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The aim is to navigate the maze while avoiding the guards and reach the goal.

Devil's Domain - There is a maze composed of either four-sided or six-sided rooms laid out in a 4x3 rectangle (5x4 when playing with three guards).

First Fortress - Contestants must climb an extremely narrow and steep staircase holding water pistols, all the while making sure that the paper ring attached to their helmets doesn't get destroyed or soaked by the Takeshi Gundan who also have water pistols and targets of their own.

Then, a giant roulette wheel is spun, and the outcome of the spin determines which contestants will be eliminated.

Boundary Roulette - First, contestants must choose a disk with different indication, ranging from numbers from 0 to 36, 'Black', 'Red', 'Odd' or 'Even', before they have to sit down on the corresponding spot on the roulette table.

In order to succeed, contestants have to grab onto a bun with their mouth, whilst their arms are affixed to their sides by either an inflatable rubber ring or a large potato sack.

You Can't Continue on an Empty Stomach - Several buns encased in plastic bags are hanging from a rope.Once the contestants have made it through the tenth wall, they have to sift through a large vat of flour in order to find a colored tennis ball, which will signify victory. One-two doors of which are made of paper, the rest are either blocked by wooden plates or consist of paper but have a net behind. Wall to Freedom Becomes Far - Ten gates with eight doors each are facing the contestants.Once a contestant has made it over the wall, they have to slide down the other side and into a small trench of water. In order to help them, several ropes to attached at the top, and grabbing one of them would almost guarantee success. Barrier of the Border - A tall two-faced soaped slope that contestants had to climb.Many challenges involve falling into water or mud on failure. A special revival took place just outside the TBS Building for the network's Spring All-Star Thanksgiving Festival on 2 April 2005, and featured Lake of the Dragon God and Gibraltar Strait.Ī wide range of challenges were used throughout the history of Takeshi's Castle, some occurring only once or twice, or others in virtually every show, depending upon their popularity and ease of preparation. The final regular episode aired on 14 April 1989, followed by 4 one-off specials up until 19 October 1990.

BRAZILIAN WATER SLIDE GAMESHOW SERIES

The series featured extensive landscaping of a fixed campus at TBS-owned Midoriyama (Green Mountain) Studios that included large man-made lakes and extensive permanent obstacles in Yokohama, Kanagawa.

In truth, there were few to no major injuries reported on the show. The publisher admitted that he had fabricated the list in an effort to 'make a little fun'. In 2004 a website called Takeshi Mania published an injury list. During the laser-gun version, the player who stopped Takeshi won 1 million yen (which, at the time, was roughly equivalent to US$8,000 or £5,000 sterling). During the water-gun version, if Takeshi was defeated, all surviving players split the prize between them.

If the contestant's gun penetrated the paper ring or hit the sensor on Takeshi's cart, against such weapons as a large water gun and a laser-armed plane, Takeshi's cart was deactivated, the castle was 'taken' and the game won. Later episodes introduced carts with paper rings, and eventually lasers and light-sensitive targets. In early episodes, the contestants would storm the castle set itself in a short-range water gun assault. Each episode ended with a 'Cart Battle' in which the remaining contestants faced off against Count Takeshi (Kitano) and his henchmen. The original show involved between 86 and 142 contestants whom General Tani ( Hayato Tani) 'forced' into a series of physical challenges, in some ways similar to those in It's a Knockout eliminating many of the contestants. A special live 'revival' was broadcast on 2 April 2005, for TBS's 50th anniversary celebrations. It was highly influential on global popular culture, inspiring a genre of game shows involving physical challenges and painful entertainment, as well as other media. The show became a cult television hit around the world. It features the Japanese comedian Takeshi Kitano (also known as Beat Takeshi) as a count who owns a castle and sets up difficult physical challenges for players (or a volunteer army) to get to him. Takeshi's Castle ( Japanese: 風雲!たけし城, Hepburn: Fūun! Takeshi-jō) is a Japanese game show that aired between 19 on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS).

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