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The Mine Shaft The Mine Shaft in Season 1 Seasons Used 1 & 2 Layouts Used I, II, X-XIV Episodes Seen 3-8, 41-80 Artifacts Featured Galileo's Cannonball The Dead Man's Hand of Wild Bill Hickok The Imperial Purple Robe of Empress Theodora The Lucky Medallion of Atocha The Plumed Headdress of Cosa-Rara The Golden Goblet of Attila the Hun Temple Guard Encounters The Golden Earring of Henry Morgan Objective Completion 7 (Ride Elevator) 7 (Climb Ladder) 4 (Plow Through the Stone Wall) Total: 18 Adjoining Rooms The Shrine of the Silver Monkey (Layouts I, II, All of Season 2) The Room of Three Torches (Layouts I-II) The Viper's Nest (Layouts X-XI) The Lightning Room (Layout XII) The Room of the Secret Password (Layouts XIII-XIV) The Tomb of the Ancient Kings (Layouts I, II) The Dark Forest (All of Season 2) First Successor The Dungeon Second Successor The Quicksand Bog Predecessor from Season 1 The Well The Mine Shaft was a room in Olmec's Temple. Located in the far bottom-corner of the Temple, the Mine Shaft is one of two rooms occupying that area to feature an elevator of some sort. The room is appropriately themed to an actual mine shaft. The room appeared in early Season 1 episodes with lead-gray paint on the back wall, then later made a return for the entire second season, this time with a wooden wallpaper design. In the Mine Shaft, players were given the option of riding the wooden elevator up into the room directly above, climbing a ladder to enter the Shrine of the Silver Monkey if the door was unlocked, or busting through a breakaway stone wall on the room's right. Players often entered from the right of the room from the Dark Forest in Season 2, so the elevator was often used as was the Shrine ladder. The Mine Shaft is also known for its ability to slow contestants down considerably. An entire journey on the elevator takes approximately ten-twelve seconds depending on how many jerks there are as the car rises. The elevator has also malfunctioned before, once stopping prematurely in The Imperial Purple Robe of Empress Theodora and stalling during the temple run of Galileo's Cannonball. The latter was later edited out of the run. Trivia This was the first room to ever feature an artifact. It is also the first room with an artifact of which the contestant was able to reach and bring out of the temple. In The Lost Lion Tail of Little John, Claude took the key from the Dark Forest and tried to insert it into the temple guard's peephole. The only episode where a temple guard was encountered in this room was The Golden Earring of Henry Morgan. Kirk Fogg has erroneously referred to this room as "The Well" in some Season 2 episodes.