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These are simple ways to make some necessary props for an Amazing Race. Of course you may omit or add details wherever you like.
Amazing Race Pitstop Mat
A large rectangular mat that is the team’s final destination at the end of the race. It is large enough to fit 4-5 people standing on it comfortably. It is made of a red backing, a smaller yellow rectangle on top of that, with an even smaller black rectangle on top of that.
The black rectangle has the Amazing Race logo on it, with bright green outlined map of the world.
I highly recommend making it your own, by putting your own design on the black section.
Real The Amazing Race Mat
Fake mat 
Amazing Race Clue Envelopes
This is the thing most people will want to find out when they are planning an event like this.
For clue envelopes, the ‘real envelopes’ are really hard to find and often expensive, try looking in craft shops, or post offices for those.
If you can’t find some, you can do what I did:
Take a normal envelope and then use a perforating machine or a stanley/craft knife to make lines along the top of the envelope, so that if you pull on it, it will rip straight off, very similar to in the game.
Yellow/Gold envelopes which contain team instructions or tasks. These envelopes are given to, or found by the team at the completion a task.
The envelope size recommended is 22 x 11cm (known as size ‘DL’). This particular size means you can choose this size when choosing the ‘print’ option in word processing or other computer programs. This allows you to print logos on the envelope and any thing else you want.
The envelopes also need to include a perforated strip running the length of the envelope, instead of a normal ‘lick & seal’ envelope. The strip enables teams to grab an envelope and quickly rip the strip off, opening the envelope.
‘The Amazing Race’ is printed in black on the front of the envelope.
These printed words can be displayed in different ways, depending on what you need. The actual tv envelopes have a thick, black strip running across the face of the envelope. The words Amazing Race are not printed in black, and show through as the yellow colour of the envelope.
the envelope. well, without the signatures =))
Easier to design are envelopes which say ‘The Amazing Race’ in black ink, printed directly on the envelope. There is a thick black line above and below the wording for effect. This method is easier to design, and cheaper to print!
Amazing Race Logo
The logo consists of the words ‘The Amazing’, with the word ‘Race’ printed below. Characters are spaced so as to make the two lines of text the same width (search for character spacing in MS Word help if you don’t know how). ‘Eurostile Academy’ or ‘Arial’ font works reasonably well for these purposes, though Microgramma is the font used in the real logo.
The logo can be printed on the mat or envelopes for extra authenticity.
Amazing Race Clue Cards
These are the cards that teams receive in an envelope after each task. There are several designs for different types including roadblocks, and detours. You can search Google and closely examine the images for the finer details.
At the top of the clue card, the activity is given a name. For example, if they teams are to look for a car in a car park, the title could be ‘Search’ or ‘Find’.
If teams had to go to someones house, knock on the door and get the clue, you could call it ‘Knock’.
The titles of each activity are usually one word only.
Clues often begin with the words “Make your way to..” and finish with “…where you will find your next clue” or “..who will give you your next clue”.
Clues will never specify an address unless there are no other identifying features (these could include a sign out the front, or a feature on the property). If the location is marked on your street directory then definitely do not give them an address.
I have two conflicting pictures of clues, and I’m not entirely sure how they fit together, so there’s a few options here.
There are what appear to be (a) thin cardboard folded cards, and I have also seen (b) double sided paper cards. I feel that option (b) is the better option.
(a)I am not entirely sure what is on the inside of these folded cards, perhaps the instructions could be printed there? The front and back covers are identical. They have large scale images of the type of task contained within it (eg. roadblock, detour, etc.). The type of task has it’s name printed on the card, the font being Microgramma, as in the logo.
(b)The cards are two sided, though for your purposes it is probably only necessary to print one side. One side contains a large print of the type of clue it is, while the other shows the type of clue in small print at the top, with the instructions below it.
as usual, without the signatures.
Clue Boxes
The most important thing to remember if you are putting your clues outside, is that they must be able to survive any weather, sun or rain!
You might decide that making clue boxes is too much trouble and put the envelopes in bags instead (thats what i did!). Those kitchen bags that you seal at the top are good, use your imagination!
The clue boxes are much harder, I haven’t got any advice on how to go about making one, other than finding some wood, and hammering it together. You might find some cheap boxes in craft shops.
The clue boxes have change in design since the beginning of the game show series. I would recommend a dark green box, with the standard red & yellow flag. All you need to do is make sure it stands out!
clue box. the real one. or not?
Yield Sign
The yield symbol is an isosceles triangle (two sides are equal length), rotated so it is pointing down. It is always shown in black on a yellow background (same yellow as envelopes). It looks like in this picture:
A dark black outline is clearly seen on the symbol, however there is also a smaller triangle within it. The smaller triangle has a shadow on the left, with the right side still showing, but in white.
The word ‘Yield’ is displayed in capital letters at the top of the page (Arial is a good font for this).
U-Turn Sign
The U-turn symbol is, obviously, looks like a U-turn sign. It is always shown in black on a yellow background (same yellow as envelopes).
It is colored in solid black. It looks like in this picture:
The word ‘U-turn’ is displayed in capital letters at the top of the page (Arial is a good font for this).
