Gamer finally beats world’s hardest Mario Maker level, Lucky Draw, after 3 MILLION attempts
A NINTENDO fan has finally beaten a Mario level so difficult it took approximately 3 million attempts to get through it unscathed.
As reported by Vice, the Mario Maker level created by a user called Phenotype the level had become a phenomenon as players raced to be the first to beat it.
The aim of 'Lucky Draw' is simple - make it from one side of a flaming pit to the other.
However, completing the level doesn't require any skill, but it does require a huge amount of luck.
You can't move Mario, and he's trapped between two blocks that force him over that fire pit.
No, you can't jump either, or break the blocks, or do anything at all - you just have to wait.
Despite that lack of interaction and skill, it's become a huge hit on live-streaming site Twitch.
Gamers are transfixed by the sight of Mario being moved across the level, as the wizard-like Magikoopa creatures above all hit six of the Mario games' iconic question-mark blocks in unison, waiting for the right combination of items to pop out.
Anything other than a coin emerging to the right of every question mark spells doom, because that will then activates a switch that destroys the bridge under Mario's feet.
HOW UNLIKELY IS IT REALLY?
PROBABILITY can be hard to get your head around.
But it's easier if you think about some examples.
Beating Lucky Draw has odds of 1 in 7,529,536 - which means you'll need to play it 5.25 million times to beat it, on average.
Winning the Lotto Jackpot has odds of 1 in 45,057,474, which means you need to spend around £63 million pounds on the £2 tickets to even have a 50:50 chance of winning the jackpot. (This is why rollovers stop at around the £120 million mark -- if the jackpot was any higher, it would suddenly make sense to invest millions in tickets because of the likely return).
It also makes the 1 in 5,000 chance bookies gave Leicester City of winning the league seem positively reasonable -- before the season started, fans were meant to have to wait 3,500 years for better than even odds of seeing it happen.
The original Mario Maker came out for Nintendo's Wii U console in 2015, but a sequel for Nintendo Switch .
Like the original it lets you build and share your own Super Mario levels -- but as before, if you want to upload a level to share you need to beat it yourself first.
If you're looking for even more of a challenge, then check out the latest information revealed for upcoming PS4-exclusive Death Stranding. While that game looks amazing, the odds of figuring out what the hell is going on in it are even longer than finishing Lucky Draw.
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