The Amazing Race Norge is a reality television competition between teams of two in a race around the world. The race is divided into a number of legs wherein teams travel and complete various tasks to obtain clues to help them progress to a Pit Stop where teams are given a chance to rest and recover before starting the next leg. The first team to arrive at a Pit Stop is often awarded a prize, while the last team is normally eliminated from the race. The final leg of each race is run by the last three remaining teams, and the first to arrive at the final destination wins the prize.
Teams
Each team is composed of two individuals who have some type of relationship to each other. 42 people have participated so far.
Route Markers
Route Markers are yellow and white flags; yellow and green flags; and yellow and red colours that mark the places where teams must go in order to complete tasks, or may be used to line a course that the teams must follow.
Clues
Clues are found throughout the race in sealed envelopes, normally inside clue boxes. They give teams the information they need and tasks they need to do in order for them to progress through the race.
Veiviser : A general clue that may include a task to be completed by the team before they can receive their next clue.
Veivalg : A choice of two tasks. Teams are free to choose either task or swap tasks if they find one option too difficult.
Veisperring : A task only one team member can complete. Teams must choose which member will complete the task based on a brief clue about the task before fully revealing the details of the task.
Snarvei : A task that only one team may complete, allowing that team to skip all remaining tasks and head directly for the next Pit Stop. Teams may only claim one Fast Forward during the entire race. Though prominently featured on the website's pictures and glossaries, no Fast Forward has ever appeared on the show.
Other Route Markers
During the race, teams may face the following which may potentially slow them down:
U-Sving : It is located after a Detour where a team can force another trailing team to return and complete the other option of the Detour they did not select.
Veikryss : It is where two teams compete to receive their next clue. The team who wins the challenge will get their next clue while the losing team must then wait for another team to arrive to redo the challenge. The cycle repeats until the last team left will have to, again, repeat the challenge.
Legs
At the beginning of each leg, teams receive an allowance of cash to cover expenses during the race. Teams then have to follow clues and Route Markers that will lead them to the various destinations and tasks they will face. Modes of travel between these destinations include commercial and chartered airplanes, boats, trains, taxis, buses, and rented vehicles provided by the show, or the teams may simply travel by foot. Each leg ends with a Pit Stop where teams are able to rest and where teams that arrive last are progressively eliminated from the race until only three teams remain. In some legs, the first teams to arrive at the Pit Stop win prizes, usually from the show's sponsors.
Fripass was awarded to the winners of the third leg of season 1 that can be used on the race to skip any one task of the team's choosing up until the 8th Leg. If a team gets eliminated without using their Express Pass, the winner of the last leg gets the Express Pass.
Non-elimination Legs
Each race has a number of predetermined non-elimination legs, in which the last team to arrive at the Pit Stop is not eliminated and is allowed to continue on the race.
Handikap : A task that a team that comes last in a non-elimination leg has to complete. Teams handicapped are penalised by either having a certain task made harder for them in the next Leg or by being penalised.
Rules and penalties
Most of the rules and penalties are adopted directly from the American edition; but in some of cases, this version has been seen to have a unique set of additional rules.
Seasons
The show first aired in 2012 with the first season premiere airing on 11 April 2012 and ending 30 May 2012.
Countries and locales visited
As of the second season, The Amazing Race Norge has visited 13 countries and 5 continents.
