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Minute To Win It – Xbox 360

Tackle unique challenges as you compete to win $1 million in NBC’s hit game show, “Minute to Win It”. With encouragement from All-American chef and host Guy Fieri, you will compete in a series of simple, yet intimidating games that can lead you to a $1 million prize! The everyday household items used in each challenge may seem harmless, but it will take nerves of steel to conquer all the tasks. So be careful, because when that minute is up, so is your chance at winning!

When a human being has something to lose, tension is born. Be it love or money, when stakes are on the line, we as a society are drawn into the struggle. So in big game shows like Minute to Win It, we like to see real people struggling to win or lose huge piles of cash. But when you turn the experience into a virtual setting filled with Xbox avatars and no real consequences, the suspense is lost. So while some of Minute to Win It’s mini-games are fun, there’s no sense of drama to draw you into the experience.

What’s Minute to Win It for the uninitiated? Contestants have exactly sixty seconds to complete a simple, yet difficult task. This involves knocking oranges into a circle with a banana tied to your waist, pulling tissues out of tissue boxes at a rapid pace, rolling marbles into sticky tape, throwing ping-pong balls off a wall into a bucket on your head, and much more. Like I said, they’re simple tasks, yet strangely difficult to master.

Minute to Win It’s official website has instructions for all of the events for people to practice at home before nabbing a spot on the show. The events require precision and a little luck to master. Some of the events in the Kinect version of Minute to Win It remove precision from the equation and settle down on simple luck (I’m talking to you “What a Racquet”). They walk the fine line between overly-easy and maddeningly difficult. The official show has dozens of different challenges, but Minute to Win It for Kinect only has 20.