End Games
- Show Down: The final challenge of the show, where the remaining contestants face off against Takeshi's guards, all armed with water pistols and riding motorized buggies with paper circles (known as Dinky Dodgems in the UK version). Those whose circles get wet are eliminated. Takeshi usually wins as his guards would outnumber the handful of challengers who make it to this stage. To further complicate matters, a bunker with guards is also placed at the center of the field. Later series used laser guns similar to Laser Quest, and the carts were referred to as "mobile discos" by Craig Charles. This game has only been seen once on MXC (in the "Celebrity Justice vs. TV Motor Shows" episode but as a demonstration of a drive-by shooting) and has been seen only a few times in Spain's Humor Amarillo. In the first five episodes of the show, the contestants actually stormed the castle itself on foot, wearing paper discs on their helmets. They had to eliminate the guards defending the castle from various levels. On only nine different occasions did anyone ever win the game in this method (Not counting the First Special, The monster episode, and the college girls episode).
- Ultimate Showdown: This event, played in the final episode of the series (hour-long special), had a mixture of various TC games such as Skipping Stones, Dragon Lake, Bridge Ball and Quake mixed in with running through a lane of mud, pushing a ball up a hill and carrying a weight with a fan blowing against you going uphill. In the end, the man and woman crossing the finish line in the fastest time each won one million yen.
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Famous quotes containing the word games:
“Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming games and acrostics, which at least require a certain inventiveness.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)