Shikinagi Akira and Seraph Dazzlegarden Win VOLTACTION’s Soybean Dice Game on 360 Beans

NIJISANJI — Shikinagi Akira and Seraph Dazzlegarden’s team won the soybean dice game on VOLTACTION’s variety show Super VOLTACTION on Tuesday, ending it after 360 beans, worth 360,000 volts under the game’s rules. Watarai Hibari and Fura Kanato, the other team, kept playing and later rolled matching dice of their own.

The show’s four members opened with what they called an eating challenge. Because a plain eating contest would be cleared too easily, they were told to combine it with luck. The rules: eat 10 soybeans, then roll four dice once. If all four show the same number, the game ends. About 2 kilograms of soybeans, roughly 5,500 beans, were set out. The first team to finish would be paid 1,000 volts for every bean it had eaten, and the studio could be used for only 90 minutes.

“Probability converges.” — VOLTACTION, after the all-ones roll

Early rolls came close, including a run of 3s and a 666 that the members called the devil’s number, but nothing matched. The teams then learned of a menu of helper items bought with volts, each in stock once. Salt and basil salt were bought for the soybeans, and a kinako soy milk drink was added, with a cup said to hold about 60 beans’ worth of soy. Natto was on the menu too. One pack counted as about 200 beans, which meant 20 straight rolls. Shikinagi and Seraph’s team was the first to roll four of a kind, and one of the winners said afterward that they loved soybeans.

With the match made, the winners were credited 360,000 volts, a sum that stood out against the group’s running losses. The other pair were told they could continue for the remaining 40 minutes and that the payout would keep rising with every bean. Honey was bought as another helper item and briefly turned the rest of the game into an every-man-for-himself contest. For a rival-chance item the members phoned someone and asked for a number from 1 to 99. The answer was 52, which one participant said matched the date of his debut, May 2, so he promised to roll a match on the 52nd roll. Near the end, with the time nearly gone and a viewer poll on the group’s official account announced, a roll of all ones, known in Japanese as pin-zoro, came up and doubled the pair’s tally from 590,000 volts to 1,180,000.

Asked whether the series should continue, the members said it was a format they would like to see again, with a solo version suggested for next time. They closed by thanking viewers for their everyday support.