DAY 24
November 13th, 2019. 3:45 PM
WINE COUNTRY, CALIFORNIA
Challenge #22 - A Grape Day
"Welcome to Wine Country! This next challenge is called "A Grape Day" and it's worth $60,000. I need to divide yourselves into three teams. One player who is physical, two players who are mental, and three players who are social."
"Who wants what?" Trucy asked "I'll do social."
"Same." Simon spoke up
"NO!" everyone barked at him
"Mental." Miciah volunteered
"I'm good with physical stuff." Fredrick assured
"So am I." Ike challenged
"Just do rock paper scissors." Lucina thought
Fredrick won the duel by picking rock, so Ike picked the social role.
"I'm doing mental." Simon groaned
So, Fredrick is physical. Simon and Miciah are mental, and Ike, Lucina, and Trucy are social. Yes?"
"Yes."
"Here is how this challenge is going to work. There are six bottles of wine that are being guarded by bodyguards. It's the social players job to collect them. Each bottle is worth $10,000 for the pot. The mental players will be solving brain teasers. Once they have an answer, they will use this walkie talkie to tell the social players their answer. The social players must go to the correct bodyguard, and give the answer. If it's correct, the bodyguard will give you a bottle of wine. If it's incorrect, the mental players will have to come back to that question. Here's the catch. Fredrick will be the time keeper for this challenge. He will walk on this treadmill, and the speed will increase once a bottle of wine is collected. Once Fredrick falls into the water, the challenge is over. Fredrick, you'll be able to help the mental players, but the social players can not. Also, only one social player is allowed to go out at a time. Does everyone understand?"
"YES!"
"Alright. Social players, please follow me. Fredrick, hop on. Mental players, head to the whiteboards."
Miles would've been so good at this challenge. If only he was still here. - Miciah
I think I picked the right team. I'm not that good at solving riddles. - Ike
"Your challenge begins…..NOW!"
Question 1. What goes up and down, but always stays in the same place?
"Elevator." they both thought at the same time
"We have number one." Miciah told the three social players "It's an elevator."
Lucina started taking off, and she grabbed the walkie talkie.
In order to meet the correct bodyguard, we had to go down the correct path. Question one would be on the leftmost path, two would be next to one, and so on. - Lucina
We decided that since there were three of us, and six bottles, we would switch out once we got two bottles. - Ike
"Elevator."
"No."
"Elevator is wrong."
"CRAP!" Simon yelled
"It's OK." Miciah assured "We can just come back to it. What's number two?"
Question 2. Early ages, the iron boot tread. With Europe in my command. Through time, power slipped, and fled until the creation of a new holy land. Who am I?
"This is tough, but I think the UK." Simon thought "They had the most land around the world for centuries during their British Empire conquests."
"That sounds right." Miciah agreed "Lucina, two is the United Kingdom."
"OK."
Lucina went down the second path, and met the bodyguard.
"United Kingdom?"
"Nope."
"Two is wrong you guys. It's not the UK."
Question 3. Which word is the odd one out? Bad, Evil, Letter, Mood, Snap, Straw, Stun, Ton
"There's something about those words." Simon thought "Let's come back to this one."
"Alright. I got number four."
Question 4. My thunder comes before the lightning; My lightning comes before the clouds; My rain dries all the land it touches. What am I?
"This doesn't make sense." Miciah sighed "I want to skip it."
"Agreed. We should do this one last." Simon proposed
"I don't have any ideas either." Fredrick told them
Question 5. I am a ball that can be rolled, but I can never be thrown or bounced. What am I?
"A ball that can't be thrown?" Simon questioned
"What types of balls are there that you can't play with?"
"I got an idea." Miciah thought "Let's try gumballs."
"Gumballs for number five." Simon spoke into the walkie talkie
"Got it." Lucina responded back
A few minutes later, she made it the fifth bodyguard.
"Is it gumballs?"
"No."
"Gumballs is not right."
"SERIOUSLY?" Fredrick moaned
Question 6. George, Helen, and Steve are drinking Root Beer. Bert, Karen, and Dave are drinking Mountain Dew. What is Elizabeth drinking?
"Just take a random guess." Fredrick told them "It's a fifty fifty."
"He's right." Simon thought "If it's not one, we know it's the other."
"OK. Number six is Mountain Dew."
"Thanks Miciah." Lucina said to her
"I think we should look at question three again." Simon told her "I think there's something up with these words."
"What do you mean?" Miciah asked him
"I'm going to try writing these words backwards."
"Why?"
"I looked at the letters, and I saw that stun backwards was nuts. Ton is not, and evil is live. That has to be what we're looking for! The odd out out wouldn't make any-"
"LETTER!" Fredrick screamed "It's letter!"
"Hey, you guys! Mountain Dew is incorrect." Lucina reported
"Tell him that it's Root Beer, and go to number three afterwards." Miciah ordered
"Why?"
"We have the answer to that one too. It's letter."
"OK."
For awhile, we weren't making any sort of progress. At least we're getting somewhere now. - Fredrick
"Is it letter?"
"Yes."
"Guys! I got the second bottle!"
"Good job Lucina!"
"I'm going to switch out with Ike, so give me a minute, and I'll-"
"OOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!"
*SPLASH*
"What was that?" Lucina asked in fright
"OH MY GOD!" Simon yelled
"FREDERICK!" Miciah cried
"What? Did he fall in?"
"Yes, and he's holding his foot." Simon reported
"Why did fall in?"
"I got stung by something on my heel. I think it was a wasp." he told them
"A wasp?" Lucina questioned
"I don't know, but Simon and I see a stinger in his foot." Miciah
"No. It wasn't a wasp. It was a hornet." Simon explained "Look, there's multiple stings. He must have squished it by accident, and that's when it stung."
I don't know whether to be upset at Fredrick for costing us money, or be happy because he's suffering from the stings. - Simon
We could've had more money, but I'm not blaming Fredrick at all for our loss. - Ike
Accidents happen, you know. I don't think Fredrick meant for that to happen, but there is a really small chance that he was faking the pain just to have an excuse to fall into the water. - Lucina
"Congratulations that's two bottles of wine, so $20,000 goes into the pot. The pot now stands at $496,000. Get ready for the Quiz tonight. By the way, here are the answers to the remaining questions. Stairs, Italy, Volcano, and Eyeball."
Once again, it's all my fault! I'm the reason why we aren't adding money to the pot! I failed them as a leader, and it just hurts to know that the others are probably pissed at me right now. I could've prevented that slip up if only I didn't accidentally step on that damn hornet. - Fredrick