You’re given a clue at the start which leads to the next clue and the next. With each clue you are given something you must do/somewhere you must go to get the next one. Whoever is the last team there loses. The first team in always gets something, no matter if they win or lose the whole game.
We used to play games like this on a much smaller scale in the woods at summer camp or for orienteering class. Generally we are given a map, a compass and a clue. You solve the clue, it tells you where to go next and you get the next one until you get to the end. Nothing as fancy as this, but fun all the same.
Oh, and it’s not the last team to the next clue (that would be a REALLY short game) it’s the last team to the last check in point of the day/rest point. Of course they toss in different things to spice it up (fast forwards, yeilds, different games/things you have to do)
Honestly, I’d LOVE to try for this. Even if I came in last on the first leg of the race, I got to have an interesting experience and see a bit more of the world, even if it IS a bit of a whirlwind.
As others have said, they’re the “check in” box with the “directions” of where to go next. The team has to visit the route marker and pick up the clue.
Nothing says that they have to keep or produce the clue though, and there have been some occasions where a team has lost their clue. I think it was in the first Amazing Race where a loathsome team lost their clue. They followed other teams all the way from somewhere in Asia (best as I can recall) to Alaska. Despite my poor memory on the specifics it was quite funny.
Fenris, about Big Brother, not sure how to describe what you do to win. It seems to me you have to be, okay well here is where I’ll say that I’d typed up a bunch of points and then realized, from my observation, it comes down to excelling at high school type politics: making sure that you “fit in”; aren’t overtly different or a threat, and generally being really good at passive-aggressive behaviour.
I’m very encouraged by the response to this show this time around. I remember the earlier seasons not getting a lot of discussion on SDMB because quite frankly not many people watched. I get the feeling it is getting more viewership this time around.
One ironic thing (if I may use tat word, probably incorrectly), is that Chip and Kim and the Twins got “lucky” by hitting their roulette number. But in reality they probably would have been better served if they had failed there and then I think they would have quickly realized they needed to find the route marker, instead of going all the way to the pit stop.
A set number of people (usually between 12 and 14) enter a studio/house on the CBS lot. Every week, they compete in contests for food, power (head of household) and the veto (more of which later). If they lose the food competition, they eat peanut butter and jelly exclusively for the week (and damn! Some of the muscliest, fittest guys in the world are convinced they’re going to shrivel up into Don Knotts if they have to eat pb&j for a week!).
The head of household chooses two housemates to put up for eviction. Every week, the housemates (minus the prospective evictees) vote one person of the pair out. The pair changes with each change of household (each week), but there is no limit to how many times a given housemate can be nominated for eviction.
The veto competition gives one houseguest the power to remove someone from the chopping block. Normally, if a prospective evictee wins the veto, they can’t use it on themselves. However, there is a special type of veto, the Golden Veto, that allows someone to remove themselves from the block. I THINK, with my faulty memory, that all the vetoes last season were Golden, though, so I’m not sure how special it is anymore.
At the end of the show, there are two houseguests left, and the last eight (or so) houseguests to be evicted form a jury to decide who deserves to win the $500K.
Oh, and it’s always open season on Julie Chen. Fashion, starvation, whether she’s still sleeping with Les Moonvies…all open for discussion!
TV snob. I was responding to Fenris’s question. I’m terribly sorry. I wasn’t aware that my irresistible charisma and writing style would force you to read a post about a show you have such contempt for. I’d be careful around the political debates if you’re that susceptible. You might read an Olentzero post and feel compelled to send membership dues to the American Communist Party…
I’m not put off my open displays of traditional Christian customs, I have many I engage in as part of my daily life. I’m put off by people using the idea of relying on the Lord for things that are wholly a result of their own decisions. Unless Brandon was suggesting that the Lord told him not to catch a taxi, the whole thing was really out of place.
Of course, on a second viewing (TiVo rules!) Brandon didn’t say anything about the Lord’s direction at the time, it was in an interview that was spliced in. So that was the editors and producers trying to cast them as the Christian kids who think that they’re going to win because God is on their side. So I retract my boo on Brandon, and add a big boo to the Bruckheimer folks for stereotyping the kids because they’re faithful.
Eep :smack: sinks into the floor Well at least I gave a good descriptionI
I couldn’t help with Big Brother… I think I saw some of the first season of it and decided I didn’t like it and never watched it again. Amazing Race and the Bachelor/Bachelorette shows are about all the ones I watch (and the last ones mainly because my Mom insists on watching them so I end up getting wrapped up in them too. If I were left to my own devices I’d forget they were on all the time.)
I asked, they graciously answered. A) any blame, should accrue to me, not them. B) There is no blame. It is instructive to have a lowest common denominator for the basis of comparison. How can one experience the dizzying heights that are Amazing Race without at least an inkling of the stunning lows that (apparently) are Big Brother?
I’d freaking love to see a Doper team on this show. We’d kick everyone else’s asses, while making sarcastic snarky comments about all the other competitors along the way.
Only problem is, if I’m any indication, we’re all fat and out of shape from all the time spent on the boards, so we’d have a hard time with the physical stuff.
In many of the shots the clue box was behind a white pickup truck. Of course, if they had walked across the street and looked behind the truck they might have seen it, but I think they were distracted by the red and gold obvious banner that led into the casino.
Yeah, but wouldn’t they know that since the flag had no clue box that it wasn’t a route marker? And that therefore, they needed to check across the street? (Kudos to you, TeaElle. You’re a classy gal/guy.)
Under pressure/stress people can make dumb decisions. Also, producers of reality shows seem to pick people who don’t actually study and/or prepare in advance.
Good Og, yes! A Doper team would be so chock-full of snark that creative editing wouldn’t even be required to make them “sound good.” I would be willing to make a generous (for me, anyway) contribution to a fund to make a whole bunch of custom screen-printed T-shirts for the Doper team, which could hereinafter be referred to as “Team Snark.” (Although, if the Doper team actually wore said T-shirts, then OTHER Dopers would sit here and complain about it.)
Hey, I resemble that remark! (Oh, and bear in mind that all my comments on this board have been made by someone who actually applied for that reality-show-which-shall-not-be-named. Really.)
Fashion, starvation, whether she’s still sleeping with Les Moonvies…all open for discussion!