List of Challenges in Takeshi's Castle - K

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• Karaoke: A rather easy game named after the popular Japanese pastime. Sing a song that will please the owner of the house and his bouncer, and get their okay. Sing badly, you're gone. Called Elimination Idol (a spoof of the popular American Idol series) on MXC.

• Knock Knock (V1): Known in the original program as The Wall to Freedom and originally used in Skipping Stones as a double challenge in early episodes contestants are confronted with four sets of walls with four possible doors each, covered with paper. Some have wooden walls or netting on the other side, while one or potentially two is just paper with a fake third door on the third wall that has a net behind it. Contestants must run full-tilt at the door of their choice and either break through, painfully bounce off, or get caught in the net on the third wall. Yoroi would also stand guard between the second and third walls to try and impede contestants. Advancing through all four door sets advances the contestant. On MXC the game is known as Wall Bangers and in the artic edition it was also known as Frozen Wall Bangers. In Brazil, it was called Porta da Sacanagem (the gag door), and also added between the doors people dressed as monsters that pounced the contestants. On rare occasion, a contestant has hit a wooden wall so hard it came off the wall, letting the contestant through, and was allowed to finish.

• Knock Knock (V2): As the above, except there are more doors per wall, and originally titled in the Japanese program as The Wall to Freedom, all 100 (or more depending on what version this is) contestants are sent out at once, "correct" doors tend to have deep mudpits on the other side, and there are ten door sets. Players may try any number of doors, but those who fail to get to the other side and grab a token out of a pit full of white powder after the final whistle was blown are out. Called Door Slammers, then renamed Great Holes of Glory on MXC. Known in Spain as Las puertas del Pánico (panic doors).