The Treasure Map of Jean Lafitte

The Treasure Map of Jean Lafitte
The map on the wall at the front of the Swamp.
Production Number	1-19 (19)
Airdate	October 2, 1993
Team	Blue Barracudas
Contestants	Aaron Lane & Teri-Kay
Artifact Location	The Swamp
Pendants of Life	1½
Temple Layout	V
Previous Episode	The Trojan Horseshoe (Broadcast Order) Ponce de León and the Lost Fountain of Youth (Production/Completion Order)
Next Episode	Blackbeard's Treasure Map (Completion Order) The Lucky Pig of Amelia Earhart (Broadcast Order) The Oracle Bowl of Delphi (Production Order)

The Treasure Map of Jean Lafitte is the 19th episode of Legends of the Hidden Temple.

Moat Crossing

One player from each team sat on a floating ring. When Kirk said "go", that player pulled himself across the Moat as quickly as possible using an attached rope. Once across, he stepped off, grabbed the ring, and threw it back to his partner who proceeded to jump on and pull himself across. As soon as the second teammate stepped onto the deck, it was his job to run over and hit the gong.

Moat Results
Place	Team	Time
1st	Green Monkeys	0:32
2nd	Red Jaguars	0:39
3rd	Purple Parrots	0:41
4th	Blue Barracudas	0:54

Steps of Knowledge

The most notorious New Orleans smuggler and gentleman pirate was Jean Lafitte. He was so wealthy that he built his own secret smugglers' colony on the islands south of New Orleans. From there, he raided foreign ships in the Gulf of Mexico. When he attacked some United States ships, the government sent in troops to capture him. He and his crew burned his colony and sailed away. Before he escaped, he buried his fabled treasure in the quicksand along the Suwannee River, and gave the map to a cabin boy, swearing him to secrecy and threatening him with the "pirates' curse" if he ever revealed the location of the treasure. Sixty years later, the cabin boy, now an old man, came with another man and began digging secretly in the swamps along the Suwannee. Some say malaria— some say the pirates' curse— killed the old man's helper and left the old man a muttering old crazy. But legend has it that the map disappeared... until now.

Steps of Knowledge Results
Question	Answers	Team
As a pirate, did Lafitte terrorize…?	The Gulf of Mexico The Mediterranean Sea Boston Harbor	Red Jaguars (Correct - 2 steps left)
Lafitte was a pirate who worked for different governments. Was he called…?	A Corsair A Privateer A Realtor	Red Jaguars (Correct - 1 step left)
According to legend, did Lafitte bury his treasure way down along the…?	Mississippi River Red River Suwanee River	Blue Barracudas (Correct - 2 steps left)
Did Lafitte help the Americans win…?	The Battle of New Orleans The Battle of New York The Battle of Bull Run	Green Monkeys (Correct - 2 steps left)
Did the battle of New Orleans happen during…?	The French and Indian War The War of 1812 The War of the Roses	Red Jaguars (Wrong Answer)
		Green Monkeys (Correct - 1 step left)
Later in life, Lafitte founded the city of Galveston. Is Galveston in…?	Louisiana Florida Texas	Red Jaguars (Correct - Advanced to Temple Games)
Which of these men led the Americans at the Battle of New Orleans and later became president?	Andrew Jackson Harry Truman Teddy Roosevelt	Blue Barracudas (Correct - 1 step left)
Which of these could be found in a pirate's treasure?	Dragoons Buffoons Doubloons	Blue Barracudas (Correct - Advanced to Temple Games)

Temple Games

The Blue Barracudas are 11-year-old Teri-Kay and Aaron Lane. The Red Jaguars are 11-year-old Jacqueline and 13-year-old Rex.

Cannonball Drop (Water Ramp)

The first game pitted the boys against each other in a race to push cannonballs up a watery ramp using only their backs. At first, the two were fairly even, but with 45 seconds on the clock, Aaron lost his grip about two-thirds of the way up the ramp and slid all the way down, having to start over. He never managed to catch up, so Rex planted the only cannonball for either team at the top with 14 seconds left, and earned the first half pendant of Life for the Red Jaguars.

Pirate's Gold (Peanut Shaft)

The second game pitted Jacqueline against Teri-Kay in a race to retrieve buried treasure deep in "quicksand"-filled shafts. Neither player was terribly good, but Teri-Kay had an easier time climbing the narrow walls of the shaft from the start. When time expired, she managed to get two pieces of treasure up to the top, while Jacqueline only managed to bring one piece of treasure out of the shaft. So, Teri-Kay won the game for the Blue Barracudas, and the score after two games was a tie, at a half pendant per team.

Pass the Gold (Bungee Soap Line)

The Blue Barracudas were notably faster than the Red Jaguars, but at the 0:25 mark, one of the golden objects rolled off Aaron's helmet; it was declared it did not count, allowing the Red Jaguars the opportunity to even the scores. At the end of the game, both teams had retrieved five golden artifacts, which kept the score at a tie, this time for 1½ Pendants apiece.

Tiebreaker

Kirk: "Which of these was a sword used by pirates: a windless, a cutlass or a necklace?" Rex rang in and incorrectly answered "A windless?" sending the Blue Barracudas to Olmec's Temple. The correct answer was a cutlass.

Temple Games Results
Team	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Pendants Won	Tiebreaker
Red Jaguars	Won	Lost	Tied	1½ Pendants	Lost
Blue Barracudas	Lost	Won	Tied	1½ Pendants	Won

Temple Run

The Temple Run was just about as lackluster as the rest of the episode. Aaron was smart to start in the Room of the Three Gargoyles, but the door at the end of the staircase leading into the Troubled Bridge did not open even though the door within the Room of the Three Gargoyles did. That confused him for a while, but he went back and pushed the other tongues to see if he could get the door to open. When nothing worked, he descended into the Cave of Sighs and entered the Wheel Room with about 2:22 to go. He met the first Temple Guard in the Room of Harmonic Convergence with 2:02 to go, then headed up into the Heart Room and got captured with 1:34 on the clock.

Aaron touches what could be the other half of Teri-Kay's pendant.

Teri-Kay did not fare any better. She was slower than Aaron, and she took a completely different path than his. She started by going up, but she managed to pry open the door connecting the Room of the Three Gargoyles and the Troubled Bridge, which did not fully open when Aaron was there. She ended up going into the Observatory, then finally returned to Aaron's path by going down into the Heart Room. From there, she progressed into the Treasure Room, where she did not get too confused when the treasure chest would not allow her to climb downward into the Swamp. She entered the Shrine of the Silver Monkey with about thirty seconds to go, but could not finish putting the monkey together before time ran out.

Aaron and Teri-Kay's path to the treasure map.

Temple Run Results
Reached the Artifact	No
Method of Loss	Failed Acquisition
Victory	No
Temple Guard Locations	The Room of Harmonic Convergence The Heart Room The Tomb of the Ancient Kings
Half Pendant Location	The Heart Room (Semi-Confirmed)

Watch Episode

Notes

• The original prize plugs for this episode are as follows:
  • Fashion Bug (Moat Crossing)
  • UFO for Windows from Software Marketing Corporations (Steps of Knowledge)
  • Armitron Looney Tunes Watches (Temple Games)
• When the Blue Barracudas made it down to the bottom level of the Steps of Knowledge, the celebration music did not play.
• This was the first episode where the Temple Games results in a tie with 1½ Pendants of Life for each team and the only time in Season 1 where this happens.
• This is the first episode where the Blue Barracudas participate in the Tiebreaker.
• This is the second and final episode when the winning team goes to the temple by virtue of the other team answering the tiebreaker question incorrectly. The first episode was The Keys to the Alhambra.
  • Coincidentally, the Red Jaguars competed in the Temple Games in both episodes.
• This is the first episode where the Blue Barracudas defeated the Red Jaguars in the Temple Games to compete in the Temple Run.