They wouldn’t know from the beginning that it would be better to ignore the sign, but in the end, that would be the better play (assuming the cabs are available, which I have a feeling might not be the case). If they got to the Pit Stop and the host said “Did you give them all the money in your possession? No? Then you must go back and give them all your money”, the team would then have enough information to go with my idea.
Except if they were expected to give up all the cash they had at the time the went to the table first. If they used some of the cash taking cabs, they would’ve been short.
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There’s nothing to indicate that. By that reasoning, if someone who didn’t see the sign stopped and grabbed a Gatorade on the way to the Pit Stop, their race would be over since they wouldn’t be able to hand over as much cash to the orphanage as they had the first time they were there.
I know that if I were in the situation where I was told to go somewhere and give someone all the cash I had on me, my first thought would be “is there any place between here and there where I can spend some money to gain an advantage yet still be able to adhere to the letter of the rules?” (and yes, I know, I’m a very, very bad person for trying to gain a slight advantage by taking money away from orphans – s’ok, I’ll go back and give them twice as much after I win the million bucks).
The smartest play is to read the sign at your first visit, walk over to your cab and give most or all of your money to the cabbie explaining you want to pre-pay and that you expect the extra overpayment returned at the end of the trip, minus a healthy tip.
Then, walk back to the table and donate the Detour earnings plus some loose change in your pockets. Now, you have zero money in possession and it was all given to the orphanage.
Walk to the cab and zip past the other racers to the Pit Stop and collect some extra cash for the next leg.
Nah, that wouldn’t work. Phil asked one of the couples (the Survivors, I think), “Do you have any money in your possession now?” When the guy said he did, Phil told them to go back and give it to the orphans.
Prepaying the cab might work, but the bit where the taxi driver gives you back money afterwards certainly wouldn’t.
TAR accepts gaming the rules to a degree (Rob/Amber on the Meatblock) but draws a firm line on rules lawyering–team heave* being the best example and I think the midget stuntmen got smacked for rules lawyering too (something like "The clue doesn’t actually say we can’t hide the stuff from the other teams)
*Two really dumb lawyers who interpreted “You must walk to the next pit-stop” as “You can take a cab to someplace close to the next pit stop and then walk. After all, it doesn’t say where we have to walk from, right?” Then they blamed the cameramen for lying to them. :rolleyes:
Count me in as liking the sign. For a good few seasons there, the race clues were all “go here, do this, go there” - all very explicitly spelled out. I like clues that make the racers think, and be observant.