List of Challenges in Takeshi's Castle - M

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• Match Maker: A starting game (a variation on a game called Perfection (Which is originally called in the original show)) with all the players running out of a set of doors and grabbing a shape from the floor in front of them. Then there are some blue holders which the contestants must try and find their matching hole to put their shape in. Some shapes have no holes; players who choose them are eliminated. MXC named this game Cheese Squeezers before being renamed to Cut the Cheese and used sound effects of farting. In Spain, this game is known as El Tetris chino (The Chinese Tetris), an homage to the popular videogame. The song heard playing in the background of this game is the theme from Hoosiers.

• Midoriyama Marathon: A obstacle-course-special game. In it, a big number of contestants makes a race by the Midoriyama Studios (where the show was taped), with many obstacles as tires, matresses, nets and small walls. Played as Call Of Booty on the video game themed episode of MXC casting the net as the Pervivial neck Sweater filled with Static Electricity (Among other Obstacles).

• Muddy Waters: All the contestants traverse a long stretch of muddy water. It's really just a race to the other side. The last ten or so contestants to reach the end are out. Played as Crossing the Poo-tomic (or Pee-o Grande) on MXC. In Spain, the game is called Carrera en el barro (Race in the mud).

• Mudskippers: Similar to Muddy Waters, except players must crawl, and retrieve a flag at the halfway point. MXC called it Get Hard!, casting the mud as quick-drying cement.

• Mud Slide: Players on a baseball diamond try to advance from first base to second by sliding into the base with mud surrounding it without being tagged by Popcorn. MXC calls this game Muddy Runs. The batter is an actual giant head of former Atlanta Braves and Japanese baseball star Bob Horner.

• Mushroom Trip: Called Flying Mushroom in the original show, players cling to the stem of a giant fungus, and try to reach a platform at the other end of a lake. There was only one gap in the mushroom: men must hold on from this space one-handed, while women can hold a rope around the mushroom. The mushroom spins as it goes across, making it harder to land on the platform. Known as Eat Shiitake on MXC, and in the Spanish version it's known as la seta asesina (killer mushroom). In the original Japanese, this event is accompanied by John Williams' theme music from Raiders of the Lost Ark.