A small fly single-handedly ruined a domino world record attempt.

A German domino entertainment group attempted to double their their own 2013 Guinness World Record and recruited 22 people to fit 4,000 mini dominoes with tweezers.

But a fly landed on the one of the tiny tiles and triggered a chain reaction before they had completed the set-up.

Sinners Domino Entertainment was trying to break their own Guinness World Record (Picture: Getty Images)

Patrick Sinner of Sinners Domino Entertainment told a local newspaper: ‘The fly triggered the chain reaction prematurely. There was no time to set up all the little tiles again.’

The tiles were no bigger than a fingernail and took two weeks to set up.

However, they have since managed to break the record for most mini dominoes toppled.

A fly landed on one of the tiles and triggered them to fall prematurely (Picture: Getty Images)

The record attempt was part of a large domino live event, which also included 6000,000 normal sized dominoes where 596,229 of them tumbled and broke the record for the most dominoes toppled in Germany.


They also managed to get three other Guinness World Record wins with the normal sized dominoes for longest domino wall, most dominoes toppled in a spiral and most dominoes toppled in a cube.

The attempt took place on the tenth Domino Day on 3 August in Nidda, near Frankfurt.

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