Guinness World Records Challengers

Challenge Rules

• Any commercially available confectionery with ingredients of glucose, syrup, sugar, colourings and gelatin may be used.
• The packaging for the sweets used must be shown at the start of your video
• Sweets must have a maximum weight of 3 grams.
• Inner and Outer layers of the sweets must not have any type of covering on them.
• The challenger must use commercially available wooden cocktail sticks to build the tower which must measure no bigger than 2mm (0.2 cm) in width and 80mm (8cm) in length.
• Equipment to be placed flat and separately on the table at the start of the attempt.
• The challenger must start with both hands flat on the table.
• Two hands may be used for this attempt. Any method or formation may be used with unlimited sweets and sticks, when creating the structure.
• Should any sweets or sticks fall off the tower, during the attempt, or the tower falls over, the clock continues. Participants are permitted to rebuild it within the 3 minutes.
• At the end of the 3 minutes, the tower must stand alone, unsupported for 5 seconds. If it falls over or any pieces fall off in this period, the attempt is disqualified.
• The tower is then measured from the ground to the highest point (of the uppermost sweet) to give the vertical height achieved