Participants were given some rope and a golf ball. They were told to move the ball into the container. However, they were not allowed to touch the ball with their hands.

Test 1:

This set of participants realised that they can try to lift the golf ball if the strings are tight and straightened.

There are other methods not explored yet, so we will try to get more participants to try it out.

UPDATE:

We got quite a few more pairs of participants to try out.

For each different try, we also set new criteria and restrictions, including changing the size of the boundaries, offering incentives to pairs who can do it under 3 mins etc.

Final video!