As we've previously established and regularly highlighted, Japan is pretty weird. 

And as it turns out, Germany's kinda weird, too: 

The above video has been making its rounds on social media, and the simplest description of it is that it's a game where they are trying to cut an object (here, a pretzel) EXACTLY in half. It's pretty amazing that the person actually succeeds, but the fact that this is a game at all (on TV, no less) is fascinating. 

Schlag den Henssler ('Beat the Henssler') is a short-lived German game show reboot of Schlag den Raab ('Beat the Raab'), and was briefly succeed by Schlag den Starr ('Beat the Star'). The conceit is pretty simple - contestants play a bunch of mini-games to earn points and try to beat the (insert person here). 

To be clear, most of the games are not quite so weird. But there are some truly weird ones: 

Cardboard box Jenga? 

I suppose the other thing that I find quite amusing is how German some of these games/challenges are. It's not really about creative problems solving or funny slapstick conceits (Japanese gameshows, I'm looking at you). It seems that for a lot of these games, its really about doing one very precise thing, extremely well. The most important "skill" isn't necessarily intelligence or athleticism, but rather precision and mechanical repetition. That's so German. 

Stay weird, everybody.