Snake / Scorpion Room

Usually a Level 1 challenge, this room contained various hazardous creatures, including a snake and a scorpion.

Series | 1, 2, 3
Level | 1

This room was an early test of timing and coordination.

Snake

One hazard was a large snake. Sometimes it would fully appear in the middle of the room.

Alternatively, the snake would enter through the rubble from one of the rear doors.

This caused some panic when teams casually led a dungeoneer into the centre of the room.

Scorpion

A different hazard was an animated scorpion, which snaps its tail across the width of the room.

Dungeoneers must run the gauntlet and time their passage with care.

When this puzzle was first introduced, there was enough space to evade the sting.

However, in the third series, an area of floor is broken so dungeoneers must pass through the line of fire to escape.

A variant of the Snake / Scorpion Room, based on a handpainted scene by David Rowe, as shown on Series 3 of Knightmare (1989). — A scorpion variant, from Series 3

Those who linger longer in this chamber may linger forever.
Treguard

Series 3 Quest 2

Team 2: Cliff, James, Richard and Matthew from Felixstowe.

Wellways

The Level 1 Wellway Room was used for the first three series of Knightmare.

Wellway rooms allowed dungeoneers to descend to the second and third levels in the early series of Knightmare.

Ledge Crossing

Series 2, Quest 12. Steven encounters a giant arachnid on a narrow ledge.

The versatile ledge crossing was used for an arachnid or a character encounter. It was expanded in the third series to a three-part set piece along a cliff.

Published on: 10th May 2020