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These guys merged basketball and four-in-a-row to make the funnest looking game of all time

Everybody needs one of these very expensive looking creations.

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Basketball’s a pretty neat game, and so is four-in-a-row – but who would ever have the idea to combine the two?

The answer is a YouTube channel called How Ridiculous, comprising three guys from Perth, Australia – they decided to make this quite brilliant combination game just for the fun of it.

“It’s all about doing things that people may not have seen before and just having a blast while we’re at it,” said Brett, one third of the trio.

“Everyone knows Connect 4, and it’s a simple but fun and strategic game, so we thought adding in the basketball element would just be awesome fun.”

And awesome fun it most certainly was.

“We knew everyone who watched it would pretty much want to play it,” said Brett.

He added: “It took a good few weeks/months of planning to work out how to best do it, but in the end we were really stoked with the way it came out.

“We were working with a really great carpenter (Gaunson Constructions here in Perth) who did an amazing job in taking it from our drawing board to real life.”

Derek from the How Ridiculous YouTube channel watches the game being constructed
(How Ridiculous/YouTube)

“It was as fun, if not more fun, to play as it looked,” he said. “We actually hadn’t played each other until the day of filming so it was a real blast battling it out.

“We all love winning so I was stoked to get the win over Derek, as was Derek with his win over Scott.

“That said, we were just really happy that it actually worked. We are super grateful to be able to pull off this sort of stuff and especially on this project working with Curtin University here in Perth to help make it happen was a dream come true.”

The basketball/four-in-a-row game
(How Ridiculous/YouTube)

“It’s a pretty costly construction so I’m not sure how feasible it is to make it for people to buy,” he said.

“We’ve had a lot of interest in buying it, even from countries outside of Australia, but people might have to mortgage their house to pay the shipping cost!”

The How Ridiculous YouTube team play basketball/four-in-a-row
(How Ridiculous/YouTube)
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