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Eleven YouTubers, One $2.5 Million Jet: How MrBeast's "Last to Take Hand Off" Challenge Played Out

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MrBeast (Jimmy) says he spent two and a half million dollars on a private jet and had 11 YouTubers put a hand on it. Whoever keeps a hand on the jet the longest wins it. Anyone who lifts their hand at any point is eliminated. The only other rule was no pushing. The video follows the contest through the night: towing the jet across an airport, a flight to an unknown destination, cash bribes, coin flips, and steadily harsher rules, until it comes down to a single frame of footage.

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0:13

Early Positioning and the First Eliminations

The contestants started out confident. One said they had nothing on the schedule and could stay forever. Another said they were willing to do anything, "including crap my own pants." Several hunted for the best spot. One picked the lowest point on the plane, and George settled near the wheels, which another contestant called "pretty comfortable."

Vik went out first, and in a careless way. He had said he thought he'd picked "a logical spot," then lifted his hand in plain view. The others watched the footage and agreed it had clearly come off. Vik joked that whoever won could pick him up.

Chunkz was next. The others thought Chunkz looked ready to go home, so Jimmy offered his debit card if Chunkz would quit, saying it would "probably stop after ten grand." During the handover, Chunkz protested "I did not do it!" Meanwhile Speed had lifted a hand to high-five, and the replay showed the hand leaving the jet. Jimmy summed it up: "Chunkz just made 10 grand, and made Speed leave for nothing." Three people were out.

2:45

Towing the Jet Across a Rented Airport

To make things harder, Jimmy revealed he had rented the whole airport. Karl towed the jet while the contestants walked alongside with their hands still on it. Jimmy told Karl not to drive too fast, because if everyone got knocked out right away, "my video's two minutes long." One contestant noted this was a commercial airport, not a private one, and couldn't understand how Jimmy had arranged it. Complaints followed: a hand slowly going numb, sore feet. One contestant said that losing to the challenge itself would be fair enough, but "if I pull a Vik I'm fuming."

Bathroom Breaks and Constant Surveillance

Two hours in, the contestants needed the bathroom, and the solution was a bucket. Jimmy said the hand had to stay on even while someone was peeing, and the crew insisted on a clean camera shot of the hand throughout. "We don't fake things around here," he said, explaining that an "army of people" was watching every contestant's hand, so any lift would be caught. That monitoring decides the ending.

4:17

Lazar Is Ordered to the Front

Jimmy then told Lazar to move up to the front of the plane without letting go. Lazar crawled along the carpet, sliding a hand across the surface, and begged the others to let them pass underneath, offering everyone a ride on the jet. Since the contestant with the most subscribers would choose the order, another player said they'd go in reverse order. The others refused, saying things were "getting serious now," and Lazar inched along with only fingertips touching.

Jimmy also set a condition: the winner has to give the jet to someone else, because "these guys are YouTubers. They don't need a private jet."

5:53

Eight Seats, One Too Many

Jimmy pointed out that the jet had eight seats and eight contestants left, but he needed a seat too for the flight, so someone had to drop out. He left them for hours and nobody quit, so he made them do laps around the plane. He said he wouldn't board again until someone lost.

The others decided Will was "cracking" and offered him money. Will agreed to take his hand off for $20,000, paid by the eventual winner. Jimmy noted that the prize is a jet, not cash, but approved the deal as long as the winner pays. With Will gone, the flight could happen.

7:07

The Flight That Went Nowhere

Inside the jet, Jimmy explained that only the exterior counted, and seats and furnishings didn't. One contestant immediately admitted touching a chair and declared themselves out. The others noted the honesty: "he ratted on himself." Jimmy also narrated that, just after getting on the flight, another contestant's hand came off, and that person still had to fly to the destination and back with the group.

Jimmy wouldn't say where they were going. During takeoff, one contestant said the jet felt "like a tin can." After more than an hour in the air, the guesses included Dublin, Liverpool, Milan, Paris ("look for the Eiffel Tower"), Ireland, and Scotland. One contestant suspected they had just done a lap, and that was right. When they landed back at the same hangar, Jimmy admitted he'd told the pilot to fly in circles for a couple of hours.

8:50

Dinner and the Final Five

Back in the hangar, Jimmy described everyone as tired and freezing. Dinner was steak and spaghetti, chosen because they're hard to eat with one hand, served with a wooden fork.

With five players left, Jimmy had them pair up. Because the number was odd, one person was left alone. The pairs had to put their left hands together. George, the odd one out, complained that this didn't seem fair, since the paired players could move their arms and George couldn't.

The finalists also said who would get the jet. If Lazar won, it would go to a nine-year-old kid. If Niko won, it would go to his editor. One finalist said they'd had leukemia at age five and wanted to give the jet to someone recovering from it, to give them "the start that I didn't have." Another said they'd sell the jet and donate the money to a children's charity, then admitted they were joking.

10:20

Banned Wings, Red Tape, and a Coin Flip

Lazar and a partner found a comfortable position, resting against each other. One of them said, "I met you 24 hours ago. Now look at us." Jimmy felt the players were getting "a little too comfortable" with "the biggest prize I've ever given away." He had already banned the wings, and now he gave everyone 60 seconds to stand up. He then marked a red tape line on the jet: touching the line or going below it meant elimination. One player was caught holding a partner's hand in place, which the others said explained why that hand hadn't moved.

By 5 AM, about an hour after the tape went down, nobody had dropped, though Harry looked wobbly. Jimmy said he was probably more tired than the contestants. Then two players proposed a coin flip, with the loser taking their hand off. Callux lost, honored the deal, and went to bed, while the remaining partner said, "I miss my boy."

11:19

Pointer Fingers Only

To mark Callux's exit, Jimmy made it harder again: from then on, only each contestant's pointer finger counted. Players called it immediately painful, one saying so just 10 seconds in. Then the tape on their hands became an issue. Someone said it should come off to be fair to Harry, and Jimmy said he'd cut it off in about 30 minutes.

Lazar didn't want to wait and asked for a coin flip: heads, the tape comes off now; tails, Lazar leaves. Lazar said they were doing it for Niko. It came up tails, and Lazar left, telling Niko, "Take it home, buddy." Jimmy then let someone decide whether George should wait the 30 minutes or have the tape cut now. They chose to cut it, saying they wanted "a fair ending."

12:54

What the Final Three Would Do With the Jet

With George, Harry, and Niko left, each said who would get the jet. George said it would probably go to their mom, because "I've got no one else." Niko repeated that it would go to his editor, George, whom they phoned. The editor told Niko, "You've gone this far. You can go the extra mile." Harry said they would split it between their brother and sister, because "I grew up with them," and they wanted to give them something special.

As daylight came through the hangar (the only way they could tell the time, one player said), Jimmy made them turn and face a new direction. Niko was clearly struggling.

13:44

One Frame

After leaving the players alone for a while, Jimmy returned and said a camera had caught one of them coming off the jet. On review, it was Niko. Niko's hand had been off for "no joke, one singular frame," showing "clear airspace." Niko accepted the result: "Well played, guys."

That left George and Harry. Jimmy then announced the challenge was over and told Harry, "I'm sorry man," before showing footage of a finger. The finger turned out to be George's, not Harry's. Harry had won. George, Jimmy said, had come "this close," but "close doesn't matter."

Harry chose to give the jet to their brother and sister, and the video ends with the siblings being told. In closing, Jimmy says the team will offset the carbon emitted during filming tenfold, as well as any future carbon emitted by the winner's jet.

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