Stumble starred in a video in response to the Ice Bucket Challenge. This minigame is discontinued. One of Easter minigames where the player has to find a hare beneath the forest litter by swiping them away. The player must nail all the boards so that the zombies wont get him. This game has received 8884 votes, 7398 positive ones and 1486 negative ones and has an average score of 4.2. Numskull has another minigame which involves touching the screen to destroy the asteroids. If the player spins the right way, the dryer opens and Bungle sighs with relief and flashes a thumbs up. This minigame is discontinued. Mishap has another minigame where he feeds his rattlesnake bacon. [When it first came out], some advertising agency in America got in touch, trawled through my bands songs, and we got a sync on a Samsung ad. One of summer minigames where Doomed is playing volleyball. One of Christmas minigames where the player must tilt the screen in order to keep his stepladder from him falling over. In one of the minigames, for example, you have to . There's a winter-themed minigame where the player has to drag the 3 Putzs below the ledge, similar to Stumble's first minigame. But they also have to prevent the characters' deaths by dangers. This minigame is discontinued. If Dunce touches at least one of the lasers, then he will fall to his death, with a newspaper headlined "Bumbling Thief Dies Dumbly!" Otherwise, if the player does it wrong, Bonehead drive around the boom gates more impatient and get hit, like in the video, resulting in failure. His appearances commonly involve him standing on the edge of a train station platform. If all the snot is removed, Lax will wash his hands, like the rule for COVID-19. Eleven years ago, Emily Lubitz, a singer with the indie-folk band Tinpan Orange, spent about one hour in a Melbourne studio recording vocals for a public-safety jingle for Metro Trains. There's a whole new set of dumb characters that have gathered to take part in a newer, bigger game. If the player wins, the crocodile kisses Dummkopf, and Dummkopf gets pleased. This minigame is discontinued. If the player doesn't move the beans after the time runs out, Mishap will run with a hotdog and run over Phyllis as the cane and toilet paper get thrown and she will fall onto the floor and bleed, resulting in failure. This minigame is discontinued. New way to die. Stop the blood by holding a finger over every hole and leaving it there until time runs out. If successful, they will put the weight down. In his minigame, the player must tap the dots in order to suture Dunce's injury. This minigame is discontinued. If the player lets one of the burgers burn, the barbecue grill will burn and Dummkopf will turn into a skeleton again, resulting in failure. If the player misses any of the balloons, Putz will chase by crossing the tracks, and eventually gets hit by the train, like in the video, resulting in failure. [3] John Mescall, executive creative director of McCann, said "The aim of this campaign is to engage an audience that really doesn't want to hear any kind of safety message, and we think dumb ways to die will. If the player doesn't, the volleyball will bounce away and Doomed will go and get it but gets ran over by the drug dealer's van, leaving blood behind, resulting in failure. One of Easter minigames where the player has to tap the bunnies popping up from holes, and avoid piranhas with pink rabbit ears headbands. If any petals are unplucked after the time runs out, Dippy will be displeased by seeing a flower that is yet fully plucked out and will shed a tear from his eye, as soon as he will notice that the piranhas are attacking him and he then will drown in water by them, resulting in failure. That song, Dumb Ways to Die, has been played more than 250 million times on YouTube, has spawned a growing franchise of digital gaming content that Melbournes rail network recently sold for more than $2 million, and is right now trending globally on TikTok alongside videos of young people accidentally injuring themselves. If all the candles are lighted before the time runs out, Dunce will appeal himself with a wink and smile to Ninny and Ninny will be impressed by him. A message from Metro. With so many different characters and funny stories, you can challenge yourself through the multiple amazing levels of the first title of the popular series. This minigame is discontinued. His favourite song goes like this Boom-ticker-ticker-boom-ticker-ticker boomahhhhhhhhh!Dumb Ways to Die: Crazy Chronicles Activity Journal. If the player lets Numpty touch the ground, he will fall flat on his face, and the ambulance will run over him before leaving again, resulting in failure. The player has to rotate the dials to turn the mixer off (Similar to Bungle's second minigame), if so, Lax will get out of the mixer and get a chocolate that he eats. This minigame is discontinued. But it was the YouTube video that really sealed this campaign's fate. This minigame is discontinued. This minigame is discontinued. One of Christmas minigames where the player must tilt the screen in order to roll the snowball to raise its size. Dumb Ways to Draw Stumble is a bean who appears in the Dumb Ways to Die franchise. If so, Doofus will thumbs up to you. Otherwise, he will be trapped inside a chocolate bar that breaks itself, resulting in failure. In both versions, he is the 12th character to arrive at the train station, and in the new version, he is the 66th thing that can be unlocked. If done successfully, Doofus will knockout Calamity. Dumb Ways to Die, as a whole, is still considered one of the most successful Australian advertising campaigns. The player must move the three Stumbles below the yellow line into dotted circles, or else the Stumbles will fall off. Similar to Putz's game, the minigames involves matching the wires to their correct color. One of Valentine minigames where the player has to swipe flower petals to pluck them out and the plucked petal will leave either a heart or a broken heart upon plucking. This minigame is discontinued. [3] It was uploaded to YouTube on 14 November 2012 and made public two days later. If it wasn't, he'll stuck to there, then he will be decayed and be transformed into a skeleton, resulting in failure. If a raging bull gets towards Numpty, Numpty gets knocked forward and gets bloodily trampled by the stampede, resulting in failure. It was a quick and easy gig: a favour to her mate, Ollie McGill of The Cat Empire, who wrote the music and had asked her to get involved the day before the record. If any spoons are plucked or not all clovers are plucked, Putz will have picked a spoon and will get electrocuted by a thunder, resulting in failure. Were working to restore it. The player has to guide their character in a 3D race against other characters to the finish line while avoiding the obstacles. Otherwise he will knock Lax down, resulting in failure. A second sequel titled Dumb Ways to Die 3: World Tour was released on 21 December 2017. One of the around-the-world minigames where Dippy is in the sea with some jellyfish. In the game, the player has to draw lines with in-game pens to guide the characters to their goals. In Numskull's minigame, which was introduced in August 2014, the player must tilt the screen to guide her toward her helmet. Tap rapidly Stumble and Pillock are lifting weights. Lax has a 4th of July-themed minigame, he is seen in a BBQ party along with Dunce and Ninny, he will notice a gas leak. One of Euro Summer 2019 games where the player must balance the Leaning Tower of Pisa from falling by tilting the device. On August 1, 2013, Hapless was one of the three new mini-games. Otherwise, the fine china will fall over Doofus and breaks on him causing to bleed, resulting in failure. If the player succeed, a piece of toast will fall and Dummkopf will catch it with a fork and eat it. Otherwise the locomotive will be burnt inside and will release two pieces of halved Putz out of its chimney, resulting in failure. If the player taps too fast or too slow, or if they don't tap at all, the bear will wake up and eat Hapless' head off, resulting in failure. If so, Dimwit will smile and brush his hands together. Tapping too early, too late, or not tapping at all will make the Bear eat Hapless' head off, like in the video, resulting in failure. If you fail, his body is eaten and discarded by the shark offscreen. There can be as little as 2 and as many as 6 upon the game getting faster. If the pan is successfully covered, a piece of bacon will be placed onto the pan, and Mishap will give it to the rattlesnake, who eats it. The sequel titled Dumb Ways to Draw 2 will be released in 2023. This minigame is discontinued. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Sign up here. Otherwise, the rattlesnake will latch onto Mishap's eye again, resulting in failure. Numskull initially appears on the loading screen. "Dumb Ways to Die (In Video Games) Parody", "The Walking Dead + Dumb Ways to Die Parody" - live-action parody of characters from, "Dumb Ways To Fail" - several versions on YouTube by different channels, "Dumb Ways to Blind" - on YouTube, about the dangers of powerful laser pointers, This page was last edited on 23 April 2023, at 19:41. Visit the multiplayer challenge arena and battle against your friends. In his mini-game, there are three Stumbles instead of one. This animation published by Australian train company, Metro Trains Melbourne, is called Dumb Ways to Die. If the player presses a wrong letter, it will make a noise indicating that the player has pressed the wrong letter. If the player loses, he bursts in flames, like in the video, resulting in failure. Melbourne Metro Trains Dumb Ways to Die (Public Service/Social Welfare Campaign) GOLD. Numpty has a 4th of July minigame, he is seen playing with a firework. Doomed has another minigame in which the player must avoid cones appearing from the bottom of the screen running from the drug dealers car. The campaign video went viral on social media after it was released in November 2012. With Rhonda Pownall. [33], Logan Booker of Gizmodo described it as "taking a page out of the Happy Tree Friends book and mixing cute with horrifying". Unlike the previous games which both involved the player playing minigames and trying to prevent the characters from dying, here the player collects coins from houses that are fixed up from being initially broken. This minigame is discontinued. Otherwise if the timer runs out, then Putz will be knocked off his bike and split in half as the bike goes by, resulting in failure. If the player tap all the calm porcupines, Stumble pets a porcupine's head that causing its hair turns into the shape of his hair, which he then takes a photo of it with his phone. The player must control Putz (with his balloons) by tapping/pressing the screen to let him lift. Lax has a new Easter-themed minigame where he fell down to the mixer. If the player doesn't sew the wound shut, Dunce will bleed and faint, resulting in failure. Not feeding Pillock the medicine at all will also result in failure. The song's lyrics contains a description of different ways of committing suicide, such as: using drugs beyond their expiration date, standing on an edge of a platform, running across the rails, eating superglue and other. Before a train arrives at a building, the player plays a challenge to counter something related to trains. Susie O'Brien in the Herald Sun in Melbourne criticised the ad for trivialising serious injuries and being about advertisers' ego rather than effective safety messages. [20], The game is similar to games in the WarioWare series. If the player doesn't close the cap tightly, she would eat the glue and become frozen again, resulting in failure. GOLD. This minigame is discontinued. The player has to tap the screen to stop them. Very similar to Button Blast, this one of the Halloween minigames, where the player must memorize the combination of potion bottles. Otherwise he will bounce out of the crashed plane, then get decapitated in the first bounce, as soon as his head will follow the last bounce and will leave a blood trail after landing on the road, resulting in failure. If an egg is painted before the time runs out, Bungle will win the 1st prize with his painted egg, gaining congratulation with claps and the falling confetti, the egg is placed below the pedestal with the blue medal attached on a red cushion above it.