Lecture Notes: Salish and Nadal's Friendship Challenge

Overview

• Participants: Salish and Nadal
• Situation: Trapped in a room with tape, 5 minutes to escape or face slime
• Prize: $100 if they escape before time runs out
• Challenges: Series of friendship tests, including teamwork, telepathy, sacrifice, honesty, and patience

Initial Challenge

• Objective: Remove tape using plastic knives hidden in balloons
• Time Limit: 4.5 minutes
• Outcome: Successfully found knives and escaped

Friendship Challenges

Balloon Knife Challenge

• Task: Find knives inside balloons to cut the tape
• Requirement: Teamwork needed to pop balloons and find knives

Twin Telepathy Test

• Objective: Match actions without communication
• Reward/Penalty:
  • $10 for each match
  • Lose $10 for each mismatch
  • Lose all if mismatches exceed matches

Sacrifice

• Offer: Double money if one sacrifices and gets slimed
• Decision: Both wanted to sacrifice, ultimately neither slimed

Patience Test

• Goal: Find correct key among 100 to unlock a door
• Time Limit: 5 minutes, walls close in with 30 seconds left
• Outcome: Successfully found key

Honesty Test

• Administrator: John, polygraph expert
• Rules: $10 for each truth, $100 lost for each lie
• Questions:
  • Personal likes/dislikes
  • Past crushes
  • Current dating status

Final Challenge: Haunted House

• Objective: Find a hidden key to unlock $1,000
• Scenario: Escape room with scare actors and obstacles
• Condition: If tagged by the host before finding the key, lose all
• Outcome: Failed to find key, host wins

Additional Observations

• Teamwork: Tested throughout, essential for success
• Sacrifice and Honesty: Played pivotal roles in decision-making

Conclusion

• Result: Ended with some money but did not win the $1,000
• Future Plans: Spend their winnings handcuffed
• Key Lesson: Friendship tests reveal strengths and areas for improvement