The Stone Marker of Leif Erikson is the 25th episode of Legends of the Hidden Temple. It was the ninth episode to air. Moat CrossingOne player of each team paddled across the moat on a raft. Once across, he would tie the rope (which was connected to the raft) off to a post; the second player would then use that rope and the higher, knotted rope to traverse the moat. Once both players were across, they could hit the gong.
Steps of Knowledge  Five hundred years before Columbus, a fierce Viking explorer and his tiny longship battled a ferocious storm in the Atlantic Ocean. His name was Leif Erikson. Waves tossed the longboat violently, but the crew held on bravely to their oars, rowing wherever their paddles touched the water. Leif knew that his father, Erik the Red, would be worried. They had started out from Iceland weeks ago, but this storm had been pushing them for days, and now Leif had no idea where they were. Just then, lightning lit up the sky, and Leif pointed to the west. "Land! Land!" he yelled. By morning, the storm had played itself out, and they drifted with the current along the white, sandy beaches and forests of tall trees. Leif named it "Forestland". Today, it is known as "America". He and his men left a carved stone marker near their settlement so they could return with other Vikings, but they never did. The Stone Marker eventually came to rest in the Temple.
Temple GamesThe Blue Barracudas are 12-year-olds Eric and Kelly Andersen. Eric plays soccer while Kelly loves to smile, but sometimes gets a sore cheek from it. The Red Jaguars are 12-year-old Keeli Pointer, who loves computers, and 11-year-old Christopher Santora, who does karate. Draggin' the Dragon (Climbing Wall)[]In Leif Erikson's time, viking ships were decorated with large dragons or a fierce animal on their bow. Keeli and Kelly's job was to take down the dragon decorations on their bow. When Kirk said go, one player had to climb up and pull each piece off the dragon. The first person to do so, or the player furthest along in 60 seconds won. Kelly traversed the wall faster than Keeli; she completed it in 47 seconds, earning the the Blue Barracudas half Pendant of Life. Building Stone Homes (Peanut Shaft)[]The vikings built their homes out of stone. Eric and Christopher's job was to build stone homes of their own. Each player was in a quarry with rocks. When Kirk gave the signal, each player had to grab a stone, climb out of the quarry, and place the rock on the top of the ledge. Then, they had to repeat the process until 60 seconds is up or one player had their stone home built with all six stones. Christopher managed to get four items to the top of the shaft, while Eric only managed two giving the Red Jaguars the half Pendant of Life. From Iceland to Greenland (Bungee Soap Line)[]The vikings traveled quite a distance from Iceland to settling Greenland. Those vikings do not have to go nearly that far. When Kirk gave the signal, one player from each team had to grab one of the viking settlers, stick it to his helmet, then pull himself toward his partner in the center. There, they will pass the settler from his helmet to his partner, where she will bring the settler to Greenland. They had to then repeat the process until more of one team's settlers are in Greenland before 60 seconds is up. The Red Jaguars won game and the full pendant after transferring five items while the Blue Barracudas only transferred four items, sending them to Olmec's Temple with 1½ Pendants.
Temple Run  Keeli is terrified by temple guard in the Bamboo Forest. Keeli went into the temple first, moving at a decent pace. She started by heading into The Room of the Three Gargoyles, but she only pressed two of the three tongues. This caused her to go into The Cave of Sighs and it will unfortunately prove problematic later in the run. After heading down, Keeli opens up the upper crawl tube and heads into The Wheel Room. After quickly turning the wheel, she heads into The Room of Harmonic Convergence, where she was able to unlock the door to both The Heart Room and The Bamboo Forest after the third combination. Unfortunately, Keeli attempted to take a direct path to the Stone Marker and headed into The Bamboo Forest. Carefully maneuvering through the bamboo, but also nervous as she was afraid of encountering a temple guard, (As revealed in an interview with Keeli), Keeli ends up encountering the first temple guard within the forest, which causes her to scream in horror. After giving up her pendant, Keeli quickly makes her way to the other side and tries to unlock both of the doors leading to The Tomb of the Ancient Kings, but none of the doors works thus making the room a total dead end. With no other choice, Keeli decides to head back, and at first it seemed that she was going to head up into The Treasure Room, but she changes her mind and heads back into The Room of Harmonic Convergence. (Though it took a few tricky maneuvers around the bamboo to get there). Climbing up into The Heart Room, Keeli tried to see if she could head into The Treasure Room from there, but the door didn't open, so she had to head up into The Observatory. But just as she spun the sundial, the second temple guard jumped out and capture her, causing her to scream loudly, and was therefore taken out of the temple with 34 seconds left on the clock. Now it was Chris' turn to try his luck. While he moved at a slightly faster pace than Keeli, he decide to follow the same direct path as Keeli had gone through. When he eventually entered The Wheel Room, he dropped his half pendant (which he did obtained) and even tried to turn the wheel despite the door already being open. Needless to say, there was no-where near enough time for Chris to do much in the temple and time ran out when he was entering the Bamboo Forest.
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