is a component of the Japanese gameshow Tonneruzu

Tunnels (owarai)

The are an owarai duo with a long history composed of Tokyo born and . Both of them attended where Ishibashi, the taller of the two, participated in baseball, and Kinashi participated in soccer....

 no Minasan no Okage deshita (とんねるずのみなさんのおかげで した, lit. "Thanks to the people of Tunnels. [A comedy pair.]") Video clips from the show proliferated on video-sharing websites and the concept was eventually adopted by several countries. It became popularly known to non-Japanese speakers as simply Human Tetris, or Hole in the Wall, named for its involvement of the physical body and a supposed close resemblance to the rules of the video game Tetris

Tetris

Tetris is a puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...

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Game rules

The rules of the game are the same, and how points are awarded vary from country to country.

• Contestants wearing helmets and elbow and knee pads and a silver (or gold in some countries) spandex unitard stand on the "Play Area". A Styrofoam
  Styrofoam
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   wall, 4 metres (13.1 ft) wide by 2.3 metres (7.5 ft) tall, consisting of cut-outs resembling Tetris blocks, is revealed and moves towards the contestants in a 15 metres (49.2 ft) path. They have to make use of their wits in seconds to assume the position that will allow them to fit through the opening(s). Later episodes involve the use of more complicated shapes, such as words, gymnastic positions, shapes from popular culture, and even above-ground-level shapes. Contestants usually have to twist and bend their bodies with agility
  Agility
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   and dexterity to fit through the hole in the wall.
• If contestants fail to fit through the hole, they are pushed by the wall into a pool of water that is 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) deep behind them and no points are awarded.
• Contestants play in teams and only win points if they are able to fit though the wall. Points are awarded if the contestant(s) in the round are able to successfully cross the Styrofoam wall completely, except in the following situations :
  • No points are awarded if any of the contestants fall into the water due to any reason, even if they successfully pass through the wall. (There have been instances where the wall is cleared but contestants find themselves trapped over the water)
  • No points are awarded if the contestants crash through the styrofoam wall causing it to break apart.

The first component of the game involves a solo contestant, while later components involve groups of two people or more.

International versions

The production rights to the show outside of Japan is owned by FremantleMedia

FremantleMedia

FremantleMedia, Ltd. is the content and production division of Bertelsmann's RTL Group, Europe's second largest TV, radio, and production company...

 and the program has been produced in over 20 countries.

Country	Name	Host	Network	First day aired
Arab League Arab World Arab world The Arab world refers to Arabic-speaking states, territories and populations in North Africa, Western Asia and elsewhere.The standard definition of the Arab world comprises the 22 states and territories of the Arab League stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the...	جدار جبار Jidar Jabbar	Mansour El Ghassani (Season 1, 2010) Said Al Memari (Season 2, 2011)	Abu Dhabi TV Abu Dhabi TV Abu Dhabi Al Oula is an Arabic television station that originally launched in 1969 but was re-launched in 2000 and again in 2008. It broadcasts from Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates and is owned by Abu Dhabi Media Company...	September 20, 2010
Argentina	El muro infernal	Alejandro Wiebe Alejandro Wiebe Alejandro Wiebe nicknamed Marley is an Argentine TV host.He is currently working for TV channel Telefe.-Telefe:*Odisea*El Show de la Tarde*Operación Triunfo *Por el Mundo...	Telefe Telefe Televisión Federal S.A., best known as Telefe and later as TLF, is an Argentine television network. Formerly known as Canal Once , a state-run network, it was privatised and established as Telefe in 1989, when and News Corporation took over the channel...	March 3, 2008
Australia	Hole in the Wall Hole in the Wall (Australian game show) Hole in the Wall is an Australian television game show hosted by Jules Lund, based on the Japanese game show Brain Wall. In the show, contestants are required to fit though holes in a polystyrene wall that moves towards them...	Jules Lund Jules Lund Jules Lund is an Australian television presenter from Melbourne. He attended De La Salle College MalvernLund's career began when he won the FOX FM's "15 Minutes of Fame" competition on radio in the early 2000s...	Nine Network Nine Network The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...	August 6, 2008
Brazil	De cara no muro	Fausto Silva	Rede Globo Rede Globo Rede Globo , or simply Globo, is a Brazilian television network, launched by media mogul Roberto Marinho on April 26, 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Organizações Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings...	May 2009
Belgium Flemish Flemish Flemish can refer to anything related to Flanders, and may refer directly to the following articles:*Flemish, an informal, though linguistically incorrect, name of any kind of the Dutch language as spoken in Belgium....	Hole in the Wall	Roos van Acker	VT4 VT4 VT4 is a Flemish commercial television channel. It is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG.The channel began broadcasting on 1 February 1995. The channel initially had no Belgian broadcasting license and was transmitted via London . The channel now broadcasts legally from Zaventem in Belgium...	September 2009
Kingdom of Bulgaria	Дупка в Стената	Rumen Lukanov	Nova TV	July 18, 2008
Cambodia	Hole in the Wall: ល្បែងជ្រែកជញ្ជាំង		CTN Cambodian Television Network Cambodian Television Network was launched in March 2003 as a joint venture between local conglomerate the The Royal Group and Stockholm-based Modern Times Group, this free-to-air terrestrial television channel Cambodian Television Network is now part of Mobitel...	September 10, 2011
Canada French French language French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...	Le mur	Benoît Gagnon	V	September 3, 2009
Chile	La muralla infernal	Javiera Contador Javiera Contador Javiera Isabel Contador Valenzuela is a Chilean actress, comedian and television hostess. She is best known for her role Quena Gómez de Larraín on the Television show Casado con Hijos....  and José Miguel Viñuela  Fernando Godoy and Lucila Vit	Megavisión MegaVision MegaVision is an American company that manufactures high-end digital photographic equipment. It was founded in 1983 to create a state-of-the-art image processing computer...	March 16, 2009 - May 2009 July 2009 - November 2009
Independent State of Croatia	Pazi, zid!	Mia Kovačić	Nova TV	September and October 2008
Colombia	Duro contra el muro	Carlos Calero	RCN TV RCN TV RCN Televisión , is a Colombian private television network. It started as a production company in 1967...	February 4, 2008
Mainland China	动洞墙		SMG Shanghai Media Group Shanghai Media Group , under the Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group , is a multimedia television and radio broadcasting, news and Internet company...
Mainland China	正大综艺-墙来啦		CCTV China Central Television China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers...
Denmark	Hul i hovedet	Uffe Holm	TV3+ TV3+ (Denmark) TV3+ Denmark is a general entertainment channel owned by Modern Times Group broadcasting to Denmark.TV3+ has its origins in the youth channel ZTV and women's channel TV6 that were launched in the mid-1990s when Kinnevik invested heavily in new free-to-air channels. In April 1996, Danish ZTV, TV6...
Estonia	Auk Seinas	Tõnis Milling	TV3 TV3 (Estonia) TV3 is a commercial television channel targeted at an Estonian language audience owned by Viasat . It was founded in 1996 after two recent television stations, EVTV and RTV joined....	Spring 2009
Finland	Reikä seinässä	Mari Kakko	Nelonen Nelonen Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is...	March 15, 2009
Early Modern France	Le Mur Infernal	Laurence Boccolini	TMC Télé Monte Carlo Télé Monte Carlo or TMC Monte Carlo, traditionally known as TMC is a Monégasque general entertainment television channel.-History:The oldest private channel in Europe, TMC dates back to 1954, inaugurated by Rainier III, Prince of Monaco...
Germany	Ab Durch die Wand	Sonja Zietlow Sonja Zietlow Sonja Zietlow is a German television presenter. She is most famous for her own tabloid talk show Sonja, which aired from 1997 to 2001 on Sat.1, and, more recently, as host of several RTL shows, most notably "Der Schwächste fliegt!", German adaptation of the hit BBC quiz show "The Weakest Link" in...  and Dirk Bach Dirk Bach Dirk Bach is a German television comedy actor, best known as Pepe in the German version of Sesamstraße and as an actor in television series Lukas.-Life:...	RTL RTL Television Rtl.de' redirects here. For other uses, see RTL.RTL Television , or simply RTL, is a German commercial television station distributed via cable and satellite along with DVB-T , in larger population centres...	October 18, 2009
Greece	Μια τρύπα στο νερό Mia trypa sto neró		Mega TV Mega Channel Mega Channel, also known as Mega TV or just Mega, is a major television network in Greece. Teletypos S.A. was founded in 1989 under the name Teletypos Television Programmes S.A...	2008
Hong Kong	大咕窿	Yishan Ng and Calinda Yuen-wai Chan and Dickson Wong	TVB Television Broadcasts Limited Television Broadcasts Limited, commonly known as TVB, is the second over-the-air commercial television station in Hong Kong. It commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967...	May 9, 2009
Hungary	Kalandra Fal!		RTL Klub RTL Klub RTL Klub is a television station owned by RTL Group and broadcast in Hungary. It was one of Hungary's first commercial TV channels and was only two days after the main rival TV2 to begin broadcasting.-About RTL Klub:...	May 4, 2009
India	Hole in the Wall	Cyrus Sahukar Cyrus Sahukar Cyrus Sahukar is an MTV India VJ and Bollywood actor. He is known for his comic wit in shows like Semi Girebaal and other such satirical comedy shows, hosting and spoofs.-Early life:...	POGO
Indonesia	Hole in the Wall		RCTI RCTI RCTI is Indonesia's first privately owned television network and is based in West Jakarta. RCTI broadcasts Indonesian Idol as well as sinetron , films, news and current affairs, reality shows and religious programs... Global TV Global TV (Indonesia) Global TV is an Indonesian private television station based in West Jakarta. It is established in early January 1, 1998 and first went on air on January 1, 2001 with MTV programming.... MNCTV
Israel	ראש בקיר Rosh Bakir	Shai Goldstein and Daror Rafaeli	channel 10	2009
Japan	脳カベ Nōkabe		Fuji TV	July 26, 2006
Lithuania	Skylė sienoje		TV3 TV3 Lithuania TV3 is a television channel owned by Modern Times Group and targeted at a Lithuanian-speaking audience. It was founded on May 7, 1992 and launched on April 11, 1993 as "Tele-3" before being renamed "TV3" in 1996....	2009
Malaysia	Bolos	Zizan Raja Lawak	Astro Ria Astro Ria Astro Ria is a Malaysian 24 hour television network broadcast on the Astro satellite television service. It was one of the first 22 channels to commence broadcast on Astro in 1996.Programs on the network include Malay dramas, films and reality shows....	2009
Mexico	¡Aguas Con El Muro!		TV Azteca	2009, 2010–present
Netherlands	Hole in the wall	Beau van Erven Dorens and Gerard Joling Gerard Joling Gerard Jan Joling is a Dutch singer and television presenter. Known for his high tenor voice, he rose to fame in the late 80's and released a string of singles including "Ticket to the Tropics", "Love is in your Eyes", and his biggest hit, "No more boleros", a song that reached the top 10 in...	SBS6 SBS6 SBS 6 is a commercial TV channel in the Netherlands owned by Sanoma and Talpa Holding . Other channels of the group in the Netherlands are NET 5 and Veronica.- History :SBS stands for Scandinavian Broadcasting System...	October 10, 2009
Norway	Ylvis møter veggen	Kjetil André Aamodt Kjetil André Aamodt Kjetil André Aamodt is a Norwegian former alpine ski racer, and is the most decorated in history....  and Kjersti Idem along with Ylvis Ylvis Ylvis is a variety show group from Bergen, Norway, consisting of the two brothers Bård Ylvisåker and Vegard Ylvisåker . The two started their career in 2000 with the act "Ylvis – en kabaret" . They have later followed this with "Ylvis – en konsert" and "Ylvis III"...	TVNorge TVNorge TVNorge is a Norwegian television channel.TVNorge went on the air December 5, 1988 and was the first advertising-supported Norwegian channel. The channel was started with 50 000 NOK...
Paraguay	El muro	Roberto Willis	Canal 13	November 2008
Peru	Tecsuperate			June 2009
Philippines	Hole in the Wall	Ogie Alcasid Ogie Alcasid Herminio Jhay Alcasid, Jr., more popularly known as Ogie "Eric Ordoñez" Alcasid , is a Filipino singer, songwriter, composer, television presenter, comedian, parodist, actor, and entrepreneur.-Recording career:...  and Michael V. Michael V. Michael V. , also known as "Bitoy" or "Toybits", is a Filipino comedian, actor, director, composer, singer, rapper, voice artist and parodist, who appears in the GMA Network show Bubble Gang, and in his own TV show Bitoy's Funniest Videos...	GMA Network GMA Network GMA Network is a major commercial television & radio network in the Philippines. GMA Network is owned by GMA Network, Inc. a publicly listed company...	April 20, 2009
Poland	Hole in the Wall	Adam Małczyk and Adam Grzanka	TV4 TV4 (Poland) TV 4 is a private Polish TV station.TV 4 was created through the amalgamation of the stations Nasza TV and Polsat 2 and started broadcasting on 1 April 2000. The station belongs to the Polskie Media. Polskie Media in approximately 90% owned by Polsat and approximately 9% of TVN...	March 7, 2009
Portugal	Salve-se Quem Puder	Diana Chaves and Marco Horácio	SIC and SIC K SIC K SIC K is a Portuguese television channel aimed at children, owned by Sociedade Independente de Comunicação , the channel was launched on 18 December 2009 on the meo platform.-Programming:*Bleach *Blue Water High...	June 1, 2009
Kingdom of Romania	Vedete-n Figuri	Dan Fintescu and Dina Marina	Prima TV Prima TV Prima TV is a Romanian commercial TV channel, famous mainly for the Cronica Cârcotaşilor show and various reality shows.-Start:Prima TV was launched as one of the first commercial television stations in Romania in December 1997...	January 16, 2009
Russia	Стенка на стенку Stenka na Stenku	Ivan Urgant and Alexander Tsekalo	ORT Channel One (Russia) Channel One is the first television channel to broadcast in the Soviet Union. The channel was renamed Ostankino Channel 1 in 1991, after the Soviet Union broke up and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation. According to a recent government publication, the Russian government controls 51%...
South Korea	Jiwhaza Jiwhaza Jiwhaza, also known as Burst! Mental concentration , is South Korean game show, known mainly for its oddball humor. It aired in 90-minute episodes on SBS every Saturday from April 14, 2007 to September 15, 2007....			April 14, 2007
Spain	El Muro Infernal	Julian Iantzi	La Sexta La Sexta laSexta is the sixth nationwide broadcast television station in Spain. It is privately owned and began broadcasting in 2006.-Programming:....	Summer 2008
Sweden	Hål i väggen	Johan Petersson Johan Petersson Pär Johan Petersson is a Swedish handball player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics.He was born in Karlshamn....  (Season 1, 2008) Erik Ekstrand, Mackan Edlund (Season 2, 2009-2010)	TV6	September 14, 2008
Thailand	เกมกำแพงซ่า	Gunchai Gumnerdploy	CH7	September 3, 2011
Turkey	Bak Su Duvara	Behzat Uygur	Star TV	2009
Ukraine	Море по колено More po Koleno	Dmitry Perepelkin	ICTV	August 29, 2010
United Kingdom	Hole in the Wall Hole in the Wall (UK game show) Hole in the Wall was a game show that airs on BBC One in the United Kingdom. This game is an adaptation of the Japanese game Brain Wall in which players must contort themselves to fit through cutout holes of varying shapes in a large polystyrene wall moving towards them as they stand in front of a...	Dale Winton Dale Winton Dale Winton is an English radio DJ and television presenter.-Early life:Winton's father, Gary, was "domineering" and died when Winton was 13. Winton was brought up by his mother, actress Sheree Winton... Anton du Beke Anton du Beke Anton du Beke is a British ballroom dancer and television presenter. His professional dance partner since 1997 has been Erin Boag. With Boag, he won the IDTA Classic in England in November 2003.-Family and early life:...	BBC One BBC One BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...	September 20, 2008
United States	Hole in the Wall	Brooke Burns Brooke Burns Brooke Elizabeth Burns is an American actress and former fashion model. She began her career on the popular TV series Baywatch and Baywatch Hawaii.-Early life:...  and Mark Thompson Mark Thompson Mark John Thompson is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2004, and a former chief executive of Channel 4...  (2008–2009) Teck Holmes(2010)	Fox Fox Broadcasting Company Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...  (2008–2009) Cartoon Network Cartoon Network Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States.... (2010 - present)	September 7, 2008 TBA