GAMING FLUTE
Brand
SKITTLES
Entrant Agency
TBWACHIATDAY CHICAGO
Category
Entertainment Lions for Gaming
Award
Silver
Festival & Year
Cannes Lions (2026)
Presentation Board
To win Gen-Z attention in a crowded category, Skittles needed to disrupt Gen-Z
culture with a dose of Skittles absurdity. Our inspiration was found in the
Challenge Gaming Community, where folks play video games by their own
rules. Delightful weirdos playing Elden Ring with dance pads or attempting to
beat 60-hour campaigns in 60-minute speedruns. So Skittles set out to help
challenge gamers double-down on nonsensical gaming by making the most
absurd (ie. most Skittles) gaming challenge of all time.
IN ONLY », 390,000 |
_-25 HOURS
The Skittles Gaming Flute: a real, classical flute turned into a real, game
controller. It's perfectly dumb and incredibly hard, requiring real flute playing to
play the game. To bring it to life, we gave a celebrated challenge gamer
(PointCrow) the flute and 72 hours to beat five gaming challenges, with every
second livestreamed on Twitch. The best part? He'd never touched a flute in his
life. And we didn’t stop there — after PointCrow’s marathon stream, the
challenge passed to two additional gamers each trying the Flute on their main
titles, for 76 total hours of Gaming Flute chaos.
LIVE VIEWS (MINUTES WATCHED — ONCE E
“TASTE THE CHAOS.”
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PRWeek 2.
(Dijaunty_iRL: WHY DOES THIS EXIST?
[i cuTHEBAD: u gotta be getting lightheaded
{G Asystoless: THis hurts to watch fol
[i] Larcenist89: What in the hell lol?
ltehehe: how does this even work
tageRattata: COOKED
dannyprickle: already huge progress!
‘The_Wonders: TOLD YOU YOU GOT THIS
tle boy cookin
tah0: THIS is peak gamin
HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE
BB benvibed: Actual wizard intrument
DaHumAn: torture survived lol
19: BEAR WITNESS
HF majinchuriki: w STREAM
VERY MIN E
