Apparently I labeled last season's thread as TAR22 Detours as well, but this really is for Season 22.

For those of you who are new, on this thread you can tell us which detour you would have chosen if you had been running the race, and why.

Your choice -

Pick a Pearl (dive for pearls)
- or -
Take a Trunk (set up a picnic underwater)

While the picnic one looked fairly simple, I think I would have gone with the pearls, because it had the potential to get done much quicker, and I'm a tolerable swimmer.

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Probably Pick a Pearl, since I'm not too bad at swimming. But if I had a partner who was terrified of the deep ocean, I'd have gone for Take a Trunk.

My husband is an excellent swimmer (I'm competent but S-L-O-W), so we probably would have done fine with the Pearl task. Listening to the descriptions before anyone started, though, I thought the Trunk task sounded easier/faster, so that would have been my first choice.

Thanks to tribephyl for the sigpic!

Fish or drive cars

Well, the driving one seemed more complicated and I'm not interested in speed, but fishing seemed totally up to chance, so I probably would have gone with driving anyway.

I would've absolutely gone with driving the cars! It would've given me a good opportunity to put the skills I learned from driving car racing video games to good use!

I don't remember the names, but your choices:

Haul sand from a river up the hill
-or-
Recreate a head decoration made from fruit

I definitely would have gone with the fruit. I'm pretty detail oriented, and there's no way that hauling sand 200 yards uphill on your head would have been easier.

I would also have gone with the fruit head decoration! It would've been too hard to haul sand 200 yards uphill on my head!

I thought the sand sounded faster.

Thanks to tribephyl for the sigpic!

Your choice -

Make a Meal (get a bunch of ingredients and then cook)
-or-
Make a Move (match human chess pieces to a game board)

Not much of a debate here - I would definitely have done make a move. Matching a couple of chess pieces looked pretty simple, much easier then trying to get a bunch of ingredients in a foreign language.

I'm right there with you: Make a Move.

Thanks to tribephyl for the sigpic!

Make a move sounded easier on paper, and I would have chosen that, but it turned out that despite the language barrier, making Phoo(sp?) actually was easier. There are a couple of details about the Make a move challenge that I still don't get.

Frustration was evident when one of the racers asked one of the chess people to just go where they were supposed to go and she would just follow. Nice try.

I think I would've done Make a Move as well.

Sorry this is a week late, I was traveling.

Your choice:
Fire - make fire from scratch
-or-
Fowl - make a trap and then pretend to be a bird and get caught

Another easy choice - I would have done Fowl. Making fire is difficult when you don't know what you are doing, and making a trap looked much easier.

Fowl! Fire making is cool, and I'd love to do it, but it's a race.

Thanks to tribephyl for the sigpic!

This time, your choice is between

Brains - take a safari by horse and memorize the animal cutouts that you see
-or-
Brawn - load a cart and get some donkeys to haul it

Well, brains would definitely be my strength on the race, so I would go with that. Especially since donkeys can be a little stubborn, and I'd rather depend on myself than on a donkey.

On the one hand, I'd go with Brains since I have a great memory and as you noted, donkeys can be stubborn. On the other hand, Brawn seemed faster. I'd probably go with Brawn first and if I got some lemons for donkeys, I'd switch.

I probably would have gone with Brains because of the name, but I would have kicked myself afterward when I realized how much faster Brawn was.

Thanks to tribephyl for the sigpic!

Your choice

Train tracks (build a train track)
-or-
Font follies (carry a large neon letter through the city to a museum)

I would definitely have gone with the train tracks. Finding your way through the city could have been tough, and trains are fun.

I thought the train tracks sounded faster (and easier), too.

Thanks to tribephyl for the sigpic!

Font Follies. The train tracks seemed pretty tough from what I saw of the Detour.

Your choice:

Roll 8 barrels up a hill
-or-
Make and eat some haggis

I know what's in haggis, so I probably would have picked the barrels. Though at least you only had to take a little of the haggis, not eat the whole thing.

I'd have gone for haggis -- but I'd have asked for a glass of water before tasting the haggis. Rolling 8 barrels up a hill just seems a bit too hard for me, otherwise I would have gone for the barrels as I'm a very finicky eater.

Tray It - serve a 5 course dinner to a table of people
-or-
Spray It - spray paint a door to match a picture

I would have gone with Tray It - it definitely seemed easier and I'm not particularly artistic.

I probably would have gone for Tray It as well -- and I would have been better than Mona & Beth on it!