• Air date: 20 Feb '11 12 episodes
      The Amazing Race 18 is the eighteenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 18 featured eleven teams of two – each returning from a previous edition for the first time since Season 11 – in a race around the world for a $1 million prize. The eighteenth cycle started on Sunday, February 20, 2011. It aired on CBS in the United States on Sunday nights at 8:00 pm ET/PT with the two-hour season finale on May 8, 2011. The show is hosted by Phil Keoghan. It is the first American season of The Amazing Race to be filmed and broadcast in high-definition. Sisters LaKisha "Kisha" and Jennifer "Jen" Hoffman from Season 14 were the winners of The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business. Kisha is the first openly gay woman to win the competition.
  • List of Episodes (12)
    • 1. Head Down and Hold On - Leg 1 - Palm Springs, California, USA ? Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

      20 Feb '11
      The 18th season begins with 11 former teams who failed to win returning for a chance to claim the $1 million prize. The race starts in Palm Springs, Cal., and continues in Sydney, Australia, where the teams swim with sharks and receive a surprise from Phil at the pit stop.
    • 2. I Never Looked So Foolish in My Whole Entire Life - Leg 2 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ? Broken Hill, NSW, Australian Outback

      27 Feb '11
      The race continues in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
    • 3. We Had a Lot of Evil Spirits Apparently - Leg 3 - Broken Hill, NSW, Australian Outback ? Tokyo, Japan

      06 Mar '11
      The race continues in Tokyo.
    • 4. This Is the Most Stupid Day Ever - Leg 4 - Tokyo, Japan ? Kunming, Yunnan, China

      13 Mar '11
      The race continues in Lijiang, located in the Yunnan Province of China.
    • 5. Don't Ruin the Basketball Game - Leg 5 - Kunming, Yunnan, China ? Kolkata, India

      20 Mar '11
      Continuing with the clue Phil provided at the Eternal Tower in Lijiang, China, the teams head back to Kunming with the knowledge there would be a Double U-Turn ahead. A long wait for a train turned into a friendly basketball game with Flight Time and Big Easy. Pointed from the Dounan Flower Market to the Golden Horse and Jade Cock arches, the Detour awaited: teams could "Honor the Past" by arranging dolls by memory only to match a traditional Tibetan dance troupe, or "Embrace the Future" by asse
    • 6. I Feel Like a Monkey in a Circus Parade

      27 Mar '11
      Overwhelmed by a swarming sea of people on the congested streets of India, one team narrowly dodges a traffic collision while another's clumsiness threatens to spoil their chances of acing the Detour.
    • 7. You Don't Get Paid Unless You Win

      10 Apr '11
      The seven remaining teams depart from the Fountain of Joy in Kolkata, India for the seventh leg of the race.
    • 8. I Cannot Deal with Your Psycho Behavior

      17 Apr '11
      Confronted by a psychological Detour, teams try to avoid making a Freudian slip in the slick streets of Austria, and a hefty meal proves to be too big for some teams' stomachs
    • 9. We're Good American People

      24 Apr '11
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    • 10. Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

      01 May '11
      The race continues in Zermatt, Switzerland
    • 11. This is Where It Ends (1)

      08 May '11
      The final four teams race through Rio de Janeiro before heading to the finish line in Miami as the season concludes.
    • 12. This is Where It Ends (2)

      08 May '11
      The final four teams race through Rio de Janeiro before heading to the finish line in Miami as the season concludes.