Survivor Challenges Database

A Compendium of Survivor Challenges Arranged by Season

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Borneo - Season 1

Episode 1    (Borneo)

Voted Out:  Sonja Christopher

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Episode 2   (Borneo)

Immunity Challenge:  Buggin Out
Bug-eating competition. The bug of choice was a butok, or beetle larvae. The live butok is three inches long and a half-inch around.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Tagi

Voted Out:  B.B. Andersen

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Episode 3    (Borneo)

Reward Challenge:  Treasure Chest
A treasure chest is submerged 150 yards off the Sand Spit. Each tribe must swim out to the treasure chest. Once the entire tribe has arrived, they must dive down and work as a group to drag the chest along the ocean bottom back to shore. First tribe to haul their chest ashore and open it wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Reward -- snorkel, mask, fins, fishing spear.

Winning Tribe: Tagi

Immunity Challenge: Rescue Mission
A cooperative effort to rescue an "injured" tribe member from deep in the jungle. Starting on the rocky beach near Bird Island, tribes dash into the jungle carrying a stretcher. The first team to locate their injured tribe member, load her onto the stretcher, and carry her back to the beach to the first aid station, wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Pagong

Voted Out: Stacey Stillman

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Episode 4    (Borneo)

Reward Challenge Distress Signal
In a fictitious scenario, a plane flies over the island. The castaways must build a distress signal on the beach to attract the pilot's attention. Best distress signal wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: A cache of spices, a sharp knife, hammocks, and other comforts dropped by parachute.

Winning Tribe: Tagi, whose "Tagi is groggy" statement and choreographed moving bodies made for a more effective S.O.S. than Pagong's "smiley face."

Voted Out: Ramona Gray

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Episode 5    (Borneo)

Reward Challenge: Abandoned Barracks
A nighttime romp through abandoned buildings, searching for survival items with the assistance of night-vision goggles.

Winning Tribe Gets: Canned food, chocolate, Meals Ready to Eat (MREs).

Winning Tribe: Pagong

Immunity Challenge: Obstacle Course
A military-style obstacle course.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Pagong

Voted Out:  Dirk Been

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Episode 6    (Borneo)

Reward Challenge: Abandoned Barracks 
The Abandoned Barracks Reward Challenge was the first of two challenges highlighting the island visit of the United States Army's legendary Green Berets. Chief Warrant Officer James Lofton and First Sergeant William Wright, specialists in jungle warfare, traveled to Pulau Tiga to oversee Abandoned Barracks and the Obstacle Course Immunity Challenge.

One of the few challenges held in the evening, Abandoned Barracks was held on the site of a failed marine institute on Pulau Tiga's southwest beach. Tribe members donned night-vision goggles and rummaged through the dilapidated, snake- and scorpion-infested buildings in search of a checklist of items: a pocket knife, a can opener, an army helmet. First prize was canned goods and chocolate.

Winners:  Pagong

Immunity Challenge: Army Obstacle Course
Half-mile run along the military-style obstacle course on the Sand Spit,

Winners: Tagi

Voted Out:  Joel Klug

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Episode 7    (Borneo)

Immunity Challenge: Snake Island Relay
A combination breath-holding competition and underwater swim race.

Winning Castaway Gets: Immunity.

Winning Castaway: Greg Buis

Voted Out:  Gretchen Cordy

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Episode 8    (Borneo)

Reward Challenge: Archery
An archery competition

Winning Castaway Gets: To Watch a Video From Home.

Winning Castaway: Greg Buis

Immunity Challenge: End of the Line
Castaways were clipped to a length of rope by carabineer, then sprinted along a jungle trail, staying attached to the rope the entire time.

Winning Castaway Gets: Immunity

Winning Castaway: Gervase Petersen

Voted Out:  Greg Buis

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Episode 9    (Borneo)

Reward Challenge: OUT ON A LIMB
Castaways navigate a ropes course set up in the jungle canopy. First castaway to collect 16 medallions - one for each segment of the course - wins

Winning Castaway Gets: Barbecue dinner, letters from home.

Winning Castaway: Colleen Haskell


Immunity Challenge: Squared Off
A game of chess with human beings as the pieces. The game board is made of 100 2' x 2' pieces of plywood. Castaways may move one step at a time, flipping over the piece of wood on which they had previously been standing as they go. Castaways cannot step onto a piece that has been flipped over. Last castaway able to move from one piece to another wins.

Winning Castaway Gets: Immunity

Winning Castaway: Rudy Boesch

Voted Out:  Jenna Lewis

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Episode 10    (Borneo)

Reward Challenge: Bamboozled
A combination balance/elimination competition involving a tightrope race across segments of bamboo poles.

Winning Castaway Gets: A pizza and a phone call home.

Winning Castaway: Gervase Petersen

Immunity  Challenge: Fast Fire
A fire starting competition

Winning Castaway Gets: Immunity.

Winning Castaway: Richard Hatch

Voted Out:  Gervase Petersen

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Episode 11    (Borneo)

Reward Challenge: Survivor Quiz Show
Castaways answer a variety of questions about island living.

Winning Castaway Gets: A night on the Sipadan Princess.

Winning Castaway: Sean Kenniff 

Immunity Challenge: Walk the Plank
A contest of balance

Winning Castaway Gets: Immunity.

Winning Castaway: Kelly Wiglesworth

Voted Out:  Colleen Haskell

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Episode 12    (Borneo)

Reward Challenge: Mud Pack
Castaways pay a visit to the mud volcano, coat their bodies in mud.

Winning Castaway Gets: Bud Light, a night at the Survivor Bar, food and a chance to watch a beginning portion of the first episode of the show.

Winning Castaway: Kelly Wiglesworth

Immunity Challenge: Witch Hunt
Castaways armed with video recorders charge through the jungle in search of hand-carved idols.

Winning Castaway Gets: Immunity.

Winning Castaway: Kelly Wiglesworth

Voted Out:  Sean Kenniff

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Episode 13    (Borneo)

Immunity Challenge: Fallen Comrades
A test of knowledge about former castaways.

Winning Castaway Gets: Immunity.

Winning Castaway: Kelly Wiglesworth

Voted Out:  Sue Hawk

Immunity Challenge Hands on a Hard Idol
A rite of passage involving a fire walk, slathering of mud, then placing one hand on the Immunity Idol.

Winning Castaway Gets: Immunity.

Winning Castaway: Kelly Wiglesworth 

Voted Out: Rudy Boesch

Final Two:  Richard Hatch (winner) and Kelly Wiglesworth

Australian Outback - Season 2

Episode 1    (Australian Outback)

Reward/Immunity Challenge: Bridging the Gap
The first team to climb to the top of a 30-foot tower and ignite it with their torch wins immunity and avoids Tribal Council. To win, each tribe must negotiate certain obstacles, including a dilapidated bridge, and pull a raft across the river while keeping their torch lit. If at any time during the race one of the tribes' flames is extinguished, that tribe loses the challenge.

Winning Tribe Gets: Waterproof matches, Immunity

Winning Tribe: Ogakor

Voted Out:  Debb Eaton

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Episode 2   (Australian Outback)

Reward Challenge: BUTCH CASSIDY
The Survivors must jump from a 35-foot granite cliff into a deep natural pool and swim to a floating crate anchored in the river. Once each member of the tribe reaches the crate, they must dive down and detach it from the anchor. The tribe must then maneuver the crate down river through small rapids, and carry it onto a sandy beach. The first tribe to get the crate and all tribemembers across the finish line wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Warm blankets

Winning Tribe: Ogakor

Immunity Challenge: TUCKER'D OUT
On a spinning wheel are various aboriginal delicacies ("bush tucker"), such as mangrove worms, crickets, grubs, and cow brains. Each Survivor must square off against someone from the opposing tribe, spin the wheel, and eat the item that's pointed at. If a Survivor refuses to eat, or if he or she throws up, that tribe falls behind one point. The tribe that successfully eats the most tucker, wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Kucha

Voted Out:  Kel Gleason

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Episode 3   (Australian Outback)

Reward Challenge: WATER TORTURE
Each tribe races to carry jugs of water across thin planks above the river without falling off. After a person successfully makes it to the end of the planks, that person's water jugs are put onto a pole balanced across the shoulders of the opposing tribe's designated "water bearer." As the game progresses, the weight becomes overwhelming: the water bearer who endures the weight the longest, without falling off the platform, wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Fishing Tackle

Winning Tribe: Ogakor, but only after a run-off. Mike's pole broke through no fault of his own. The run-off involved a five-minute race as each tribe attempted to put as many jugs of water on their own water bearer as possible. Ogakor won by a small margin.

Immunity Challenge: LOCK STEP
The tribes race against each other through a series of obstacles, while attached together by a rope. In this challenge, a tribe is only as fast as its slowest member. The first tribe to successfully complete the course with all of its members across the finish line wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Kucha

Voted Out:  Maralyn Maddog Hershey

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Episode 4   (Australian Outback)

Reward Challenge: MASTER MIND
The tribes are given two identical giant-sized puzzles made up of several wooden squares that slide within a bigger square. The object is to slide the giant puzzle pieces around the game board to reveal a map leading to the reward. The first tribe to complete their puzzle wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Three egg-laying chickens and a rooster

Winning Tribe: Kucha

Immunity Challenge: TRUE OR FALLS
The tribes meet at a large flat rock overlooking Herbert Falls, across from Tribal Council, where they play against each other in a quiz game testing their knowledge of the environment. The first tribe to answer the most questions correctly wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Kucha

Voted Out:  Mitchell Olson

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Episode 5   (Australian Outback)

Reward Challenge: Triage
Each tribe selects two members to become "rescuers." The other members are placed at predetermined accident locations. Using a triangular-shaped stretcher called a "travois," each tribe must locate their tribemates at the accident locations and bring them back, one by one, to the "first aid tent." First tribe to rescue all of its members and cross the finish line wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: A crate from Target filled with various creature comforts, such as shampoo, toothpaste, spices, soup mix, and warm blankets.

Winning Tribe: Kucha

Immunity Challenge: The Maze
Each tribe must race against the other, collecting five medallions in a specified order while navigating through a giant maze. First tribe to collect all five medallions in order and to exit the maze wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Ogakor

Voted Out:  Kimmi Kappenberg

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Episode 6   (Australian Outback)

Reward Challenge: BLIND LEADING THE BLIND
The tribes will select one member of each team to act as their "eyes" while the other members are blindfolded. Sitting atop two towers, the "eyes" must guide their blindfolded tribemembers through a series of obstacles, such as: stacking wooden beams and filling up buckets of water. The first tribe to successfully complete the course wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Mountain Dew and Doritos

Winning Tribe: Kucha

No Immunity Challenge

Voted Out:  Mike Skupin leaves the game due to injury

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Episode 7   (Australian Outback)

Immunity Challenge: PERCH
Each Survivor must stand on a wooden pillar in the Herbert River. Whoever stands on a pillar the longest wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Keith Famie

Voted Out:  Jeff Varner

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Episode 8   (Australian Outback)

Reward Challenge: RETURN TO SENDER
Standing in the center of a giant sized target, each contestant was allowed one attempt to throw a boomerang. The tribe member whose boomerang lands closest to the center of the target wins.

Winner Gets: A full dinner including smoked salmon, shrimp, grilled chicken, bread with butter, and dessert.

Winner: Jerri Manthey, who was permitted to select one tribe member to join her. She chose Amber.

Immunity Challenge: DON'T FENCE ME IN
The playing field consists of posts in rows of ten with ropes hanging from one side of the post. Survivors take turns connecting the rope of one post to another post in order to eventually make a square. The Survivor "owns" a square when he or she is able to close off the square upon their turn. The Survivor who "owns" the most squares wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Keith Famie

Voted Out:  Alicia Calaway

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Episode 9   (Australian Outback)

Reward Challenge: DOUBLE PLAY
An obstacle course race consisting of 3 races. The winners of the first two races compete against each other in the third race to determine the final winner.

Winner Gets: A trip via helicopter to one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Barrier Reef, where the winning twosome enjoys a feast of delicious food and a day of snorkeling.

Winner: Jerri and Colby

Immunity Challenge: HANGING IN THE BALANCE
In part 1, "Know Your Ropes," each member of a pair stands on a platform in the water and uses a rope to cause the opponent to lose balance and to fall in the water. The winners of this competition proceed to the next.

In part 2, "Rock the Boat," each member of a pair rocks an unsteady beam above the water back and forth, attempting to force the opponent to fall off. The winners proceed to the final competition.

In the final round, "Sinking Ship," each person in a pair uses a rope to cause the opponent to fall off an unsteady wooden raft in the water.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Nick Brown

Voted Out:  Jerri Manthey

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Episode 10   (Australian Outback)

Reward Challenge: SURVIVOR AUCTION
Each Survivor is given a money pouch filled with $500 Australian currency. Their goal is to outbid their fellow tribe members for various food items, such as cheeseburgers, a turkey dinner, and Doritos with salsa.

Winner Gets: Food

Winner: All seven Survivors

Immunity Challenge: FIRE & RAIN
Each Survivor is given a T-shaped "fire scale." On one side is a fire pan, on the other a bucket with a small hole in the bottom. The Survivors must light a fire in the fire pan, then, using a small bucket, race to the river to finally fill the larger bucket on the opposite side of the fire scale. The weight of the water in the bucket will lift the fire pan into the air and ignite a fuse. The first person to ignite their fuse wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Colby Donaldson

Voted Out:  Nick Brown

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Episode 11   (Australian Outback)

Reward Challenge: END OF THE LINE
Each Survivor must follow a rope that will lead to 4 checkpoints. The Survivors will use 2 carabineers to traverse the rope course. One must be attached at all times. Survivors must clip onto a rope before they unclip to proceed through the race. The first Survivor to reach each checkpoint and cross the finish line first wins.

Winner Gets: A horseback ride, food, Budweiser beer, and an overnight stay on a cot, followed by breakfast, at an Outback Cowboy Camp.

Winner: Colby Donaldson

Immunity Challenge: BLUE PLATE SPECIAL
Each Survivor has three plates with his or her name written on them hanging from trees. Each must use a slingshot, firing Australian macadamia nuts as ammunition at opposing tribe members' plates. The person with the last plate hanging wins immunity.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Colby Donaldson

Voted Out:  Amber Brkich

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Episode 12   (Australian Outback)

Reward Challenge: SURVIVOR.COM
The Survivors communicate with their loved ones via the Internet. They will each ask their loved ones a series of survival-based questions. The Survivor whose loved ones answer the most questions correctly wins.

Winner Gets: 30-minute private chat with family and a $500 Internet shopping spree courtesy of VISA to buy gifts from afar for the loved ones.

Winner: Tina Wesson

Immunity Challenge: FUGITIVES
With hands, feet, and waist shackled, each Survivor must answer questions painted on wood beside remnants of an abandoned cattle station. The questions are based on a story told by host Jeff Probst. Each correct answer yields a key that opens one of the locks. The person with the most opened locks to cross the finish line first wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Colby Donaldson

Voted Out:  Rodger Bingham

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Episode 13   (Australian Outback)

Reward Challenge: SURVIVOR PENTATHLON
The Survivors must race through a multi-stage course comprising several key elements from past challenges, including being blindfolded and shackled, walking on a beam, solving a puzzle, and starting a fire.

Winner Gets: A hot meal, a warm shower, and a new car: a Pontiac Aztek, to sleep in overnight, and to take home to the United States

Winner: Colby Donaldson

Immunity Challenge: MEMORY
This challenge requires memory rather than physical strength. 36 covers have been placed over 18 matching pairs of items from the Outback. Each Survivor must uncover two baskets, revealing their hidden items. The object: match the items and win a point. The person who matches the most items.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Colby Donaldson

Voted Out:  Elisabeth Filarski

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Episode 14   (Australian Outback)

Challenge: FALLEN COMRADES
Each remaining Survivor is asked several personal questions about their fellow tribe members who have been voted out before them. The person who answers the most questions correctly wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Colby

Voted Out:  Keith Famie

Final Two:  Tina Wesson (winner) and Colby Donaldson

Africa - Season 3

Episode 1     (Africa)

Immunity Challenge: Trail Blazer
Each team is given a "Fire Cart," which contains four lit torches and a fire caldron in the center. They must pull or push the cart through difficult terrain while lighting a series of fire towers along the way. The first tribe to successfully light their towers, cross the finish line, and ignite the final bonfire wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Samburu

Voted Out:  Diane Ogden

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Episode 2    (Africa)

Reward Challenge: Stairway to the Stars
Two identical playing fields, side-by-side and crisscrossing, are set up. At one end of the field are two 12-foot tall poles. Around the base of the poles are five holes, which will fit five different length poles (2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 feet long). The tribes must start at one end of the field and carry the heavy wooden poles to their designated holes to create a staircase around the center pole. The first team to successfully create the staircase and have one member climb to the top wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: All the items that were left behind on day one, including blankets, water containers and food

Winning Tribe: Samburu

Immunity Challenge: Safari Supper
One at a time, members from both tribes must drink a shot of cow's blood. If at any time a person declines to drink or does not finish, that team is disqualified. If all members of both tribes complete the task, a tiebreaker is set. Each tribe must pick a member from the other tribe to chug a full glass of cow's blood. The first to finish wins the full glass wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Samburu

Voted Out:  Jessie Camacho

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Episode 3    (Africa)

Reward Challenge: Rock 'n' Roll
Tribes race to roll an eight-foot boulder through a natural obstacle course. Tribe members must work together to navigate the boulder through obstacles across an already difficult terrain. The first tribe to roll their boulder into the winner's circle wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: 100 gallons of drinking water and organic shampoo

Winning Tribe: Boran

Immunity Challenge: Distress Signal
Tribes are told that a plane will be flying overhead. At their camps, tribes must construct a distress signal, using anything around their camp to get the plane's attention. The tribe with the signal most visible from the air, according to the plane's pilot and dropmaster, wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Boran

Voted Out:  Carl Bilancione

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Episode 4    (Africa)

Reward Challenge: Caught in the Web
In a team relay, Survivors race to retrieve various food items placed in a basket on a giant 20-foot rope web. Side-by-side, the teams race up a ramp, onto a platform and launch themselves into a rope net. Once there, they must climb the web and retrieve a basket, then race back to the starting point. The first Tribe to carry all of its baskets across the finish line wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Various food items

Winning Tribe: Samburu

Immunity Challenge: Movin' on Up
The Survivors test their skills of nomadic relocation. Each tribe is required to disassemble and move identical camps to a new location. Each camp consists of a hut, a fence, a flagpole and various camping equipment. The first tribe to relocate and reconstruct the identical camp 200 yards away wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Boran

Voted Out:  Linda Spencer

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Episode 5    (Africa)

Tribal Switch
In the morning, both tribes received tree mail notifying them that they must choose the three "best" tribe members to meet host Jeff Probst for what they thought was going to be a Reward Challenge. Boran chose Kelly, Tom and Lex; Samburu chose Frank, Teresa and Silas. Contrary to what everyone expected, a dramatic shift in the SURVIVOR game took place. In a shocking move, host Jeff Probst unveiled a dynamic, game-changing twist. "As you guys have certainly figured out by now," advised Probst, "the game of SURVIVOR is always changing, and it's about to change again." After asking both teams to hand over their team-colored buffs, Jeff Probst pulled the switch by telling Kelly, Tom and Lex from Boran that they are now members of Samburu, and Silas, Frank and Teresa from Samburu that they are now members of Boran. After picking their jaws off the ground, the astonished new members of Boran and Samburu headed back to their respective camps to their new and unsuspecting tribemates.

Reward Challenge: Get your Goat
Given forty goats, twenty for Samburu and twenty for Boran, the Survivors must herd their goats from one pen to another, one hundred yards away. The first tribe to successfully herd their goats into the finishing pen wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Three egg-laying chickens and a rooster

Winning Tribe: Boran

Immunity Challenge: Puzzle of Shields
Each team is given twenty puzzle pieces shaped like various shields. The tribes must gather the pieces and successfully put together the puzzle. The first tribe to complete their puzzle wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Samburu

Voted Out:  Silas Gaither

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Episode 6    (Africa)

Reward Challenge Name: Africa 102
The two tribes sit atop a set of bleachers. At each level they are asked a question based on Africa. If the tribe answers correctly, they move down a row of the bleachers. The first tribe to stand on the ground after having answered each question correctly wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: A full food buffet including Mountain Dew, pasta salad with vegetables, a plate full of sandwiches, and cookies for dessert

Winner: Samburu

Immunity Challenge Name: Spearit Hunt
Using a bow and arrow, one at a time the Survivors will attempt to shoot a flaming arrow at various targets placed from thirty feet to seventy feet away. The first tribe to hit and ignite their targets, from closest to farthest wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winner: Boran

Voted Out:  Lindsey Richter

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Episode 7    (Africa)

Merge
After receiving tree mail on the morning of day 20, both tribes met host Jeff Probst at the Immunity Challenge, where he informed the group that they were now one tribe. As Jeff handed each person a new green buff.  Merged tribe name: Moto Maji

Immunity Challenge Name: When It Rains It Really Pours
The Survivors are each placed directly underneath a bucket filled with water. The bucket is connected to the Survivor's wrists by a rope just above their head. If a Survivor moves his or her hand, the bucket will tip over and shower the person with water. The last Survivor to remain dry with their hand held above their head wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Teresa Cooper

Voted Out:  Clarence Black

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Episode 8    (Africa)

Reward Challenge Name: Stomp-pede
The Survivors are given a wooden plank with notches below its center. A bucket has been placed eight feet in the air. Beneath the bucket is a fulcrum over which the board must be placed. One at a time, a series of items are placed on one end of the plank. The Survivors must stomp on the other end, catapulting the item into the bucket. First person to successfully toss all his or her items into the bucket wins.

Winner Tribe Gets: Two goats to take to an African village and barter for items of the winner's choosing

Winner: Ethan Zohn

Immunity Challenge Name: Box Your Mind
The Survivors are shown a box with nine squares, each of which contains an item. The Survivors are given three minutes to memorize the items and their exact location in the box. When the game begins, the items they have just seen are scattered on the ground. The Survivors must race to collect the items and arrange them in their respective squares. The person with the most matches wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Ethan Zohn

Voted Out: Kelly Goldsmith

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Episode 9    (Africa)

Reward Challenge Name: Obstacle Course
Survivors must pair up and race through an obstacle course that includes climbing a rope net, scaling a wall and building a ladder to get them across the finish line. The race consists of two heats, in which teams pair off to face each other in final round. First team to cross the finish line wins.

Winning Pair Gets: A night at the movies, with popcorn, candy, and soda.

Winner: Frank Garrison and Brandon Quinton

Immunity Challenge Name: Light it Up
Each Survivor is assigned a fire pit, over which a cord has been strung. Survivors must gather whatever wood, sticks or elephant dung they can carry to the fire pit. There, they must start a fire using a magnifying glass. They must build the fire high enough to burn through their cord, which then drops a weight that, in turn, raises a flag. First person whose flag is hoisted wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Lex van den Berghe

Voted Out:  Brandon Quinton

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Episode 10    (Africa)

Reward Challenge Name: SURVIVOR Auction
Each Survivor is given 20,000 Kenyan shillings. As host Jeff Probst reveals various food items, the Survivors must bid against each other to win the items. The highest bidder wins each food reward.

Winner: Lex: hot coffee, sugar and chocolate croissant; Teresa: wedge of cheese and hoagie sandwich; Kim P.: ice cream sundae; Kim Johnson: fried chicken dinner (she sold the breast to Lex); Ethan: jar of hot fudge; Tom: glass of cold beer; Tom and Ethan: shared a full breakfast, including pancakes and bacon (Tom ate the bacon)

Immunity Challenge: African Folklore
After listening to a story about various African traditions, myths, and superstitions, the Survivors must race to a series of stations and answer questions relating to the story. Each station contains a choice between two statements, one true, one false, each with a corresponding ostrich egg. The tribe member must decide which answer was true, then crack open the egg. A false answer will lead to an empty egg; the correct answer will reveal a strip of colored leather contained in the egg. The tribe member then ties the colored strip to the corresponding band of color on a staff they had been provided. First person to get five strips tied to their staff and return to the center of the circle wins immunity.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Lex van den Berghe

Voted Out: Frank Garrison

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Episode 11    (Africa)

Reward Challenge: Know Your Loved One
In this challenge the Survivors find out just how well their loved ones from home know them. The loved ones were asked, on videotape, a series of personal questions about their respective Survivor. The Survivors are then asked the same questions. Every matching answer gets a point, and the person with the most points wins.

Winner Gets: Take a plane to an exclusive resort in the Masai Mara, go on safari to see the migrating wildebeest, sleep in a real bed, and enjoy fabulous food, all charged to a VISA credit card.

Winner: Lex, who shared his reward with Tom

Immunity Challenge: Pot Shots 2
Using authentic African throwing sticks, Survivors must one-by-one break their tribemates' clay pots, hanging from ropes with their respective names on them. Person who has the last pot still hanging wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Tom Buchanan

Voted Out: Kim Powers

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Episode 12    (Africa)

Reward Challenge: Swahili Scramble
The Survivors search for words among a jumble of letters on a giant board. The words intersect and share letters. Once all the words have been found, the intersecting letters unscramble to form a winning word. First Survivor to decipher the winning word wins.

Winner Gets: A new Chevy Avalanche, and the opportunity to drive the new vehicle, stocked with a year's worth of medical supplies, to a nearby AIDS hospital.

Winner: Lex van den Berghe

Immunity Challenge: Second Chance
The Survivors must once again compete against each other on an obstacle course. Using parts of past challenges, such as running on a rope net, building a ladder, and shooting an arrow, they will race to the finish. First person to successfully complete the course wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Lex van den Berghe

Voted Out: Teresa Cooper

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Challenge Name: Fallen Comrades   ??????    (Africa)
This challenge tested the remaining Survivors' knowledge of their tribemates. The Survivor to answer the most questions regarding their tribe mates correctly wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Kim Johnson

Voted Out:  Tom Buchanan

Episode 13      (Africa)

Challenge Name: Hard Idol
This was a test of will, as the Survivors must stand on uneven wooden pegs, causing them to lean forward while grabbing hold of an idol evenly placed in the center of the wooden pegs. Once in position, the Survivor cannot move their feet or take their hand off the idol. Last person to remain standing wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Kim Johnson

Voted Out:  Lex van den Berghe

Final Two:  Ethan Zohn (winner) and Kim Johnson

Marquesas - Season 4

Episode 1     (Marquesas)

Immunity Challenge -- Outrigger Fire Quest
Each tribe must transport their 300-pound outrigger canoe into the ocean, light their two torches from a fire cauldron, then race back to the beach lighting a series of torches along the way. First tribe to successfully light the torches and return the canoes to their resting points wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Rotu

Voted Out:  Peter Harkey

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Episode 2    (Marquesas)

Reward Challenge: Do or Dive
Each tribe must dive below the surface and remove heavy rocks weighing down a sunken rowboat. Once the rocks are removed and the boat surfaces, they must tow it to a dock where buckets await them to bail out the water. Once the boat is deemed sea worthy, it's a paddle to shore and across the finish line. The first tribe to successfully complete their tasks and cross the line wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Mask and Snorkel

Winning Tribe: Rotu

Immunity Challenge: Marquesan Menu
Each member of Rotu and Maraamu must eat the Marquesan delicacy named fafaru -- various fish parts that have marinated in sea water for three days in the sun. One by one, each contestant, using only their mouth, must completely finish their portion. If a tribe member cannot finish at any time, they are automatically disqualified.

Winning Tribe: Rotu

Voted Out:  Patricia Jackson

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Episode 3    (Marquesas)

Reward Challenge: Raft Rescue
The tribes receive two identical piles of materials consisting of bamboo poles and rope from which they must construct a raft to paddle. Along the way, they must unclip floating supply boxes and race back to a floating dock. The first tribe to successfully gather the supply crates and race back to the dock wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Pillow, blankets, and lanterns

Winning Tribe: Rotu

Immunity Challenge: Coconut Maze Race
The tribes are faced with two identical large mazes, elevated and controlled by ropes at the corners to tilt the board. Four people from each tribe control the corner ropes. These castaways are instructed by a fifth person who is the "Caller" and shouts out commands. A coconut is placed in the start position and the tribes use the tilt mechanisms to roll the coconut through the maze. The first tribe to land three coconuts in the finish net wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Rotu

Voted Out:  Hunter Ellis

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Episode 4    (Marquesas)

Reward Challenge: Survivor Switch
One after another, each Survivor turns over the wooden disc they are standing on, revealing a colored Buff. This Buff represents the tribe that the Survivor has been switched to: Rotu (blue) or Maraamu (yellow).

Maraamu Tribe Gets: Kathy, Neleh, Paschal (Join Gina and Sarah)

Rotu Tribe Gets: Rob, Sean, Vecepia (Join Gabriel, John, Robert, Tammy, and Zoe)

Immunity Challenge: Life's a Tapestry

Description: The tribes face two identical weaving platforms consisting of loops of material. Painted on the weave is a Polynesian design, which is scrambled. Using a drawing of the original design, the tribes must unscramble the weave to match the correct design. The first tribe to finish correctly wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Rotu

Voted Out: Sarah Jones

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Episode 5    (Marquesas)

Reward Challenge: Tiki Towers
Survivors race to assemble a set of Tikis. Each tribe must pick a "Caller" as the rest of the tribe is blindfolded. The caller directs hi/her tribe to the segments of tikis that are scattered about. Once all the pieces are collect, the blindfolds are removed and the first tribe to assemble their four Tikis first wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: To raid the other tribe's camp

Winning Tribe: Maraamu

Immunity Challenge: Distress Signal
The tribes are informed that in three hours a ship will pass offshore. They must build a distress signal visible to the passing ship. The tribe to build the distress signal most visible to the human eye from the ship wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Maraamu

Voted Out:  Gabriel Cade

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Episode 6    (Marquesas)

Reward Challenge: Jungle Relay
Four tribe members from each tribe participate. First, one member from each tribe must race into the jungle to find and untie a paddle from a banyan tree and tag an awaiting tribe member to then find the second paddle. Once the second paddle is found and untied, the two tribemates must crack open coconuts to find a key that they pass along to the final two racers. The final two must use the key to unlock the chained outrigger canoe, paddle in the ocean and retrieve the tribal flag. Once the flag is gathered, they must paddle back to the beach, drag the canoe within the distance of the unlocked chain, and race to place their flag in the awaiting Tiki tower. The first tribe to successfully complete the race wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: A picnic

Winning Tribe: Maraamu

Immunity Challenge: Maze
Tribes race through a circular maze to retrieve rungs that are needed to build a ladder situated in the center of the maze. Each rung is numbered 1 through 5. Each team must find and gather the rungs in order and negotiate their way back to the center while being tied together. The first team to retrieve their rungs in the correct order, build the ladder and climb to the top of the winner's platform, wins.

Winning Tribe Gets: Immunity

Winning Tribe: Rotu

Voted Out:  Gina Crews

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Episode 7    (Marquesas)

Reward Challenge: Merge
Each tribe must pick a representative, who will, unbeknownst to them, make a decision that affects the rest. The two of them must decide which camp to move to for the remainder of the game and what the name of the new tribe will be.

Immunity Challenge: Sea Legs
Each Survivor must stand on a floating platform in the sea. The person who stays standing the longest without having any body part other than his or her feet touching the platform at any time wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien

Voted Out: Rob Mariano

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Episode 8    (Marquesas)

Reward Challenge: Go Fly a Kite
The Survivors are given materials at their camp to build a kite that they must bring to the Challenge. At the Challenge, they are given a spool with 300 feet of kite string. The Survivor whose kite pulls out all 300 hundred feet of string first, wins.

Winner Gets: Scuba dive trip

Winner: Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien

Immunity Challenge: Parang Swing
Each Survivor has three bundles of coconuts strung in a tree. Each time a Survivor answers a question correctly, he or she cuts down a bundle of an opposing tribe member. The last Survivor to have coconuts remaining in the tree wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Tammy Leitner

Voted Out:  John Carroll

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Episode 9    (Marquesas)

Reward Challenge: Coconut Juice
The Survivors are separated into teams of two where they will have to race to fill their three-foot tall bamboo shoots with coconut juice. They must gather coconuts, crack them open and drain the juice into the tube. First team to fill their bamboo shoot wins.

Winner Gets: Marquesan Feast

Winner: Sean Rector, Paschal English

Immunity Challenge: High Stepping
Two at a time, the Survivors enter the ring and face off as they try to stand on stilts longer than their opponent. The castaway to fall first is out of the game and the winner moves to the next round until there is only one Survivor remaining.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Tammy Leitner

Voted Out:  Zoe Zanidakis

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Episode 10    (Marquesas)

Reward Challenge: Rock Bottom
The Survivors compete in four separate heats to win the reward. In the first heat, all seven Survivors must dive below the surface of the ocean to retrieve only six giant shells, scattered about the ocean floor. The Survivor who does not resurface with a shell is out of the game. In the second heat the six Survivors have only five shells to retrieve. In the third heat only five Survivors remain and only four shells are left to collect. In the final heat, the remaining four Survivors must dive below the surface to find a 40-pound rock and carry it back to shore. The first person to transport their rock across the finish line wins.

Winner Gets: A private cruise and feast for two

Winner: Paschal English

Immunity Challenge: Virtues of Fire
The Survivors must race to the end of a course and collect firewood in order to start a fire underneath a wok filled with oil and popcorn kernels. When at least one popcorn kernel has popped, they must transport their flame and ignite a small fire tower. The first person to set their fire tower ablaze wins Immunity.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Robert DeCanio

Voted Out:  Tammy Leitner

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Episode 11    (Marquesas)

Reward Challenge: Turtle Roll
The Survivors' loved ones take their places on a large turtle-shaped game board. Taking turns, they move from one piece to the next, flipping over the piece they previously stood on, revealing the color green. Once a person cannot step anywhere but on a green piece, they are out of the game. The last person remaining on a non-green piece wins.

Winner Gets: To stay overnight at Soliantu Beach

Winner: Patrick (Kathy's son)

Immunity Challenge: Sands of Time
The Survivors face a group of identical hourglass-like structures. The front of each structure is covered with tile panels, which are packed with sand. Underneath each structure sits a tiki. The Survivors, using a slingshot, must try to break the tile panels of their competitors, causing sand to escape the structure and cover the tiki. The last tiki to remain uncovered wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Vecepia Towery

Voted Out:  Robert DeCanio

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Episode 12    (Marquesas)

Reward Challenge: Second Chance
Competing in elements from past challenges, the Survivors must race to complete the following: Gather pieces of a tiki and correctly rebuild it; crack open coconuts and drain the juice into a hollow tube; untie stilts from a tree high above the ground; walk ten feet on the stilts without falling; find a coconut containing a key that opens a chest containing a slingshot; use the slingshot to launch a rock at an hourglass-shaped structure with a tiki underneath it; break the panel releasing enough sand to completely cover their own tiki. The first person to cover their tiki with sand wins.

Winner Gets: Saturn VUE

Winner: Sean Rector

Immunity Challenge: Marquesan Folklore
The Survivors race to answer a series of questions based on a Marquesan legend recited by host Jeff Probst. At each station there is a question and two possible answers. Answer correctly and receive a small idol to attach to a necklace. The first person to answer five questions correctly and cross the finish line with five idols on their necklace wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien

Voted Out:  Sean Rector

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Episode 13    (Marquesas)

Immunity Challenge: Fallen Comrades
A series of questions test the Survivors' knowledge of the tribemates who have been voted out before them. One point is granted for a correct answer. The first Survivor to accumulate ten points wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Vecepia Towery

Voted Out:  Paschal English (via tie vote and picking colored rocks out of a sack. The person to pick the only purple rock out of the bag would have to leave the tribe)

Immunity Challenge: Hand on a Hard Idol
Each Survivor stands on two uneven stumps and places one hand on the Immunity Idol. Once in position they may not take their hand from the Idol or remove their feet from the stumps. The last person standing wins.

Winner Gets: Immunity

Winner: Neleh Dennis

Voted Out:  Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien

Final Two:  Vecepia Towery (winner) and Neleh Dennis

Thailand - Season 5

Episode 1      (Thailand)

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: FLYING YOUR FLAG
The Survivors had to race around a small island by paddling a boat. Along the way they would have to visit several stations, where they would have to complete certain tasks or puzzles in order to receive a tribal flag. However, only one person from each tribe would be allowed to compete at each station. First tribe to have successfully completed each puzzle, gather their flags and race back to the floating dock, would win.

Winner: Sook Jai

Voted Out:  John Raymond

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Episode 2    (Thailand)

REWARD CHALLENGE: PALANQUIN SLALOM
Each tribe would have to pick one person to act as a guide, while the others would be blindfolded. The blindfolded tribe members would have to carry the guide in the Palanquin. The guide would navigate them through a course. Along the way, they would find several stations with a tribal bag hanging from them. First tribe to have completed the course and collect their bags would win. 

Winner: Sook Jai

The reward: one lantern, fishing line and hooks, and a 30-meter fishing net.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: FLOATING PUZZLE
Each tribe was given a giant floating Lotus flower puzzle, missing six pieces. The six pieces were tethered and floating at equal distance from the flower. The tribe members would have to swim, one at a time, to a missing piece, unlatch it, then swim back to attach it to their tribe's flower. First tribe to have successfully retrieved all six pieces and place them correctly on their flower would win.

Winner: Sook Jai

Voted Out:  Tanya Vance

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Episode 3     (Thailand)

REWARD CHALLENGE: PILFERING PIRATES
The tribes would have to race along a narrow bamboo course over water. At the center of the course was a "Contact Zone" where the Survivors could physically knock each other off the course. At the end of the course were two boats, one for each tribe, filled with baskets. Their goal was to negotiate the course, steal a basket from the opposing team's boat and return it to their own team's starting boat. First tribe to steal ten baskets would win. 

Winner:  Chuay Gahn

The Reward: two Thai Red Beret Special Forces Soldiers, who would help improve living conditions back at camp for twenty-four hours.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: TEMPLE TRANSFER
Each tribe was given three stations and one temple made up of six pieces. The goal was to transfer one piece of the temple at a time from the first to the third platform and reconstruct the temple identically. The catch was that they could never place a larger piece over a smaller piece. First tribe to successfully rebuild their temple would win.

Winner: Chuay Gahn

Voted Out:  Jed Hildebrand

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Episode 4    (Thailand)

REWARD CHALLENGE: NEW TRIBE MEMBER
The Survivors have to race around the small island in the intense heat, while carrying their enormous dummy. First tribe to make it around the island and cross the finish line would win. 

Winner:  Sook Jai

Reward:  Bananas, along with a mystery food prize that would be waiting at the winning tribe's camp.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: TAN-DY GRAM
Working in pairs, the tribes had to solve two puzzles. Seven distinct shapes were provided, and would need to be assembled to form an image that perfectly matched two images displayed in front of them. The first tribe to solve the puzzles correctly would win.

Winner:  Sook Jai

Voted Out:  Ghandia Johnson

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Episode 5    (Thailand)

AN OFFER THEY CAN'T REFUSE: SURVIVOR AUCTION
After receiving Tree Mail, which included one thousand dollars of U.S. money, the tribes met Host Jeff Probst at the SURVIVOR Auction, where he added a new twist to SURVIVOR: THAILAND. "Before we get to the auction, I want to make you an offer. Does anybody here want to switch tribes?" asked Jeff. After taking a minute to contemplate, no one took Jeff up on the offer, and the auction began.
First item up for bid was a hamburger and French fries, for which Sook Jai ended up paying a healthy $120. As the auction continued, both tribes bid on various food and beverage items, savoring each. However, Sook Jai was duped as they outbid Chuay Gahn for a mystery plate, which contained seasoned grubs. After Chuay Gahn outbid Sook Jai on the final meal, consisting of nachos and margaritas, both tribes returned to their camps with their spirits lifted and stomachs full.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: CATCH OF THE DAY
On separate platforms, each tribe was given four different types of fish that had been mixed together in a massive pile. The tribes had to separate the four types of fish into four respective bins. First tribe to have successfully separated each type of fish into their corresponding bin would win. The tribes raced back and forth, desperately trying to separate the slippery fish. Piles began forming in each bin, as the race quickened.

Winner:  Chuay Gahn

Voted Out:  Stephanie Dill

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Episode 6    (Thailand)

REWARD CHALLENGE: WICKER FLICKER
Each tribe would have to select a person to be a ball launcher, while the others were situated at four different stations spread out along the beach. Using giant wicker baskets attached to poles, the Survivors would have to catch balls from their own launcher while trying to keep opposing tribe members from catching balls lobbed from their own launcher. First tribe to have caught five of their balls would win. 

Winner:  Sook Jai

The Reward--an authentic Thai feast, which included shrimp, fresh pineapple, vegetables and wine to toast their victory.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: THAI 21
There were 21 flags placed in a circle. Alternating turns, the tribes were allowed to gather one, two, or three flags at a time. The goal was to be the tribe to get the last remaining flag. This Immunity Challenge was all brains and no brawn. Move by move, the 'tribal chess match' played out.

Winner:  Chuay Gahn

Voted Out:  Robb Zbacnik

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Episode 7    (Thailand)

MEET AND GREET
After receiving Tree Mail, along with five different color body paints, the tribes were instructed to paint themselves, with each individual tribe member representing a different color. The two tribes met host Jeff Probst, who explained the significance behind the painting: "We thought we would give you guys the chance to get to know someone from the other tribe." One at a time, the members of Sook Jai and Chuay Gahn paired up according to who was wearing the same color body paint. Randomly picking baskets, the pairs set out along the beach to enjoy time with each other.

GOODWILL AMBASSADORS
Clay Jordan, the 46-year-old restaurateur from Monroe, Louisiana, of Chuay Gahn, and Shii Ann of Sook Jai received a note telling them to travel to the Chuay Gahn beach. Sook Jai's Ken Stafford, the New York City cop, and Chuay Gahn's Helen Glover, the Navy swim instructor from Middleton, Rhode Island, were told to travel to the Sook Jai beach to examine how the other tribe lived. After observing both beaches, the four returned to meet with their tribemates as Jeff Probst explained, "The four of you are the official ambassadors of your tribes. The two tribes will now live together on one beach, and the four ambassadors will decide which beach that will be." After a brief debate, it was decided that the Chuay Gahn beach was more comfortable.

Merge: CHUAY JAI IS BORN?
Believing that the two tribes had merged, they created a new tribal name, Chuay Jai. The tribes celebrated with an assortment of food and wine that awaited them at their new home

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: JAIL BREAK
Shackled by locks, each team would be placed in a jail cell. Using the resources on the ground in the cell, the Survivors had to escape from a makeshift prison by reaching for the keys that hung on posts outside of the cell. First tribe to have gathered the keys, unlock their shackles, and dig out of the jail would win.

Winner:  Chuay Gahn

Voted Out: Shii-Ann Huang

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Episode 8    (Thailand)

REWARD CHALLENGE:  None

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: BREATHING SPACE
Using eight individual bamboo snorkels, four for each tribe, the Survivors had to submerge themselves underwater and breathe through the snorkel. Once a tribe member comes up for air, their time is stopped. The tribe with the longest cumulative running time under water wins.

Voted Out:  Erin Collins

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Episode 9    (Thailand)

REWARD CHALLENGE: WICKER BALL RELAY
Both tribes met Host Jeff Probst at the Reward Challenge, where he informed them that they have officially merged and that they would now live as one tribe. Jeff then gave the Survivors a second surprise: videos from home! After each Survivor was given a brief preview of their loved ones, he explained the rules and the reward for the upcoming Challenge

Pairing up, each group of Survivors would have to race through an obstacle course, with various tasks to perform along the way. First team to successfully complete the course and cross the finish line wins and moves on to the next heat.

Winner:  Brian Heidik 

Reward:  Loved ones video from home

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: THAI NUMBERS
The Survivors had to compete in a two-round race. First, a simple elimination round tested the Survivors' memory skills, matching Thai numbers with numbers in English.

Winner:  Clay Jordan

Voted Out: Ken Stafford

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Episode 10    (Thailand)

REWARD CHALLENGE: KNOCK OUT
Competing in pairs, the Survivors would have to race in a four-stage obstacle course. Each stage was designed to eliminate players. In the first stage, the castaways had to pair up, with the remaining player instantly eliminated. Then the pairs had to negotiate their way across towers using two wooden planks to bridge the gaps. The first two pairs to successfully make it across would move on to the next stage, a belly crawl under a bamboo course. The first three Survivors to finish the belly crawl would move on to the third stage, a wall climb in which they had to use the aid of another competitor to help each other over. First two to climb over the wall would move on to the final stage, a race along a bamboo balance beam. First person to complete the balance beam and cross the finish line would win. 

The reward: a trip to the mainland for an elephant trek through the Thai jungle, along with an authentic Thai lunch.

Winner:  Brian Heidik (shared with Clay)

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: SNUFF IT
The Challenge tested the Survivors' knowledge of Thai culture, as each castaway had to answer a multiple-choice or true-or-false question. Each tribe member who answered a question correctly was permitted to snuff out a competitor's torch. The Survivor left with a lit torch would win.

Winner: Helen Glover

Voted Out:  Penny Ramsey

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Episode 11    (Thailand)

REWARD CHALLENGE: THAI MENU
After receiving Tree Mail, the tribe met host Jeff Probst at the Reward Challenge, where he unexpectedly brought each Survivor's loved ones from home to compete in the Challenge. One by one, each loved one entered the area as tears of joy ran down the Survivors' homesick faces. Jeff then explained, "The loved ones are going to compete against each other in a bug-eating contest. 

The winner will spend 24 hours at the tribe camp with their Survivor as an honorary member of the tribe. If at any time you fail to eat anything, you are sent off with no contact whatsoever with your Survivor."

Winner:  Helen's husband, Jim

Reward:  24 hour visit to camp by loved one

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: CUBE CRISIS
Each person had to gather their own misshapen pieces from a nearby pile and fit the assorted, oversized pieces in such a way that they construct a colored cube. First person to have successfully constructed their colored cube would win. Just before starting the Challenge, Jeff provided yet another twist to the game of SURVIVOR. Running out from around the corner, each loved one returned to embrace their family member. "Guys, your loved ones are going to be your partner in today's Immunity Challenge. They will be tied to your wrist. You will win or lose Immunity based on how well you work with your loved one," explained Jeff.

Winners: Ted Rogers and his brother Alwan 

Voted Out:  Jake Billingsley

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Episode 12    (Thailand)

REWARD CHALLENGE: LETTER HUNT
After receiving Tree Mail, the tribe headed out for the final Reward Challenge, where they were greeted by host Jeff Probst, who was driving a new Chevy Trailblazer. "This is part of what you are playing for," explained Jeff. Along with the new car, the winner of the Challenge would receive a full Thai dinner, a shower, and massage.

The tribe had to race to solve a word puzzle. First, they had to collect a series of placards, each bearing an English letter, which they would have to acquire at successive stations along a course. Once they had gathered all the letters, they would have to unscramble them to form two mystery words. First person to spell out the words correctly would win.

Winner:  Ted Rogers, Jr.

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: STEP ON UP
The Survivors were to start at the base of a ten-step staircase. Each step was part of a jigsaw, the pieces of which lay in a jumble at the foot of the staircase. The Survivors had to gather their missing pieces and build their way to the top of the stairs to the finishing platform. First person to have successfully completed their staircase and climb to the top would win.

Winner:  Brian Heidik

Voted Out:  Ted Rogers, Jr.

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Episode 13    (Thailand)

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: TRY AGAIN
The Survivors would have to compete in an obstacle course that used elements of past Challenges. First, they would have to dig deep into the sand to retrieve a wicker ball and race over a bamboo balance beam. Next, they would have to push the wicker ball through a fishnet and place the ball on a pedestal. The next stage consisted of solving a puzzle, which would release a knife. They were then to take the knife and cut a rope that released a bag of material that would help them negotiate their next task of retrieving a key from inside a jail cell. The final stage was a surprise Thai delicacy, and the first person to consume it would win Immunity

Winner:  Brian Heidik

Voted Out:  Helen Glover

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Episode 14    (Thailand)

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: SLIP THROUGH YOUR FINGERS
Situated in the deepest, darkest portion of the cave, the Survivors had to compete in a physical and mental endurance Challenge. First, the Survivors wedged three large coins between their fingers on both hands. Next, they positioned themselves in frames constructed to hold them in an uncomfortable traditional Thai stance called a Kahn.
Last person standing with all their coins in their hands would win Immunity.

Winner:  Brian Heidik

Voted Out:  Jan Gentry

Final Two:  Brian Heidik (winner) and Clay Jordan

Amazon - Season 6

Episode 1       (Amazon)

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: UNCHAINED
Chained together, each tribe would have to negotiate certain stations along an obstacle course. As each station was completed, they would gather a series of keys that would unlock sections of the chain, dividing the tribe into progressively smaller groupings.  The first station was a tangle of wooden stakes through which the tribes would have to navigate. The second leg led them over a cargo net to a puzzle, which they would have to decode in order to be able to unlock the next groups. The third station would force them to walk a balance beam while chained together in pairs. Once all 4 pairs in a tribe successfully completed the balance beam, another puzzle would await them. The final stage would find one person from the tribe racing up a ladder, then zipping down a pulley system to unlock a door, which would allow the rest of their tribemates to run to the finish line. First tribe to cross the finish line would win.

Winner: Jaburu

Voted Out:  Ryan Aiken

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Episode 2      (Amazon)

REWARD CHALLENGE: FLIP OUT
Both tribes were given a giant 30-piece puzzle to solve. The pieces of the puzzle were scattered around a playing field studded with obstacles like trees, broken limbs and mud. Each tribe was instructed to choose a "caller," while the other tribe members would be blindfolded and paired up. The "caller" was to guide his or her blindfolded tribemates to their colored planks to collect them. Once all pieces were collected, the blindfolds were to be removed, and the tribe could then solve the puzzle. First tribe to have completed the puzzle would win the reward: fishing bait.

Winner Jaburu

Reward: Fishing bait

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: TOTAL RECALL
Both tribes were to be given two minutes to explore and observe the contents of a traditional Amazonian dwelling. Testing their ability to retain information, Jeff would then ask the tribes a series of questions relating to what they had just observed. The tribe to answer the most questions correctly out of ten would win.

Winner: Tambaqui

Voted Out: Janet Koth

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Episode 3      (Amazon)

REWARD CHALLENGE: MATCHMAKER
Each of the castaways was placed at one of 14 separate playing stations, which held 5 different personal hygiene items. One at a time, the players would have to ask one other tribe member if they had a corresponding item in their container. A match would result in one point for their tribe. In round-robin fashion, each player would attempt to make matches until one tribe obtained 18 pairs, which would mean a majority win. The Reward was a basket filled with personal hygiene items, including soap and shampoo.

Winner: Jaburu

Reward: Basket filled with personal hygiene items:  soap, shampoo

IMMUNITY CHALLENGE: THE GREAT ESCAPE
To test their ability to work together as a team, each tribe would be placed inside a prison-like cage. Once inside, five stages would have to be completed in order to unlatch th