The Amazing Race 38

Production

Development and filming

Casting

• Janelle Pierzina, Xavier Prather, and Danielle Reyes were considered but declined due to a low appearance fee offer.
• Josh Martinez and his sister Maytee Martinez were in the mix but were cut.
• Cory Wurtenberger and his brother, Survivor 42 castaway Zach Wurtenberger, were alternates that did not make the final cast.
• Haleigh Broucher was contacted to compete but had to decline due to her school schedule.
• Cirie Fields was contacted by Izzy Gleicher as a potential partner but declined.

  Release

Broadcast

Contestants

Results

• A placement with a dagger indicates that the team was eliminated.
• An placement with a double-dagger indicates that the team was the last to arrive at a Pit Stop in a non-elimination leg and has an automatic U-turn vote penalty during the next leg.
• A indicates that the team won the Fast Forward.
• A indicates that the team used the U-Turn and a indicates the team on the receiving end of the U-Turn.
• A indicates that the team used an Express Pass on that leg to bypass one of their tasks.

  Race summary

Leg 1 (Netherlands)

• Episode 1: "Two Worlds Colliding"
• Prize: each
• Eliminated: Jack and Enzo

• Hoorn, Netherlands
• Hoorn
• Hoorn
• Volendam
• Edam
• Volendam
• Mijdrecht
• Amsterdam

• After arriving at the Hoorn railway station, teams were first instructed to travel by taxi to IJsbaan De Westfries and compete in a game of ice bowling. One team member had to push their partner on a sled down an ice rink towards a set of bowling pins. The first team to get a strike won two Express Passes, one for themselves and one to give to another team, and the last team to finish was penalized with a Hazard. Kyland and Taylor won the Express Pass and chose to give Jas and Jag the other Express Pass. Jack and Enzo were penalized with the Hazard.
• Teams then traveled to Grote Kerk to begin the race with their next clue instructing them to drive to the port of Volendam.
• The Hazard required Jack and Enzo to each eat a soused herring and later travel in a clog-shaped cargo bike to and from the Edam Cheese Market.
• Teams had to travel by tandem bicycle to the Edam Cheese Market. There, teams had to catch 30 balls of Edam cheese being unloaded off of a boat, stack them onto a wooden carrier, and deliver the cheese to a vendor to receive their next clue. Teams then had to return to the port of Volendam and drive to Van der Wilt Gerbera's.
• In this season's first Roadblock, one team member had to search an expansive greenhouse for nine types of flowers and arrange them in a display box before receiving their next clue, which directed them to the Pit Stop: the Museumplein.

  Leg 2 (Netherlands → Czech Republic)

• Episode 2: "Mom's Gonna Have the Willies"
• Prize: Cashback rewards for a trip for two to Sri Lanka
• Eliminated: Angela and Lexi

• Amsterdam
• Amsterdam → Prague, Czech Republic
• Prague
• Prague
• Prague
• Prague
• Prague

• At the start of this leg, teams were instructed to travel by train to Prague, Czech Republic. Once there, teams had to travel by Prague Metro and on foot to the Žižkov Television Tower.
• In this leg's Roadblock, one team member had to walk across a narrow plank 255 feet above the ground on the Žižkov Television Tower and retrieve their next clue.
• After the Roadblock, teams had to travel by metro and on foot to their next clue by the statue of Charles IV, near Charles Bridge.
• This season's first Detour was a choice between Remember the Chair or Handle with Care. In Remember the Chair, teams had to memorize eleven village crests, search U Fleků for dining chairs with the same crests, memorize the villages associated with the crests, and reiterate the villages to a historian before receiving their next clue. In Handle with Care, teams had to deliver 48 Bohemian glass goblets to three vendors before receiving their next clue.
• After the Detour, teams had to travel on foot to the Josef Mánes statue near Rudolfinum and find their next clue. Teams then had to travel on foot to the Pit Stop: Žofín Palace.

• Tucker and Eric arrived fourth, but had inadvertently skipped the Detour and had to backtrack to complete it; this did not affect their placement.