![]() ![]() Most keys at the end of the game earned the right to go into the treasure room in order to get at least 3,000 gold coins to win $25,000. Two teams competed in “gladiator” type challenges in order to earn the most points (which they called Keys). The difference between all that and the attempted US version of the show is that they tried to turn it into American Gladiators! There were no puzzles, no passwords and more importantly, no Boyard. This was way before things like Fear Factor, Minute to Win Itand other shows now that if you take a look at an episode of Fort Boyard is basically that. Great show and the excitement of the challenges and trying to beat Boyard and get his gold is what made the show interesting. These games were really interesting almost “Beat the Clock” type puzzles. Now the challenges included things like picking up snakes, spiders, scorpions to find clues or puzzle like rooms to reach a key. All gold gotten at the end was weighed and converted into currency. (Although in the one episode I watched, Boyard hands the team a small sack of gold as a consolation prize). If they get it wrong, the treasure room immediately starts to close and they get no gold. If they are correct, they get access to the gold and the remaining part of their 2 minutes to grab as much of it as possible. In Phase 3, once the team thinks they have the password figured out from the clues, they stand on a letter-board on the floor in the treasure room to spell out the password. ![]() These were more difficult challenges like tight-rope walking, navigating a dark maze or swimming through tunnels. They have a certain amount of time to reach the clue before it self destructs. In Phase 2, more challenges must be overcome in order to get clue words to figure out the treasure room’s password in order to access the gold. Once the keys were obtained (if not, members of the team could be sacrificed to make up for the keys and therefore removed from the remainder of the game) the second part of the game began. If you were in a room if the time ran out during a challenge, you were locked in and taken out of the game for the remainder of the key games. Otherwise, Boyard presented a challenge in the cells of the fort in order to earn a key. This was done either by answering a riddle from The Professor (or Captain Baker later seasons) in which you got a key with a correct answer or had to swim for it in the sea if you were not. In Phase 1, the team has to overcome different types of challenges in order to get 4 keys (later increased to 5 in later seasons) in order to open the treasure room in a certain amount of time. The team has 42 minutes (40 minutes until the treasure room can be accessed and 2 minutes inside) to get as much of Boyard’s gold as they can. ![]() 5 people are on a treasure hunt to Fort Boyard located off the West Coast of France. (Which I will be basing my explanations off of) The premise is simple. Looking through YouTube, there are a lot of postings of UK episodes of Fort Boyard. (I will explain why and after you see for yourself, you’ll know why too.) Unfortunately, I don’t think video exists of this show anywhere on the internet considering it never made it past a pilot. I vaguely remember watching this pilot as a kid and decided to go on an internet hunt. I remember back in the early 90’s on a Saturday evening on ABC, Vin Di Bona productions (the same people that brought you America’s Funniest Home Videos) decided it would be a great idea to cash in on a hit TV game show that was very popular in the UK, France (Where the show originated) and other countries in Europe. …At least that’s what the United States decided to call it. ![]()
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