uses his videos

Same

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Same

Awesome! I always knew they could rip you off. You should do a video about claw machines and arcades. Im pretty lucky with those but it would be cool to see.

I laughed so hard at the end when he bought her a stuffed animal and she asked... "why?"

I've learned more from this 10 minute long video than I did in school for the last month

I wonder how he teaches me more than teachers in my whole life

Mark rober: Any professional athlete that's amazing in one sport is really good at any other sport Me: laughs in chess

@Alexander Hoffman I dare you to say that in Klingon!

@ianboekwegLIVE That wasn't the joke, though. You wrote "athlete", and chess players aren't athletes.

That's not a professional sport...

That awkward moment when you wanna fit in with the nerds but all your chess stories happened in jail... :/

@Jack Norton So is synchronized swimming.

Interestingly, out of the 3 near impossible games, I've either been really lucky or know a secret to the ring bottle toss that allows me to win every time in less than 30 tries: Most people throw the rings like a frisbee which allow the gyroscopic effect needed to keep the ring level and flat to maintain the area needed to fit around the top of the bottle. But, in order to maintain the accuracy needed to make it fall around the top of the bottle, one needs a toss that combines the gyroscopic effect while taking advantage of the angle of approach in order to maximize their probability. This requires a toss where the focus of momentum is not geared towards the forward motion needed to reach the bottle, but rather one centered on moving upwards at a higher angle so that the predictability of where it falls is how you aim rather than trying to throw it forward and aiming where it lands in relation to the bottle top.

She replies: Why? 🤣 Well Mark I bought my sweetie her first ever teddy bear well my sweetie only stands 5 ft I bought her the biggest white teddy bear I could find just happened to be also 5 foot, she walked around with it teary-eyed for days.🥰 I still get random photos with her sitting with this bear in her lap with big hugs 🤗

last 5 seconds is comedy gold. so funny reaction of your wife with great setup ofc.

He explained that in 10 minutes that a trained perfesional teacher wouldn’t have done it in a year

My son was actually able to get up that ladder when he was 5 and he still has the huge bear that he won for it and still sleeps with it (he’s 7 now).

Aww~

wooooow!

@Ciantrex mhm

Here take 👑 for your son he is a king

Lucky

I completed the "impossible" ladder thing at skyzone Also I hope you got permission to do this

Your lady's reaction is the best part of the video!

Your videos are awesome and so thorough!

Imagine being Matt's girlfriend/wife and getting loaded with prizes every time you went to a carnival together.

Thank you for the reality check 🥰

When I was really young, I beat the ladder climb by holding on upside down when it flipped

That ending was epic! 🤣

Mark has been under police protection since the release of this video, and has had to file a restraining order against 10 different clowns.

So refreshing to find a channel that is dedicated, hard working, and well put together. Not just screaming into a lense.

Are you the mother plugging the son in hopes he makes it big ànd moves out on his own soon ? Lmfao

This channel is really relaxing too. Not just complete intensity.

*Cough* Logan Paul *Cough*

Cough cough jake paul

for the ladder climb I always just flip it over and climb it from underneath that way u can’t tip over

As someone who goes to the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk (same park in this video) this gives me more depth about these games.

I rember one time when I was in a little carnival of my neighbor, there was this post of shotting that the position of the ball where in a pyramid, I knock off most of them with one shot. The next year, the display of the ball were two vertical columns, even though I knock out two of them with one shot xP

My dad won a Giant teddy bear on the ring toss in Reno (many, many moons ago) on his first shot. I was so proud of my dad for winning the Giant Teddy Bear.

How to win giant prizes: 1. Bring a long stick with a hook 2. Get the toy 3. Naruto run as fast as you can out of the carnival( with your new toy/toys of course )

@Abdullah Ahsan unless they use a Naruto run...

"long stick with a hook" so like a fishing rod

No

@Lily counterbalance, ftw. Its science to win the game.

@Lily let's get a shrink ray

I really enjoyed the ending 😆

I taught my children about these games when they were young, because they had the whine on. Science, or in this case, physics wins everytime.

Literally any kind of situation: exists Mark Rober: oh ok I have a buddy who would be perfect for this

That bit with the wife was hilarious, subbed!

Mark Rober: Literally teaching us science My school district: *Inappropriate content.*

*Wait- that’s illegal*

The class next door of mine watches mark Rober

My school is even allowing students to see yt vids even if they are educational they make us watch 2-5 year old kinda stuff for those age groups. plus one person is REALLY not smart the person needs to be put in the special special needs, Plus they're the same age as me. Who acts like a 5 year old but is a 12 year old. Its basicly like a 5 year olds soul trapped inside a 12 year old kids body.

I had the same thing happen with an art tutorials. Lol the only ones left where foreign small channels. Nice on schools.

the "why" is so real. like... we have plenty of clutter in the house without another teddy bear. lol. so practical. fun video. thanks.

Can we just appreciate how Genius is Mark Rober.

I was at a ring toss at a carnival and I asked the guy to show me that the ring fit over the top of the bottle. He told me to keep walking.... says it all really!

I've worked at a swimming pool that had one of those rope ladders crossing the water with two mounting points fire the ladder. I crossed by keeping my entire body on the ladder, keeping my center of mass low and moving slowly. It wasn't easy, but I did it. A year prior, I learned from someone how to cross a single rope by keeping center of mass below the rope (rope from collarbone to groin to ankle with knees and elbows below the rope).

The ladder climb is one of the only carnival games I ever won when it flipped near the end I just hung on and crawled upside down without touching the ground

So true! Why do people even fall just hold on!

I was thinking about that xd

Atta boy

i cant

I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to do that

All this video succeeded in doing was making me wanna go to the Boardwalk. 10/10

10:10 this made me laugh so hard :D

Best part of this is the ending scene 😂😂

I love the part at the end it always makes me laugh😂🤍

I remember reading somewhere that they will have some employees walk around with armfuls of those giant prizes or push them in a cart or something to make everybody else believe that it is possible to win those things on a regular basis.

@Adamant Forge this post is about me and I don't like it lol

@V J gru energy

Me

Yup. That is the case 100%

@Adamant Forge Someone did that to me, casually won the next round myself, ego go brrr

"I just bought this for you my lady" She looked at it "Why?" Hahahaha Love it and stay real!

@10,000 Subscribers without any video- That's what happens when you enjoy a subject and like to teach...Most teachers are just there for the paycheck.

You made my day two years later, thanks.

the one science teacher you actually want to listen to

That Matt dude had insane aim and accuracy and power in his throws. Wow wow.

The only dislikes are people who work at carnivals

I think they like it too. Lol

Can’t even see ‘‘em them tho lol

@MissMarReynolds They do. You can find a lot of triggered carnies in the comments lol.

And their alts

No carnival people couldn't care less we can just come up with new stuff lol this guy has not effected my business one bit

I learn more from this guy than I do from 1 school year

I’ve learned more from this than I have the whole last year or school

i cant wait till the next time i go to a fair or something im gonna tell everyone not to do those impossible games

The ladder climb I have always been able to do

I never thought anybody could explain science to me and that I’d understand perfectly.

That's true . He makes science so fun .

Teachers make sure of that. Lol!

ye

Ikr

XD

He just makes it so easy and simple.

When I was really young, I won the ladder climb by hanging on when it flipped

I’m decent at claw machines. And I know the stuffies in there are super cheap. But handing my gf something I won for her raises my serotonin and her oxytocin.

Winning carnival games is less about you getting stuff and more about an achievement. Being able to say, "I did that".

Mark: This is a relatively small theme park Me: That's bigger than any theme park I've seen.

We don't even have a theme park T-T

Its the boardwalk in Santa Cruz if you wanted to know :)

Tivian Engel nice

In the Netherlands we have the cheapest carnival €0.50 for one ride

Bigger than any theme park around me...there's none where I live haha