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 Crossing  Footboard moat One 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 Knowledge  Long 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 to Kirk that for her and Damian's strategy was to stick along the bottom floor to retrieve the map. And while their idea may have not fully gone as plan, they knew how to improvise a new one to get to the map on time. Damian went into the temple first, moving at a fast pace. Starting out by heading into The Cave of Sighs, he immediately encountered a temple guard and had to give up his pendant of life. After doing so, Damian swiftly made his way into The Pit of Despair, (or Jennifer's Pit as Kirk referred it as) and unlocked the door leading to The Throne Room. But unfortunately, as he sat down on the throne, the second temple guard popped out and took Damian out of the temple with 2:34 left on the clock. A mere twenty-five seconds of going into the Temple! Jennifer went next into the temple to retrace Damian's footsteps. Just like Damian, she also moved at a fast pace and had a good map of the temple in her head. After 13 seconds of running into the temple, Jennifer made it to The Throne Room where she sat down on the throne again, despite Damian doing so already. Trying to stick to the plan, Jennifer tried to open the door leading to The Spider's Lair, but the door did not open. Luckily, Jennifer did not hesitate and knew how to improvise a new path in a nick of time, because she then headed up into The Heart Room. Then after that, she headed into The Room of the Golden Idols but was caught by the third and final temple guard, causing her to scream in fright. After forking up her pendant of life, Jennifer quickly started to hug the idols (Being the only contestant to ever do so), but she instead changes her mind and unlocks the door leading to The Shrine of the Silver Monkey by pressing the actuator. In the Shrine, Jennifer grabbed both the base and the head at the same time and eventually the middle piece last. At first, she attempted to assemble the monkey backwards. But with a little help from Kirk, she was able to complete the statue and headed into The Room of Three Torches. At first, she attempted to use the torches to open up the door to The Mine Shaft, but Kirk suggested for her to ride the elevator down. To which Jennifer did, and after a slow ride down, she quickly busted through The Stone Wall, into The Tomb of the Ancient Kings and grabbed the map to the lost gold mine! 
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