MrBeast’s Beast Games – All eliminations
YouTube: MrBeastMrBeast’s Beast Games finally hit Prime Video, with a thoroughly massive pool of contestants (and an even bigger cash prize). But, in order to get that prize, contestants had to make it past hundreds of other competitors.
In the series, 1,000 contestants competed in various challenges for a $5M cash prize. The series reportedly had a production cost of $100M, including the $14M construction of “Beast City” in Toronto, Canada, where the competition took place.
The first two episodes of Beast Games’ first season released on December 19 on Amazon Prime Video, with new episodes every Thursday until February 13, 2025.
The project hasn’t escaped controversy, however, with reports of hospitalized crew members and contestants suing over “inhumane conditions.”
As the game show proceeds, we’ll keep you updated on the game show’s various challenges and rules. In the meantime, here’s a comprehensive guide to all the eliminations as the pool of contestants whittle down.
Episode 1 Challenges
Pre-game challenge
Before the competition began, contestants were given the opportunity to remove themselves from the competition to split a surprise additional $1M. 52 exited, leaving 948 in the running for the grand total.
Prime VideoEpisode 1, Challenge 1
The first official challenge saw rows of contestants compete as teams. To avoid total team elimination, a member had to voluntarily sacrifice themselves and leave the game. 243 exited, leaving 705 contestants.
Prime VideoPlayers who sacrificed themselves left empty-handed. Ultimately, three entire rows of contestants had no members willing to leave the game, resulting in all three rows being eliminated dramatically, dropping them into the platform.
Episode 1, Challenge 2
This challenge required contestants to stack blocks atop a red starting block in under 10 minutes without towers falling, playing until 100 towers fell. 100 more exited, leaving 605 contestants.
Prime VideoThe bottom of the tower was a narrow, tall block. In addition to stacking prowess, competitors needed to avoid any rogue movements that could topple the delicate tower, bringing many competitors to tears of frustration.
Episode 1, Challenge 3
In another psychological, MrBeast offered growing bribes to contestants. The catch: if someone took a bribe, their row was eliminated. Another 112 exited, leaving 493 contestants.
Prime VideoThe first episode concluded with another test of competitors’ cooperative spirit, as individuals weight their own altruism, self-interest, and the trust they have in their team, as MrBeast kept upping the bribe amount, with his goal being to bring the remaining contestants under 500 competitors. It worked.
Episode 2 Challenges
Episode 2, Challenge 1
The first challenge of Episode 2 saw players divided into two teams, having to catch red balls falling from the ceiling. 62 exited, leaving 431 contestants.
Prime VideoThe second episode introduced a large, multi-floor building, with players given tokens that place them onto one of two teams. If the teams dropped falling red balls, they lost.
Episode 2, Challenge 2
Yet another self-elimination challenge, the team had to convince members to voluntarily leave the competition, with the smallest team winning at the countdown’s end. 65 exited, leaving 366 contestants.
Prime VideoComplicating factors, floors spent most of the challenge unable to see the other team. A set of red phones allowed communications between teams, which allowed strategic options from inter-team co-operation to deception.
Episode 2, Challenge 3
This time, two teams dropped balls a long distance below into a massive red Solo cup, with one shot each, to score their team points and avoid team elimination. 61 exited, leaving 305 contestants.
Prime VideoWe’ve moved on from children’s games and social experiments and into undergrad party turf, in a giant game of alcohol-free beer pong. In addition to the large solo cup, players could attempt to hit a more difficult gold cup to net $250k for themselves.
Episode 2, Challenge 4
A trivia challenge had two teams divided into groups of four, competing against groups of four from the other team, highest scoring team wins. 63 exited, leaving 242 contestants.
Prime VideoOverall, both teams did pretty well for themselves, prompting a harder set of questions. Ultimately questions about Roman numerals, planetary moons, and iPods kept the Orange Team in the game.
Episode 2, Challenge 5
The second episode had the four surviving teams picking captains. Those captains faced increasingly large bribes if they’d be willing to stay in the game but send their teams home. If no captains took bribes by the challenge’s end, everyone moved on.
Prime VideoDespite the bribe reaching $1M, all four captains remained loyal to their teammates. Nobody was eliminated during this challenge.
Episode 3 Challenges
Episode 3, Challenge 1
Players split into groups of three and partook in a potato sack race. The quickest to finish received immunity from the next challenge. No contestants were eliminated.
While the challenge was given as a fun incentive, MrBeast announced that he had something up his sleeve after knowing that players teamed up with people they were closest to in the competition.
Episode 3, Challenge 2
The teams of three from the competition’s previous challenge were instructed to eliminate one player from their team in under five hours. If a decision wasn’t made, all three players would be going home. 94 individuals were eliminated, leaving 148 players left in Beast Games.
Instagram: mrbeastMrBeast said he knew the players would team up with their friends, so he made sure this was one of the most difficult decisions they’d have to make. During the five hours of deciding who’d go home, players were able to ask MrBeast for anything. While some players asked for costumes and horses, others requested card games to help determine who’d be eliminated.
Episode 3 Surprise!
MrBeast carts out a “gift” to the contestants, which is given to the first person who touches a gold box. Photographer Karim, Number 406, rushes to touch it, discovering it’s a ticket to the finale on Beast Island. 6 enter the finale, no one exits, leaving 142 competing for finale spots.
Episode 3, Challenge 3
Each contestant was allowed to search Beast City for a ticket to Beast Island, where players would compete for the $5M. Only one ticket was hidden on the premises by MrBeast. However, the winner will be able to pick five contestants to take with them to the finals, now 12 on Beast Island with 136 left competing for the final spots.
Instagram: mrbeastEpisode 4 Challenges
Episode 4, Challenge 1
The first challenge sees everyone holding a red ball, blindfolded, while a 10-minute timer ticks away. The six players who drop the ball closest to the timer’s end get tickets to Beast Island, while those holding balls are eliminated. 20 more were eliminated with 18 now in the finale on Beast Island, leaving 110 competing in the remaining challenges.
Prime VideoContestants 895, 182, 907, 499, 559, and 672 head to the island.
Episode 4, Challenge 2
The second challenge sees remaining contestants given gold coins, with 10 minutes to collect fellow contestants’ coins (and the winner being who collects 100 coins in 10 minutes). Jeremy, who gave up $1M earlier as team captain, had a major advantage and acquired 103 coins. 24 are in the finale, 106 competing for spots, no one goes home.
Prime VideoThe big surprise was Jeremy choosing Daffne, number 976, who intentionally said numbers out loud to sabotage others in the prior challenge.
Episode 4, Challenge 3
The next game has competitors choosing teams of six, passing glass balls to each other as it balances on a platform. If the ball breaks, a team is eliminated, and three teams who succeed will move on. Three teams do make it, with 42 now in the finale and 86 players remaining.
Prime VideoEpisode 4, Challenge 4
This challenge had each player blindfolded, choosing within 60 seconds whether or not to cross a line into an inner circle. If only one person steps into the circle, they win a ticket (and choose five other people for the finals), but if more than one cross into the circle each person in the circle will be eliminated. Two are eliminated and 6 more join the finale, 48 players in the finale and 78 left in the competition.
Prime VideoWhat made the episode difficult was the players’ ability to communicate, possibly tricking other competitors.
Episode 4, Challenge 5
This challenge sees players quickly climb the leftmost tower to continue competing for a spot on Beast Island, with players also given a choice to leave the island by climbing the other tower. 18 eliminate themselves, leaving 60 left competing for spots in the finale on Beast Island.
Prime VideoPlayers who left split $250k between them, a total of about $13,800 apiece.
Episode 4, Challenge 6
The next challenge had players throwing a red ball at a golden briefcase, whoever gets closest getting a ticket and choosing five players. Player 696 won, bringing the Beast Island total to 54.
Prime VideoEpisode 4, Challenge 7
This challenges sees players get into groups of six and have to be given their team’s coins. The first six players with their whole team’s coins can board the final helicopter. The first on the helicopter is Player 817, who immediately decided to sacrifice herself for her team, so her team sacrificed themselves for her instead.
Prime VideoFour other teams eventually follow suit, leaving four platforms competing for one spot. The last four platforms all send players, but 797 narrowly beats out the rest. 60 people now in the finale, everyone else eliminated.
Episode 4, Challenge 8
The 60 finalists on Beast Island were asked to compete for ownership of the $1.8M island, and those who wanted to compete played hide and seek with Navy Seals (and can still compete for the top prize).
Prime VideoThose rejecting the offer went to another island while waiting for the next challenge. 9 competed for the island itself, and 797 was caught and eliminated.
Episode 5 Challenges
Episode 5, Challenge 1
This episode’s first challenge saw players throwing/rolling coconuts close to, but not over, a red line. Two players on the island were eliminated.
Player 672 was eliminated when he wildly overthrew, while Player 514 was also eliminated when his coconut ended up further from the line.
Episode 5, Challenge 2
The next challenge involved competitors voting to see who should be eliminated, with the person who received the most votes exiting the game. Player 895 received 17 votes and left.
Amazon Prime VideoOther players cited how they simply didn’t know him well as a reason for why they voted him off.
Episode 5, Challenge 3
This challenge had everyone pick a team captain, who placed checks or x marks in boxes and encouraged players to choose which box to stand by. Player 441 was chosen captain, and Player 413 headed home.
Amazon Prime VideoAdding difficulty to the challenge, captains could lie in order to manipulate others. Also, Lil Yachty showed up and just hung out.
Episode 5, Challenge 4
In this challenge, players boarded pirate ships and shot cannons at each other. He added a $450K bribe before the challenge, and Player 457 took it.
Amazon Prime VideoHe left the island $450k richer, and no one else exited at the end of the challenge.
Episode 5, Challenge 5
This challenge let players pick a number of steps to take forward between 1, 3, and 5. If players chose the same number of steps, those numbers would cancel out. First one to finish got to pick who stays.
Contestant 952 won the challenge, and she chose 711 to stay in the game with her. The two of them will be going head to head as the last two contestants in the Beast Games
Episode 5, Challenge 6
Here, the final two signed their names to the island’s deed, stuffed them into a briefcase, shuffled the cases the deeds were in, and could choose to steal a case from one another. Whoever gets both deeds gets that final signature from MrBeast and wins the island. Player 952 wins the island and continues back to compete in the rest of the finale.
Prime VideoEpisode 6, Challenges
The remaining 52 contestants had to choose one of three doors, each leading one of 3 challenges: mental, physical, or chance.
Episode 6, Challenge 1:
17 competitors chose ‘physical,’ leading to one of three separate tests. They performed push-ups to determine team captains, who picked teams for three physical games based on strength, speed, and stamina. The teams had to pull two monster trucks 500 feet for the strength challenge. Pink team won the first challenge.
Prime VideoEpisode 6, Challenge 2:
19 players choose a mental game. They took short intelligence tests, then were divided into teams based on test results (Player 250 failed). The teams answered trivia questions until 10 of the 19 were eliminated, leaving 9.
Prime VideoEpisode 6, Challenge 3:
The second physical game was a relay race, where teams sprinted to grab an increasingly far set of flags. Orange won overwhelmingly, tying the result.
Prime VideoEpisode 6, Challenge 4:
16 people chose to try their hand at ‘chance,’ where MrBeast first spun a wheel to determine how many were eliminated and who that might be (if any). The wheel dictated 12 of 16 were to be eliminated. Players stood on platforms and numbers were drawn, opening random platforms in batches until four people were left. Players 856, 952, 626, and 351 moved on.
Prime VideoEpisode 6, Challenge 5:
The final physical game was stamina focused, and teams entered pink and orange towers. Teams choose a member to dead hang from a bar, as the winner secured victory for the tied teams, the results set to be revealed next week.
Prime VideoWith 22 players eliminated, check back after the Thursday, January 23 episode to see who wins the physical contest. We’ll keep you updated each week on the new challenges and rules, and stay tuned here as the pool of contestants shrinks each week.