| Hint | Team | Season |
| This team quit the detour resulting in a 24-hour penalty | |
| This team won the race in a very close footrace | |
| This team became the first team to use the Fast Forward but get eliminated in the same leg | |
| This team misread their clue resulting in a 37 minute penalty | |
| This team filled their car with the wrong gasoline | |
| This team quit the race due to aching knees | |
| This team spent 10 hours pushing hay bales without finding the clue | |
| This team misread their clue by taking just one donkey instead of two | |
| This family fell behind at the Roadblock after struggling to find a red coffee bean | |
| This team became the first to be yielded and be eliminated in the same leg | |
| This team got hopelessly lost in Kuwait City | |
| This team ran a sloppy fourth leg after winning the first three legs | |
| This team had donkey woes that lead to their elimination | |
| This team became the first U-Turn victims | |
| This team suffered a ticketing error in Lithuania | |
| This team lost their passports in the cab in Moscow | |
| This team fell short of the final three when one team member took an untimely bathroom break | |
| This team was eliminated at the Starting Line | |
| This team arrived first but discovered they lost one of their passports | |
| One team member had a fear of heights and water and refused to go down the water slide | |
| This team quit after being unable to complete either side of the detour | |
| One team member took a four-hour penalty for unable to complete the Roadblock after an opposing team member broke the deal of working together | |
| One team member can't keep his balance at the Roadblock and the team couldn't reach the pit stop in the first leg | |
| This team was forced to complete a harder Detour challenge after being U-Turned | |
| This team got U-Turned by their rivals | |
| This team made history as the first all-female team to win the race | |
| One team member floundered at the tea-tasting Roadblock | |
| This team became the first victim of the double-elimination leg | |
| This dominating team made a fatal error in Panama | |