Comments on: Brain Game: “It is Balloon!”

By: Samantha

Samantha — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:51:37 +0000

Lets not think to hard here…..How did the balloon get up there in the first place?

1)Blow up a balloon.
2)Attach a roll of string on the Balloon.
3)Put a ring of tape on the balloon.
4)And guide it toward the balloon on the ceiling.

Hope that works for you:)

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:34:34 +0000

I’d use a toy dart gun with a string tied to the dart. Get some good target practice in…..

By: Mikerizer

Mikerizer — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:10:50 +0000

I did this just the other night…get another helium balloon, with a string on it, mind you. Fold a piece of tape (I prefer duct tape) back upon itself, so that it’s sticky on both sides, and place it on top of the balloon. Then, guide the tethered balloon up until it sticks to the bottom of the errant balloon…then, retrieve it by slowly and steadily pulling the string.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:47:41 +0000

Pfft…just grab the closest five year old and toss ‘em up there till they grab it. That’ll teach you to hold on to the **** string.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:30:38 +0000

Turn off the A/C and open up the valve on the tank you used to fill the helium balloon.

By: septer

septer — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:31:38 +0000

Gosh…you keep walking or dreaming into puzzles!

Can a vacuum cleaner’s suction pull them down?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:31:02 +0000

I work at a party store, so we usually just use the tape and another balloon method; the ceiling is too high to use any sort of stick. Sometimes though, I’ve been known to crawl on the counter and tape a boxcutter to a stick to ‘kill’ long lasting balloons (they’re harder to bring down).

By: Kevin H

Kevin H — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:49:03 +0000

I worked at Best Buy through college and we’d have helium balloons at various places through out the store. The ceiling here was at least 20′ high. Balloons on the ceiling would set the alarm off overnight, so we have to get them down. Best way? Put double-sided tape on another helium balloon and attach it to the ROLL of string. Fish that baby up there like a kite, pluck down the other one, and pull them both down.

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By: cj

cj — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:12:54 +0000

Wait it out. Go play a few rounds of golf and come back the next day when the balloon has solved the problem for you.

By: loomis

loomis — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:12:07 +0000

Red Green solution: Completely seal the store with duct tape. Replace air inside with hydrogen. Helium being heavier than hydrogen, the balloon will fall to the floor. Send least popular employee armed with candle inside to retrieve balloon. (Note: you could also try creating a complete vacuum within the store — because Nothing is lighter than helium — but that would result in the balloon expanding and popping.)