List of Challenges in Takeshi's Castle - W

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• Walk The Plank: Strictly a couples (and parent-kids) game, contestants try to run across a river on wooden planks. Both people must step on each end of the plank at the same time to keep it balanced. On MXC, the game is called Plank Spankers.

• Wet Paint: Contestants spin a wheel to choose a kanji character, and try to draw it with a giant calligraphy brush. The catch is, the drawing area is on a wet slope, which makes it hard to even get high enough to draw the picture. There is also a time limit, and losers are sprayed with a hose. Called Skid Markers on MXC, which replaces a spin of the wheel with preassigned images, often humorous and impossible feats such as "The Mona Lisa", a replica of the Sistine Chapel, and the complete schematics of an airplane.

• Whack The Stack: A parents and kids episode game where the kid would sit on a tower of three blocks and the parent had a large hammer. The parent had to hit one of the blocks out of the tower but the kid had to jump at the right time for the block to slide out. They had to get two blocks out without overbalancing the tower. The MXC name for this event is Slipped Discs of Doom.

• Wipe Out: Another simple-looking challenge: contestants stand on a motorized surfboard which swings round in a circle, and must jump over obstacles in their path without falling off into the lake below. This game on MXC is called Rotating Surfboard of Death; in a couples-themes episode was known as Romantic Rotating Surfboard of Death (the man did the first half of the course and the woman the second half), in a politically-themed special was known as Rotating Surfboard of Political Suicide, and in a kid-themed special it was known as Rotating Surfboard of Death Jr. In Tele 5's Spanish version of this show, this was called La Tabla de Planchar (Ironing Board), while on Cuatro, the game's title was modified to Surfeando en la tabla de planchar (Surfing on the ironing board). In Brazil, it was known as Surf de lagoa (Lagoon surf). The music accompanying this game is an instrumental version of "Surfin' USA" by The Beach Boys; aptly enough, the original Japanese name of the game (displayed in katakana on the screen) is Beach Boys & Girls.