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Posts: 131 (10/06/08 08:34 PM) |
Writing down 16 (or so) place names and reading them off to the painter until you read the correct one seems like the dumbest roadblock of all time. Was there
meant to be a way to figure out the right place name or did TPTB just start their siesta a little too soon?
Discuss. (I'm a day late and can't find a thread about this which is more puzzelment.) |
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Posts: 2014 (10/06/08 08:41 PM) |
I think that's the way to do it.
They were trying to lure them into thinking that there were some secret code and would benefit teams who didn't overanalyze. I think it would be okay, had the teams got stuck trying to come up with some unexisting code scheme. But in the end, it was pretty stupid and brainless either way. |
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Posts: 11158 (10/06/08 08:42 PM)
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Oh it was an awful roadblock. I guess it was designed to separate smart people from stupid ones, but the divorcees still managed to stay in the game...
When Phil was explaining it, they showed a guy on a burro riding along the wall -- I was hoping they'd have to figure out the puzzle while riding burros. Farm animals. TAR never disappoints when there are farm animals involved. |
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Posts: 4966 (10/06/08 09:01 PM) Registered User |
This was definitely the worst road block of all time. "WHICH ONE OF THE PHRASES ON THIS GRAFFITI STRICKEN WALL IS THE SECRET PHRASE?". Lame.
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Posts: 3784 (10/06/08 09:12 PM) Registered User |
I still think that climbing the largest office chair was the worst roadblock. However, this roadblock has potential to overthrow it.
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Posts: 16007 (10/06/08 09:15 PM) Registered User |
Seems like this roadblock was thrown in the last minute. Maybe this was not the initial roadblock after all. Makes you wonder.
A far better roadblock would probably be painting over that same graffiti wall. |
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Posts: 4775 (10/06/08 09:22 PM) Registered User |
this roadblock was an epic failure.
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Posts: 3210 (10/06/08 09:22 PM) |
teh suck
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Surfing Hippo in Trouble |
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Posts: 386 (10/06/08 09:24 PM) |
i still don't get it
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Posts: 802 (10/06/08 10:10 PM) Registered user |
I wonder if the producers were counting on the contestants trying to translate each phrase and going to recite them one at a time. Possibly, nobody in
production had the idea of writing down the whole list and going back and reading it until you got the right one.
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Posts: 7 (10/07/08 12:57 AM) |
Most hideous-est boring-est confusing-est road block ever. I argee that maybe it was a late add-in. Otherwise, too stupid to make sense. I hope this does not
bode poorly for future episodes.
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Posts: 4975 (10/07/08 01:36 AM) Registered User |
No, next week's roadblock is probably take a piss in the toilet or something.
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Posts: 226 (10/07/08 05:29 AM) Registered User |
No, next week's roadblock is probably take a piss in the toilet or something.Kelly and Christy would probably do that wrong too. |
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Posts: 1011 (10/07/08 05:31 AM) Where's the Red Bean? |
The office chair wasn't a road block just a route marker. By the way that was the WORLD'S largest office chair. |
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Posts: 934 (10/07/08 05:59 AM) |
I was hoping there was actually some logic puzzle involved somehow, but apparently not
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Posts: 1707 (10/07/08 07:46 AM) |
I was hoping that this roadblock is more like the "office" roadblock in all-stars, where teams had to find letters on their pens and everything to
get the name of a picture, but this roadblock is disappointing cause it's wholly luck based with no logic involved.
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Will |
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Posts: 30577 (10/07/08 08:01 AM) Amazing Race Moderator |
I read somewhere that the clue said to look for the name of a city and the correct one was the only one with the word ciudad in it.
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Posts: 7306 (10/07/08 10:42 AM) Registered User |
If that is true then they are all dumb. The answer was right there.
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Posts: 12 (10/07/08 12:24 PM) |
Dude, Sarah speaks fluent Portuguese. Couldn't have been that straightforward. I never heard that any of the teams read anything about "find
cidade" anyway, I think it's just someone's stupid guess. Worst roadblock in long time.
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Will |
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Posts: 30587 (10/07/08 12:45 PM) Amazing Race Moderator |
I just watched the episode again and Phil just says find the destination but we have no idea what exactly the clue said so its quite possibly one of the worst
roadblocks ever.
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Posts: 314 (10/07/08 12:52 PM) |
It was so simple and yet so many teams had trouble
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