The Shriveled Hand of Efoua is the 65th episode of Legends of the Hidden Temple. It was the 42nd episode to air. Moat CrossingIn this moat crossing, teammates cross the water simultaneously by swinging on multiple "ancient Babylonian wheels."
Steps of KnowledgeOne of the most famous African explorers was a woman named Mary Kingsley. In the 1890s, she traveled over most of northern Africa.  One day, her African guide said: "It's best to arrive in Efoua by daylight, because sometimes they have you to dinner...and sometimes, they have you for dinner." Mary Kingsley glanced anxiously at the fading daylight. "I do hope they've already eaten," she said. The town was just a bunch of thatched huts, but a huge crowd turned out to see the white woman. The chief welcomed her, and put her up for the night. In the morning, they gave her a gift for her journey: the dried hands and feet of a previous house guest. Legend has it that as soon as they got on the trail, the horrified Mary threw away the sack with the shriveled parts…but a chimpanzee retrieved them.
Temple GamesThe Blue Barracudas are Eric and Casey. The Orange Iguanas are Bobby and Jenelle. Pith Helmets (Bungee Ceiling)[]The first Temple Game had a good deal of a backstory to it: Mary Kingsley apparently fell into a pit used by the villagers of Efoua to trap animals; she was not harmed by the spikes at the bottom thanks to her several layers of clothing, but had to climb back out of the pit on a rope. The game itself required players to climb up out of an imaginary pit using a rope in each hand; they would need to leave a pith helmet on the actual ceiling to show that they had been there. Kirk stated early in the game that Eric and Bobby looked evenly matched, and his prediction was proven true at the end— both players failed to stick their second pith helmets on the ceiling in the last seconds of the game, so with both boys having one helmet on the sealing, both teams earned a half pendant to start things off. Trinkets for Masks (Zip-line)[]The second game pitted the girls against each other in a race to collect as many African masks, which explorers often saw as valuable artwork. However, they needed to go across a "pit" on a zip-line and trade Western-world trinkets for the masks they had to bring back with them. Both players did a great job getting across— neither Casey nor Jenelle ever fell into the pit. In fact, both players moved like clockwork, without any problems at all, and both ended up collecting three masks. So Casey and Jenelle each won a half pendant for their respective teams, and the score was now a tie at one full pendant per team. African Safari (Slingshot Wall)[]The third game involved the teams basically marking off four places in Africa that Mary Kingsley visited: Rambo River, Congo Kingsley, Freetown and finally Mount Cameroon— one player would climb the wall and wait for the other to launch a ball which could be stuck on the board. The Orange Iguanas covered Mount Cameroon with twenty-three seconds to spare, whereas the Blue Barracudas only managed to get through Congo Kingsley in that time, so the Orange Iguanas won the full pendant, sending them to the temple with two full pendants.
Temple RunJanelle went into the temple first, moving at a great pace. She started off by heading up into The Crypt, where she got lucky as the first book she pulled from the skeleton, just so happened to be the one that allow her to pass through The Troubled Bridge. Rushing across the bridge, Janelle uses an interesting way to open the door to The Observatory, that is by kicking the actuator with her foot to open the door. Now up in The Observatory, Janelle gets to work on aligning the stone column. But while she was still in the middle of doing so, the first temple guard charges at her and captures her, leading her to scream in fright. After giving up her pendant, Janelle (still frazzled by what just happened), presumed that the door to The King's Storeroom was opened as she headed to the slab to go down to the room. (Not realizing that she still had to align the stone column.) But after seeing it wasn't, Janelle went back to finish aligning the stone column. While it didn't take her that long to complete the objective, the "reward" for aligning the column was not the entry to The King's Storeroom, but rather Medusa's Lair. But just as Janelle was grabbing the snakes to put into Medusa's head, the second temple guard charges at her and grabs her, leading Janelle to scream again. And thus, removing her from the temple with 2:04 left. Now it was Bobby's turn to try his luck. Moving at a similar pace as Janelle, Bobby followed the same path as his partner and arrived in Medusa's Lair with 1:38 left on the clock. In there, Bobby was able to put the snakes in Medusa's hair with no problem, and after doing so, he then heads into The King's Storeroom next. In there, Bobby proceeds to punch all the pots real hard, and found the key within the third pot that he smashes. After putting it within the middle pedestal, Bobby was able to head into The Shrine of the Silver Monkey next. In the shrine, he was able to assemble the statue at a good pace. (Not too fast, and not too slow, but just a regular pace). And after completing the statue, Bobby discovers that no other door, other than the door that will take him to The Lightning Room had opened up. Rushing in there, Bobby quickly gets into the elevator and makes his way down the slow elevator and into The Mine Shaft. But once he arrived, Bobby made a very questionable decision by deciding to climb up the ladder and tried to re-enter The Shrine of the Silver Monkey! But once he realized his mistake, time ran out as Bobby took a hard landing while sliding back down to The Mine Shaft. While both players did a good job throughout their time within the temple. But having been forced to enter a lot of rooms with no short cuts at all definitely proved to be a driving factor to the team's lost. And even if Bobby did not make the mistake on climbing up the ladder in The Mine Shaft, they still wouldn't have made it out with the hand on time. But a small possibility of him nearly grabbing the hand on time would have been possible. And even if they didn't win, Janelle and Bobby were still happy with the fact that they got to have a chance in Olmec's Temple.
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