- [Guy 1] Oh my
- [Guy 2] I mean, I'm not gonna say for sure...
- [Jamie] Think Fun makes clever logic games
and to celebrate the release of their new
alien abduction game, they've challenged us
to prank the unsuspecting public into believe a UFO
has landed.
Game on!
- [Jon] Is it possible to convince people
that a UFO is in front of them?
- [Danny] I don't think it takes much
I've seen a UFO.
It was a light.
And it flew weird, it came through the sky
really fast
(imitates UFO flying)
and then everything lit up really bright
and it flew up the other direction.
And I was convinced, at the time, UFO.
- [Jon] You actually just hit on, like, three things
that I think we need, like ingredients
to make this believable.
It needs to be something that flies
in a weird or unnatural way.
It needs to be, kind of, supported by other people
believing that it's real too.
The third thing is, the location.
I think, where we do this is really key.
- [Kara] The ideas seem simple, but getting those
ideas hashed out, is not.
- [Danny] I don't know if it's gonna work.
- [Kara] I don't know...
Just, I don't know.
We've just arrived, where we're supposedly gonna
put up our "UFO" tonight.
- [Adam] This doesn't look suspicious at all.
I'm feeling the pressure.
We don't have a lot of time, that sun's going down.
- [Jon] I got my weird clothes, to disguise myself
- [Jamie] Yeah, he's like a gas station attendant
- [Jon] Slash Boy Scout
- [Jamie] Slash UFO-ologist.
- [Jon] It works!
- [Jamie] Let's get our prank on! Woo!
- [Jon] Drew and Joey are totally in disguise
as park goers.
- [Jamie] They're gonna be capturing all of the footage
on their iPhones.
- [Drew] So, the UFO goes up, it looks pretty good
- [Joey] All of a sudden, the lights kick off.
(Joey imitates lights going off)
- [Jamie] Park is closing.
- [Joey] Pitch black.
Before we're ready.
- [Jon] So, we have to make a split second decision.
Do we just give up?
Call the whole thing off and try it another night?
Or, just go for it?
So, I turned on my weirdest accent and caused some chaos.
- [Jon With An Accent] Oh my god...
- [Jon With An Accent] Well we are based in Oklahoma
but we saw something near the Air Force base
We didn't know what it was but it was kind of
it was kind of doing this weird spin
- [Jamie] We've been following this thing
And we've got video of it over there and it's
it's like turning around.
- [Danny] I think these people are believing it.
- [Joey] They're starting to...
- [Jamie] This, I saw, in Oklahoma.
Do you see how it's, like, spinning and stuff?
That's the same thing up there.
- [Bystander] It looks just like the one that we saw!
- [Another Bystander] We didn't even like see it
- [Jamie] Did you see this?
- [Bystander] What the F***?
- [Danny] It kind of has like smoke coming out of it?
- [Jamie] We have no idea, we came from Oklahoma
because someone said the same thing was here and
- [Bystander] Look at this s*** though, it looks weird.
- [Another Bystander] We're you in the car watching it
go across the sky?
- [Jamie] Same thing, we follow forums about
this type of stuff
and people post when they see things
Or, the government's made multiples of them.
How do we call the Air Force?
- [Joey] Some of these people are really skeptical
They're kind of hanging back in the shadows
but a few of them are actually starting to
believe it, I think.
- [Jamie] We're gonna go post it.
- [Bystander] Where are you going to post it?
(Crowd bursts out laughing)
- [Jamie] I don't know who it is,
I don't know if it's American, if it's Terrestrial
if it's extra-terrestrial, like I think it's an alien but
- [Bystander] That's a cop right there.
(Sirens wailing)
- [Jon] Oh...
- [Jamie] We thought it was eleven but we saw
this crazy light up in the sky
As I learned from the cop, it was a UFO
because he was like: "we don't know what it is right"
I'm like, "No..." and he was like,
"Well then it's unidentified, and it's flying right?"
And I'm like "yeah it's up there flying"
He's like "it's a UFO, now leave the park."
(Jon laughs)
- [Jamie] Do we need to leave?
- [Police Officer] What's that?
- [Jamie] Do we need to leave?
Okay, no problem, we'll grab all of our stuff.
- [Jon] Thank you.
- [Police Officer] All right, have a good night.
- [Jamie] Thanks!
- [Jon] Thanks!
We got them though man, that looked pretty legit.
- [Jamie] A hundred percent, the kids in this country
need an education uplift because they all thought
that was an UFO
- [Jon] Maybe we convinced people, we're not really sure
what we got.
But then all of a sudden, a pick up truck slows down
and kind of gives us a little look.
- [Danny] And these kids were hyped.
- [Driver] The blue light turned off, and we just saw
a red light, and then it went back to the blue light.
- [Jamie] It looks like it's just beyond those trees
over there.
- [Passenger] We went over to those apartments over here
and it was directly in front of us
so, the way we were pivoting, it's like right over
those trees, like a little bit over.
- [Jamie] They went chasing after this UFO
They became UFO hunters on their own
- [Driver] What the f***!
Oh my god!
That's like some alien s***.
- [Jon] Are you serious?
- [Driver] Yeah! I was doing this to it.
- [Jon] It was coming closer?
We haven't seen it move!
- [Jamie] We totally missed that.
- [Driver] No, I saw that s*** man.
- [Passenger] I feel like it's a UFO
or it's something the Government has
that we don't know about.
- [Jamie] What did you think it was?
- [Passenger] I mean, I'm not gonna say for sure
- [Danny] I'm just going to say it
I mean it looks like aliens, I don't know.
- [Driver] I feel like I'm in a movie, you know?
- [Jamie] Totally sold.
Challenge completed.
- [Jon] Check!
- [Jamie] Okay, I think we totally fooled those kids
with our UFO prank.
But you'll never guess how we did it.
I promise, I'm going to show you, but first
check out this game Invasion of the Cow Snatchers.
Afterwords, I'll show you how we pulled off this UFO prank
all right, check out the game.
- [Alien] My daddy did it, his daddy did it before him
and I guess you could call it a family business.
- [Alien 2] There's a reason you earthlings
have the phrase "Cash Cow"
- [Alien 3] Let me assure you that we
believe in the ethical abduction of cows
we only use organic tractor beams.
- [Jamie] We can't say what the real motivation
for an alien abduction is
(Alien burps)
but in this logic game, the question isn't why
but how.
Invasion of the Cow Snatchers puts you in the pilot seat
of a UFO, your goal is to navigate your craft around
the farmer's field and collect all of the cows
saving the red bull for last.
To begin, choose one of the sixty challenge cards
from the deck and place the magnetic pieces on the game grid
so that it matches the card.
Then slide your UFO over the clear cover to
beam up your cows with the satisfying magnetic snap.
- [Alien] Best feeling in the world.
- [Jamie] Your UFO must dodge obstacles such as:
hay bales, fences, crop rows, a barn, and a silo.
As your heard of heifers heaps up, turning
the corner around the fences gets even harder.
So, think carefully about taking the right path
in the right order, or your cow collection
becomes ground beef.
Once you've collected your cow cargo
it's time to beam up the bull and
head back to Mars for a victory lap.
With dozens of puzzles available in skill levels
ranging from Easy to downright Genius,
there's something for everybody.
And plenty of puzzling to keep your mind working
until the cows come home.
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So our overall prank is pretty simple.
There's two parts to it, one we've got a balloon in the sky
with a light on it that's spinning around.
Second part, is an animation, pre-recorded, on the camera
when people come over to the camera, they think that
what they're seeing is what's up in the sky.
- [Danny] We are the Alien squad.
UFO pilots right here.
Most of the crew's gonna be in the park,
setting up this whole scenario
but Kara and I are gonna hide behind the tree line
and raise up our light.
- [Kara] The idea is, we blow up the balloon
When we get it blown up, we spray paint it black
so no one can see it.
And then, we attach a really bright LED light on it.
- [Jamie] Kara, your level of confidence seems kind of low
- [Danny sucking in Helium] It's gonna be great!
- [Jamie] That's a pretty big balloon.
(Kara and Danny spray painting the balloon)
- [Drew] Yeah, so we just went over there and helped
them finish spray painting the balloon.
It's really black.
- [Joey] We were driving away, and we couldn't see it.
- [Drew] It disappeared as we were driving away
into the dark.
- [Kara] We're about to attach the LED lights
This light that we ordered for this is
- [Danny] Crazy bright.
- [Kara] It's insanely bright.
- [Danny] We're all hooked up all we gotta do now
is tie a big long piece of fishing line to our
turn table and the balloon,
and hope there's not a lot of wind.
- [Kara] This thing looks insane.
- [Danny] I mean, that looks like a UFO with
it pulsing like that.
I did not expect this to look so good.
- [Jamie] The real hero of this whole thing is probably Adam
because he made the animation that really kind of
- [Jon] Sold it.
- [Jamie] Sealed it, yeah sold it.
- [Jon] Going into it, the best case scenario for me
was just that people would be like
"I don't know what that is" but we actually got people
to say, "that's a UFO."
- [Jamie] They thought it was aliens.
(Jamie laughing)
it was a light on the end of a balloon
- [Joey] We just rolled up to shoot our UFO hoax
we didn't bring any tripods...
- [Drew] How did we forget the tripods?
(Drew laughing)
- [Jamie] Who forgets the tripod?
We're a video production company for crying out loud
and no one brings a tripod for the camera.
(joyous singing)
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