The Cube (game show)

• Calculate–A number of red squares will flash on the floor of The Cube row by row. The player must add up the number of squares that flashed and give their answer. Subsequent runs will use the same pattern of squares. (Using the Simplify slowed down the speed of the pattern.)
• Capture–The contestant must stand in one corner of The Cube, holding a container. From the opposite corner, a ball will be fired at the contestant at an unknown time. They must catch the ball inside the container without the ball touching anything else in order to succeed. Using the Simplify increased the diameter of the container by 50%. (This game has also been played at the £20,000 level)
• Configuration-The player must stand in the middle of a grid of 12 squares. A random number will appear in each of the 12 squares going in a clockwise direction, and will be visible for one second each. Upon being given a number, the player must pick the sqaure that contained that number.
• Direction–The contestant must walk from one corner of The Cube to the other, following a straight path 30 centimetres wide. However, the contestant is blindfolded with a shielded helmet. If the contestant steps over either of the red lines that mark out the path, a life is lost. Using the Simplify makes the path wider by 10 centimetres. (This game has also been played at the £2,000, £10,000 and £250,000 levels, but with the path only 20 centimetres wide on the jackpot setting)
• Eliminate-In the centre of The Cube is a smaller cube with 45 red buttons on it (9 buttons on each of the 5 visible faces). The player must hit all the buttons, turning them to red to white, within 10 seconds. The player may use both hands, and the time starts when the player presses the first button.
• Freefall–The contestant presses a button in one corner of The Cube. Exactly 1 second later, 2 silver balls will drop from containers above the contestant in the opposite corner. The contestant must catch both balls in order to succeed.
• Parallel-Two lasers are seen on opposite corners of The Cube and the contestant must pass though them without touching then while wearing the blindfolded mask. As the game is played, the lights surrounding The Cube are dimmed.
• Perimeter - Pressing a button starts a square moving at speed around the perimeter of the Cube. The player must press the button again to stop the square in the same box as it started (using the ""Simplify"" reduced the speed of the moving square')
• Propulsion–The player must step on a pressure pad to fire a ball from the opposite corner of the cube. Too little pressure will cause the ball to not reach the contestant, too much will significantly reduce the available reaction time. (This game has also been played at the £2,000 level)
• Pulse – The contestant presses a button in the centre of the Cube, causing the floor to pulse red from the centre to the edge, and back in to the centre again. The contestant must press the button a second time to stop the pulsing colour at a point where the pulse is at the outer edges of the cube, and the entire floor is red.
• Pursuit–Situated around the contestant are 8 red squares. One of the squares will turn blue, then red again. The 8 squares will then travel around the floor of The Cube, and the contestant must keep their eye on which square turned blue. If they choose the correct square at the end of the game, they succeed. (This game has also been played at the £10,000 level)
• Reflex–The contestant stands between two pressure pads placed in the centre of The Cube. At an unknown time, one of the pads will quickly flash red. The contestant must step on that pad within 0.5 seconds in order to succeed.
• Response-A square will move in irregular directions across the floor of The Cube. At any time, the colour of the square will change from blue to red. The player must press a button within 0.35 seconds of the square changing colour to succeed.
• Revolving Shot–The contestant must throw a ball from one corner of The Cube into an angled cylinder on the floor of the opposite corner. The cylinder is constantly rotating, so the shot must be accurately timed.
• Ricochet–The contestant must bounce a ball off a panel and catch it with the same hand in order to succeed. The contestant cannot step outside of the marked zone at any point. The angle of the panel affects the trajectory of the ball.
• Stop Zone–The contestant must press a button inside The Cube to turn the floor blue at a consistent rate. When the blue colour is half-way along the floor, it will turn invisible, but will continue to run along the floor. In order to succeed, the contestant must use their judgement and press the button again to stop the invisible blue colour between two red lines.
• Time Freeze–The contestant must press a button inside The Cube, to start an invisible timer counting up. After the contestant thinks 10 seconds has passed, they must press the button again to stop the timer. The contestant has a one-second margin of error: any time between 9.5 and 10.5 seconds is successful. (This game has also been played at the £50,000 level, and the player is required to estimate a duration of 30 seconds instead of 10. Using the Simplify increases the margin of error to 2 seconds).
• Time-Split–The contestant must press a button inside The Cube to start a visible timer that counts up in increments of 0.1 seconds. Then, they must press the button again to stop the clock on exactly 5 seconds to be successful. Using the Simplify makes the clock count up in increments of 0.2 seconds instead of 0.1 seconds.
• Trail-A four-section pyramid appears on the floor of The Cube. Each section flashes from red to blue at progressively faster speeds. The player must hit a button to stop each of the sections in blue to succeed. If a section is stopped in red, a life is lost and the player must try from the first section. (Using the Simplify reduces the speed of the flashing.)

• Axis -A red horizontal and blue vertical line will travel at a fast speed across the floor of the Cube, and the player must stop both of them in the two target zones in a similar manner to ""Stop Zone"". Using the Simplify widened the target zones by 50%.
• Cylinder–The player must bounce a ball into a large cylinder placed in the middle of The Cube. The ball must bounce exactly once on the Cube floor outside of the cylinder, and the player may stand anywhere inside The Cube. Using the Simplify reduced the height of the cylinder. In Series 3, the Simplify doubled the width of the cylinder, making this game the first to have two different Simplifies. (This game has also been played at the £10,000, £50,000 and £100,000 levels)
• Dead Stop–The player must throw a weighted red ball onto a raised podium. The ball must come to a complete stop without falling off the podium in order to count. (This game has also been played at the £1,000 level)
• Drift–The player must blow a red ball on a raised stand into a target container positioned a short distance away.
• Duplicate–Using the keypad inside The Cube, the player must type out the phrase spelled out on the floor within 15 seconds. The letters on the keypad are in an irregular fashion, and are slowly moving.
• Exact–The player must press a button inside The Cube exactly 20 times in five seconds. If the player does not press the button 20 times or runs out of time, a life is lost.
• Exchange–In the centre of The Cube are two boxes, one containing 10 red balls and the other containing 10 white balls. The player has 10 seconds to swap the balls in each box and can only pick up one ball in each hand. Using the Simplify increased the time limit to 15 seconds. (This game has also been played at the £10,000 and the £20,000 levels. Using the Simplify at the £10,000 level increased the time limit to 12 seconds. When the game is played at the £20,000 level, the containers have 12 balls instead of 10, and using the Simplify increased the time limit to 12 seconds instead of 10.)
• Expulsion–In the centre of The Cube is a container holding 500 red balls. The player must remove all of the balls from the container by any means possible within 20 seconds. (This game has also been played at the £20,000 and £50,000 levels, with the time limit being 15 seconds. Under this setting, using a Simplify increases the time back to 20 seconds.)
• Gradient–The player must place a ball in the raised end of a clear tube and catch the ball at the other end with the same hand. (As long as the ball does not touch the floor or any side of The Cube, the ball is still in play even if it has to be "juggled" due to the speed of the ball.) They must not touch the lower end of the tube, which is coloured red to make it harder for the player to judge when the ball will leave the tube. Using the Simplify made the coloured end of the tube transparent.
• Horizontal–The player must move a horizontal beam around a structure of ropes and sticky tape. If the ball inside the horizontal beam falls out they lose a life.
• Invert-The player must invert fifteen cylinders on a circular table from their starting red side to the other white side in 12 seconds. The player can only use one hand.
• Laser–The player must put on a blindfold and hold a laser pen in their outstretched arm. They must then walk from one side of The Cube to the other. Once they reach the opposite side, the laser pen must be placed within the circle marked on the wall. This game tests the player's spatial awareness.
• Luminate–The player must bounce a ball off a square podium to hit the top of a second square podium, changing the light on it from red to white.
• Metronome– A blue square moves from side to side of the Cube at a consistent pace, sounding a beep each time it touches one side of the Cube. After a few seconds, the square turns invisible but continues to move at the same rate, with the beeps continuing. Once the button has lit up a few seconds later, the contestant must press the button when they think the square is within a vertical bar passing down the middle of the floor.
• Navigate–In a similar vein to Direction, the player must put on a blindfolded helmet and walk along a narrow path from one corner of The Cube to the opposite corner. In this game, there are 4 upright poles suspended above the player, which must not be touched or a life is lost.
• Rapid Fire–The player must throw five balls at a large square target in the opposite corner of the Cube when the floor flashes red. Only one ball can be thrown at a time, and the five hits must be registered within a total of five seconds.
• Reaction–The player must watch the floor of The Cube for when it turns from white to red. When it does, the player must press the button inside The Cube within 0.3 seconds in order to succeed. (This game has also been played at the £1,000 level)
• Revolution–The player stands on a rotating turntable and must throw a ball into the target container placed in the opposite corner of The Cube. The ball must fall cleanly into the container without hitting the walls or the floor for it to count. The spinning motion of the turntable is designed to throw off the player's aim, which will make the player dizzier the longer they stay on it.
• Summit–Similar in manner to Trajectory, the player must throw a small red cube into a box-shaped basket. However, the basket is placed on a tall column, making the shot much higher than in Trajectory. The shot must not bounce off a surface of The Cube in order to count. (This game has also been played at the £20,000 level, with the throwing line positioned further back)
• Tilt–The player must pick up a long beam with a ball at one end and a container at the other and tilt the beam to roll the ball into the container to succeed. (This game has been played at the £20,000 level, with a thinner bar).
• Totalise–A square in the centre of The Cube will flash a set number of times. The player must count how many times the square flashed and give their answer. Subsequent runs will have the same amount of flashes.
• Trajectory–The player must stand in a square marked out on the floor of The Cube and throw a red cube basketball-style into a raised box-shaped basket. The thrown cube must not rebound off anything, such as the walls of The Cube, in order to count. Using the Simplify reduced the player's shooting distance, placing the player closer to the basket.
• Velocity– Upon the floor flashing red, the player must roll a ball along a rail so that it is between two pins that will rise four seconds later. (Using the ""Simplify"" reduced the time to three seconds)

• Accelerate–When the player presses the button a ball will be released down a steep track, and a pair of pins further down the track will retract. The player must hold the button down until the ball is between the pins, whereupon they must release the button to raise the pins and trap the ball. Using the Simplify increased the distance between the pins by 50%.
• Angular-The player must roll the ball so that it bounces against the two pads which make it travel along the raised Z-shaped platform and fall into the container at one end of it. The player loses a life if the ball falls off the sides of the platform.
• Apex-In the centre of The Cube is a tall, clear cylinder with an open top. The player must throw a large ball into the cylinder through the top, but they must stand behind a line surrounding the cylinder.
• Balance–The player must stand and balance on a raised perch for 20 seconds. If any part of the player's body touches the floor during that time, a life is lost. The time starts when the player's second foot touches the beam. Using the Simplify increased the size of the beam by 50%. (This game has also been played at the £2,000 and the £50,000 levels)
• Blind Shot–The player must throw a large dice over a high wall and land it in the target container. The player may look around the wall to gauge the distance of the shot, but must stand in the shooting zone when throwing the cube. (This game has also been played at the £2,000 level. A change for series 4 is that, instead of the player looking around the wall, the wall is temporarily transparent for 5 seconds. The player can only throw when the wall is opaque.)
• Cascade–The player must stand in the marked area on the floor of The Cube and face a cylinder holding 1,000 red balls and a single larger white ball suspended from one corner. The balls will begin spilling from the container, and the player must catch the white ball before it touches the ground or any other surface.
• Cube Transfer-The player must transfer 27 small red cubes to fit exactly into a box only just large enough to fit them all in a 3x3x3 larger cube. After 20 seconds, if any of the red cubes are above the rim of the larger box, a life is lost. Using the Simplify increased the time allotted to 25 seconds.
• Drop Zone–From a height of 18 inches, the player must drop a red ball into the target container below and splash land into the water at the bottom. The height throws off the player's sense of perception, making it harder. Using the Simplify increased the container's area by 50%. (This game has also been played at the £1,000 and £2,000 levels. This is the first game that shares its name with a challenge on Minute to Win It.)
• Dual Reflex–The player must stand in the centre of The Cube. 2 balls will be fired at the player in quick succession from 2 corners, and the player must catch both balls without dropping them. (This game has also been played at the £2,000 level)
• Equilibrium–The player must walk from the start zone to the end zone marked on the floor, via a number of red squares at other points in between. While doing this, they must balance a ball on a tile in one hand. A life is lost if the ball falls off the tile (This game has also been played at the £20,000 level)
• Extraction-25 thin tabs are placed on a table with a button at either side. The player must, with one hand, hit the first button, throw each tab off the table in order from one side to another and hit the second button within eight seconds. Using the Simplify increased the time alloted to ten seconds.
• Mid-Point–The player must place the marker on the mid-point of tall, vertical beam. Once the player has placed the marker, he/she cannot move it again. The player has a 25cm margin of error.
• Momentum–The player must roll a ball down a track so that it comes to rest entirely within a red area at the far end of the track. A life is lost if the ball stops short or rolls off the end.
• Pendulum–The player must stand in a marked square on the floor of The Cube and swing a silver ball around a central column so that it knocks a target red cube off its stand. The basis of this game is that swinging an object on an arc is more difficult than a direct throw. Using the Simplify increased the size of the target cube by 3 centimetres. (In Series 2 onwards, the target cube was replaced with another silver ball. This game has also been played at the £2,000 level)
• Placement-The player has to place 10 large silver balls on ten narrow pillars of increasing height. They have 17 seconds to place all ten balls. Letting a ball drop off its pillar onto any surface of The Cube results in the loss of a life.
• Poise–The player must balance on a plinth situated in the centre of The Cube on one foot for 20 seconds. If the player stands on two feet, he or she will lose a life.
• Quantity–The player stands in the centre of The Cube and is given 10 seconds to count how many red squares are on the floor around them. When the time expires, the squares disappear and the player must give an answer. If the player fails, the same pattern is repeated on subsequent attempts. (This game has also been played at the £1,000 and £20,000 levels, with a time limit of 12 seconds instead of 10, and smaller squares so more appear on the floor)
• Recall–The player will be shown a grid of red squares on the floor of The Cube. After 5 seconds, the squares will disappear and then reappear with one square missing. The player must place a large marker on the missing square. Duplicate runs will have the same pattern.
• Stack–In the centre of The Cube are 3 columns. The player must press a button on the central column to start a 10-second timer, then transfer a stack of 9 blocks from the left-hand column to the right-hand column within the time limit, then press the button again to stop the timer. If the stack falls, a life is lost. Using the Simplify increased the time alloted to 12 seconds. (This game has also been played at the £2,000 level.)
• Succession–The player must hit either a red or a blue button to match the coloured marker on the floor. The player must match 15 colours correctly in 10 seconds. Pressing the wrong coloured button or running out of time results in a life lost. (This game has been also played at the £20,000 level with 20 colours. Using the Simplify reduces the sequence back to 15.)
• Tower–The player must stack eight blocks of decreasing size from one position to the player's left to another on the player's right to create a tower, all within 12 seconds. The blocks must be moved one at a time. (This game has been played at the £2,000 level)
• Transport–The player must carry a box on a raised plinth from one corner of The Cube to another plinth in the opposite corner. Through the centre of the box is a tube with a red ball inside it. The player must not let the red ball fall out of the tube. The player cannot see the inner tube, and so must rely on a steady hand and the reflections on the walls of The Cube to aid them in the game. Using the Simplify brought the target plinth 20% closer.
• Vault–The player must roll a silver ball along a beam so that it flicks off an incline and land in a target container a short distance away. The ball must remain in contact with the beam at all times.

• Aperture–In the centre of The Cube is a tray holding 25 red balls. Nearby is a clear box with a circular hole that is only just larger than the balls. The player has 20 seconds to deposit all 25 balls into the box using only one hand. Using the Simplify reduced the number of balls by 5. (This game has also been played at the £10,000 level with 20 balls instead of 25)
• Circuit–In a similar vein to Stabilise, the player must walk around a circular beam without falling off. The player must start and finish in the white marked area and the game starts as soon as their second foot touches the beam.
• Circumference-The player must roll a ball around a circular track. The ball must start and stop rolling in the red starting zone, and it must only go round the track once.
• Classify- Ten red cubes of different sizes are positioned around the edge of a table and the player must fit them in the corresponding blue holes in the middle of the table within 20 seconds.
• Construction–The player must build a vertical column of 10 clear rods in one corner of The Cube, moving to the centre of The Cube for Series 2 onwards. When all of the rods have been placed, the player must take their hands away and say 'Clear' and the column must remain standing for 3 seconds in order to be successful. Using the Simplify removed 1 of the blocks, so the player only has to stack 9 instead of 10. (This game has also been played at the £50,000 level)
• Contact–The player must guide a hoop from one end of a 3-metre long silver bar to the other without letting the hoop touch the bar, similar to a buzz-wire game. (This game has also been played at the £50,000 level)
• Descent–The player must throw a ball so that it bounces off 2 descending columns and lands in the target container. Using the Simplify increased the width of the target container. (This game has also been played at the £10,000, £50,000 and £100,000 levels with corresponding diameters of target container)
• Focus – A series of small red squares appear on the floor of the Cube. After the last square appears, the floor displays blue static to distract the player. Once the floor has returned to white, the player must place a white cube on the floor so that it is entirely within the location of the last red square.
• Fracture–The player must stand in the shooting zone and bounce a ball on the floor so that it bounces up and smashes the glass panel suspended above the opposite corner of The Cube. (This game has also been played at the £50,000 level)
• Hit Rate- The player must hit each of a line of 5 buttons on a pad in a total of no more than 0.50 seconds to succeed.
• Memory Flash–A number of red squares will flash on the floor of The Cube for half a second. The player must rely on their photographic memory and say how many squares flashed. (This game has also been played at the £1,000 level)
• Multisphere– 25 balls are released from a container on top of a column in the middle of the Cube. The contestant must pick up and return all of the balls to the container within 15 seconds. Using the ""Simplify"" removed two of the balls.
• Pinpoint–The player must pass a silver rod through a series of rings that are gradually getting smaller and touch the diamond on a box at the end. The rod must not touch any of the rings in order to succeed. Using the Simplify brought the second ring 20 centimetres closer. (This game has also been played at the £50,000 level. The two changes for Series 2 was that the outer rings were small while the middle ring was larger and using the Simplify moved the rings closer together).
• Quickfire–The player stands in one corner of The Cube within a marked area. From the opposite corner, a ball will be fired at the player at an unspecified time. The player must catch the ball without it touching any other surface in order to count. Any part or parts of the body may be used, as long as the ball does not contact the Cube. Using the Simplify reduced the speed of the ball by 20%. (This game has also been played at the £10,000 and £50,000 levels)
• Rebound–The player must roll a red ball along the table. The ball must bounce off the cushion at the opposite end of the table and roll back so that it comes to a stop between the red line marked on it and the edge. Using the Simplify increased the size of the target zone by 50%. (This game has also been played at the £10,000 and £50,000 levels)
• Shatter–The player must stand in the marked area on the floor of The Cube and throw a red ball through a wall with a small diamond-shaped hole to shatter a pane of glass behind it. Using the Simplify increased the size of the target. (This game has also been played at the £50,000 and £100,000 levels)
• Spike–The player must stand in the marked area on the floor of The Cube and throw a quoit over a spike near the opposite corner. Using the Simplify reduced the height of the spike.
• Structure–Using the blocks on the table in the centre of The Cube, the player must replicate the 15-block structure shown on the floor within 15 seconds. (This game has also been played at the £10,000 level with a time limit of 20 seconds, and the £250,000 level with a time limit of only 12 seconds. In series 4, the time limit at the £20,000 level was increased to 20 seconds, but used a larger 21-block structure. Using the Simplify on this setting increased the time to 25 seconds.)
• Transferal–The player must carry 2 coloured cylinders (one white, one red which is longer) end-to end from one corner of The Cube to the other. The player cannot touch the top red cylinder. When the player reaches the opposite podium, the cylinders must remain standing for 3 seconds to complete the game.
• Void–The player must roll a large red disc from one corner of The Cube to the other so that it enters the void (a space between two plastic markers) in that corner. Using the ""Simplify"" widened the void by a third.

• Barrier–The player must step over raised parallel barriers without dislodging them. To make the game more interesting, the player is blindfolded. Using the Simplify removes the first barrier. (On the first play of this game, although it was not an official Simplify, the host allowed the player to remove his trousers when he had two lives remaining as they were restricting his movement) (This game has also been played at the £2,000, £10,000, £20,000, and £250,000 levels. When the game is played at the £2,000 and £10,000 levels, only one barrier is used and the Simplify for this level brought the barrier 25% closer to the start zone. When the game is played at the £20,000 and £50,000 levels, there are 2 barriers - here, the Simplify removes the second barrier. When the game is played at the £250,000 level, there are 3 barriers, which are positioned at different angles.)
• Composure–The player must guide a hoop around an upright circular ring without touching it. The game starts when the hoop leaves the red safe zone.
• Drop Shot–The player must roll a silver ball along a ledge and have it drop down a hole at the opposite end. The ball must remain in contact with the surface at all times in order to count. Using the Simplify widened the area of the beam by 2 metres.
• Elevation–The player must elevate a clear tube using ropes on either side of it without letting the red ball inside the tube fall out. Once the tube reaches the target containers located on either side at the top of the track the player must deposit the ball into one of them. Using the Simplify lowered the target containers by 30 centimetres.
• Memorise–The player is shown 9 squares on the floor of The Cube. 8 of them will then illuminate in a certain sequence. When the sequence is complete, the player must step on the correct sequence of squares. The basis of this game is that the human mind can memorise an average sequence of 7 items, but in this game, the player is required to remember 8. (This game has also been played at the £100,000 level, with 10 squares and a sequence of 9 lights. Using the Simplify removed a random red square from the sequence, reducing it to 6)
• Precision–A single red ball is placed on a raised stand in one corner of the cube and at the other corner of the cube there would be a target target container filled with water. The player must flick the ball using only one finger into the container.
• Side-Track–The player must guide a metal pole between 2 sets of parallel bars without letting the rod touch the bars. On one side, the bars are ascending while on the opposite side, the bars are descending. Using the Simplify widened the vertical gaps between the poles by 20%. (This game has also been played at the £100,000 level)

• Destruction- The player must throw a heavy ball so that it travels through and shatters 5 circular panes of glass. The panes are spaced evenly apart and it does not count if the ball misses, cracks or bounces off a pane.
• Digit–Using only one finger, the player must roll a silver ball along a narrow beam. There is no time limit for the game. (This game has also been played at the £50,000 level)
• Pathfinder–A path is shown on the floor of The Cube for 5 seconds, then it disappears. The player must memorise the path and trace it on the floor. Every time the player steps on a correct square, it will turn green. The path is only shown before the player's first attempt. Using the Simplify makes two of the arrows on the path permanently stay on. (This game has also been played at the £1,000, £10,000 and £20,000 levels)
• Sequence–In the same vein as Memorise, the player is shown 8 squares arranged in a circle on the floor of The Cube, but in this game, the player stands in the centre of The Cube to see the sequence rather than at one side. A number of them will illuminate red in sequence, and the player must step on the squares in the order than they appeared to succeed. As with Pathfinder, the player only sees the sequence once, before their first attempt at the task.
• Stabilise–The player must walk along a 3-metre beam without falling off. The player must also touch the white start and end zones on the beam and finish in the marked area on the floor in order to be successful. (This game has also been played at the £1,000 and £2,000 levels with a 2 metre long beam.)

For the final game, The Cube chooses any of the previous 6 games the player has taken part in. This is usually the game they had the most trouble with. However, the game's difficulty will be increased. So far, four players have made this level, and all of them have left with £100,000, despite having a significant amount of lives left.

• When Johnny reached this level, his game was Direction. At the jackpot setting, the width of the path was just 20 centimetres instead of 30.
• When Paul reached this level, his game was Structure. At the jackpot setting, the time limit for building the structure was just 12 seconds instead of 15.
• When Tom Fletcher reached this level, his game was Barrier. At the jackpot setting, there were 3 barriers instead of two.
• When Luke reached this level, his game was Rebound. At the jackpot setting, the size of the area in which the ball had to stop was significantly lessened.