What is the greatest Harry Houdini escape act?

Water tanks, milk cans, rivers and six feet of earth: every stunt here could have killed him. Choose the escape that deserves to outlive the legend.

1. 1
   Handcuffed Bridge Jump

   Leapt shackled from bridges into rivers and surfaced free before stunned crowds.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Murderers' Row Jail Escape

   Broke out of Washington's high-security jail block in 1906 and swapped prisoners between cells.
   814pts
3. 3
   Milk Can Escape

   Escaped from a sealed milk can filled with water, billed in 1908 as 'failure means a drowning death'.
   666pts
4. 4
   Mirror Handcuff Challenge

   Beat a supposedly unpickable set of handcuffs made for the Daily Mirror in London in 1904.
   0pts
5. 5
   Chinese Water Torture Cell

   Hung upside down in a locked tank of water, introduced in 1912 and his signature act.
   0pts
6. 6
   Buried Alive

   Clawed his way out from under six feet of earth, a stunt that nearly killed him in 1915.
   0pts

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