Moat CrossingIn this moat crossing, teammates cross the water simultaneously by swinging on multiple "ancient Babylonian wheels."
Steps of KnowledgeOne of the most powerful and feared women of the 1500's was Roxelana, Sultaness of the Ottoman Empire. She was a harem girl who became so powerful, she began a line of women rulers that lasted 100 years. Legend has it that one day, she came into the Throne Room. "Suleiman..." Roxelana said, "I have a little favor to ask you." "Anything, my petal." "Marry me." "Marry you?!" gasped the Sultan. "No Sultan has married in 200 years." "Please..." said Roxelana, twiddling with his ear. "Sire..." said the Grand Vizier, "This woman has bewitched you. She wants the power of your throne. First, she wanted to eavesdrop on all your conversations." "And a good thing, too. I heard him plotting to overthrow you." Suleiman's face darkened. "Take him away!" he shouted to his guards. The Sultan married Roxelana and gave her his sacred ring, which made her the most powerful woman in the empire.
Temple GamesThe Purple Parrots are Gracelynn and Brian. The Blue Barracudas are Vanessa and Chris. Royal Ring Giveaway (Pole)[]Roxelana wanted to marry the Sultan, but it was not easy to get the Sultan to give away his royal ring. Before each player stood the royal ring finger of Sultan Suleiman, which had a ring at the base. When Kirk gave the signal, Chris and Brian each had to grab the ring, push it up and off the finger while turning it along the way as they go up. The player to completely push the ring off the finger and put it on his head or the player furthest along in 60 seconds won. Chris placed the ring on his head with thirty-two seconds of spare time, awarding him a half pendant of life. Topkapı Palace (Plugging Holes)[]The palace that Roxelana and Suleiman lived in was called "Topkapı Palace", and in it were a number of rooms. Here, Gracelynn and Vanessa had to follow Roxelana's path through the rooms of the Topkapı Palace. Before each player were nine fountains, each of which is named after a room in the palace. In a moment, the water will squirt in a special sequence, which the girls had to remember. What they had to do was place a marker in the first hole in that sequence. If either player is right, nothing would happen. Otherwise, she would be squirted. The player to plug the most holes won. The sequence, incidentally, was: Dining Room (hole 8), Second Court (6), Divan (7), Throne Room (5), Golden Way (3), Carriage Gate (1), Eye of the Sultan (9), Grand Salon (2), Treasury (4). Gracelynn won the game and the half pendant after correctly plugging seven fountains in the sequence while Vanessa only gotten five. Ring Bearing (Giant Steps)[] For most people, and especially for a Sultan, marriage is a very big step, like the one the teams had to take here. In the first temple game, the boys had to take the ring off the Sultan's finger, but now, all four players had to put it on Roxellana's finger at the top of the giant steps. When Kirk gave the signal, one member from each team had to boost the other up to the top of the first giant step. Once there, he/she had to turn and pull his/her partner up then start again. Once both players on either team were at the top step, they had to slip the ring onto one of Roxellana's fingers. The team to make it to the top step and slip the ring onto Roxellana's finger won. Gracelynn placed the ring on Roxellana's finger, sending her and Brian to Olmec's Temple with 1½ pendants of life.
Temple RunBrian volunteered to go first and moves through the temple at a fast pace. Choosing The Crypt as his starting point, he opened the door to The Ledges after pulling the book from the first skeleton. Figuring that this is where he needed to go, Brian did not think to try the other two books and instead descended into The Ledges. But upon jumping down to the bottom level to try and open the lower crawl tube, the first temple guard grabbed and pulled Brian down with him to the lowest level. After giving up his pendant, Brian discovers that The Ledges was nothing more than a dead end. (As the upper crawl door also did not open to The Rock Quarry). Which meant that he had it right all along by starting in The Crypt and wasted his pendant for nothing. Now back up in The Crypt, Brian pulls on the other two books and was able to unlock the door to The Troubled Bridge. Quickly sprinting across the bridge, Brian opens up the door to The Observatory and enters there with a little more than two minutes remaining. Waving away the smoke, Brian starts his work on aligning the stone column. But as he was trying to still align the top three segments of the column, the second Temple Guard jumps out and captures him (Strangely sounding like a horse while grabbing him, but really a stock effect of a woman screaming played to act like Brian or the temple guard screamed) and takes Brian out of the temple with 1:53 left on the clock. Now it was Gracelynn's turn to try her luck. Despite moving at a similar pace as Brian, she was unfortunately quite hesitant during the beginning of her run. And while she may have picked up the pace while crossing The Troubled Bridge, she ended up missing the other half of her pendant which was hanging on the actuator for the door leading into The Observatory. Now arriving at The Observatory, Gracelynn got to work with finishing off from what her partner had already started with. Luckily, she aligned the segments of the stone column very quickly and was able to unlock both of the doors leading towards The King's Storeroom and Medusa's Lair. Gracelynn wisely decided to take the former option and heads down into The King's Storeroom, but she got a bit confused on what to at first and presumed she had to press the actuators to move on. But eventually, she started smashing the pots and found the key within the first pot she smashes. Gracelynn was then able to complete the objective there with less than a minute left and can now move forward. Now, due to the camerawork, it is also impossible to tell whether the door leading to The Shrine of the Silver Monkey or the The Swamp had opened or not. Both of them may have not, making The King's Storeroom a possible dead end. This is evident as Gracelynn constantly kept looking around for an opened door until she found out the door to Medusa's Lair was opened and proceeds to head back! Unfortunately, this was a massive critical mistake, because as soon as Gracelynn arrived in the room, the third and final temple guard captures her there, leading her to scream, and then take her out of the temple with just forty-five seconds remaining. Thus, leading to The Purple Parrots' first and only triple seizure.   The Temple design in this episode was very unusual since it gave more choices than most designs do. While both team members moved at a relatively good pace, they made many critical mistakes throughout their time in the temple and made many wrong turns or hesitated while moving in-between rooms. But judging by their forced path, it goes to show that the temple is a different animal each time, and regardless of their choices, they will still have to go through a very unique and crazy path, just to get to the ring on time.
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