I have to wonder if there was some unstated rule that they couldn’t stack up the rocks as they checked them, because that certainly would have made things a lot easier.
Or, weren’t they darker on the bottoms? Just flip 'em.
By the way, I hated that: flipping rocks takes no skill (if there’d been clues, that would’ve meant SOME thinking would be involved), and it took SO much time and meant hours between teams, so the dumb luck of picking the right rock basically decided that whole leg.
I think they were wet, so even if you flipped them they dried off.
I’ve got to think that after an hour or so of everyone being there and no one finding anything, I’d have suggested we all work together. As in, shove an ‘aisle’ into the rocks and then everyone works to look at the rocks to one side of the aisle and then move them toward but not occupying the aisle. Makes it easy to see which rocks have been looked at and insures that no rocks are accidentally skipped.
Sure, it’ll still be chance what order the players find a coin in, but I bet it would take seriously less than an hour to search every single one of the rocks that way.
Ugh, awful. It’s all I can do to watch them.
Am I wrong, or didn’t it used to be that teams that got a pass on a non-elimination episode, had to perform an extra task on the next leg?
Maybe they didn’t do it because Arun and Natalia can barely make to the carpet without that.
On Kim and Penn’s podcast they said that the clue said you had to put the rocks back where you found them so they were not allowed to stack them or push them aside.
I was waiting for someone to pull a Rob and Amber and quit the challenge and try to convince someone else to quit too.
With the staggered starts, the team after a non-elim leaves 15 minutes after everyone else, so it’s basically the same thing.
Thank you. I’d hate to think they were all that dumb.
Well, I’ll agree to disagree - 15 minutes isn’t really much of a penalty compared to making your way to another roadblock and then completing it.
The Speedbump has always been close to the route and only taken 10-15 minutes to complete.
Not doubting you but where did you get those times? I don’t remember them being disclosed.
Not specific times, but it’s pretty clear it doesn’t take long. There was one that was “Sit on a block of ice for 10 minutes.” One was “sit in this sauna for five minutes.” Considering they usually come after the teams get bunched up, I would say a 15 minute delay is about the same.
On their recap podcast, Kim once said, “There was a Speed Bump you didn’t see. They cut it.” That was several (many?) episodes ago, though.
IIRC that was in the Scotland episode before they had to stop for the pandemic. I think when they restarted with the staggered start times they did away with the speed bump because that team is already 15 mins behind the next group.
It was in the restart episode. The two teams that were brought back had a speed bump.
Two comments about the final leg. One, I can’t remember the last race where I didn’t care who won - I was pulling for all three teams. And second, those were not easy challenges. That was a seriously difficult final leg. I love when they have memory challenges about things they encountered throughout the race.
One question about the second-to-last leg. The girls left their map, and what appeared to be the clue, behind when they finished the door painting challenge. Didn’t there used to be a rule that when you got to the mat you had to have all of your clues from the leg?
Also, why were the guys the only team that had to paint their doorknob?
Fernaõ de Magelhaes is better known as Ferdinand Magellan, just so ya know. 
Ah, Claire. Glad to see you back. Even now I laugh at your misfortune.
For a minute I thought about a candy eating challenge at the piñata roadblock. But yes, a pretty good final leg.
The other teams did, but at most it was a line or something that passed through the doorknob. Theirs was the only one that has the doorknob in the middle of a big patch of color.