List of Challenges in Takeshi's Castle - D

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• Deep Float: The contestants ran into the sea from the beach where they started. They had to make their way to a very small platform, and try to get on it and stay on it. This is made harder by the fact that; a) they were wearing lifejackets, b) it was a very small platform and it could sink at any moment, and c) there were two guards there trying to push them off again, although some hilariously turned the tables on one of them and threw them into the sea. On MXC, this game was rechristened as Survivor: Seaman Island, a parody of Survivor, the popular US reality television series.

• Die or Pie: Players roll a giant die. Each number corresponds to a hole in a long platform. Whichever number is rolled, the player must stick his/her head out of that hole. The hole corresponding to a roll of one is the closest to a man with a pie, while six is the furthest. If the man is able to toss his pie into the contestant's face, the contestant is out. Called Pie in the Sky on MXC.

• Dino Ride: Riding a mechanical bull dressed as a giant dinosaur, contestants try to shoot a pink bat supported by toilet paper with a water gun, but if they fail or fall, they are eliminated (and sometimes sprayed with white powder). Called Buck Off! on MXC, with the sprayer nicknamed Herby the Steamy Pile.

• Dominoes: Called Falling Dominoes in the original Japanese version and similar to the game "Nubecamino" on the Peruvian children's series Nubeluz, contestants have to cross a gap by running on the top of giant dominoes, which usually fall over, bringing the challenger down with them. Known on MXC first as The Teetering Temple of (Crumbling Death/Crippling Doom), then changed to Tumbling Dominoes of Doom, and in a Real Mafia themed episode, renamed Nerve Racketeering Slabs of Death. In the Spanish version "Humor Amarillo" it was known as El domino mortal (Mortal Domino). The background music for this game is the theme from The Rat Patrol. Since Takeshi's Castle ended, it has used in game shows such as Kunoichi (shown in Britain and America as 'Women Of Ninja Warrior') as the stage 3 obstacle 'Domino Hill', and on Kinniku Banzuke (Unbeatable Banzuke) as the 'Sponge Bridge'.

• The Dragon Lake: Both the straight ahead version and the arc version of this game in Japan was known as Heaven and Hell. Players swing across a gap over water or mud (Or Shreaded Paper in the first episode) on a rope to land on a platform, either straight across, or in an arc. The MXC name for the arc version is Dope On A Rope, while the straight ahead version is called Hook, Line and Swingers, Swish Bucklers, The Giant G-String of Doom, or Drop Dead Line. In the Spanish version "Humor Amarillo" it was known as "Líete" tú de la liana (Laugh of the rope if you can). In Brazil, it was named Cipó do Bozó (Portuguese for Bozo's Rope). The background music for the straight ahead version is from the Namco video game Libble Rabble (In the very first episode) and John Williams' theme music from Raiders of the Lost Ark (From early episodes after the pilot episode) while in later epipsodes the background music for the both the straight ahead version and the arc version is the galop from Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, best known as the French can-can music.

• Drop In The Ocean: A large amount of balls were dropped into the sea. Contestants had to run out there and retrieve one. The MXC Almost Live! special used the start of this game as a condom drop.