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Legends of the Hidden Temple was a game show hosted by Kirk Fogg that aired on Nickelodeon from 1993-1995. It was a physical challenge game show, with six teams of two children (one boy and one girl) competing for prizes. The show was produced by Nickelodeon in association with Stone Stanley Productions. The format of Legends was similar to other physical challenge shows of the time, such as Double Dare
and GUTS
, although the stunts were less messy than Double Dares.

The set design resembled various ancient Central American iconographies, especially the Aztec or Mayan stone-face Olmec. The setting is actually Mayan, according to the show. It included areas for different types of physical challenges; a set of steps (The Steps of Knowledge); and a large, two-floor vertical labyrinth (The Hidden Temple) in the back of the stage. At the labyrinth's gate was a giant animatronic talking Olmec head simply named Olmec (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker). Every episode had a theme: a particular legend was picked (written), regarding a certain artifact from around the world that found its way to the Temple, and the winning team had to retrieve it. Some such artifacts were "Lawrence of Arabia's Headdress," "Galileo's Cannonball," "The Milkbucket of Freydis," and "The Applewood Amulet of Emiliano Zapata." The physical challenges would then be loosely themed after the legend.
The main game
Teams
In each game, six teams of two members each competed in three rounds to get to the temple. Each team was designated a color and animal, indicated on their uniform shirts:
Red Jaguars

Blue Barracudas

Green Monkeys

Orange Iguanas

Purple Parrots

Silver Snakes

Round 1: The Moat
The first round of the show involved a stunt where the six teams had to cross a small swimming pool, known as "The Moat." Some of the commonly used methods include rafts, ropes, and bridges. All six teams attempted to get both members across according to the rules and hit their respective podium button, their "gong." Typically, if a team fell in the water from above, that partner would have to go back and try again until they could get across cleanly. The first four teams to ring their gongs would move on to round two. The other two teams would be eliminated and receive a consolation prize.The crew was put out to help.
Round 2: The Steps of Knowledge
To start round two, Olmec told a story about the artifact of the day. The story was always quite detailed, and after it was told, Olmec asked the four teams a series of questions to test their memories of the story, and other knowledge concerning the story. In the remake the duties were given to Bill Thompson & Allie Noble, asking a different set of questions instead of some from the story because they were competeing with Jeopardy!
. A team that knew the answer buzzed in by hitting the button on their step with their feet. If the team answered correctly, they moved down to the next level. The first two teams to step down to the bottom level by answering three questions correctly moved on to the physical challenge rounds. Each multiple-choice question had three possible answers, but if two teams answered incorrectly, the question was thrown out. In the remake the team to first make it to the bottom gets 50 points.
Round 3: The Temple Games
Physical challenges employed on Legends were many and varied. After each challenge, the winning team was awarded some portion of a protective Pendant of Life. The first two challenges awarded a half-pendant each, and the final challenge awarded a full pendant. If a Temple Game ended in a tie, both teams were awarded the pendant value of that game. After these rounds, the team with the most pendants went on to the final round. In the event of a tie concerning the number of pendants each team was awarded, Fogg (or, later in seasons 2 and 3, Olmec) asked a tiebreaker question to determine the winner. The first two Temple Games were one-on-one, and were not restricted to gender, meaning that both individual Temple Games could be (and occasionally were) boy-versus-girl, and the third and final Game involved both members of both teams taking part. The remake had 2 teams out of the game after the first game, and the Pendants Of Life was put on necklaces.
Round 4: The Temple
In the final round, often known as the Temple Run, the winning team took whatever Pendants of Life they had (most commonly, a full pendant and half of the second) into the temple. The temple consisted of 12 to 13 rooms, depending on the layout, each connected by a doorway which may or may not have been open during the game, depending on the setup used that day. One room in the labyrinth had the themed artifact; three rooms held Temple Guards. If the winning team had an incomplete pendant, the remaining half-pendant would be in a room as well. However, if the team had only one pendant going into the temple, there would be no hidden pendant. In that case, if the second player ran into a Guard, the game would end.
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Games - Legends of the Hidden Temple

The main game

Teams

Round 1: The Moat

Round 2: The Steps of Knowledge

Round 3: The Temple Games

Round 4: The Temple

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