John Sutter and the Map to the Lost Gold Mine is the eighth episode of Legends of the Hidden Temple. It was the sixth episode to complete production and the twentieth to air. Moat CrossingOne partner from each team had an "Aztec footboard". When Kirk said go, the first partner of each team paddled across the moat. Once across, they climbed out onto the other side. That was the signal for the second partner to pull the footboard back to the other side, jump on, grab the rope, swing the footboard into the water, and pull themselves across the Moat. When the second teammate reached the other side, it was his job to hit the gong.
Steps of KnowledgeLong ago, on a river in Northern California, the owner of a mill saw something shiny in the water, and when he picked it up, saw that it was pure gold. That lucky man was John Sutter. Within nine months, over ten thousand other prospectors came to California from all over the world to pan for gold. Some went around South America in creaky old ships. Their food was filled with bugs, and their ships were often wrecked in terrible storms. Others took a shorter route through Panama, battling their way overland through swamps and jungle, and over the mountains to Panama City where they hopped a ship to California. Some went by wagon train through Indian territory and Death Valley. By 1850, most of the gold was gone. Unfortunately, John Sutter, the man who started it all, died penniless because he'd lost the secret map to his mine.
Temple GamesThe Blue Barracudas are thirteen-year-olds Jennifer and Damian. The Silver Snakes are twelve-year-old Brooke and eleven-year-old Perry. Pan for Gold (Dragon Tunnel)In gold rush days, when people went mining, they used pickaxes, shovels, and ropes. And in that game, the teams mined with just their arms and legs. When Kirk gave the signal, they plowed through their tunnels and made their ways to the end. Then they gathered as many as the gold rocks as they can in their arms and then pushed them back through their sides. Then they tossed them in their buckets and gone back for more. The team with the most gold rocks in their bucket at the end of one minute won. Damian and Brooke each collected four rocks; this resulted in a tie. However, while Kirk stated that both player gotten four rocks in the bucket, Brooke had actually gotten five rocks in her bucket. Gold Mine (Peanut Shaft)They had gold mines with sacks of gold in the bottom. All the players had to do was to grab sacks of gold, carry them back up to the top of their shaft, and then dropped them in the bins. Then they climbed back down, grabbed another. The first team to get the most sacks of gold out of the shaft in one minute won. Jennifer and Perry tied in this game, with two sacks apiece. Prospecting Sluices (Water Chute)During the gold rush, miners built sluices to make prospecting easier. They were long slides with water running down them, and miners would dump dirt on the slide. The water would carry off the dirt and leave the gold at the bottom like that. In that game, the players slid down the sluices on their bellies, and then they grabbed one of the pieces of gold and made their way down to the end of that sluices and dropped them into the bucket. Then it's their partner's turn. They alternated like that for one minute. Whichever team had the most gold in its bucket won. The Blue Barracudas won the game and the full pendant after getting sixteen pieces of Gold in the bucket while the Silver Snakes only gotten fourteen.
Temple RunBefore the Temple Run, Jennifer explained the team's strategy as sticking to the bottom floor to retrieve the map— Damian executed this perfectly, even though he was caught by two Temple Guards in the Cave of Sighs and the Throne Room within a mere twenty-five seconds of going into the Temple. However, Jennifer was forced to regroup when the Throne Room/Spider's Lair door was locked, ascending to the Heart Room and continuing to the Room of the Golden Idols; right after encountering the last Temple Guard, she hugged an idol but did not push it down all the way, and decided to continue around the horn to reach the Tomb of the Ancient Kings. With 53 seconds remaining, she got the map and escaped thirty-six seconds later, despite tripping on some cables by the Temple Gates!
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