I was going to need to come up with some anyway, so I figured I might as well make a blog about them.

There are a couple categories that challenges can fall into:

1. Easy: challenges that cause minimal embarrassment, such as placing stickie notes around the school or taking selfies with people you know.
2. Medium: challenges that are not embarrassing, but would be difficult to do in the small breaks between classes or require more than four people to complete. ex: getting 40 people to sign your arm
3. Difficult: challenges that require you to do something embarrassing or strange in front of a lot of people, ex: act like a chicken in the back commons during lunch or scream Michelle Obama off both balcony’s
4. Competition: A challenge in which only one person can get the credit
5. Partner: challenges which require one other competitor to complete
6. Item: challenges that require outside items to be provided to competitors. These are best later in the game so we don’t have to spend as much money.

The more difficult challenges would be used as the game goes on for longer, but all ideas are helpful.

Easy/Medium/Difficult:

1. Walk like a crab down one hallway. Snap your hands like pinchers at at least two people.
2. Find one person who follows @gdchallengegame and follow them for all of break. You are not allowed to talk to them. (no repeats)
3. Get 40 people to write their least favorite vegetable on your arm
4. Pretend to be an octopus for 30 seconds in every class
5. Take a selfie with a ginger (no repeats)
6. Give a piece of paper labeled “Ginger” to the ginger you took a selfie with yesterday
7. Yell “I’m the karate kid” off the main staircase
8. Act like a piece of seaweed for 1 minute during break
9. Go up to five lunch tables and ask “how much stuff can you stuff in your stuffie till your stuffie’s stuffed enough stuff?”
10. Somersault down the length of the library
11. Stand in front of a class and teach a lesson on how cereal is made
12. Make a paper crown and proclaim yourself the fish prince whenever you walk into a new classroom.
13. Thumb wrestle with a sophomore
14. Get the same sophomore you thumb-wrestled and have them write you a haiku about milk
15. Walk up to a lunch table, stand there silent for five seconds, then say “surprise! I’m the muffin man!” and walk away.
16. Scream “It’s raining tomatoes!” and run from the front to the back commons
17. Bring a piece of broccoli or (insert green vegetable here), hand it to Anna Rimkus (or any blond person) and say “eat your greens goldilocks”
18. Go up to someone who does not follow @gdchallengegame and say “thank you for the plantains”
19. Play rock paper scissors with a freshman
20. Draw a ring on a piece of paper and use it to propose to Ms. Gounis
21. Do the Macarena in two of your classes
22. Get 40 people to sign your arm
23. Get everyone in your B block class to sign a retirement card and give it to your teacher.

Competition:

1. Rock Paper Scissors Tournament with all the other competitors. Whoever wins gets the credit. Ties will be settles during lunch.

Partner:

1. Play paddy-cake with an eliminated player for 30 seconds. If you mess up you must start over (no repeats)
2. Play ring around the rosie with three other competitors (no repeats)
3. Do a rain dance in the front commons during lunch with another player (no repeats)

Item:

1. Put a stuffed animal on your shoulder all day
2. Eat a mystery item at break
3. Wear a halloween costume of your choosing from the dollar store for three class periods and lunch

I’m not participating in Challenge Game this year as a participant because it was honestly super stressful last time. Don’t get me wrong, it was really fun and I would definitely recommend playing, but every night when the challenges were posted I would have to make a plan for how I would complete them in time. It was not the easiest of things. And I feel like if I was to participate again I would be expected to do well and I don’t really want that sort of pressure.

I’m not yet sure when exactly GD Challenge Game will be starting again. It will most likely be later in the year, maybe around March, because Josh and I have to apply to college and stuff so we must prioritize. It could start in November though, it all depends on when we finish applications and how many scholarship essays we are going to have to write. Those will be super fun. But we also need over sixty challenges before we start the game again. Coming up with them on the fly is super difficult, so having as many as possible lined up is going to be a real help.

I met a person. Her name is Maddie. She likes Miraculous. That’s a weird french tv show and I’ve watched all of the first season too but I don’t know why. She also puts ice cubes in her milk.

A list of things Maddie likes:

1. Putting ice cubes in milk
2. Miraculous
3. Waffles with chocolate chips

I have a hard time really getting to know people. When I’m told to talk to someone I usually can’t think of anything to say. It’s much easier for me to get to know people when I’m not told that I have to do it, because it adds pressure to the conversation.

For example, this assignment was to talk to someone you haven’t spoken to before in class and write about that experience. For me, that kinda took away from the experience. We spent more of our time talking focused on what we were going to write than actually getting to know each other.

In addition to that, we didn’t really even have a one on one conversation, since the people around us were also talking to us and we kept getting distracted by them.

That being said, Maddie seems like a pretty cool person. I mean, her hair is purple and pink, and that’s pretty awesome. She likes the show Miraculous too. That’s a french t.v. show for younger kids. But it’s still entertaining for all ages. I respect that being Maddies favorite show. Also, chocolate chip waffles are definitely the greatest kind of waffles, if not the best breakfast food there ever was.

Maybe we aren’t destined to be best friends, since it is likely that this class is the only place our paths will cross, but that doesn’t mean Maddie isn’t super cool. It just means the universe doesn’t want us to know each other.

I’m honestly not sure what else to write about. I’m super sick and my head hurts and my cough is just the worst thing ever. Yesterday I couldn’t fall asleep until 1 am because I wouldn’t stop coughing. Every five minutes I would cough until I almost threw up. And that’s really not an exaggeration.

I went to the doctor yesterday and I’m getting a prescription for antibiotics and a prescription for a steroid. Basically, I have this one illness that makes me cough a lot and that causes my vocal cords or throat or something to be inflamed and that makes me cough more. So yay. We love pain.

I want to go to sleep.

I’m so tired.

I want to finish this but I also don’t because I don’t know what I want to write about . I feel bad. I don’t like when things are required because then I’m worried I’ll do it wrong.

Next week I’m going to Witches Woods with Josh Booth, Cecilia Cronin and Taryn Emerle. That’s going to be super fun. I’ll probably write a blog about it.

I just discovered that Maddie loves Halloween and is going to Salem in October (for obvious reasons). This proves to me that Maddie is a witch. Maybe we should be best friends, since I’m apparently a serial killer. The terror we could bring upon the world really inspires me. Unfortunately, Maddie does not like horror movies. But this is fine. I can work around it.

Talking makes my throat hurt more.

This cough is literally the worst thing ever. It’s just like “hi, guess what, you can’t sleep or breathe or drink water or sit calmly and watch t.v or do literally anything ever.”

So I went to a cross country meet on Saturday and ran one of my worst times of the season and also felt like absolute crap the whole time. So that was fun.

But my cough is getting better now. I’ve been taking my antibiotics and steroids so now I’m less likely to suffocate while coughing. That’s always a fun experience, when you can’t get air into or out of your lungs and you just sit there not able to breathe in either direction all confused.

Also the worst thing happened to me in A block today. See I had a ton of supplemental essays to write for colleges because each one I want to apply to has at least one required essay, and most of them had more than one, but in A block I thought I had finally finished all of them. Until tragedy struck. I was looking at the Penn State portion of my common application and I realized I hadn’t checked the box saying I wanted to apply to the honors college and then six more essays popped up. I thought I was done and now I am not and it’s the worst thing ever. So yay. Now I get to work on that.

This post is referencing the same swim coach as the one my bro Riley wrote about on her blog.

Conspiracy Theory:

My swim coach is Ted Bundy.

I might be writing the same thing as Riley, but honestly I don’t care. Our swim coach is Ted Bundy, and by the end of this you will believe it too.

The first reason that this is complete fact is that Ted Bundy and our swim coach look identical. It’s like Ted Bundy died and was re-born as our swim coach. They look the exact same. I would add pictures to prove my point, but I feel like I should protect the identity of my swim coach. At least until he is arrested for being a serial murderer and rapist.

Aside from the fact that they look the exact same, there are many other factors that prove that our coach is in fact Ted Bundy.

This man is the most sadistic and cruel human being on the planet.

He is also a terrible swim coach, but that’s beside the point.

Last year Riley was on my relay team. She was very fast and she earned her spot on that team. But alas The Big Jerk decided that this was not the way things were supposed to be. Not only did he tell Riley that she was “slow” and accuse her of not trying, but he made her cry. Many many times. So many times. WHAT TYPE OF SOULESS MONSTER MAKES RILEY CRY???????? SHE IS THE SWEETEST HUMAN EVER and she also did nothing wrong. No coach should ever be the cause of a swimmers tears. Riley did not deserve to be yanked out of the pool and scolded. That is not how you motivate a swimmer. To make matters worse, he didn’t let her swim in our relay at sectionals. If he had we could have won a medal. Also he had no good reason to not let her swim.

Therefore he is Ted Bundy. Only Ted Bundy, the most souless being on Earth, could scream at Riley and make her cry. Therefore, he is Ted Bundy.

Our coach also told a girl in my grade, named Sam who was one second away from qualifying for an end of the season meet in backstroke. He told her she couldn’t do it and put her in a different event instead. He brought her to tears too. Clearly his coaching skills are not the best, and that coupled with the fact he looks like Ted Bundy, just about proves that he is Ted Bundy reincarnated.

Add to the fact that he has a wife and a child on the way, similar to the real Ted Bundy.

Now that we’ve discussed how the swim coach is similar to Ted Bundy, let’s discuss how this is possible. Ted Bundy was executed January 24 1989, but our swim coach was born in 1975, so how could he be Ted Bundy? Well here’s the thing, Ted Bundy was captured in 1975, so he could have done some voodoo magic or whatever and placed a bit of his soul into this un-born baby that was our swim coach. The baby would not be as evil and terrible as the real Ted Bundy, hence why he has not started killing those of us on the team yet, but it’s only a matter of time.

We need to be on guard this year. Our swim coach is soon not going to be happy just making everyone cry, he might move to murder. To test this theory we are going to have Austin fake drown and see what the coach does. If he saves Austin, he is still content with tears. If Austin is left to die, then he is clearly ready to move to the next step and we will need to move to phase two of the plan.

In phase two we push the coach into the pool. He can’t swim very fast, so we’re thinking we can push him in and just wait and see what happens. He’s most likely trained as a life guard though, but it will help us if we understand the extent of his swimming prowess. (Though to be fair he probably isn’t great since in college he was about as fast as me and Riley, and a grown man should be faster than a teenage girl).

Phase three is a little bit up in the air right now. If he survives being pushed in the pool and he shows more aggression we may just not come to practice. If this is the case, it will be posted on the meme page so everyone knows that our coach has finally gone crazy. Until then we shall just wait and see.

Our swim coach is Ted Bundy, and you cannot change my mind.

Here is a picture of Ted Bundy, you will just have to take our word for it, but they do look identical.

Disclaimer: I am not actually planning to harm my swim coach. That is a joke, please don’t report me.

This is not something I make a habit of talking about unless it some how comes up in conversation. I don’t feel the need to boast about it to people that I’ve just met, or even friends I’ve known for a couple years. Of course, I say that at the beginning of a blog post that literally anyone could happen across. But I’m only doing that because Austin and I thought it would be funny. So yeah. I am a Thai Princess.

I am directly descended from Kings Mongkut and Chulalongkorn. King Mongkut was my great great great great grandfather and King Chulalongkorn was my great great great grandfather. These are both people that we read about in our World History textbooks. That was a crazy experience let me tell you. We also watched The King and I in world history, which showed my great great great great grandpa and his many many wives.

My great great grandfather was Prince Rangsit. He was the fifty-second son of Chulalongkorn and was born to one of Chulalongkorns minor wives. Funnily enough though, his mom died and he was adopted by Chulalongkorns main wife. As a result, he grew up very close to the heir to the thrown. He and Prince Mahidol were very close friends growing up, and Prince Rangsit played a very important role in the transitory phase from the time his younger half brother abdicated the throne to his nephews coronation. Additionally after the mysterious death of one of the nephew’s in the Grand Palace, Prince Rangsit was appointed Regent of Thailand until the younger nephew was old enough to take over the throne.

Prince Rangsit had three children. One boy and two girls. The most important of the three, in my opinion, was the youngest, Princess Charulaksana Kalyani Rangsit. Princess Charulaksana, or should I say Omi, was my great grandmother. Unfortunately, near the end of her life she developed Alzheimers, and I was unable to get to know her very well since she died in 2012. From what I do know though, she was pretty cool. She met a common doctor who she fell in love with, and she relinquished her title as princess in order to marry him. They were still incredibly wealthy though, because Prince Rangsit didn’t disown her and her husband was a doctor. Fortunately, before her death my Omi got her title restored and she died as a Princess in the royal family. That being said, my Omi had two children, my grandfather Chamikorn and his brother Chai. They don’t technically have titles though because my Omi was a woman and Thai culture is sexist.

Moving on though, my grampi Chami married my grammie Jane, an American woman from New York, and they had two kids. One of them was my dad and he eventually met my mom and then they had me. And I have to say, the whole “princess” thing is way overrated.

We are still a part of the royal family, and if you were to look in a Thai book with the entire royal family, you would find my mom and dad listed at the end of Prince Rangsit’s family branch. We have this book at our house. Unfortunately, it’s the edition that came out a few years before either Carter or I were born, so our names aren’t there, but my parents and my aunt and uncles are.

But honestly, besides getting our names written in the book, I don’t get much from being a part of the royal family. Besides, there are probably a whole lot of people who could trace their family lines back to King Mongkut or King Chulalongkorn because combined they had about 100 wives each. I’m not kidding. King Mongkut had 62 wives, you can look it up. There are a few benefits though.

For one, I can get a Thai citizenship pretty easily. I’m going to go become a citizen over winter break actually, so that’s pretty cool. We also own some land over in Thailand and we have a driver for some reason. I don’t know why. Our family is hardly ever there. The members of the royal family are also automatic members of the royal yacht club. But that pretty much means nothing for me, since I am a woman. I can’t even step on the premises without a male escort. My brother has to go in with me in order for me to be “allowed” there. So that’s obnoxious. We also have shirts with the family crest on them, and if we wear them it lets people know which branch of the family we’re from. That’s also cool, except why would I want an entire city to know I’m royalty. That’s one way to ensure you get robbed or kidnapped.

So I am a Thai Princess. You are all peasants who must obey my every wish. Yeah right. In all honesty it’s a cool fact to be able to share sometimes, but it doesn’t change much about my life. And I can never “sit on the throne” or rule over all my Thai subjects or whatever. I am female. In order for me to rule the king himself would have to say “this female can have my throne” and no king will do that. Besides, the royal family actually has no say in the government or laws. They can sway public opinion, but that’s it. They are figure heads and they have little to no power. Thailand is a super cool place though.

The GD Challenge Game was the brain child of Josh Booth. The rules were very simple. In order to play, you first had to contribute five dollars to the winnings of the last person standing. You were eliminated if you failed to complete the required number of challenges by the end of the school day. The challenges could only be completed on school grounds between the hours of 7 am and 1:50 pm.

Josh created an instagram account so that fans who were not in classes with the competitors could still follow the highlights of the game and make suggestions for challenges. It started out with about twenty followers, including the twelve competitors, and ended with 103. If the game starts again, I am sure the following would increase.

The challenges start out pretty easy in order to eliminate those who definitely did not have what it takes to win. The first day, competitors had to complete three of five possible challenges:

1. Take a selfie with a group of 4+ freshmen
2. Sing a song to a senior for at least 10 seconds
3. Bottle flip a bottle in all four of your classes
4. Draw a picture of broccoli and hand it to a sophomore with zero explanation
5. Write your full name on five stickie notes and place them around the school

I know that the stickie notes were not removed from their places around the school until they fell off whatever they were put on. My stickie note by the art room stayed up for two weeks. At the end of that day, two people failed to complete their challenges, and if these seemed difficult, you probably should not compete in any future GD challenge games. The challenges only get harder.

Day Two: Complete 4 of the 6 challenges

1. Take a picture of a foreign language teacher
2. Take a selfie with a set of twins (together)
3. make earings out of paper clips and wear them for 3 minutes
4. Give someone a makeover using marker and pen
5. Find the same sophomore you gave the broccoli to and show them everything in your wallet
6. Give a piece of fruit to someone who follows @gdchallengegame but is not playing (no repeats)

“No repeats” meant that if you gave the fruit to someone who had already received fruit it did not count as completing a challenge. This is a condition that shows up pretty often on the challenges. It is also a condition that meant one person got eliminated day 2.

Day 3: Complete 4 of the 6 challenges

1. Take a selfie with someone who has the same name as you
2. Get a video of you doing some sort of gymnastics stunt (cartwheel, handstand, somersault, etc)
3. Have someone record you introducing yourself to 5 new people. Tell the people that your name is ‘granola’
4. Wear your hair in pigtails for an entire class period
5. Partner Challenge: ballroom dance with another player in the front commons for 30 seconds (no repeats)
6. Ask a freshman boy to prom (no repeats)

There were also added notes for challenges that people would not be able to complete for reasons out of their control. For example, if there was no one else in the school with your name you could take a picture with Ali Cartier instead. Or if your hair was too short for pigtails you could wear a sideways hat instead. Also, at this point there were nine competitors, so the partner challenge would not be able to be done by one person. One person was eliminated after this day.

I am now going to skip to the end of the game, when there were only three competitors left. The game went on for ten days so in order to show some of the more difficult challenges I am going to skip to when there were only three of us left.

Day 8: Complete 4 of the 6 challenges

1. Take a group selfie with 6 of the eliminated players
2. Walk around and act like a chicken in the front or back commons for 2 minutes at lunch
3. Build a human pyramid with five other people (no repeats)
4. Find me (Josh) before school to choose one mystery item to wear for four hours
5. Breakdance in all of your classes
6. Competition! Perform a 1 minute song for a guest judge. They will decide who sang the best and that person will get the credit for this challenge.

No one was eliminated on this day, but at this point there were only three of us left. We had committed to winning and none of us wanted to back down. As you can see though, it was not easy. I was unable to get credit for singing, and I could not get six eliminated players together. So you know what that means.

The day of the Championship came two days later. Sydney was unable to complete enough challenges on Day 9 and was eliminated. It was just me and Maddie left. That day, who ever completed more challenges won the game.

The Championship: Complete as many challenges as possible

1. Braid 10 peoples hair
2. Take a selfie with an Admin
3. Write a Sonnet for a teacher while you’re in their class and give it to them
4. Wear a bonnet and hair extensions for three of your classes *
5. Drink an entire bottle of Powerade out of a spray bottle *
6. Give a retirement card to a teacher you don’t have right now, in absolute seriousness * (no repeats)
7. Carry an unused toilet bowl brush with you all day *
8. Introduce yourself to 5 full lunch tables as “xxxtentacion”
9. Have 40 people sign your arm
10. Make animal noises for a minute straight in all of your classes
11. Competition! take more selfies with members of the girls varsity basketball team than the other player

The challenges with (*) were challenges that required items that we had to collect from Josh. He provided us with the things we needed to complete them. We were not expected to complete all of the challenges, but we both did. The winning point went to Maddie though, because she was able to get more selfies with the girls varsity basketball team.

Josh and I would like to start GD challenge game again this year. It is our senior year and therefore our last chance, and we want it to be the best one yet. I have created a blog post about the game in the hope that people will use it to help create more ideas for challenges. We need six challenges everyday, for about ten days. Any ideas help.

An in depth look, The Final Chapter

“All of my work has been leading to this.”

Jigsaw (Saw The Final Chapter)

To be completely honest I have actually gotten tired of writing about Saw. It’s been about three weeks since I watched them all, and they have kind of faded from the forefront of my mind. It is also about time that I moved on, but not without one final goodbye.

There was a twist at the end of every movie, from a new Jigsaw apprentice reveal, to how the people in the Game that was played could have escaped. The last five or so minutes of the movie usually serve as plot revelation, showing viewers how Jigsaw pulled off his master plan with a series of flashbacks. I shall now regal you with yet another ranking of the Saw twist endings, hopefully not mixing up what happened in which movie in the process.

The twists will be ranked as follows:

1. Whether or not the twist is realistic; could it happen in real life?
2. Creativity; was the twist clever or was it a repeat of before
3. Predictability; I’m not explaining this one, I think it’s pretty obvious.

1.Amanda is revealed as an apprentice (Saw 2)

In my opinion, this reveal was definitely the best one by far (obviously, or else a different one would be labeled as number one). It had everything, it was creative, it was realistic and it was pretty unpredictable (unless you were obnoxious and read the plot online prior to watching the movie). Since it was from the second movie, it was not something the audience could expect and therefore it was quite the surprise. Added to that the fact that it made re-watching the movie more interesting, since you could try and find clues to the fact she was an apprentice, it made the movie as a whole a lot better too.

2. John Kramer was in the room the whole time (Saw 1)

I struggled with ranking this reveal as second. For one, it was original and unpredictable, but it wasn’t super realistic. I mean, why would John Kramer just place himself on the floor like a dead guy. What does he gain from being in the room with these two guys? Also, from what we know from the first movie, how did he get there? His body was very well staged with all the blood, so that must have taken some time. How did he get the two guys into the room while still having time to stage himself? It doesn’t really work. We find out later that Amanda helped, but we don’t know that is Saw 1. Also, Saw 1 was not my favorite movie, so I didn’t really want to rank the twist so high on the list.

3. Hoffman is also an apprentice (Saw 4)

This twist had the element of surprise and it was realistic too. The problem was that it had been done before. I know they needed another apprentice because Amanda was killed and John died, but this seemed like not the way to do it. We don’t really find out anything about Hoffman either, so we don’t know why he works with Jigsaw yet, so it felt like a copout. They did hint at it the whole movie though, so if you watched closely you might have figured it out, and I liked that.

4. Lynn was Jeff’s wife and it was a test for Amanda (Saw 3)

This was a pretty cool addition to Saw 3. It showed the depth that Jigsaw went into when he was designing traps. It also showed his intelligence since he was able to pretty accurately predict how the subjects would react. It was original and creative, but I didn’t really like how Amanda died. As we have discussed, I really like Amanda.

5. Lawrence Gordon was alive and helping John Kramer (Saw The Final Chapter)

This was an interesting twist. It was yet another repeat of before with Amanda, so it scores pretty low because of that. I mean, it wasn’t creative and it was a repeat and while you couldn’t see it coming, you had no chance of figuring it out based on subtle hints during the movie because we haven’t seen Dr.Gordon since the first movie. This felt rushed and a different decision could have been made that made it more realistic.

6. Hoffman forced Amanda to kill Lynn and Jill tried to kill Hoffman (Saw 6)

I wish Hoffman died and Jill became Jigsaw. I’m sorry, but I felt like the writers had an excellent opportunity here and they just let it go. That being said, it was creative and not a repeat, but it was also kind of obvious. I saw this coming without having to rewatch the movie and it ended in a disappointing way, so it gets a score of bad.

7. There is yet another apprentice (Jigsaw)

So after eight movies, I understand that the writers are running out of ideas. This “twist” was hard to rate though. It was not predictable, and it was a really good reveal in the moment. That being said, it was definitely a repeat, since there were four new apprentices revealed within the span of the eight movies. So no, it was not creative, it was definitely a repeat of other twists and honestly, it should have been predictable. I mean, in 50% of the movies a new apprentice is revealed.

8. Strahm gets killed and framed as Jigsaw (Saw 5)

This is rated as the worst of the twists because, in all honesty, it was not a twist. Everyone expected Strahm to die, and the way he could have survived was pretty obvious. Overall, this felt like a lazy plot addition, and nothing else in the movie could qualify as a twist. The Game played in Saw 5 was really cool, but the twist just did not fit the rest of the movie.

The Saw series is a cornucopia of fun things to talk about, but alas this is the last post on it I will make. It is time for me to move on.

“Congratulations Dr. Gordon… you survived!”

John Kramer (Saw The Final Chapter)

An In Depth Look at the Saw Traps

“The clock is ticking for you”

Jigsaw (Saw 2)

In all honesty I’m getting sort of tired of writing about the traps because they are just so hard to differentiate. But I must finish the ranking so, continued from Make Your Choice part 10.

42. The Oxygen Crusher (Saw 6)

In this trap, one person had to die for the other to survive. Every time someone took a breath, the sides of the trap moved inward a little more. The more breaths the victim took, the more crushed they became. This trap was not very cool and one of the people in it didn’t even do anything to deserve to be there.

43. Brazen Bull (Saw The Final Chapter)

Okay so in this trap was a lady who did nothing other than trust her husband, but she was basically baked in a giant oven. It was a terrible way to go and she didn’t deserve it.

44. The Razor Wire (Saw)

This trap featured a man who was suicidal. I don’t think he deserved to be in the trap. Depression is not cured by putting someone in a razor wire maze and telling them “escape”. This man needed help, not Jigsaw giving him the opportunity to die.

45. The Ice Block Trap (Saw 4)

This trap was rigged so that everyone involved would die. It was not cool and was rather boring and pointless.

46. The Gallows (Saw 6)

This trap did not let the people in it decide their own fates. Also, they were killed by being hanged by barbed wire so it was just unpleasant to watch. There was a lot of crying and begging.

47. Zep’s Test (Saw 1)

Zep was told he had to kill and innocent mother and child when the timer ran out, and I just think that a better test could have been made. Jigsaw should not have placed an innocent mother and child in danger.

48. Quadruple Shotgun (Saw 1)

This trap was a security measure, designed to kill police officers who found where Jigsaw was living. He killed police officers who were just doing their job, and in my opinion that’s just senseless murder.

49. The Pendulum (Saw 4)

This was not even a Jigsaw trap. It was designed by detective Hoffman in order to kill the man who brutally murdered his sister. Not only was it unwinnable, but it was unrealistic because the guy in the trap would have passed out from the pain.

50. Pig Vat (Saw 3)

You could argue to get this trap moved up on the list, however the judge did not deserve to be there, his fate was not in his own hands, and the trap was designed so he would drown in pig guts. That’s not cool, that’s just vile.

51. Water Cube (Saw 5)

Last and least, the water cube. This trap was designed by Detective Hoffman (Jigsaw at the time) and I have so many problems with it. First, it was unwinnable and honestly I wanted Strahm to die, but they then made him figure out how to survive, so I hate that. Second, there was a tape for Strahm and there was absolutely no way for Jigsaw to know that Agent Strahm would be the one to make it to the trap. Therefore it was unrealistic for them to be prepared for him. Hoffman didn’t know Strahm was coming until he had arrived that day, and they could not have made a whole trap and tape and secret room for him while Jigsaw was on his death bed and Lynn was there. This trap was a prank.

And there you have it, every Jigsaw trap ranked from best to worst. If you could not tell I got a little bored half way or so through, but I made it eventually. It was really hard to decide how to rank the ones after about the top ten because after that they were all fairly average. I did not hate them or love them, I just disliked them about an equal amount. Especially since there is not much information on the traps, the movies spend at most ten minutes on each individual trap. For some of them, you don’t know about the people who are in them, and you have no real attachment to them. That being said, some of the traps, like the Reverse Bear trap, were amazing and super interesting. Also I’d like to know more about the Jigsaw Survivors group they introduce in Saw The Final Chapter. That would be interesting to here more about.

I am now running out of Saw thing to talk about, so we will see how many more of these I make.

“By creating a legacy, by living a life worth remembering, you become immortal.”

Amanda (Saw 2)

An In Depth Look At The Saw Traps

“To be able to sustain such a traumatic experience and yet find the positive in that grisly act. It’s a remarkable feat indeed”

Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Saw The Final Chapter)

I’m going to assume that if you are here you have read at least Make Your Choice parts eight and nine. If you haven’t you will probably be confused, so maybe get on that or never come back.

30. Grain Silo (Jigsaw)

Honestly this trap seemed pointless to me. Two bros from the Game in Jigsaw were tragically stuck in a grain silo and covered in grain. Then the grain stopped and KNIVES FELL FROM THE CEILING!!! Let me repeat that. Knives fell from the ceiling. Now I ask you, in what universe would this happen? Also that guy from the Leg Wires trap (#24) had to pull the lever to get himself and them out so that trap was not great.

31. The Magnum Eye Hole (Saw 2)

So in the antidote safe room, there was a door that was on a time lock. But if you used a key on the door, you got shot in the eye by a gun. The key came with a note saying “do not use this key on the door” so I’m not sure what was expected here, but it seemed boring and pointless to me.

32. Electrified Staircase (Saw 2)

This is a trap that I am not sure should count as a trap, which is why I rate it so low. Honestly, electrified stairs? Pretty cool. But not when used on poor, nameless police friends who have no idea what they are walking into. They didn’t deserve to be electrocuted.

33. Acid Room (Saw 6)

So this is the trap at the end of Saw 6. Now you may recall that in Saw 6 there is an obnoxious insurance man who has to pass a series of tests. But at the end of the test he is confronted with two people who should definitely want him dead, and they are told they can kill him with some acid if they want. So he dies. End of story.

34. The Rack (Saw 3)

This is a trap found at the end of Jeff’s game in Saw 3. There is a man placed on a rack and his limbs are twisted until Jeff can save him. Jeff does not save him. Also he should definitely have passed out from pain sooner. Not cool, innocent guy dies, etcetera.

35. Public Execution (Saw The Final Chapter)

As far as opening traps go, the bar was set pretty high, I mean you had the Reverse Bear Trap, the Venus Fly Trap and Pound of Flesh, all ranked pretty high. Then you had this absolute JEM. Why were they in public? How did they get there? Why did no one notice a problem when a lady was about to be cut open by a table saw? It was gross, pointless and it just made me angry. Thumbs down.

36. Lawn Mower Trap (Saw The Final Chapter)

Another seemingly pointless trap. Two people we don’t know are dangling above upside-down lawnmowers and if one of them falls the other lives. This is not creative or cool and honestly you have a 50/50 chance of survival so it sucks.

37. The Cycle (Jigsaw)

Now this trap was disappointing, because I think it had some potential to be cool, but then it wasn’t. I can’t even describe it in normal human terms. I am completely at a loss at how this could happen on Earth, or how you could manage to not be shredded like cheese.

38. The Classroom (Saw 3)

This is a trap made by Amanda after she decided to just kill people rather than test them. Unfortunately, it was not nearly as cool as the Angle trap, it was just absolutely vile and uncomfortable to watch and made me want to throw up. So not cool, not survivable and grody. Next.

39. The Drill Chair (Saw 1)

This trap honestly made so little of an impression I didn’t even remember it. Why isn’t it closer to the middle then you ask? Well because it was practically impossible to escape. How does one find a key when you cannot move your body?

40. The Scalping Seat (Saw 4)

So this trap scored so low for a couple of reasons. Reason one, the lady had to rely on someone else to get her out before her test could begin. Reason two it was not cool. Reason number three it was bad and no one wants the details.

41. The Freezer Room (Saw 3)

This is another trap from Jeff’s Game, the first to be exact, and let me tell you, I am not a fan. This lady is stuck in a freezer room and she is definitely not dressed appropriately to be in below zero weather while being sprayed by cold water. Jeff has to get the key fast enough to save her, but she is frozen into an ice cube so fast he can’t. Her fate wasn’t in her hands.

More terrible traps to come…

“Remarkable. If not a little perverse”

Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Saw The Final Chapter)

An In Depth Look at the Saw Traps

“So are you going to watch yourself die here today, Adam, or are you going to do something about it?”

Jigsaw (Saw 1)

Continued from Make Your Choice pt. 8

16. Adam and Dr.Gordon in the Bathroom (Saw)

This trap was kind of boring, but it was also good in the sense it was survivable. It was a good mix of clever and horrific and while the first movie wasn’t great, this trap is underrated.

17. Blind v.s. Mute (Saw 4)

This trap was an interesting one since I’m not sure exactly how both of the people in it would have survived. One man was rendered blind by Jigsaw and the other mute, so they had no way to communicate. In theory they could have both survived, but things turned violent fast and only the mute man escaped.

18. Bedroom Trap (Saw 4)

This was a cool trap because the guy who was in it 300% deserved to be there. The trap was survivable and it represented the things Jigsaw stood for, but it wasn’t cool enough to get it higher on the list.

19. Laser Collars (Jigsaw)

This was a cool trap, but it was slightly rigged, which is why it is lower on the list. This is where the twist of Jigsaw was revealed and it was done in a cool way. That being said, a detective was killed but he did not have the chance to escape, so the trap must be placed below top ten.

20. Flammable Jelly (Saw)

In this trap a man was covered in flammable jelly, injected with a slow acting poison, and placed in a room with a safe that was covered in numbers. He had one candle and had to find the code for the safe from the walls. This did not end well. The trap gained a score of “meh”.

21. Steam Maze (Saw 6)

This was a descent trap, a lady had to make her way through a maze of steam and pipes that would burn her before the time ran out. Unfortunately she didn’t make it, and she would have had to cut open the insurance dude to get the key she needed out, so honestly the odds were against her.

22. Glass Coffin (Saw 5)

This trap is one where Agent Strahm could have survived if only he had listened to Jigsaw. In his defense though, I would not have gotten into the glass coffin either so honestly his death was not surprising. The trap also earned a score of “meh”.

23. Knife Face (Saw 4)

To escape this trap, all Cecil had to do was press his face into many razor sharp knives (easy peasy right?). Honestly this trap was an average Jigsaw trap, it wasn’t especially interesting or clever and nothing about it stood out as particularly good or bad.

24. Leg Wires (Jigsaw)

In this trap a man does not follow the rules and as a result, he is caught in a security trap made by Jigsaw. While trying to get out through a door labeled “Not An Exit” the man falls through some floorboards where his right foot hits a pressure plate, causing razor wire to tighten around his leg. He then has to pull a lever that will cut his leg off in order to release himself. This was another average trap, though it did show how you should not mess with Jigsaw’s rules.

25. Bobby’s Trial (Saw The Final Chapter)

This was the Game seen in Saw 7 and since I am lazy, I did not want to talk about all of the traps individually, especially because they were all so average (Except brazen bull, which we will discuss much later) I would have said the same thing for each. Honestly most of the trial was fine, nothing crazy happened, nothing terrible, it was your average Game and it was kind of boring. Most of the people in traps deserved to be there, they were stupid, Bobby was stupid, enough said.

26. Antidote Safe Room (Saw 2)

This trap was placed as average because I’m pretty sure it was slightly rigged. I think it was put there so Amanda could get the kid in the Game an antidote so he didn’t die. I don’t think any of the other victims in that Game were supposed to get it, which in my opinion, lowers the credibility of the trap.

27. Eric Matthews Test (Saw 2)

We are going to be seeing a lot from Saw 2 right now, because they were all “meh” traps. This test is one I am undecided on. I’m not entirely sure why Jigsaw decided to test Eric Matthews the way he did. He told Matthews he would find his son alive if he talked to him for two hours, and of course the son was fine, like Jigsaw would not hurt an innocent person duh, but I don’t know , it just seemed kind of pointless to me.

28. Shotgun Collar (Saw 3)

I gave this trap a score of “meh”. That seems to be a funky fresh pattern now doesn’t it? But really, mini shotguns on a giant necklace? Come on. That’s neither creative nor cool and is it even possible? Besides poor Lynn gets killed by Amanda anyway, she completed her test, she didn’t deserve to die.

29. Nerve Gas House (Saw 2)

So this was an interesting concept, tell people they can escape a house in three hours if the freakin nerve gas doesn’t kill them first, haha so cool! Yeah then it got kinda ruined when Jigsaw was like “lol no we’re also going to put Amanda and a child in here” it just felt kind of excessive to me. Also, the nerve gas was just to motivate the people in the Game to get into the other traps. It was really a background issue.

I’m sure everyone is aware that we aren’t done here. This will be continued in part 10.

“Listen carefully, if you will. There are rules.”

Jigsaw (Saw 1)

A Ranking of all Saw Traps from films 1 through 8

“‘Cherish your life’ is the motto this whole organization is built on. Cherish your life…your life.”

Jigsaw (Saw 4)

John Kramer’s whole purpose in starting the Jigsaw Games was to test those who he felt did not cherish their lives or the lives of others. To Jigsaw, life is precious. His cancer diagnosis and near fatal car crash gave him a new view on life, specifically how he had wasted his. He feels that those who do not value life do not deserve it, and he decided to take it upon himself to test those he deems unworthy. If they survive, they are changed people and they go on to either help him or live (presumably) better lives. The point here is that Jigsaw does not necessarily want the people in his traps to die. Therefore this trap ranking will be based on three categories:

1. Survivability: can the person/people in the trap survive
2. Purpose: who is the trap meant for, are there people in the trap who’s fates are decided by someone else?
3. Execution: Is the concept of the trap cool? Does it work well with the person who is in the trap?

There are over fifty two traps in the entirety of the Saw franchise, so we will be getting started with the best trap as soon as possible.

1. The Bucket Room (Jigsaw)

This trap is not one I have discussed, but it deserves a place at the top. It was simple, yet it is a trap that exemplifies everything Jigsaw stands for. You must make an offering of blood to survive the room. It is simple, survivable and it gets Jigsaw’s message across.

2. Reverse Bear Trap (Saw)

This is a trap I have covered. If you don’t know about it by now, you can go read my blog on Amanda.

3. Shotgun Keys (Jigsaw)

I liked this trap because it was as much a mind game as it was a lesson for those in the trap. It was a game that could have been won if they had stopped to think in a less selfish way and learned what Jigsaw had wanted them to learn over the course of the rest of the game.

4. The Fatal Five’s Game/10 pints of sacrifice (Saw 5)

I decided to rate the game in Saw 5 as one trap because the reason it is so good is the lesson of the Game as a whole. It is a classic Jigsaw game and the traps all work very well together. That being said, I really liked 10 pints of sacrifice because it was just cool.

5. The Needle Pit (Saw 2)

This was a really cool trap, it was horrific and disgusting, but survivable. I also really liked how it showed us Amanda’s determination to survive, even though the trap wasn’t meant for her. It also shows that the traps are winnable as long as you have the guts to do whatever Jigsaw says.

6. The Spike Trap (Saw 4)

I love this trap because the victims life really was in her hands. She could have left herself and her abusive husband to die, or she could yank the metal rods out of their bodies, killing him and allowing her to live. The lady in this trap was super cool and she lived, so that was awesome.

7. The Venus Fly Trap (Saw 2)

This is a trap similar to Amanda’s reverse bear trap, but the key resided in the mans eye. This made the trap more difficult to escape, however it fit the man in the trap pretty well. And it was a cool trap.

8. Shotgun Carousel (Saw 6)

This trap was a really cool concept and it was really well executed, however the people who were in the trap didn’t really have the chance to choose whether they lived or died. Their fate was in the obnoxious insurance dude’s hands, so it’s put here based on how cool it was.

9. Pound of Flesh (Saw 6)

Just genuinely awesome and super cool and they both had a chance so it was good.

10. Amanda’s Test (Saw 3)

I love Amanda and everything to do with her. This was also a cool twist.

11. The Furnace (Saw 2)

A good combination of disgusting, clever and survivable, this trap was classic Jigsaw.

12. The Angel Trap (Saw 3)

As previously discussed this trap was cool, and it was classic Jigsaw except for the fact that Amanda made it so Kerry couldn’t escape.

13. The Razor Box (Saw 2)

This was another classic Jigsaw trap that was survivable, but the victim didn’t bother to read the tape or examine the trap in any detail. Her inability to look at all of the options presented to her lead to her death.

14. Horse Power Trap (Saw The Final Chapter)

This trap was one where a guy was glued to a car seat and he had to rip himself away from the seat to pull a lever that would stop the car before it killed his friends. This was also a classic Jigsaw trap, though it was also really disgusting and hard to watch.

15. Chain Hangers (Jigsaw)

This trap was descent. It was a trap for just one person and it was also a trap that could have been escaped if the victim had thought it through. That being said, it was kinda cool and not super boring.

These are not by any means all of the traps. The list will be continued in part 9…

“I see you as a strange mix of someone who is angry, yet apathetic. But mostly just pathetic.”

Jigsaw (Saw)