Wild Bill Hickok and the Dead Man's Hand is the fourth episode of Legends of the Hidden Temple. It was the second episode to complete production and the thirty-sixth to air.
One partner from each team was kneeling on a raft while holding "an ancient staff of King Tut". When Kirk said go, each player would pull himself across the moat by hooking his staff on the knotted rope above him. Once across, he climbed off the raft and onto the deck; this was his partner's signal to pull the raft back to his side and cross exactly as his partner had. When the second teammate reached the other side, it was his job to jump off the raft - with his staff - and run over to hit the gong.
Moat Results
Finish
Team
Time
First
Silver Snakes
0:28
Second
Red Jaguars
0:31
Third
Green Monkeys
0:31
Fourth
Orange Iguanas
0:36
Steps of Knowledge
In the old West, gunfighters used to say speed is fine, but accuracy is final! And nobody knew this better than the Prince of the Pistoleers: Wild Bill Hickok. He was tall and handsome with long hair and a mustache, and was quite a ladies' man. By the time he became marshal of Abilene, Kansas, he was said to have killed more than 100 men. Wild Bill made everyone check their guns at the edge of town and asked lawbreakers to move along peaceably. But if they refused, he wasn't afraid of a shootout. After serving as marshal of Abilene, he joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. One day, playing poker in Deadwood, South Dakota, he was shot from behind by an angry gambler. His poker hand at the time was a full house- three aces and two eights. To this day, it's called the dead man's hand. Someone grabbed the cards off the table, and they found their way to the Temple.
Steps of Knowledge Results
Question
Answers
Team
Was Wild Bill Hickok the marshal of…?
Dodge City
Fort Worth
Abilene
Red Jaguars (Wrong Answer)
Silver Snakes (Correct - Two steps left)
Was Wild Bill also known as the…?
Prince of the Pistoleers
King of the Gunmen
Green Monkeys (Correct - Two steps left)
In which of these card games could you have a dead man's hand?
Solitaire
Poker
Orange Iguanas (Correct - Two steps left)
The dead man's hand is in which of these types of hands in poker?
Straight
Flush
Full House
Red Jaguars (Correct - Two steps left)
Is Abilene found in…?
Nevada
Kansas
Orange Iguanas (Correct - One step left)
Later in life, did Wild Bill work with…?
P.T. Barnum's Wild West Show
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Orange Iguanas (Correct - Advanced to the Temple Games)
Which of these was a famous frontiers woman who was buried next to Wild Bill Hickok?
Calamity Jane
Delta Dawn
Disastrous Denise
Red Jaguars (Wrong Answer)
Silver Snakes (Previously Guessed Wrong Answer)
Which of these outfits would Wild Bill have worn as a scout in his early days?
Buckskins
Doeskins
Buckboards
Green Monkeys (Correct - One step left)
Which of these men was a friend of Wild Bill and later fought a battle at Little Big Horn?
General Grant
General Custer
Colonel Sanders
Silver Snakes (Worst Answer)
Green Monkeys (Correct - Advanced to the Temple Games)
Temple Games
The Orange Iguanas are 12-year-old Joshua, who wants to be an astronaut, and 11-year-old Sarah, who collects postcards. The Green Monkeys are 12-year-old Amber, who loves to cook, particularly macaroni and cheese, and 13-year-old Ian, who has seven cats.
Dead Man's Hand (Bungee Soap Ramp)
When Wild Bill Hickok died, he was holding a poker hand called a full house- three aces and two eights. And that hand became known as the dead man's hand. At the top of the ramp were hidden three aces and two eights. When Kirk gave the signal, each player climbed up the ramp on his knees, grabbed a card, and then slid back down and dropped it in his bucket. Then he climbed back up again, grabbed another card. They had one minute. The first player to get all of his cards or the player with the most cards won. Ian cheated a little seeming confused by the instructions, unknowingly starts climbing up on his feet instead of his knees, however he dose quickly get on his knees as Kirk urges him to do so. Ian was in the lead for most of the game but almost lost it when the soap on the ramp finally begins to to take its toll at 27 seconds, when Joshua almost pulled ahead before slipping back down. Joshua was able to just put his 3rd card in his bucket before time ran out to tie the game, Ian and Joshua each got three cards in their respective bucket, but Kirk miscounted the score as both having two each due to there being that many cards remaining atop the ramp. Note: Ian had actually gotten a 4th card but, this did not count as he did not grab it and or get it in the bucket in time. (You can see the spotter at the top of the ramp shake his head as Kirk is about to give revised but still incorrect score.)
Bullet through a Button Hole (Water Chute)
Wild Bill Hickok was a crack shot. They say he could put a bullet through a buttonhole at 50 feet. They made it a little simpler for the players. All they had to do was to get a ball (attached to a helmet) into the bullseye (from the other side). There was a complication, though. They had to slide down the tubes and throw them through the hole. If they missed, they had to go back for another. The player with the most bullseye in one minute won. Amber and Sarah each scored three bullseyes, but Kirk miscounted this game as well: he claimed that both girls scored four bullseyes.
High Noon Shootout (Velcro Ball Toss)
Being a lawman in the old West meant being challenged to a shootout at high noon, and they had a shootout there. But in that duel, the teams want to get hit. One player from each team was in place on the top of each platform. When Kirk gave the signal, their partners tossed a ball and the players caught them on their shirt. Then they grabbed another ball and tried to hit their partners again. The team with the most balls attached to their players shirts in one minute won. The Orange Iguanas won the game after landing eight balls over the Green Monkeys, who only landed five. Amusingly, Sarah accidentally hit Joshua in an inappropriate area with a ball, spurring "insightful" commentary from Kirk.
Temple Games Results
Team
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Pendants Won
Green Monkeys
Tied
Tied
Lost
1 Pendant
Orange Iguanas
Tied
Tied
Won
2 Pendants
Temple Run
Joshua went into the temple first, moving at a moderately fast pace. Starting out at The Cave of Sighs, he immediately encounters the first Temple Guard, causing him to collapse onto the floor out of shock. After giving up his Pendant of Life, Joshua continues to crawl through The Cave of Sighs and uses the lower crawl tube to enter The Pit of Despair and then continued down the bottom floor and into The Throne Room. Joshua then proceeded to sit on the throne, and while both the door to The Swamp and The Heart Room opened, the door to the Swamp did not open all the way. This ultimately led Joshua to assume that the room was locked and therefore, he climbed up into The Heart Room and attempted to unlock the door into The Room of the Golden Idols. But just as he was trying to do so, Joshua was caught by the second temple guard and was removed from the temple with 2:14 remaining.
And with that, it was Sarah's turn to try to retrieve The Dead Man's Hand. Moving also at a moderately fast pace, she continued through Joshua's footsteps and managed to make it to The Heart Room with 1:46 left on the clock. But upon trying to open the door to The Room of the Golden Idols, the door did not open, which led Sarah to get a bit confused on where to go. Unfortunately, Sarah decided to momentarily backtrack into The Pit of Despair. But upon realizing her mistake, she quickly changed her path and instead climbed up the ladder and unlocked the door to The Observatory. But even after turning the sundial within The Observatory, the door to The Room of the Golden Idols did not open. Thus, making the room a dead end. Still confused on where to go, Sarah almost backtracked again into The Pit of Despair and tried to turn the sundial multiple times to unlock the door to The Room of the Golden Idols, to no avail. Thinking on her feet, Sarah quickly makes her way back down to The Throne Room, and while she tried one more time to open up the door within The Heart Room, it still didn't open and, therefore continued down. Even more confused, Sarah tried to sit on the throne again but nothing else opened up, so she retreated back to The Pit of Despair and tried to open the door leading to The Observatory to no avail. Proceeding to complete the loop from there to The Heart Room down to The Throne Room, the door leading to The Swamp finally opened properly after she stepped on the Throne. Upon entering The Swamp, Sarah met the third and final Temple Guard, and after giving up her Pendant of Life, she attempted to open both of the doors leading to The Tomb of the Ancient Kings but both were locked. Because of this, Sarah was forced to climb upwards to The Room of the Golden Idols. But by then, it was too late, and time expires shortly thereafter.
