# Discussion: How to compete in The Amazing Race **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 14, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-how-to-compete-in-the-amazing-race/384174 "2006-12-14T20:23:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-how-to-compete-in-the-amazing-race/384174/41 "2006-12-17T19:38:51Z")
Here’s the best phrase I can figure out from www.milon.co.il for “And give a delay to the other teams.” _U’natan 'ikuv l’q’vutzim acherim_ ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-how-to-compete-in-the-amazing-race/384174/42 "2006-12-18T12:30:58Z")
[QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben] **BilbioCat** : You went on the Sling Shot?! I’m impressed! [/quote] It was scary, but very fun. > [@](#): > > I’ve got the Traveler’s Prayer handy. It says plenty about “Give us a good trip.” I’d have to work up some text for “And please delay all the other teams.” Which translates loosely as, “Please smite the other teams.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-how-to-compete-in-the-amazing-race/384174/43 "2006-12-18T13:40:54Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] It was scary, but very fun. Which translates loosely as, “Please smite the other teams.” 😃 [/QUOTE] YAFI, YGI. Assuming I have the vowels right: _L’hakot q’vutzim aherim_. ---
**Author:** ![zut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zut/32/2875_2.png) [@zut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zut)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-how-to-compete-in-the-amazing-race/384174/44 "2006-12-18T17:41:09Z")
Oooooh, I just noticed this thread. I know you said you were gonna start it, **Scuba** , but there was this other thread on airplanes and treadmills I was involved in… Anyway, a couple comments: [QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben] Go fast! Decide and move out! Plan while on the move, if possible. [/quote] I wonder if teams might do better if they decided _before_ the Race what strategy they’d employ in certain situations. For example: how to decide which Detour choice is the best; or when taking risks to gain time is worth it, or under what circumstances to stop and ask directions. Thinking about some contingencies beforehand would reduce the stress during the Race, it seems. (We might see if this is true next season, when All-Stars are Racing). [QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben] Don’t help teams in return for their later help; they will only betray you in your time of need. [/quote] OK, I disagree with this, but hear me out: I don’t see any reason, in certain circumstances, _not_ to help other teams. For example, I’ve seen teams, at the beginning of an eight-hour airport wait, pointedly _not_ point newly-arrived teams to the correct ticket counter. Jeez, they’re gonna figure it out themselves in like ten minutes! If you help other teams, you’ll occasionally be paid back, so if it’s no effort, why not? I’d modify this rule to: Help other teams _if_ doing so doesn’t hurt you; if it _will_ hurt you, Hell no. That’s essentially combining folding in the spirit of this rule: [QUOTE=Scuba\_Ben] As circumstances permit, work together mid-leg for mutual immediate gain, to build goodwill for those long rest periods and long travel segments. [/quote] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-how-to-compete-in-the-amazing-race/384174.md?page=2)