Snake Pit

Snake Pit is a ordeal introduced in the first series of Fort Boyard UK.

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A contestant is lowered into the snake pit, via a ladder. The clue word is split in two, each half being written on a snake. The contestant must find the two-halves to make a whole, and to do so they have to pick up each snake and check its belly to see if one of the two-halves of the clue is on it. There are hundreds of them, but the clue is always written on the big ones, one half usually being in a barrel and the other half in one of the small cupboards at the side of the pit. Chickening out will forfeit the clue.