Current Events > Out of 120 episodes, only 32 teams won Legends of the Hidden Temple.

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Damn that show was hard.

It was the silver monke

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Love the crap put of that show. Was thinking of watching it. I would dream about being in the temple. I would draw, very badly, my own temple version and come up with traps. Man what a time to be alive.

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yutterh posted...

Love the crap put of that show. Was thinking of watching it. I would dream about being in the temple. I would draw, very badly, my own temple version and come up with traps. Man what a time to be alive.

All episodes on Paramount+.

The X Dawg posted...

Damn that show was hard.

In the entire history of the show only 3 people have won $1,000,000 on wheel of fortune.

To win this, here's what you have to do:

1. Spin, land on the million, and guess a consonant (easy)
2. Win that round (harder, but okay)
3. You can't get bankrupt any time after getting the million even in another round (hard)
4. Win the whole game (really hard)
5. Win the bonus round (also really hard)
6. Get lucky enough after winning that the random bonus prize chosen is the one million dollars.

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When I was watching as it aired, I never understood why the kids didn't just team up and beat the temple guards senseless and throw them out of the temple or hit them enough to distract them and run past. When I was a bit older, I realized the show had rules and such things would be assault and then it made more sense...

<_<

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If memory serves, werent there 3 temple guards in like 15 rooms and the max number of amulets you could get was 2 or 2.5 or something? I remember some kids getting like half an amulet overall and it was like Oh, they are fucked.

Tyranthraxus posted...

In the entire history of the show only 3 people have won $1,000,000 on wheel of fortune.

To win this, here's what you have to do:

1. Spin, land on the million, and guess a consonant (easy)
2. Win that round (harder, but okay)
3. You can't get bankrupt any time after getting the million even in another round (hard)
4. Win the whole game (really hard)
5. Win the bonus round (also really hard)
6. Get lucky enough after winning that the random bonus prize chosen is the one million dollars.

That's not a good comparison. You can still win Wheel of Fortune without winning $1million.

Kami_no_Kami posted...

If memory serves, werent there 3 temple guards in like 15 rooms and the max number of amulets you could get was 2 or 2.5 or something? I remember some kids getting like half an amulet overall and it was like Oh, they are fucked.

2 amulets. Player one gets caught. Gives up their amulet but continues on. Gets caught again and Player two goes in. Player 2 gets caught and gives up amulet (if they have one, if not then game over). Player 2 continues on.

The X Dawg posted...

That's not a good comparison. You can still win Wheel of Fortune without winning $1million.

Yeah. I guess the next closest thing is ninja warrior but that takes like several days to complete

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Green Monkeys and Silver Snakes won 8 times each

Blue Barracudas won 5

Orange Iguanas and Red Jaguars won 4 times.

Purple Parrots were the least successful with 3.

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That monkey puzzle killed so many runs from what I remember.

Watch the reality be that most people finished it with ease

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There was a Comic Con panel and event 5 years for it, and both the host and the voice of Olmec said the monkey really was overly complicated. They even had a recreation booth set up, and it took most adults a longer than it should have to get it together too.

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The X Dawg posted...

2 amulets. Player one gets caught. Gives up their amulet but continues on. Gets caught again and Player two goes in. Player 2 gets caught and gives up amulet (if they have one, if not then game over). Player 2 continues on.

And the preceding games made it possible to only have one and a half amulets

Ruvan22 posted...

And the preceding games made it possible to only have one and a half amulets

You had to find the 4th half in the temple IIRC

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Te old joke was you could tell the odds of success depending on the grand prize. Trip to Florida? They have a shot. Trip to the Bahamas? That damned thing is going to be in the room on the far end bottom level but you're going to have to go through the entire top including definitely the monkey room and cross a bunch of guards.

Like there are definitely some runs that were doomed before they began depending on the previous rounds (including one that was actually unwinnable). There was one I remember where the 2nd guard (both unavoidable) kicking the kid out was the room before the artifact, so the other kid had to retrace the entire path. What was worse was that team had a great run, meaning if they couldn't do it... odds are no one could.

Throw in the difficulties of the temple and yeah, that's not surprising.
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Turbam posted...

It was the silver monke

no it was the kids' idiocy that they couldn't put it together

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I also feel like that tree room always had a guard in it

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Didn't Carmen Sandiego have a ludicrously low win rate, and the only thing you won was a plane ticket to any continental state?

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Hayame Zero posted...

There was a Comic Con panel and event 5 years for it, and both the host and the voice of Olmec said the monkey really was overly complicated. They even had a recreation booth set up, and it took most adults a longer than it should have to get it together too.

Yeah, they actually didnt have a ton of money to pay out prizes, so sometimes it was rigged to be unbeatable, or close enough.
Which sucks if your team gets the short stick, of course

What was the win rate for Nick Arcade's bonus round? I imagine it has to be lower than that, most of the teams there seemed to have absolutely no idea what the hell to do besides flail around wildly and hope for the best.

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Turbam posted...

It was the silver monke

It wasn't hard. People were just f'n stupid, lol

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WilliamPorygon posted...

What was the win rate for Nick Arcade's bonus round? I imagine it has to be lower than that, most of the teams there seemed to have absolutely no idea what the hell to do besides flail around wildly and hope for the best.

I don't think I ever saw even ONE person win that, as opposed to LotHT

What about Knightmare or Takeshi's Castle?

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That silver monkey puzzle was a load of bs.

i loved nick arcade but some of em sucked at the video game challenge.
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DarkRoast posted...

Didn't Carmen Sandiego have a ludicrously low win rate, and the only thing you won was a plane ticket to any continental state?

Wasn't the final thing just locating countries on a map basically? (I really shouldn't have to ask. I watched that show constantly as kid. I should remember better >_<)
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leverageblargh posted...

It wasn't hard, it was fake like all game shows.

It's illegal to fake a game show that offers cash money.

Anyways, I wanted to post this video from the show, but I can't find it anymore. The first kid that went into the Temple was slow AF and really screwed his teammate over, but then the second kid goes and just goes beast mode and destroys the entire thing, and wins it for both of them

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Ah no one has posted it yet.

An interview with a woman who was on the show in 1993.

Granted it's a Cracked article, so take that with a grain of salt.

https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2578-what-it-was-like-to-compete-legends-hidden-temple.html

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Turbam posted...

It was the silver monke

After watching a bunch of the re-runs this really didn't give many teams any issues. I feel like people just spew this because 4-5 teams did such a terrible job putting it together.

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SK8T3R215 posted...

After watching a bunch of the re-runs this really didn't give many teams any issues. I feel like people just spew this because 4-5 teams did such a terrible job putting it together.

I think it was more than that, but yeah,

Bad_Mojo posted...

It wasn't hard. People were just f'n stupid, lol

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SK8T3R215 posted...

After watching a bunch of the re-runs this really didn't give many teams any issues. I feel like people just spew this because 4-5 teams did such a terrible job putting it together.

Yeah, it's important to remember assembling that thing's probably a lot harder when there's a cheering crowd and tons more people who will see you on TV and you've just run through that temple and maybe got grabbed by some random dude who popped out of nowhere and have tons of adrenaline pumping through your 8 year old body. Inevitably some teams beefed relatively easy set-ups, whereas some were goddamned terminators.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Yeah, it's important to remember assembling that thing's probably a lot harder when there's a cheering crowd and tons more people who will see you on TV and you've just run through that temple and maybe got grabbed by some random dude who popped out of nowhere and have tons of adrenaline pumping through your 8 year old body. Inevitably some teams beefed relatively easy set-ups, whereas some were goddamned terminators.

not buying it. it's literally like a toy for a toddler

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I always rooted for the blue barracudas and I swear they never won.

I'd also like to note that all of rocked some serious 90s mullets/hair.