Challenge Previews

[Host Kenny]

Today, you're going to be cooperating with your tribe to play this game. 

Within the next 24 hours, one member from each tribe must post the following in a thread in your tribe forum: 

[MEMBER'S USERNAME] throws the ball to [OTHER MEMBER'S USERNAME]. (Obviously, fill in my brackets with the appropriate names) 

That person will throw it to another person, and that person will throw to another person, and so on, and so forth. You must continue in this first established rotation for the duration of this challenge. There is no limit to the number of times you may pass the ball; however, you must always go in the same rotation. 

The way to determine the winning tribe of this challenge is simple: the tribe that has the longest gap in between any two people throwing will lose. Thus, the time that it takes for Player 2 to post after Player 1 posts will be logged, as well as the time between Player 3 and Player 2, and so on, and so forth. 

Each tribe will only play for 24 hours. 24 hours after the first ball is thrown, the last ball thrown will be caught by us, and the time between that ball being thrown and us catching it will also be logged. (ie. the first ball is thrown at 6PM Thursday, we will catch the ball at 6PM Friday) 

Before the challenge begins, each tribe will be allowed to sit ONE member out for this challenge. This is not mandatory, but the option is there. 

The tribe with the longest gap between any two throws will be heading to Tribal Council. 

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask!

[scoutcloudlee]

Scout drives the ship forward.

Oh wait, wrong community for that joke.

[Host Kenny]

Jesus fucking Christ.

[Host Kenny]

Come on in Survivors! Eliza voted out at the last Tribal Council.

Today you will be competing in a puzzle challenge! (Yay puzzles woo)

The challenge is fairly simple. 5 people on your tribe will submit one thing from the below list of puzzles as their final submission (one puzzle per person). They will be judged against whoever chose that puzzle on the other tribes based on time or score. The team that places first on a puzzle will receive 3 points, second will receive 1 point, and last will receive no points. 

You have until 9PM EST on Sunday to have all submissions in. 

For Leno and Letterman, you each will be sitting out one person from the challenge, please decide this within the next 2 hours.

The TWO tribes with the lowest scores will be heading to Tribal Council tonight.



Ties will be broken by the number of 1st place finishes a tribe receives (more first place, the better).

Challenge 2 puzzles:

EASY Puzzle: www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=3537b1bc6eda

MEDIUM Puzzle: www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=012c0bcdccdd

HARD Puzzle: www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=1e204d9077e7

Circles and Numbers: You will choose one tribe member to part in a math puzzle. This will be done in private and the person may not receive help from the rest of the tribe. More instructions will come when the tribe member is ready to go. 

Eyeball: You will play a small game where your goal is to get the lowest score you can.
The game is here: woodgears.ca/eyeball/

[Host Kenny]

Now that you've just had a swap, we're jumping right into a challenge!


We will be playing a game of Tic Tac Toe. Not any game of Tic Tac Toe, though. Ultimate Tic Tac Toe.


docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uzdb1x6X_vUAuY9W2YdeOn4vscm7cjw0z_kW3C2rTiQ/edit?usp=sharing


Here you will find the Tic Tac Toe board. You'll notice that it is in 9 sections, each with its own Tic Tac Toe board. Your goal is to win 3 Tic Tac Toe boards in a row (not consecutively, but in a row on the board shown, like normal tic tac toe). Basically, 9 games of Tic Tac Toe to play one large game of Tic Tac Toe. 


The basic rules are as follows:
-The tribe that goes first was predetermined. They will be playing with 'X's, while the other tribe has 'O's.

-Tribes will take turns placing 'X's and 'O's on the board. Each tribe will have 3 minutes after the board is updated to post IN THIS THREAD their move. If no move is posted in that time, their turn is skipped. There will be NO warnings on this.

-Once a tribe has gotten three of their 'X's or 'O's in a row on any individual Tic Tac Toe board, they will own that space and no more moves may be made on it.

-The tribe that takes three boards in a row will win immunity and be safe from Tribal Council. If neither tribe takes 3 boards in a row, the tribe that takes the most boards will win immunity. 


-There are no restrictions on where you place 'X's or 'O's, except you may not place anything in an already won board.


You have 10 minutes to ask any questions about the challenge, after which it becomes the first tribe's turn and they have 3 minutes to make their move.

[Host Kenny]

Come on in Survivors! Penner voted out at the last Tribal Council.

Today's challenge is, what I think will be, a fun one!

You will be participating as a tribe (or as many of you that can be on). You will communicate a time to start the challenge with a Host (me or Scout).

You will notice that there are seven locked forums in this Challenge section. Your tribe's goal is going to be to get through all 7 faster than the other tribe. When you want to begin, you will be given the password to the first locked forum. In this forum, there will be lots of spam posts, same with all of the locked forums. 

Among this spam will be an image link. The image link will contain a set of letters, and when these letters are unscrambled to form a word, well that word is the password to the next locked forum! 

Only one person may enter a locked forum at a time. So only one person is searching at any given time. And everyone participating must go at least once. Once all participating in the challenge have gone once, then anyone may go. If someone is caught entering a locked forum while someone else on their tribe is searching it, there will be a 5 minute time penalty. 

Everyone may work on unscrambling the words.

Once you reach the last locked forum, there will be a finishing image that the last person going will post in the tribe forum to stop the challenge timer!

That's about it! Please tell the hosts around what time you'd like to begin AND who will be participating. You have 24 hours to begin the challenge.

[Host Kenny]

Come on in, Survivors. Ami voted out at the last tribal council!


Today's challenge requires some critical thinking and teamwork! It's a twist on a very simple game we all know as...


GUESS WHO!


Except in our version of Guess Who, you will need to guess 3 people. These people are either contestants from the American version of Survivor, or a 90s television character (any show that was primarily on in the 1990s). You do not know how many Survivor Contestants or TV characters there will be in this set of 3. It could be all Survivor Contestants for all you know!


Now the twist in this challenge comes in how you will be asking your 'Yes or No' questions. All questions will always be addressed to ALL of the people you are guessing. This means that you may not single one person that you are guessing out in a question (e.g., "Is the first person female?" is not a correct question. "Is at least one person female?" is a correct question).


All questions should be in the following format to be a correct question:
Is at least one person [rest of the question]?
Is exactly one person [rest of the question]?
Are at least/exactly two/three people [rest of the question]?


So with any question, you are learning information about the group of 3 as a whole and not each of them individually.


You are NOT allowed to ask compound questions. For example, you can ask "Is at least one contestant female?" but you are not allowed to ask "Is at least one contestant a female that competed on Survivor?"


When you know who someone is you may ask the question "Is at least/exactly one person [person's name]" and this will be a valid answer, assuming it's correct (this will also count as a question to your total score). An incorrect guess at a name will result in no penalty except that you just added another question to your total.


The tribe that uses the LEAST amount of questions to determine all 3 people will win immunity. You will be timed for this challenge starting from the first question you ask and ending with the final question you ask, and in the case of a tie, the fastest tribe will win immunity.

[Host Kenny]

JUST KIDDING IT'S AUCTION TIME!

It will be semi-live, meaning that each player in the game will individually choose when they would like to begin. the auction should take no more then 20 minutes. when you choose to begin, each item will be posted for you one by one. after an item is posted, you must choose how much cash you would like to bid on that item before the next item can be posted. Some of the items may be mystery boxes, meaning you will not know what is inside unless you win the item. The auction will end without warning. Fairly simple! 

After everyone has completed the challenge, the results will be announced. The player to bid the most money on an item wins that item. However, if a player wins an item, the amount of money they bid is removed from their supply. The bids for each item will be done chronologically. If it gets to the point where a player bids more money on an item than they actually have remaining, that bid will not count. So be careful in deciding what you want or don't want. 

Important Tiebreaker Note: If two players tie for the most bet on a single item, the item will be given to whoever posted their bet the fastest in relation to the post explaining what the item is. The winner of every item will be announced publicly, although what is inside mystery boxes will be kept secret. 

THERE WILL BE NO DISCUSSION ABOUT THE AUCTION BETWEEN PLAYERS AT ALL. 

You will have 24 hours to schedule a time with me to complete the challenge. Please do it as soon as you can, it would be much appreciated!

[Host Kenny]

[div align="center"][font size="4"]Challenge Advantage[/font]
[font size="3"]This is an advantage for the next Immunity Challenge which you will not know what it entails until the next challenge is posted.[/font][/div][div style="text-align:center;"]
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[div style="text-align:center;"][span style="font-size:large;"]Mystery Box
It's a mystery! Contents will remain private to all but the winner.[/span][/div][div style="text-align:center;"][img style="font-size:10pt;max-width:100%;" src="http://i.imgur.com/p4dbQtP.png?1"][/div]

[div style="text-align:center;"][span style="font-size:large;"]Another Mystery Box

It's a mystery! Contents will remain private to all but the winner.[/span][/div][div style="text-align:center;"][img src="http://i.imgur.com/p4dbQtP.png?1" style="font-size:10pt;max-width:100%;"][/div]

[div style="text-align:center;"][span style="font-size:large;"]Hidden Immunity Idol Clue[/span][/div][div style="text-align:center;"][img style="font-size:10pt;max-width:100%;" src="http://i.imgur.com/08GDICa.png"][/div]

[div style="text-align:center;"][span style="font-size:large;"]Mystery Box

Oh my goodness! Another one![/span][/div][div style="text-align:center;"][img style="font-size:10pt;max-width:100%;" src="http://i.imgur.com/p4dbQtP.png?1"][/div]

[div style="text-align:center;"][span style="font-size:large;"]Mystery Box

Oh my goodness! Another one! What is with your fixation on Mystery boxes, hosts?[/span][/div][div style="text-align:center;"][img style="font-size:10pt;max-width:100%;" src="http://i.imgur.com/p4dbQtP.png?1"][/div]

[div style="text-align:center;"][span style="font-size:large;"]Individual Immunity

You know what this does. Immune this round only![/span][/div][div style="text-align:center;"][img src="http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/uu154/oneTHOM/NSurvivor/IndividualImmunityIdol.png" style="font-size:10pt;max-width:100%;"][/div]

[Host Kenny]

It's Majority Rules time! How well do you know your fellow players? Think you have a good grasp on the game dynamic?
Well let's find out with a wonderful survey!

Answer these 20 questions in your confessional using only the players left in this game (unless otherwise stated).
Answer them based on what you believe, not the majority. 

Then go ahead and answer these questions again based on what you think the majority of players still in the game answered.

1. Who needs immunity the most this round?



2. Who deserves to be here the least?


3. Who thinks they’re in control but really isn’t?


4. Who is in the most control?


5. Who has the best shot at winning this game?


6. Who has no shot at winning this game?


7. Who’s this season’s dark horse?



8. Who’s this season’s villain?



9. Who is this season’s hero?



10. Which player is the funniest?



11. Who’s the nicest person here?



12. Who’s the most likely to win this challenge?



13. Who’s the least likely to win this challenge?



14. Who’s the dumbest person here?



15. Which player is the hardest to talk to?



16. Who will be the final juror?



17. Which eliminated player most deserves to still be here?



18. Who is the most strategic player?


19. Which two people are the closest? (LIST TWO PLAYERS)



20. Which two people hate each other the most? (LIST TWO PLAYERS)

Tie-Breaker Question: How many image files has the host created for this game?


Once everyone has done this, the results will be tallied. For every question that you answer correctly for what the majority of players answered, you will receive one point! The player with the most points in the end will win Individual Immunity for this round. 

There is to be no discussion of answers or questions with other players, even after you have completed the survey.


You have 24 hours. Good luck, Survivors!

[Host Kenny]

Congrats on Final 9, y'all!

Today, you'll be competing to put together a scrambled up song. It's a good song, I promise.


When you want to begin, you will follow this link:
docs.google.com/forms/d/1wNoBmNAkLwIc9jHbpXpXJ8powKnxWNiYJT1ynQxjE4s/viewform

Fill out the form, and then at the end of the form, you will be given a link to a couple Youtube videos! The first video will be to the scrambled song, where it is split into 10 second pieces. Each 10 second piece is denoted with a letter in the video!

Your goal is to give me the list of pieces in the correct order. Simply order the letters into the correct order, and submit that correct order in your confessional.

Now, I will be giving you the original song, of course, this will be the second link!
You are free to look up lyrics as well.

The person who gets the most pieces in the correct place will win. If multiple people are able to do this, then the fastest person will win!

Best of luck, Survivors!


As a note: The google form is able to list IP and note the time at which time you began the challenge. This is a bit different way of starting, but I think it may work well! Do not fill out the form multiple times to gain an advantage, we will be checking every submission thoroughly!

[Host Kenny]

Alright Survivors, it's Final 8 and you know what we haven't seen yet?

AN ENDURANCE COMPETITION!

Welcome to Survivor Decades' very first Endurance competition. For the very first, we are going right down to the basics. Nothing weird or special here.

You must post "[Player name] balances him/her/their-self" once every 5 minutes for as long as you can. The way we will be judging 5 minutes is simply that you must post within 5 minutes of your last post. 

For example:
If you post at 1:21PM, you must post again by 1:26PM (we are ignoring seconds). You may post at 1:22, 1:23, 1:24, 1:25, or 1:26! As long as it's within the 5 minutes, and once you do so, the timer starts again.

So now you posted at 1:25, your next post must be made by 1:30.

The player who can last the longest amount of time without screwing up will win Individual Immunity!

You have until 11PM EST Tuesday night to begin this challenge and may go for however long you wish. You may discuss the challenge at any time with anyone.

[Host Kenny]

Today you will be doing 4 challenges in one!
You will be given access to 4 different puzzles, each of which you may start on your own time.

What you must do is complete each puzzle in the fastest time possible. You will start each puzzle by following the corresponding links here:

Puzzle 1:
Jigsaw Puzzle
GOOGLE FORM

Puzzle 2:
Slider Puzzle
GOOGLE FORM

Puzzle 3:
Math Puzzle
A quick explanation for this puzzle beforehand. You will be solving math clues to determine a set of numbers. These numbers are the answer to stop your time. You may only use numbers from 0-9. Numbers may be repeated. The question will be like this one:
A B C
(these are the letters that must be replaced by numbers)
A=B+1
B=C
C=1

So the answer is A=2, B=1, C=1. The actual question will be much harder.
GOOGLE FORM

Puzzle 4:
Cryptogram Puzzle (no outside resources)
GOOGLE FORM

When you are finished a puzzle, you will post a screenshot of the completed puzzle in your confessional, thus ending your time. 

Now, each puzzle acts as a round in this challenge. After puzzle 1, the 2 slowest players will be eliminated from this challenge. After puzzle 2, the 2 slowest players who haven't been eliminated yet will be eliminated. There will only be one elimination for Puzzles 3 and 4.

Leaving one final person. That person will win immunity and be guaranteed a spot in the final 6!

You have until Friday at 9PM EST to finish all of the puzzles.

[Host Kenny]

Come on in, Survivors!

Live Challenge time!

This challenge is simple. You will control a hex tile at the start of the challenge. You can see which hex tile you control here:

docs.google.com/document/d/1rl3GRUnzDbkXkk1KzQaSAmVMGct9lbjWpj1ZmWq0LRQ/edit?usp=sharing

On your turn you will take control of one other hex tile of land. This hex tile must be touching the one you last took.

You may not take tiles that were already taken.

The player who has the controls the most tiles at the end of the challenge will win. If there is a tie, there will be a single speed challenge to determine the winner. The nature of the speed challenge is yet to be revealed!

One more thing. This challenge is ANONYMOUS. You each have been assigned a colour. You will know each other only by that colour in the game. There is NO discussion of the challenge with other players.

You have 2 minutes to make a move when it becomes your turn. You will give me your move over AIM.

ONE LAST THING: You will have a power in this game that you may only use once. You may switch spots with a single player. You will take control of their last taken tile, and they will take control of your last taken tile. This would be in place of claiming a tile.

You have 10 minutes to ask questions, and then Red will go first.

TURN ORDER:
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple

[Host Kenny]

Welcome Y'all! This is the FINAL FOUR IMMUNITY CHALLENGE. Whoever wins here today will be guaranteed a spot in the Final 3.

Each player receives 21 differently shaped pieces, which can be turned in any way and placed on the board. Each player gets to place one piece per turn. The goal of the game is to play all your pieces eventually. Each color is assigned a designated corner to start in and work inward from there. After the first turn, you can play anywhere on the board.

Once you use a piece, that piece may NOT be used again. It is gone.

These are the 21 pieces in the game.

The most important and ONLY rule of Blokus - the piece you play must touch the corner of at least one of your other pieces and should never touch the side of any of your own pieces. See the figures below. You can touch the sides of other players' pieces.

The game ends for a player when a player is blocked and is not able to place any pieces on the board according to the rules.

The game itself ends when no one can place any more pieces on the board anymore.

After the game ends, count the number of pieces each player was unable to place on the board. Each square that is not placed counts as a negative point. Award a bonus of 15 points if all 21 pieces got placed on the board. An additional bonus of 20 points is awarded to a player if his 21 pieces were placed on the board and the last piece placed is a single square. The player with the most points wins immunity.

For this challenge, each player will be given a color secretly and will give me their moves on AIM.

YOU MAY NOT DISCUSS THIS CHALLENGE WITH ANYONE ELSE OR REVEAL YOUR COLOR.

HERE IS THE BOARD LINK: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19EWz9lZhvpGjXvKLZOdZLiVI_H_5qmQHFiTzZ74Ni28/edit?usp=sharing

The challenge will begin in 10 minutes. You have that time to ask me questions.

You will have 4 minutes to make your moves until you are skipped.