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4->''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Ven a jugar al juego de la oca... ven a jugar con nuestra oca loca...]]''[[note]]''Come play the game of the goose ... come play with our crazy goose.''[[/note]]
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6''El gran juego de la oca (The Great Game of the Goose)'' was a mid-[[TheNineties 1990s]] GameShow from Spain that preceded the ''Series/FearFactor''-type game/reality program by five or ten years (and wonderfully lacked many of the now-overused RealityTVTropes). One of the country's most popular offerings at the time, it was rebroadcast in Spanish-speaking countries around the world as well as the United States.
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8Four contestants played a giant [[BoardGames board game]] based on the actual children's "Game of the Goose" (basically a linear "Chutes and Ladders"), but anything that might have been oriented toward children ended there. One at a time, players rolled the electronic dice, earned money for each space they walked, and finally wagered some of their money on a ''prueba'' (mission or challenge) they would then be required to perform. Completing a challenge won the wager, while a failed mission deducted it. As in the board game, there were also some shortcuts scattered throughout the board, especially the titular ''Oca'' spaces. Also included were a few "punishment" spaces that affected any contestant that landed on them, just to make things interesting; the most notable were the ones that required the player to receive BodyPaint or a TraumaticHaircut.
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10The player to successfully make it to space 63 by exact count won any money he or she had banked. During the first season, winning the game also earned the right to perform a final challenge outside the studio, sometimes even abroad, for a chance to win a car. All but one contestant successfully accomplished said challenge.
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12Lasted two seasons on Antena 3, then several years later [[ChannelHop moved to Telecinco]] as ''El nuevo juego de la oca'' ("The New Game of the Goose"). The latter version was broadcast live and lasted less than one season before being pulled in favor of other programming.
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14!!This show also provides examples of:
15* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Not only are you gambling tens of thousands of ''pesetas'' (and your dignity) with every challenge, some of them are [[DeadlyGame potentially deadly]].
16* AffablyEvil: Flequi, the crazy barber in Season 1, full stop. He quickly and easily became the most popular character on the show, to a point where he was sent ''with'' the contestant on quite a few BonusRound missions toward the end of the run. He was referred to as "the most feared and most beloved" person on the show.
17* TheAnnouncer - albeit with a very limited role; the show's judge used the PA system more often.
18* BankruptcyBarrel: On a couple of episodes, a contestant would be required to lie down on a large wheel which would then be spun. Along with spaces that awarded or took away money, as well as one that did nothing, three of them had a picture of a goose in a barrel - if the contestant's head landed on one of these, he or she had to get inside an actual barrel, strip completely naked, and finish the rest of the show wearing only the barrel.
19* BaitAndSwitchComment: The "Beso o Tortazo" ("Kiss or Slap") challenge involved the contestant having to guess whether the Oquettes would give them a kiss or a slap based on what they said. Half the time the comments were misleading enough to trick them.
20* BodyPaint: One of the "punishment" spaces, which featured a model wearing it and pretty much nothing else. Any contestant who landed here spun the wheel and the body painter applied the show's logo (a goose head) on whatever body part it landed on, cutting away whatever part of his or her clothes happened to be in the way.
21* BonusRound: ''La Reoca'', in which a player had one week to complete a final mission outside the studio to win the car.
22* BonusSpace: Every space on the board that was a multiple of 9, as well as #5 in the first two seasons, was specially marked as an ''Oca'' (goose) space. Landing on one allowed you to move to the next ''Oca'' and [[ExtraTurn roll again]].
23** There was also a ''Dado'' (die) space at #7 during the first season that allowed the player to take a shortcut to #20 and likewise roll again.
24* TheBrute: Maxtor, who started beating the crap out of everyone immediately upon entering and against whom the contestant had to beat in a contest. A similar character named "Jimmy" appeared on occasion during the second season, although in more of an antagonist role rather than the contestant facing off against him head-to-head.
25* ButtMonkey: Some of the contestants seem to get this treatment by landing on a combination of punishment spaces and/or ridiculously hard challenges. The second season produced several particularly egregious examples; one of the finalists landed on Rizotín and then lost all of his money on the wheel on his last turn, therefore leaving with one of the worst haircuts ever handed out on the show and emptyhanded (though not without the money he won in his previous appearances).
26* CameraAbuse: Happened by accident occasionally when gunge went flying on set, and played with a couple of times when Maxtor hit a sheet of plate glass with a hammer directly in front of the camera to make it look like he was smashing the camera.
27* CarriedByTheHost: Season 1 was hosted and directed by Spanish personality Emilio Aragón. The chemistry on set between himself and his two assistants, Lydia Bosch and Patricia Pérez, was cited as one of the main reasons the show had such a loyal following. When they changed the hosts (and nearly everyone else) for Season 2, the show lost popularity.
28* CatchPhrase: Many.
29** "''Prueba superada''" for completed challenges, and "''Prueba no superada''" for failed ones.
30** "''De oca a oca y tiro porque me toca.''" Originating from the actual board game, it translates loosely into "From goose to goose, I roll because it's my turn" and is said when a contestant lands on an ''Oca'' and has been sent forward.
31** "''De dado a dado y tiro porque me ha tocado''", a similar phrase from the original game when a player lands on the "dice" shortcut.
32* CelebrityEdition: Done twice; one on [[NewYearHasCome New Year's Eve]] and one in the spring.
33* CheatersNeverProsper: Maxtor attempted it once, and the challenge was automatically awarded to the contestant.
34* ChristmasEpisode: Featured Christmas decorations on set, several ''pruebas'' with a Christmas motif, the Oquettes dressed in Santa-esque outfits, the celebrity guest playing the part of Santa, numerous cast and crew members wearing Santa hats, and Flequi unveiling the final result of his "victim" via a Santa hat.
35* CirclingBirdies: Geese in particular, any time someone was slapped playing ''Beso y tortazo'' (a kiss was followed by {{Heart Symbol}}s).
36* ColourCodedCharacters: The contestants' outfits — red, yellow, green, and blue. Two each of the eight ''Oquettes'' represented a contestant's color as well; any time that contestant landed on a shortcut, those particular dancers escorted him or her to the end of it.
37* ConsolationPrize: According to [[http://elpais.com/diario/1994/03/29/radiotv/764892001_850215.html this article]] (obviously in Spanish), ''everybody'' took home whatever amount of money they ended up with. This could - and often ''did'' - result in a losing contestant taking home more money than the winner, although in the first season, the winner also received a trip to Cuba along with the chance to win a car. Also in the first season, contestants who lost in the semifinals had to complete a ''[[BonusRound Reoca]]'' to win a trip to Brazil, while losing tournament finalists each won a motorcycle. How these were handled in the second season is unknown, as the ''[[BonusRound Reoca]]'' was taken out altogether and only the winner of the finals received a car.
38* CrapsaccharineWorld: The set is full of bright colors and cartoon geese painted everywhere, it's based on a children's board game, and the Oquettes sing happy songs throughout. When the game actually begins, however, you run into people who want to bodyslam you in mud, beat the crap out of you, lock you in cages with various creatures, blow you up inside cars, or cut all your hair off.
39* CreepyCentipedes: Found on occasion in the tanks full of bugs the show featured.
40* CrowdChant: "¡Fle-qui! ¡Fle-qui! ¡Fle-qui!"
41** Done with some contestants' names as well - most in 3/4 time, interestingly - as well as ''"¡Torero!"'' any time a contestant did something particularly brave.
42** Maxtor had a slow one with a drumbeat, during which he would come out and beat the tar out of some of the very ones chanting his name!
43* CrowdSong: "Olé olé olé", among others. The theme song itself, during many of the ''Reocas''.
44* DamselInDistress: Rescue her, or [[MadeOfExplodium whatever she's chained to]] [[TimeBomb will explode]].
45* DancePartyEnding: Both the first and second season finales; see Awesome entry.
46* DeadpanSnarker: Pepe Navarro, the main host in Season 2.
47* DeathTrap: Many of the games were based on them, and [[DeadlyGame could actually]] ''[[DeadlyGame become]]'' [[DeadlyGame such]] if the safety equipment malfunctioned or the contestant was [[TooDumbToLive stupid enough not to bail]] before running out of time.
48* DirtyOldMan: One older male contestant in particular who got to play in each of the first two seasons was made to look like one by being given most of the "sexy" challenges; over the course of the two shows he received body paint to the butt, had to fix a model's terrible "plastic surgery" using only his mouth, and was given the challenge of hiding ten jewels anywhere, yes ''anywhere'' on his body, with the intent of keeping a female celebrity (who was allowed to remove his clothes and do anything else necessary) from finding them all in a certain amount of time. Made even more hilarious in that the Spanish nickname for "dirty old man" translates to "old green ass" or simple "old green"... guess what color he was given to play in on both episodes.
49* DontTryThisAtHome: Natch. Even more so when freak show acts were brought on to perform.
50* DownerEnding: The single time a winner did not accomplish her ''Reoca'' and win the car (her mission was to get the owners of 600 Fiat 600's to assemble with their cars all in one place).
51* DrivesLikeCrazy: ''Vroom Vroom'', where the contestant was bolted to the top of a car and had to completely break all six windows with a wooden mallet while the driver drove back and forth around the set like a madman.
52* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first episode featured several set pieces with incomplete or radically different paint jobs, plain-Jane rope lighting around the spaces, a missing dice bridge for the ''Dados'' shortcut, and no watermelon chopping block at space 31. ''Every'' special space on the board was otherwise hit (the body painter, Flequi, the snake tunnel, the "death" space, the Cruel Roulette, etc.), likely to demonstrate how they all worked; the hosts also more thoroughly explained the contestants' progress to them. The challenges not involving the special spaces were generally much simpler than later in the run.
53* EatThat: Several of the challenges qualify, but a couple were recurring:
54** The first season had a challenge called ''Picante Picante''. The contestant was strapped to a chair including around the forehead and asked five questions. For each question he or she answered correctly, the player was fed a sugar cube; failure to do so resulted in the contestant being fed a very spicy food, such as a hot pepper, instead.
55** The second season featured the "Chinese Restaurant" at #19. This was a "punishment" space in which the contestant had to at least sample whatever was presented (a whole rat cooked in sweet and sour sauce, ''hair and all'', in the finale) to avoid losing all of his or her money. The restaurant was also featured at least once in the first season, with three dishes instead of one; each dish in this case leaned more toward ForeignQueasine than the downright bizarre and disgusting and cost the contestant 100,000 pesetas if not tried.
56* EpicFail:
57** Any time a contestant wound up with ''cero pesetas'', either by wagering everything and failing a challenge or (in later seasons) refusing to participate in one.
58** Any time a contestant was given a number of things to accomplish (such as finding jewels in a giant styrofoam block) and failed to get even ''one''.
59** Landing on Flequi and missing the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9zDfa9m3oc&t=00m57s first question]].
60** One ''prueba'' involved being presented with a herd of 40 sheep and 10 goats, with the objective of putting only the ten goats inside the cage. One contestant accidentally [[HilarityEnsues let the whole herd in]] and was left to count down pretty much the entire final minute as the animals had decided they were through being moved around for the day.
61** Pretty much [[CelebrityEdition Jacqueline De La Vega's]] entire stint as a contestant.
62** One of the repeated ''pruebas'' from the third season involved swimming while carrying a flaming dish from one side of the pool to the other over slats in a floating bridge, without letting the fire go out by getting the dish's contents wet. One such playing resulted in the contestant extinguishing the fire about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-5qp7D_bw&t=02m54s five seconds into the challenge]].
63* ExpositoryThemeTune: The lyrics are an invitation for you as the viewer to come play the game yourself if you are brave and "feel like Franchise/{{Superman}}''.
64* {{Fanservice}}: Pretty much ''any'' supporting cast member, and particularly the following:
65** The ''Oquettes'' (likely a {{Portmanteau}} of ''Oca'' and Rockettes), a squad of eight girls basically clad in lingerie that "sang" the show's songs, performed various dances, escorted contestants landing on shortcuts to their new spaces, and participated in some of the challenges;
66** The ''Chicas Oca'' ("Goose Girls"), who usually just hung out around the pool in swimsuits (usually one-piece, oddly enough), but occasionally assisted with some of the challenges;
67** The ''Chicos Oca'' ("Goose Guys"), who usually wore nothing but spandex shorts and helped put the props for challenges together.
68* FanDisservice: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vcQhJIt_Y La fea besucona]]'' ("the ugly kissing lady") and her male counterpart ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSoepha8ZDs el mimoso pringoso]]'' ("the greasy lover"). A Q&A game was played with these characters in which failure to answer a question about good manners resulted in one of the above violently kissing the contestant (''la besucona'' kissed male contestants and vice versa); correct answers resulted in the host getting kissed instead.
69* ForcedToWatch: One challenge featured a young contestant whose husband was brought on stage along with a voluptuous blonde woman; the contestant was then asked five questions, with each one incorrectly answered resulting in the other woman being allowed to smother the husband in kisses right in front of the contestant's face. (The husband's reaction to the sexy woman throughout the game was [[NotDistractedByTheSexy one of complete indifference]]).
70* GameShowHost:
71** Season 1: Emilio Aragón, Lydia Bosch, and Patricia Pérez.
72** Season 2: Pepe Navarro, Eugenia Santana, and Ivonne Reyes.
73** Season 3: Andrés Caparrós, Elsa Anka and Paloma Marín.
74* GratuitousEnglish: Emilio, who is bilingual as seen whenever non-Spanish speaking guests were featured, used it frequently. Pepe had his share of it too, frequently saying in English what number space a contestant was currently on.
75* GrossUpCloseUp: Especially when bugs or worms were featured. The crew had plenty of small cameras on long poles that they took great pleasure in putting about an inch away from whatever they were playing with.
76* HoldTheLine: Several challenges were endurance tests against the clock. One involved a goat licking honey off the contestant's feet, with the challenge being no change in facial expression whatsoever; another involved keeping one's heart rate under 100 beats per minute while receiving a [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn striptease]].
77* HollywoodAcid: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4XJWdu_6E4&t=02m50s This challenge]], where the contestant had to unshackle himself before "acid" poured from above by a ScaryBlackMan ate through the layers of Styrofoam and reached him. (The "acid" was more than likely a harmless substance such as nail polish remover - acetone readily melts Styrofoam.) This mechanic was featured in several other challenges as well.
78* HomeGame: Inverted and played straight. The board game was invented long before the TV show, then at least one board game was created based on the show's format, using "truth or dare" type challenges as the ''pruebas''.
79* IncendiaryExponent: The goal of at least one or two challenges per episode was "put out the fire" or "set something on fire".
80* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Flequi. Really the only time he went into jerk mode is when someone landed on his space or [[TemptingFate openly mentioned not wanting to end up there]]; he otherwise generally rooted on the contestants, accompanied several of them on ''Reocas'', and once even taunted Maxtor for losing to a contestant.
81* KickTheDog: Part of Maxtor's act as he came out was to have "extras" in the audience to beat up, some of which were wearing slings or were otherwise "handicapped".
82* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Maxtor again, as part of the above schtick.
83* KnifeThrowingAct: Italian knife thrower Alberto Murroni performed a demonstration with his LovelyAssistant Vesna Peracino OnceAnEpisode in both the Italian and Spanish versions, after which the contestant was asked to wager on the outcome of a second demonstration.
84* LetsJustSeeWhatWouldHaveHappened: Most frequently seen if a challenge is set up to end with a massive explosion and doesn't - it is usually set off anyway after everyone is at a safe distance just for ooh's and ahh's.
85* LevelAte: One ''prueba'' involved a contestant crawling through the layers of a [[GiantFood giant birthday cake]] filled with icing, then [[JumpingOutOfACake coming out the top]] and lighting the candles.
86* LockAndKeyPuzzle: Variant where the contestant was placed in a perilous situation, such as being BuriedAlive, with ten or twenty keys to try in one or two locks.
87* LosingHorns: Used when a challenge was failed. Type B in Season 1, and Type A afterward (from day one in Italy).
88* MarilynManeuver: An [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTbYRqoREdo entire challenge]] was based on this. The male contestant had to remember what color garter was on each dancer's leg as they performed the dance one by one.
89* MasqueradeBall: Played straight with the ''Carnaval'' (Mardi Gras) episode; everyone wore masks with goose bills attached to them.
90* MinigameGame: Consisted of ''pruebas'' in three or four different forms: those that appeared every show and were assigned a specific space (the wall, chopping watermelons, and the "punishment" spaces, to name a few, although this did not mean they were actually played every episode); those that appeared regularly but were not assigned a space (most notably ''Beso y tortazo'', the "kiss or slap" game); those that appeared only a handful of times throughout the run; and those that were only played once.
91* MudWrestling: The contestant had to complete a challenge in a mud pit while being hindered by a female mud wrestler.
92* MysteryBox: Several challenges involved the contestant sticking his hand or head blindly into a container to retrieve objects, read a clue, or eat a piece of food using only his or her mouth. Naturally, these boxes often contained [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent reptiles]], bugs, and/or mice.
93* NegatedMomentOfAwesome: After landing on Flequi, one contestant's [[ImpossibleTask third question]] was to guess exactly how many millimeters a woman in the 18th century let her hair grow over the course of 52 years without cutting it. The contestant responded "3 1/2 meters" (3,500 mm), while the actual answer was 3,'''''650''''' mm. They actually started to go to the judge until [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay5C60BHcWI&t=02m53s Flequi took matters into his own hands.]]
94* ObstacleExposition: Done in detail before every ''prueba''.
95* PainfulBodyWaxing: A mainstay throughout the show's existence. A male contestant was asked five questions; for each one he got right, he got a toenail painted. For each one he got wrong, part of his leg hair was waxed off (with the best reactions replayed in [[{{Overcrank}} slow motion]]).
96* PieInTheFace: Exaggerated with a "sweet firing squad" game in which the contestant had to catch a number of pies catapulted at him with his face. The entire segment, including the aftermath, is one of the [[Funny/ElGranJuegoDeLaOca funniest things to ever happen on the show]].
97* ThePratfall: Happened so often (including once to Lydia) that the sound effects guy seemed to always have one finger on the "floop" button for whenever it happened.
98* PromotionalConsideration: At least one challenge per episode was sponsored; some of them included Creator/{{Nintendo}}, Hyundai, Boskys cereal, and milk.
99* RearrangeTheSong: Slightly subverted when the show was brought back as ''El nuevo juego de la oca'': they rearranged the Italian version's theme tune from six years before to use Spanish lyrics.
100* RedRightHand: Maxtor, who has a "glass eye" as part of his costume.
101* ReplacedTheThemeTune: Each series had a different theme tune: Series 1 had the famous one, Series 2's was slightly changed, whilst Series 3 used one based on the Italian version.
102* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: One of the show's mainstay challenges was locking the contestant in a snake tunnel and forcing them to find the key to get out. Plenty of the other challenges featured reptiles of different kinds as well.
103* RetiredGameShowElement: Several.
104** A fixed space where one had to blindly chop watermelons rolling out of a tube with a machete mysteriously stopped being landed on after only three or four playings (although it was very briefly brought back in the third season).
105** Most of the sponsor specific challenges, although some of them were merely replaced by other sponsors. One in particular was a type of BonusSpace sponsored by a Spanish bank wherein if the contestant beat the challenge, his bank was doubled; if not, he lost no money.
106** ''Ruleta Cruel'' (see below) stopped being featured about halfway through the first season, until it was restructured and brought back in the second. By the time anyone landed on it later in the run, the game had already gone into...
107* RewardingVandalism: Several challenges required the contestant to find things in breakables or to kick, punch or saw his way out of a building or car.
108* RuleOfThree: You were asked three questions on the haircut space, the third of which was [[UnwinnableByDesign always impossible]] to answer.
109* RunningGag: Many, but Alberto Murroni (the knife thrower) asking to close the stage gates (to avoid potentially dangerous wind interference) became one of the most recognizable.
110** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c9sw23TAtw Elvirichi]], an opera singer on an early Season 3 episode, refuses to attempt a ''prueba'' involving jumping off a high platform. Later episodes cut to her still on the platform with everyone trying to convince her to jump off.
111* {{Sampling}}: The end of the ThemeTune and the cut-to-commercial music both sample the opening bar of "Stars and Stripes Forever".
112* ScaryStingingSwarm: One challenge required the contestant to transport combs from an active beehive from one room in a tightly enclosed space to another and extract the honey into a jar in the second room.
113* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAhnh47cNKY&t=00m055s Natalia]], an attractive young contestant who chose to give up all her money (which, in her defense, wasn't that much to begin with) rather than to submit her flowing blonde tresses to the whims of Rizotín. Came close when she participated a season earlier as well, when she was too afraid to attempt ''Paca la alpaca'' and just stood in the cage with it pretty much the whole time.
114* ShoutOut: Various challenges were themed around ''Film/DoubleImpact'', ''Franchise/IndianaJones'', ''Series/MissionImpossible'' and ''{{Literature/Aladdin}}'', among others. A [[https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150419714840157 pitchfilm]] by the show's original creator Jocelyn Hattab for a current, updated version features set areas and challenges based on ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' and ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.
115* SignatureSoundEffect: '''TONS.''' Try finding a five second clip of the show where they are ''not'' playing some kind of sound effect, except for maybe the super dangerous challenges. These ranged from the standard cartoon flips, whoops and bloops, to sound bites of the hosts saying things, to random words.
116* SpeedRound: If time ran short, the game went into ''tirada rápida'' (Fast Roll) mode, in which no more challenges were played and contestants simply rolled the dice until a winner was crowned. On one or two episodes in the second and third seasons, no one reached #63 ''at all'' and the game was awarded to the player closest to it after one round of ''tirada rápida''.
117* SteadiCam: Often shown, as the show did not go to great lengths to hide the cameras. The operator was also credited individually, and Emilio pointed it out on at least one occasion.
118* StudioAudience: Unique, in that the audience members are scattered around the in-the-round set.
119* StuffBlowingUp: At least OnceAnEpisode.
120* TarAndFeathers: Used on contestants who landed on "death" in most episodes, with the tar obviously being replaced by a less hazardous substance.
121* TemptingFate: The sheer number of female contestants that mentioned at the beginning of the game either not wanting to land on Flequi or that they were indifferent to him altogether strangely ended up in his chair about 90 percent of the time. One in particular mentioned her grandparents putting out candles and praying to every saint in the Catholic faith that she wouldn't end up there... you probably already know the rest of the story. For male contestants, merely ''[[GenreBlindness coming to the show]]'' with long hair was generally more than enough to guarantee their getting sent there.
122* TheThunderdome: The cage near the end of the board. Aside from several separate challenges that took place in or involved the cage, if you landed on the space directly in front of its entrance, you had to enter the cage, strap yourself to a bungee cord, and retrieve a key from the backside of a girl who was also on a bungee cord. In all three seasons, the explanation of the challenge always clearly stated that there were no rules; the girl could do ''anything'' to stop you from taking the key.
123* TimedMission: About 95 percent of the challenges.
124* TraumaticHaircut: If you landed on the deranged barber's space, you WOULD get one, whether you were a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvgy0Jvwae4 man]] or a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk0tdy028qg woman]].
125* UnexpectedlyObscureAnswer: Played with, in that the final question in the haircut game was always impossible.
126* UnwinnableByDesign: The aforementioned barber's space, as well as a challenge in which a contestant had to wager money that a professional magician would ''not'' successfully perform an everyday sleight-of-hand trick.
127* VariableMix: A rare non-video game example. Depending on the setting of a ''prueba'' (funny, happy, dangerous, underwater, gross, industrial, etc.), a musical track of that style was played accordingly. As the challenge progressed, the composers played additional accompaniment on their keyboards - sometimes depending on what the contestant did, but also ensuring that the same musical track rarely, if ever, sounded the same twice.
128* {{Whammy}}: ''La muerte'', the "Death" space (a skull and crossbones) near the end of the course. If you landed here you were sent back to start by the GrimReaper, although you kept your money.
129** The ''Ruleta Cruel'' space (literally means "Cruel Roulette"). The contestant was required to spin the wheel (or get onto a giant torture wheel with his head as the pointer), and lost whatever percentage of money it landed on.
130** Any other "punishment" space, as not going through with the "punishment" cleaned out the contestant's bankroll.
131* WireDilemma: The contestant is seated on a box with a series of wires attached to a "bomb" and must cut a certain number of them without detonating the "bomb". Cutting the wrong wire causes the charge to go off and the platform they are seated on to give way about a foot or so.
132* WombLevel: Given a head start, the contestant had to escape from a narrow inflatable tunnel comprised of what could only be described as an intestine-like material coated in red goo before Maxtor got a hold of him.
133* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: ''Ponerse a 100'' ("Keep Yourself at 100"). The contestant would have to endure a striptease from a person of the opposite gender for a minute and a half without his or her heart rate exceeding 100 beats per minute.

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