Putz

Run across the tracks between the platform

Melbourne International Film Festival

Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games

Deck the Halls (as Santa, cameo at the end)

Dumb Ways to Die 3: World Tour

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Dumb Ways to Die: Superheroes (in the title screen with Numpty)

The Dumb Ways to Die Fan Sisters!

**Putz** is a bean who ran across the tracks between the platforms and got hit by a train.

## About

*"Putz likes the easy life. He doesn't do effort. His philosophy on life is, 'why take the long way around when you can just run across the tracks?' If there were an award for laziness, Putz would probably have someone else pick it up for him. Ironically, 'Putz' is also the sound a train makes when it meets someone running across the tracks between platforms."*

*- Dumb Ways to Die: Crazy Chronicles Activity*

## Appearance

Putz is a cashew-shaped bean with a violet body color. He has tufts of hair on the side of his head and two visible lower jaw teeths. Unlike other beans, he has long arms resembling a gorilla.

After he tried to get his balloon back, he is now seen in half.

## In the music video

In the video, Putz is standing on a platform, holding a balloon. His balloon escapes his hand however, then he jumps off the platform, and starts to cross the tracks and gets hit by a train, filling the screen with his mouth screaming.

Later, as he finishes the song with everyone else, his left half falls over.

## Game

Putz can be unlocked for the player's Train Station at the score 1200 in the old version and at the total score of 288800 in the new version. In both versions, he is the 7th bean to arrive at the train station, and in the new version, he is the 36th thing that can be unlocked.

#### Balloon Baffoon

Unlocked by default

His first minigame which was released with the app was a minigame where the player will drag balloon strings to Putz's hand. There can be as few as two balloons or as many as five. The player must drag all the balloons to his hand, or he will jump off and get hit.

He also can be unlocked in your train station.

#### Bird Blunder

Unlock at 1344800 accumulated score

Putz has a new game that involves him flying with several balloons. You must hold the screen and avoid the birds popping the balloons. If you dodge all the birds, Putz will land on the train station safely. Otherwise, Putz will land on the train tracks and get hit by a train again, resulting in failure.

#### Super Stoked

Unlock at TBA accumulated score

Putz has a third game where the player must help Putz throw coal into the engine, keeping the scare off the red and in the middle. If done correctly, the train (filled with balloons) leaves. Otherwise, the engine catches fire and spits out Putz's halves.

#### Hippo Hop

Unlock at TBA accumulated score

Putz has an animal game where he must hop on all the hippos to get to the other side, similar to Madcap in Reckless River Crossing. If he gets to the other side, he grabs the balloons there and hops back. Otherwise, he falls in the water and gets squished by two hippos.

#### Vicious Cycle

Unlock at TBA accumulated score

There is a Europe game where the player must quickly circle their finger to help Putz cycle fast. If he wins, he is awarded flowers and a trophy, then gets a balloon instead. Otherwise, he falls off his bike and splits in half as the bike rides into him.

#### Pluck Your Luck

Unlock at 80000 accumulated score

The player has to pluck all the clovers while avoiding any of the spoons. If all the clovers are plucked, Putz will have picked a clover. If any spoons are plucked or not all clovers are plucked, Putz will have picked a spoon and will get electrocuted by a thunder, resulting in failure.

#### Deadly Photo 'Op

Unlock at 33800 accumulated score There's a winter-themed minigame where the player has to drag the 3 Putzs below the ledge, similar to Stumble's first minigame. If so, Putz will take a photo from the Everest Mountain and some of them from Dumb Ways to Die 3:World Tour. If the players loses, Putz will fall to the cliff, resulting in failure.

## Deaths

* original video, PAX Australia Post: Ran across the tracks between the platforms.
* IT Post: Hides in a drain, dressed up like *Peenywise* from Stephen King's *IT*. According to the post's description, he drowned.
* Swimming post: Tried to carry up his "pet" rock and drowned.
* 50000 Pledges Post: Crushed by a big 5

## Trivia

* Before he got sliced in half, his stance was like that of a gorilla.
* On the website, he got sliced in thirds instead of in half, just like Stumble and Phoney.
* He has the last line of the song.
* In the game, he is seen with one or more red balloons.
* He is one of the characters who have a darker spot above its eyes, Bonehead and Reite are the other characters.
* Putz plays Santa Claus in the Deck the Halls music video, songbook, and album cover.
* In *Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games*, he is the only character to have minigames that don't make any apparent death/injury to the character during the failure scenes, though being caught in a house fire is heavily implied in the Christmas minigame "Hold Still".
* He and Doomed are the only two purple characters in the video.
* Putz and Numskull are the beans that reach for item(s), being the balloon(s), and the space helmet, respectively.
* His name is one of the slangs of a stupid person.(Source)
* According to the concept art, he was originally yellow.
	+ In an early storyboard, he had a normal stance, was capsule-shaped, didn't have ingrown teeth nor a dark spot above his eyes, and didn't have a balloon that escaped his hand and caused him to go on the tracks.
* If you fail his Saint Patrick's Minigame, his skeleton is shown while being electrocuted by lightning.

## Gallery

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