Ten Contestants, Ten Laser Rooms, One $250,000 Prize: How MrBeast's Laser Maze Played Out

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Overview

MrBeast built a series of laser mazes and put ten contestants through them. The rule across almost every room is the same: touching a laser forfeits your shot at $250,000, and whoever lasts longest wins it. He presents the rooms as escalating in difficulty, from a basic walk-through to a final room that combines every earlier maze. The video follows who drops out, how, and what choices the survivors make. Those choices include a guaranteed car offered against a one-in-three shot at the cash, and a final head-to-head where strategy matters as much as agility.

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0:28

Room One: The "Simplest" Maze

The first room sets the basic format. Contestants have to cross a field of lasers and touch a box of money. Touching a laser costs them the $250,000. MrBeast says this is the simplest room he built and that "it gets so much harder after this." Even so, the room was crowded and some lasers were moving ("It's coming towards you"), and one contestant hit a beam and was eliminated. "Only nine remain." Others got through, and one finisher said it had been "surprisingly close."

At this point MrBeast jokes that the video takes place in space because "in the last video, we accidentally blow up the entire planet," and insists, also jokingly, that it is "not CGI." The space-station setting is a running joke for the rest of the video. He later claims to have spent "$42 trillion on this spaceship" and says he will "launch a nuke at the moon."

2:21

Room Two: Closing Laser Walls and a Delayed Verdict

In the second room, contestants run a course and then climb or traverse a wall while red laser walls close in from both sides. MrBeast says he tried it himself earlier "and didn't even get close" to passing. The group went quickly. One contestant said they hadn't realized the round had started because they thought he was still doing an intro, and another said they had to sprint the whole way.

Nobody was eliminated on the spot. MrBeast told the group afterward that "not all of you survived" and that he would come back with footage. The contestants waited without knowing. Some reasoned that going early had given them enough time, and others worried that the last ones through were the most exposed. When he returned with an iPad listing the eliminations, the first contestant shown admitted "It's me." MrBeast said the laser hit that person's shoulder, then back, then backside, and called it "actually impressive how much you got hit by it." The replay also zoomed in on number eight to show that number eight had not been eliminated, and that someone else had. After the review MrBeast announced, "Five remain."

4:27

Room Three: Moving Platforms and a Balance Beam

The third room gave contestants ten minutes to step onto a moving platform, cross a balance beam, step onto a second moving platform, and jump to safety without touching lasers. Contestants noticed the beam wobbling. When they asked how to approach it, MrBeast said it was for them to figure out.

They went one at a time. Number ten reached the second platform while number two was on the beam, and two contestants celebrating their finishes chanted "girl power." The clock mattered. MrBeast called out seven minutes, then four, then three and a half, and warned one runner about a laser behind them. Player eight went last, with "only a couple of lasers left," and made it. One finisher called it "the hardest one so far."

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Room Four: "Death Beams"

The fourth room added large blue beams that fire periodically, alongside ordinary red lasers. MrBeast pointed out that a small flash of light comes before each blast. The goal was to reach the other side without touching a red laser or getting "cremated" by a blue one. Numbers six, eight, and four were each called safe, and one said the room "got the adrenaline pumping." MrBeast said he was glad four contestants survived, because the later levels "are all very expensive." He also said he would be "very surprised if someone didn't lose" in the next one.

9:06

The Laser Prison: Ten Hours for Three and a Half Seconds

The next challenge tested endurance rather than agility. The contestants were sealed in a "giant laser prison." MrBeast told them that at a random moment within the next ten hours, the lasers would switch off for exactly three and a half seconds, and they would have to run across a large room and touch the money before the lasers came back on.

The waiting took most of the night. The contestants compared how long they had stayed awake before (one said 48 hours, playing video games), wondered whether food would come, and joked about tripping. MrBeast checked in to "make sure you're awake." The contestants guessed about three hours had passed. He told them it had been six and a half, and the crew brought food and bottles of Prime, the sponsor's drink. As time went on, morale dropped. One contestant said it was "starting to get not fun." Another pointed out that the longer they stood there, the slower they would run. Someone complained to "Jimmy" about the time range, and another said they felt "like an animal in a cage."

At 5 a.m., about seven hours in, MrBeast pressed the button. Everyone made it across within the three and a half seconds. One contestant said it "felt like the end of the world." When MrBeast asked how they were all so alert, they said they were "just that determined." He joked that they would have to do another ten hours, then said he was kidding.

12:20

Platform Jumping While Holding Prime

The following room is the video's sponsored segment, and it also counted as a real elimination round. MrBeast offered $10,000 to anyone who completed the course while holding a bottle of Prime. (He calls this room "Level seven," and uses the same label again for the next room.) Contestants had to jump between platforms over a laser-covered floor. The floor lasers switched off briefly every 30 seconds, so a contestant could try running across the floor instead of jumping. The platforms got farther apart toward the end. Some contestants used the off cycle as a backup, and one said they knew the gap was coming and could "use the floor that time."

One contestant wasn't sure whether they had touched a laser. After an instant replay, Karl ruled that number eight was eliminated: "You definitely hit it, I promise." MrBeast still gave number eight the $10,000 briefcase for carrying the bottle. "And now three remain." Number four, who had waited, eventually took "a straight shot" across and said they had lost their first step. All three remaining contestants finished.

16:08

The Tesla Offer

Before the next room, MrBeast gave the three finalists a choice. They could eliminate themselves and take a Tesla, or keep competing. He framed it as "a guaranteed 40 grand or a 33% chance of 250." The maze ahead looked like "a billion lasers," and Nolan made the car more tempting by sitting in it. MrBeast pointed out that the decisions were sequential, so the last person to choose knew the others had already committed and couldn't come back. That contestant counted down, apologized ("You'll probably hate me"), and chose the money. MrBeast said he couldn't believe nobody took a Tesla.

The room itself was very tight, with two paths, one of which was a dead end. The first contestant through had to squeeze between beams that were "literally a millimeter away" and finished. Number six went fast enough that MrBeast told them it wasn't a race. Number six said they were afraid of starting to shake if they slowed down.

Number four found the narrowest section too risky and asked whether they could jump over the laser wall, walk along the top edge, and jump back down instead of going through. MrBeast approved, said "I think this is awesome," and admitted the set hadn't been built with that in mind. The walls weren't very strong, he said, and falling would count as an elimination. Number four cleared the wall, walked the edge, jumped back, and finished. MrBeast called it "the craziest thing I've ever seen" and said number four was "literally breaking the game." The other two had expected number four to hit a laser.

19:47

The Three-Laser Room Designed by Friends

In an in-between room, the three finalists talked about what lay ahead. One said they had seen both of the others as threats from the start. Another said going first was the way they would win because they "can't follow behind anyone." A third said they had no idea what would happen next.

The next level had only three lasers, one placed by each of MrBeast's friends. Nolan's moved "up and down," which MrBeast called "pathetic." Tareq's moved "side to side." Karl's was a green laser that one finalist said they were "not a fan of." Number four went without saying anything and was at the money almost immediately. They explained afterward that they had to "zone in, block everything out and see the path and take off."

That meant if both remaining contestants failed, number four would win outright. The next contestant was hit by the green laser. The last contestant, addressed as Yeh, said they were "really scared" and listed each laser they were afraid of, then crossed slowly and made it. They didn't believe they were clear until they asked twice and were told, "Didn't hit a laser. You're good." Watching, MrBeast felt Yeh had made the run "30 trillion times harder" than number four had.

21:53

The Final Room: Offense Versus Waiting

Before the last level, the two finalists were made to wait a few hours "just to add suspense." By then it was around 5 a.m. again. Number four said their chance of winning was "100%." Number six said they hoped, "really, really" hoped, to win. They shook hands, and number four said, "now we're enemies."

The final room combined all the previous mazes. Since only two were left, the rules changed: whoever touched the money first won immediately, and if a contestant touched a laser first, the opponent won immediately. MrBeast gave them 30 seconds to choose a strategy. The two picked opposite approaches. Number six reasoned that anyone who tried to run the course would hit a laser and said simply standing still was "definitely the strat." Number four, called Blake in the commentary, said they had to "play offense," were "not waiting for him to mess up," and would go as fast as possible.

When the round started, Blake took the lead and was described as "way ahead." Number six's "only hope," the commentary said, was for Blake to make a mistake. Then Blake hit a laser. Blake didn't believe it at first ("You're lying") and was told to stop hurting themselves after reacting physically to the loss. Number six won the $250,000.

Aftermath

MrBeast gave Blake a $10,000 second-place prize on top of the $10,000 Blake had already earned in the Prime round. He offered number six the choice of having the winnings delivered in a giant cube or wired. Number six first asked for the cube. When MrBeast asked what would happen if someone tried to rob them, they changed their answer to a wire transfer.

The result reflects the final room's rules. Number four had won the earlier rooms with speed, decisiveness, and even by jumping over a wall the set wasn't designed for, and played the final aggressively. Number six chose to wait and let the opponent take the risk. Under rules where an opponent's mistake was an instant win, waiting turned out to be the winning strategy.