I used to work at a place like this. At the end it was easier to walk up than to climb. Never did it backwards though.

Everyone talking about the game and all I’m distracted by is spongebob with a mustache

The ironic part about this game is its pretty much the only skill-based game at most fairgrounds, which is why they have a win limit Edit: dang it's amazing how many people are salty they can't win this themselves ergo it has to be impossible according to physics. Literally take like 10 seconds to look up why they have a prize limit on the damn thing, it's beyond difficult but there are people who can do it every single time

This game is literally like slacklining.

It’s just keeping your centre of gravity in line with the starting point, doing it standing is easier than crawling because you can use your arms more to balance yourself like a slack-line.

Used to run this same game at a theme park, there’s a lot of slack in the ladder making this way easier. You can tighten or loosen the line to make it more difficult. Whenever it’s set up like this, it’s easier while the ladder is close to the inflatable, but will get difficult once you are no longer touching the inflatable. The trick for using hands and feet is: right hand left foot move at the same time and vice versa. Always hold your place with opposite hand and foot and move the others not holding your place.

That's because walking up one of these is much easier than crawling. The whole point is you need to keep your center of mass straight in the middle, following a line made by the two points where the rope connects to the base. When you walk, it's much easier to keep your center of mass along that line, but not so much when you're having to crawl

I remember playing one of these scam game. You gotta observe carefully what the staff does to any of the equipment when he pass to the "victim". There will be very tiny movement , almost like magic trick, barely noticeable, once you figure it out, the staff will tell you "no you can't do that" I barely remember one of the game I played, which was to use a rope to move an object to the designated location. It was super easy when demonstrated by the staff, but when she handed over the rope to me, she twisted the rope 360°, I saw that, so I twist it back, and got stopped by the staff (with awkward laugh "No sir you cannot do that")

The two connecting points just make it a slackline

What he just did is exactly how you beat that game. Your body has to be in the middle, the only difference is that you're using your hands and feet instead

He’s the carnie! He should know how to do it! And.... He’s FIRED!

The guy: *"Fine I'll do it myself"*

Notice the people in the background walking forwards. I appreciate that.

I would be doubting this if those people in the background weren't walking forward.

Everyone: “that’s impossible” Him: “bet”

It’s easier to walk up. They require you to stay 3 points of contact though cause that’s what makes it hard.

I thought it was reverse that is insane

They make it look easier because it looks like a ladder but there's only two tethered points so it behaves exactly like a tightrope

Aren't you not allowed to walk on it when you pay to play? Don't they say you have to have all four extremities on the ladder?

Backwards looks like the move, he’s leveraging tf out of the latter w his weight

This should be included in the next series Octopus Game.

Itd be easier this way(not backwards) the whole point of this game is to keep the center gravity

It's easy when he's breaking the rules. Isn't he supposed to have 3 limbs touching at a time

He just beat the system

Used to be a carnie for a while, worked a mirror store(throw darts at balloons to win the crappy posters in cardboard sleeves behind glass). I got to the point I could stand 20-30 feet out into the midway, turn my back to the stand, put a dart flat in my hand and throw it over my shoulder and hit a balloon every time. When you do the same thing for so long you get damn good at it. Easy money, but the drugs were too much in the end

If you know the physics of it this is actually easier probably lol. Keeping the weight right down the middle of the ladder. Notice how it’s connected to only one point at the top? Climbing up with your hands and feet only creates all types of imbalances.

It's nice when they prove that it can actually be done

Simple secret. You have to walk right in the middle. People climp using alternating left and right movements makes it unstable and flips you off and off. Stand perfectly in the middle like this guy. See how his feet is perfectly in the middle of the rungs. Going backwards helps because when you lean back it helps climb up the inclined rungs using your body weight and a leaning angle without much movement or energy. If you fall back you fall up towards the top where you can catch yourself and grab the top. If you walk forward the inclined rungs will be hard to overcome since the high incline angle will make you fall over backwards. Takes a lot of energy and force and balance which will shake the climbing rope ladder bridge. Still takes practice and agility to place every foot dead center on the rungs going backwards and using your arms to counter any movements but definitely doable for many if you just know the secrets. Now go out there and win some prizes.

Under paid for sure this mad is dedicated to his craft lol

It's easier to walk up since it's basically just tight rope walking, Climbing would be turning your point of contact causing you to fall off easier

It's a tightrope disguised as a ladder. The ends tie off in the center so it can rotate around that singular point. You need to treat it like a tightrope because of this, and walk perfectly center on it. Stepping off center will cause it to rotate

Balance and center of gravity. Kudos to this guy!

He's a carne, he knows his game.

Plot Twist: "He has the eyes behind the neck, the sunglasses it's to distract"

This is an easy game with practice. It is is game of skill not luck or chance like most others. The ladder has a balancing point of straight down the middle because that is where the 2 points of contact are. If you keep your center of balance over the middle of the ladder you can keep it balance without twisting around. Now with that said, walking up backwards is EXTREMELY hard and shows he has practiced 1000s of times.

I feel like someone else watching would loosen the tension as soon as a customer(sucker) comes by

Almost 100% sure he has the rope fixed not to flip. My husband won me the biggest prize on this game back when we were around 18 and he was super fit from being a bboy. Just touching it would make it threaten to flip. What this guys doing is still hard but NOT what you are going to face at the amusement park. I still have the giant stoned monkey he won me, it sits in a corner of our living room. 🤗💜

I missed a trophy at Malibu Gran Prix by .001 second. Couldn't improve it. The agony of defeat.

Walking on it is actually easier. The higher center of gravity makes it less prone to twisting around it's rotational axis.

When you’re an Olympic gold medalist in the balance beam

There’s a six flags an hour away from my house we go a couple times a year and I’ve seen workers run backwards up it.

He's also walking Dead Center you'd be surprised and how the rides are put together sometimes have fun be blessed

A skill the Carnie learnt from years of house burglary 😂

That's actually extremely impressive

If you havent watch videos about this, basically in a nutshell, the ladder there is like a tight rope so its easy to do it like that

You can do this crawling up the ladder as well, the key is to keep your hands and feet in the center of the steps and not let your center of gravity go over either side of the ladder. I'm sure it's very difficult but Mark Rober explains it alot better in his carnival scams video.

It's all about keeping your center of mass in the middle of the ladder

You have to stay in line with the center because its only tethered in the center at either end as opposed to tethering at all 4 corners

Question is : how many hours he spend at job to become a master of ninja ladders ?

Weirdly it is easier this way that normal because he is making the center of gravity better for himself.

I'm glad everyone in the comments knows exactly how to play this game with no problem

Saw Knuckles in the background and immediately thought to myself... *”this guy knows da Way”*

Imagine your a kid calling him out for the game being a scam and then he does that

I thought it was reversed until I saw the people walking in the background

Well he stands there every single day so you know he’s gonna learn it

Wonder how many hours he practiced this after hours, still, very impressive.

“Jesus said to him,‘ I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.’” John 14:6!!

It's crazy, it's like he works there and knows how to beat a simple game

Living that carnie life! 😂

It is the same as tight-rope walking, except there is no visible guideline, so you have to have a thorough understanding of the point on the crossbars where the centre of gravity is. If you can learn to tight rope walk, and you have endless free hours with this ladder equipment structure at your disposal, then you have a recipe for mastering this skill.

1: He sure did practice it to perfection 2: Simpletons like us get to play this once a day or once a week or once a month depending on the Fair

Imagine if this was a death game in Squid Game 💀

Is it me or did he step perfectly in the middle every step 🤣🤣

Yes. Approach every game like that as a tightrope

Something tells me he was the best Skateboarder at the Skatepark growing up lol

You want this guy on your team in Squid Games

I hate when they do this it makes me think I'm stupid or something and it amazes me at the same time

Every single ladder con ive ever seen irl requires you to have 3 points of contact at all times, and no part of your body can touch other than your hands and feet. I've been kicked off this thing more than a couple times because my knee touched, once because i took both hands off at the same time. Doing it by the rules is damn near impossible.

Contender:” this challenge is impossible” Sunglasses guy:

This is the coolest man in Umerica.

The amount of practice this man had to go through oh my gosh wow haha

Plot twist: this was in reverse

He didn’t release the switch yet.. I used to work this game as a summer jobs.. we a literally told to cheat the customer for the money.. It really bothered me so the day I quit I didn’t flip the switch and they lost a lot of prizes that day.. I would say money but those prizes are super cheap and come in bulk..

This dude was a pirate in his past life

The one true calling in life my friend

True ninja -sun tzu, art of war

If my life depended on me doing this ... I would die the first few seconds 😂

SpongeStalin SquarePants got me trippin

He’s been working that game since he was 8

Everyone in the comments act like they’re Stephen Hawkins but couldn’t rub their belly’s and pat their own dam head at the same time!🤦🏻‍♂️

Talented Carnie.

Now, THAT, is something I'll never need to do.

Doing it with ease, and making it look easy, are two different things!

He’s DEFINITELY hacking

He definitely passed the crate challenge

Paid 5 ppl to walk backwards easy. Making the wind blow backwards that was the trick

Mans had his fair shares of DUI

I think the trick is the way its turned. Like that whole ladder flips over and makes it impossible to climb unless you flip it back over

I'm still waiting for Terry from Brooklyn 9-9 to pop out and start narrating.

Gotta entertain yourself when u stand in front of a ride all day

Definatly leaving with a Pikachu

After reading comments, there's one other key factor. The tightness of the cable.

Mark Rober punching the air rn

As long as you can balance on the ring s themselves this is probably the easiest way to beat this game (forwards, not backwards) since the real struggle is keeping the ladder from flipping. Having only 2 points of contact makes it significantly easier to balance yourself then the usual 4 people have when they try to crawl up it

This Carney be like: You adopted the rope ladder game; I was born in it.

Now that’s perfect balance right there

This man is essentially walking on a string

I worked for a carnival for 10 years. That was my game for the last 4 years of my carney life🤣🤣 I've mastered that rope climb game. I can walk it up forward backwards and sideways. I try to get the guys that come to my town to let me walk it after I get their prize lol. They don't 🤣🤣

Your center of gravity has to be in the middle. When we climb we alternate and therefore lose balance making it harder

The people on the background are even all walking backwards too! Crazy!