MrBeast challenges Army Ranger Byron to survive seven deadly obstacles for up to $500,000. Byron faces underwater chains, a grizzly bear, a 100-foot beam, a minefield, being buried alive, a 60-foot tower climb, and a bomb. He wins $384,000 and plans to buy a tractor for his ranch.
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I chained this massive rock to a random guy.
Hi.
And when this chain runs out, it's going to pull him to the bottom of the ocean. And this is only the first of 7 death traps we have planned for him, like balancing hundreds of feet in the air, stealing from a 1,000-pound grizzly bear, driving through a literal minefield, and so much more. And if he can survive all of that, I'll give him half a million dollars. Let's go.
Here we go.
But first things first, he'll have to escape this trap, which, like all of them, is so dangerous we had to hire trained safety professionals on set. And every second it takes him to unlock his chain, he sinks deeper into the ocean.
Oh, he's up! He did it!
Yeah!
Congrats!
Woo!
You're now one step closer to $500,000.
Yeah!
But escaping this next trap won't be so easy.
Welcome to the second death trap.
Trap.
Open the cage.
What?
Take off your blindfold and turn around.
Oh my God.
This real-life 1,000-pound grizzly bear is now guarding your money. I think that 50 grand is his now. And like every trap in this video, your money has been split up. However many bags of 50 grand you can get to the exit moves on with you to the next trap. The challenge begins now. Good luck.
All right, I'm just gonna get froggy.
Oh, he's getting so close to the bear.
You went for that one of all of them?
How are you staying so calm?
I'm not.
I look this way, but the reality is I'm not calm.
The bear just looked at you walk by. Uh, be careful, bro. Even though Byron was absolutely terrified of getting torn to shreds by this bear— Brother, the bear is literally standing on one of the bags.
He's going to rip that open.
The bear was fixated on one bag of money.
He's preoccupied.
Byron snuck around the room, easily collecting the rest until the bag the bear was eating was the last one. The last 50 grand. Is currently being eaten by the bear. Byron, you don't have to do this. You can stop. If you're too afraid to steal that last bag from the bear, you can quit now and just move on to the next trap with the money you did get.
No, I'm not quitting.
Well, be careful. Don't grab it yet. Just maybe wait till he gets bored of it.
Hey!
He's trying to distract the bear away from his money.
Hey! Hey!
Oh, it might— it's kind of working. He's trying to get a killing machine to go over to him. It might be the first human ever to want a 1,000-pound bear to come towards him.
Oh, my God.
He's going for the last bag.
Oh, I did it!
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Congrats!
And for our third of 7 death traps, you might recognize the challenge, but we put a new spin on it just for Byron. Take off your blindfolds. Welcome to the next death trap.
Oh no, Jimmy.
We're not even 100 feet in the air yet.
Oh my God.
Raise us up!
Welcome to the balance beam of death!
Actually, we'll call it the $500,000 balance beam. Your $500 grand is dangling 100 feet in the air. You must balance on this narrow beam, unlock each bag of $50 grand, and throw them on the target below. Any money that lands on the target, you move on with. And any money that ends up in the water is lost forever.
Oh my God.
You chicken now?
You going to walk across?
The only thing on this platform that's chicken are your legs.
This is for you kids.
Oh, he's off. First step.
Oh my God, he's doing it. He's actually doing it.
Oh my gosh, look at his feet. This is insane. Now he's got to reach for the money.
Oh, oh, he got the money.
This is scary because look, he's actually leaning back. Bro, what's going through your mind? You're like a scarecrow.
Jimmy, you're talking too much right now.
You're not talking enough. Oh, God.
All right, are you going to throw from here?
Oh, oh, oh, he landed one.
Oh, don't celebrate too early, Byron. You still have 9 bags to go. He's lining his shot up.
Speaking of legs, my leg is cramping right now.
Come massage it right now for me.
Oh, he threw it. He's 2 for 2.
All right, can he keep his streak alive? Third bag is off.
Bullseye!
Yeah!
He has $200,000 on his target. And Byron isn't even halfway across yet.
You feel that wind, Byron?
Oh, yeah.
The wind is really picking up.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's very unstable.
It's actually shaky like crazy.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. He almost fell.
Ah, shoot.
Don't pass out on me.
Oh, he's just dropping him. He's just dropping him.
Oh, no, it bounced off. He lost $50K.
Come on, baby.
And if you're wondering who this maniac is, his name is Byron, a battle-hardened Army Ranger who's fought in the world's most dangerous war zones. And above all else, he wants to bring this money home to his kids.
Let's go.
Come on, baby. That's it. That's it. Oh, that's already $800,000 in the water. And if he falls now, he's losing another $100,000. We gotta land these next two. Right on the money.
Yeah.
All right, the last bag.
I'm in my head right now.
Byron, do it for your kids. Byron, you lost a lot of money on this round. You've already lost $150 grand, and you're only on the third trap.
Jimmy. Yeah? I have a deal for you. You give me $100K back, and I'll jump off this.
$50 grand, and you have a deal.
$75.
Sure, just because I want to see it. You're 100 feet in the air. What are you talking about?
No!
Oh, Byron, you're crazy. I've been told that once or twice.
Byron, you and your $425,000 are moving on to trap 4 out of 7.
Take off your blindfold.
Welcome to the Minefield of Death.
Oh my God, Jimmy.
Buried beneath this minefield are 20 gargantuan bombs completely hidden out of sight.
Come on, Jimmy.
Your job is to drive your money across the minefield. But be careful which path you take, because if you accidentally trigger a mine, all your money inside of that car will burn to ashes.
Roger that.
But lucky for you, you have 5 chances to save your money. You can put it all in one car. You can spread them amongst the 5 cars. It's all up to you. So this is car number 1. How much money do you want to put in it? None. Predictable. How about car number 2?
$25K.
You're going to put $25 grand?
No, no, no.
You can put it all in one.
All in the last one and just pray you don't hit a mine.
$25K in this vehicle.
Yeah, let's go.
And let's put everything else in the last car.
Any sane person would not have chosen to spread their money outside of the last car. But as I'm sure you've already picked up on, Byron's not exactly what I'd call normal.
So one of the great benefits to this challenge is that most of my experiences with roadside bombings, I'm not sitting in this vehicle this time.
Wait, so you were in a car that drove over a real mine?
Yep. The terrorists buried a roadside bombing too deep, and when it went off, it just created a big bump in the road.
I didn't know that. Please tell me this doesn't give you PTSD.
No, I mean, not really.
Lovely.
All right.
Anyways, to the bunker.
Woo, buddy.
And now the remote control of death. It is rigged up to car number 1. Obviously, you hit a mine, the car will blow up.
OK, guys, here we go.
He's moving.
Woo.
This first car has no money in it. It's technically risk-free. But the more of the map you uncover, in this car, the better your odds are of saving your money in the next car. You could take the right path. You could take the left path.
I'm going to go left.
I'm terrified. There could be an explosion at any point.
Oh, no.
Oh, that is not left. One car down, four more to go. But this time, $25,000 is on the line. All right, here we go.
Yo, whoa. I got a hitchhiker.
Carl, what is he doing?
Carl's going to make sure your car burns extra good this I would really avoid this next mine.
Thanks, Carl.
On this first path, he accidentally picked the side that had the mine, which means the right side is clear. Do you regret putting $25,000 in this one?
Yo, 100,000%.
He now has another fork in the road. Are you going to go left or right?
Yeah, I'm going to stick with the right.
So far, so good.
I could have just stayed in there.
Oh!
Oh! Two cars down, and $25,000 of your money is up in flames.
Do we have to talk about it?
That amount of money could have bought you a non-exploded car.
Carl, he can't—
I could kill you, just so you know.
No, I'm very aware.
I'm very aware.
All right, Byron, you haven't even made it halfway through yet. You only have 2 more failures before you send your remaining $400,000 down this road of explosives. At this pace, he will lose all the money.
Oh my goodness.
Send out your third car.
Here we go.
You got this. You're the bomb.
Ah!
Just stand out there for the rest of it. Now you can focus better.
So right now, I am completely unable to see my vehicle.
Oh, it's killing me that I don't know where the mine is.
Any second now and complete. God, I don't want to look. You're coming up on the next 50/50. Big decision.
You're going right.
Yep.
My heart.
Oh my God.
I'm so nervous. Don't forget, the more mines you trigger with your empty cars, the safer that $400,000 becomes on your final drive.
Yeah.
So far so good.
What are you thinking?
I'm going to go left.
What made you pick left?
It's just a harder route. If it's hard, I'm doing it.
That's what she said also.
Kyle, this is a serious moment.
Sorry.
This is intense.
Yeah.
Over halfway.
No bomb yet, but there could be several between this car and the finish line.
I'm going to stake another home run.
Oh, he doesn't care. He doesn't care.
Oh!
So you now have a winning path. The question is, can you remember it?
No, but we're going to go.
So using his last empty car, Byron made sure he had the route memorized. You're good.
Remember the route.
Because for the final car, all 400,000 $100,000 of his money was now on the line. Now that you know the path, I say we do something special for the final car.
I don't trust you anymore.
This time we're going to walk behind the car. Let's do it.
Onward!
So if you accidentally trigger a mine, now we'll get a front row view to his money blowing up. You sure this is the path you took?
Yes.
We're literally in between two mines right now.
That guy right there is our safety expert, and he keeps telling us to back up. So, Byron, keep backing up. Why have a safety ex—
Carl!
Jimmy!
Stay on the track! What are you doing?
We're walking through a minefield.
I'm the wrong guy. Keep driving.
Wait, I don't know if I remember the path.
I actually don't remember if this is right.
Is it right or is it left?
Wait, wait, stop. Wait, he's going so quick.
Uh, you're one mine away from ending this entire video.
Oh God, stop, stop. Congrats, your money survived.
It's on my neck.
Yeah, okay, here, I got you. Don't touch, don't touch.
Wait, wait, the car, the car. Oh, whoa, stop it.
Could you imagine if that triggered a mine and blew up?
Oh, it's going back.
Wait, it doesn't have brakes.
Jimmy said it doesn't have brakes and got behind it.
Well, yeah, I had to brake it. All right. Anyways, duck behind the car. Duck behind the car.
Why are we ducking?
All the mines you didn't blow up. Oh, God. We're going to blow up now.
Oh!
Let's go to the next death trap. We just walked there. Byron's a little harder to kill than I thought. But seriously, he'll be terrified when he sees the twist on this next trap.
Byron! Byron, take your blindfold off.
For this next trap, you're going to be buried alive.
Oh my God.
You're going to lay in that coffin. Then I'm going to seal it, cover you with a ton of dirt, and reveal the challenge. Do you trust me? No. Whenever you're ready, climb in the coffin. There's a hatchet there, which you'll need. You won't be needing this ladder anymore. Watch out, Karl. Seal the coffin. Sorry, Byron.
I can't believe I'm doing this, but I'm actually helping you seal me in a coffin.
Permission to bury you alive.
You have my permission to bury me alive.
Get the shoveling, boys!
Oh, my God! Oh, Byron, I'm so sorry.
No, you're not.
While we're burying you, check underneath your pillow. You'll have the greatest chocolate in the world, Feastables, and the greatest meat snack on the planet, Jack Link's.
Yep, yep, I've got them.
You have big muscles, right?
One might say.
And big muscles require protein, wouldn't you say? I would. Which is why the DUOs I gave you is pretty convenient because it's protein-packed and made with 100% real beef.
What?
Quite honestly, probably in the most uncomfortable position I've ever been in in my life. At least I'm gonna have strong muscles for my duos.
Ah!
The cod!
He's done.
You are officially buried alive. How does it feel?
I've been better.
As you can see, there's a giant flaming furnace with a conveyor belt leading towards it. Pull the lever.
Oh, there it goes.
This is not your money. This is Tess's money. In a moment, this conveyor belt conveyor belt will start slowly dropping your money into this fiery furnace. Behind your knee, you're going to see an axe. You're going to use that axe to break your coffin, somehow traverse through all this mulch, and turn that lever off, which will then stop the conveyor belt, AKA stopping your money from burning. Now, Karl, turn it off.
OK.
Put his money on the conveyor belt.
I'll die before I quit.
It's on you. Give me a countdown.
3, 2, 1.
Pull the lever!
All right, your money is officially falling into the furnace.
Good luck.
Do you not feel bad burning his money?
Of course I do.
I feel like your actions contradict your words.
He needs to break through the lid of his coffin. I need to get out of here, bro. It's getting everywhere. And while he's digging out of the hole, I want to tell you about Jack Link's new product Duos, because it's actually two separate flavors in the same bag. This bag, for example, has their original flavor and their teriyaki. Why don't you give it a try?
I really enjoy the original and teriyaki. You want to switch it up? Go for the mango and jalapeño.
Scan the QR code or click the link in the description to buy now. Look at all his money just coming up in the—
Oh, whoa, I just caught a dollar. That was crazy.
Some of you are going to think that's fake, but I don't even know how I would fake that.
Byron, your money's burning.
This money is making his fire bigger.
Keep going, Lawrence. Get out of there. Over $10,000 of your money has burned. Oh my gosh.
What?
Oh, oh, he's getting out! You got it!
Oh my gosh, don't cut yourself! Yes!
What a monster!
Yeah!
Yeah! Yeah! He's full of dirt!
Before we go to the next death trap, you let me know what you think of Jack Link's Duo, their brand new product.
These are legit phenomenal.
Byron, I hope that jerky gave you a lot of protein because you're going to need it for this 6th trap. Welcome to the next trap.
I'm a little bit nervous on this one.
Behind you is your $384,000. Don't move.
Cue the trap. Oh my God.
What do you think the trap is?
I'm going up somewhere.
In order to pass this trap, you must scale up this 60-foot tower while hanging this money behind you. And this trap is different than the last. It is all or nothing here. If you fall one time or drop a single bag, just like in other videos like this, you will lose everything and the video will end. But there is a twist. You don't have to carry all of it. To make yourself lighter, you can leave some of the money behind. And all of this money literally weighs 200 pounds. So it's up to you to decide how much money to carry to the top.
So one of the things I'm thinking about right now is leaving it as high up on this as possible.
Ah, so if he leaves them on that platform, that's basically 3 or 4 feet less that he's gonna have to be pulling the bags. If he somehow cheats this trap, I'm never casting an Army Ranger again.
If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying.
I can tell. I'm gonna be honest, I don't think you can carry it to the top.
Let's push this body and see what it can do.
You're crazy, man. I want to go up top. No shot he's making it.
A lot of people in my life didn't believe that I could do it, and it kind accomplish the things that I've accomplished. So my goal is to prove that I can.
It's about that time where you have to decide how much money are you going to attempt to drag up here.
It's all or nothing, brother.
You are a psychopath. If just one extra bag is too heavy for you, you'll risk losing all of it. You don't even want to just leave $50,000 behind?
Nope, I'm going.
All right, he is officially off. If he falls, the video If he hits, he gets no money whatsoever. And as soon as all these bags are suspended in the air, the full weight will be on his back.
That's way heavier than I was thinking.
Look at this trail of bags behind him. He is literally climbing up a 90-degree incline carrying 200 pounds of money.
What's going through your mind? You brought the heat on this one, Jimmy.
He's going fast. Oh my God, he's falling.
Oh.
Oh. He is just brute forcing it.
Oh God.
All right, the hardest part is coming up.
Oh my God, I was there.
Jump! No, no!
Yeah, it's 200 pounds long. I can't give up. Oh gosh, let me get out of this way. Whoa, this is insanely impressive. You have no idea how heavy this is. No, you did it! You did it!
Yeah!
People don't realize how heavy money is. And when you have over 300,000 bills, it adds up. You only have one death trap left between you and me wiring you all this money.
Oh, God.
Jimmy, let's do this.
All right. To the junkyard! Where lies Byron's final obstacle between him and his money? Are you ready?
As ready as I'll ever be.
Let's do this.
Why are you flexing?
When I'm uncomfortable, I just start randomly flexing.
OK. Take off your blindfold. Welcome to the final trap.
Oh.
You must protect your money right here— OK. —from that bomb. Oh my God. I'm giving you 3 construction workers. Holy crap. A ton of machinery. OK. And you can use anything in this junkyard to protect it. In 8 hours, that bomb will drop. —Gotta go. Good luck. In past videos, even when given 24 hours, contestants have failed to protect their money. If Byron succeeds in a third of the time, it will be a first in Beast history.
So now we got to figure out what's flammable, what's not flammable. This roof is plastic, so that's going to burn. We don't want that.
You have a ton of hoods over here. Do you think these will burn? No. So this could be like your blast shield at the top.
Yeah. All right, guys. I want to get as many of these hoods over here as possible. All right. If it burns, like, there's, like, that felt on it, rip— just rip that felt off. No fiberglass, no nothing. It has to be metal and metal only.
Do you think these would be of any use? Not at all. But you could get rid of the plastic jugs and use the metal.
Uh, yep. Okay. So what you're seeing me do right now is grabbing my cages that are going to end up becoming my buffer.
Now the flammable plastic is gone. He has this nice metal frame to put around the money. That's smart. Do you think these would be of any use?
Not at all. Considering what the bomb is potentially made out of and there's a liquid in it, accelerant inside. It's going to burn fast. And this AstroTurf right here is flammable.
But it looks good on camera, though. I don't care. OK. I figured he would say that. They've got to make sure they remove everything flammable because the bomb might increase the temperature in there so much that it could light on fire.
So now we're going to take this.
Oh, you're going to make like a shield with hoods.
Yep. So bring in our containers. Then we're going to start stacking them as high as I can get them, creating a multi-story tomb of metal until basically I'm told I can't build anymore.
I mean, you can build it as high as you want.
OK, well, it's going to keep going.
OK, good luck. As confident as he felt about his plan, Byron thought there was still a piece missing from his puzzle.
We're going to create another layer of these over the top of it. But I want to get that money as secured as possible. And I know I said the less I have on there that's flammable, the better. But if it's insulated, it may not affect the money at all.
In Indiana Jones, this literally survived a nuke.
Yeah, well, they don't make things that way anymore, so— You don't think this would survive?
I mean, you know, it could.
Well, I guess Byron's right.
Byron gave my Indiana Jones joke some thought because it looks like he just found the Holy Grail in money-incinerating defense.
Oh, what is this? What did we just find? Let's flip this. 1, 2, 3, flip! Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yes. So much yes right here. We're going to close the money inside of this, then bury it at the bottom of my barricade.
Now that Byron had everything he needed, it was full steam ahead.
Got it.
So yeah, we're going to start laying those across, over the top, and I need cinder blocks stacked in this dead space, all right here.
The mentality that I have with things is it's success or death, and everything— I don't give myself a plan B. You cannot have bravery and courage without fear.
I'm not going to lie, Byron's defense strategy was looking pretty airtight. That was until he decided to place a massive fiberglass a boat on top of his structure. That's a highly flammable object right next to the massive bomb we're about to drop. Isn't the boat fiberglass?
Oh, man. No fiberglass, no nothing. It has to be metal and metal only. I'm genuinely at a loss right now.
Time is up. Sorry. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Dead serious, like, just— I'm seriously just second-guessing everything right now.
How you doing, buddy?
Oh my gosh, Jimmy. Dude, you have literally buried me alive. You made me climb with over 200 pounds.
Don't forget when we drove through a minefield.
Made me drive through a minefield. Oh!
When I put you in a room with a bear.
A 1,000-pound bear. Not just any bear. A huge bear. Absolutely everything comes down to this last moment right here in front of me. Literally everything. The only thing that really matters is always being a hero to my wife and kids. But the influential mind seeing that fear is okay. It's what you do in the midst of that fear. You can't have courage without being scared.
$384,000 on the line with your wife and kids here to watch. And it all comes down to this explosion. Oh, man. Are you nervous? Yes, I'm extremely nervous. Okay.
Any last words? Let's do it. 3, 2, 1, drop the bomb! Everything's on fire! Let's go! There's so much fire! Fire! The bomb just went off! BK Careful. No. Oh, whoa, that is burning. Go, Byron, go.
It's under the boat. It's under the boat.
It's under the boat. Oh, there's still more.
That is the fridge he put his money inside of. All right, slowly bring her down.
Moment of truth.
It worked. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Money didn't burn.
The money's safe. Let's go. Yeah. Oh my God. Congrats on winning $384,000!
$384 grand, we did it! This is going to change so much for us, Jimmy.
I'm gonna buy a tractor for the ranch.
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