"How Six Made Their Way in the World" (German: Sechse kommen durch die ganze Welt, KHM 71) is a Grimms' fairy tale about an ex-soldier and his five companions with special abilities who through their feats obtain all of the king's wealth.

[9] The soldier and his servants go to town where the king has organized a footrace with his daughter: the reward for victory was her hand in marriage, and punishment for defeat was death.

The soldier is granted permission to have his servant substitute for him in the race, and the fast runner completely outdistances the daughter immediately.

He invites the six companions into an iron-floored room for a banquet, and orders a fire be stoked from underneath to roast them to death.

[citation needed] Rudolf Erich Raspe and Gottfried August Bürger interpolated an adaptation of the tale into his version of the Baron Munchausen stories.