Why does towel trick work

Each person must then contort their bodies while crawling and looping in and out of the circles to get free. Snag two towels before you go, preferably ones that are mismatched so you can easily tell them apart. And, it goes without saying, but find a friend—this is a dual effort.

The TikTok challange as is is impossible. After searching for a solution, the only answer close enough is the rope escape trick. It is different to the towel game since the players in the rope trick are attached with their wrists in a loop. If you want to try it then all you need is a paper towel and a marker. Fold the towel in half and write a message on the front. Then pen down the secret message inside the fold. Now when you put it in water the towel gets wet and bam, the secret note gets revealed.

However, the original problem, the reason your Xbox overheats in the first place will still be there and its only a matter of time before your console will fail again. The real danger is that you can quite easily set the console, the towel, and even yourself on fire. Deliberately causing electronic components to overheat is a very dangerous process and the risks from fire as well as the fumes emitted when components melt is significant.

A far better, and more reliable method than the Xbox Towel trick is to get yourself a good DIY repair guide and follow its instructions. Using only some basic tools and the information you will get from the guide you can repair a broken console within an hour.

What sounds like urban myth, might actually be steeped in truth. Wrapping a in a towel may mimic the affects of the heat gun fix.

That is, apparently the red ring of doom is frequently an indication of a faulty ball grid array BGA , used to solder the GPU chip.

The towel wrap holds in the console's excess heat, likely melting the BGA and re-establishing a temporary connection between the GPU and circuit board. Of course, the heat will also damage numerous plastic parts within the console.

Not recommended.