Medusa's Lair

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Medusa's Lair Seasons Used 2 Layouts Used XI-XIII Episodes Seen 45-72 Objective Completion 11 Temple Guard Encounters 9 Artifacts Featured The Heart-Shaped Pillow of Annie Taylor The Ivory Elephant of Scheherazade The Leopard-Skin Cloak of Annie Oakley Half Pendants Featured The Missing Eye of David Predecessor The Heart Room Successor The Room of the Mandarin Hand Adjoining Rooms The King's Storeroom The Throne Room (Layout XI) The Laser Light Room (Layouts XII & XIII) The Observatory Medusa's Lair (sometimes called The Medusa's Lair) was a room in Olmec's Temple. Medusa's Lair replaced the Heart Room, and becomes the first central room to require an objective to be completed to move on in the temple. In Medusa's Lair, a contestant must put a certain number of snakes into the Medusa head mounted on the front pillar. The room kept the old background from the Heart Room and was essentially identical in appearance to its predecessor, except for the stone head and several snakes coiled around the stone railing. In the first eight episodes in Layout XI that featured Medusa's Lair, the contestants were required to put four snakes into holes in her "hair". However, starting from The Lucky Medallion of Atocha, the contestants only had to put two snakes into the Medusa head, as four snakes were too much for the contestants. The snakes also had to be put into Medusa's head properly in order for the doors to be unlocked. Each snake would rattle and hiss when placed in, and once all of them were in properly, Medusa would let out a loud shriek and her LED eyes would always light up red. Medusa's Lair had a fair share of debatable incidents, although it is not known if there were production errors or not. Typically, the head would let out a small scream once a snake was placed in, but in six episodes (The Lost Love Letter of Captain John Smith, The Electrified Key of Benjamin Franklin, The Missing Eye of David, The Plumed Headdress of Cosa-Rara, The Silk Sash of Múlàn, and The Golden Goblet of Attila the Hun), the sound effect did not play, possibly confusing the contestants. As a result, Tony from The Stone Head of the Evil King spent 1:08 inside the room, an all-time record for the longest amount time spent on completing one room's objective. Trivia This is the only room to be confirmed to feature a half pendant with no confirmed precise location. Whenever a contestant entered this room, a temple guard would normally appear. In The Lucky Medallion of Atocha, The Plumed Headdress of Cosa-Rara, and The Silk Sash of Múlàn, temple guards were absent. In all three episodes that featured an artifact in there, the Blue Barracudas were one of the teams that competed in the Temple Games.