I wish they would do more “body weight” challenges, either by literally just hanging, lifting yourself up, or having the weight being represented in another way. It makes physical challenges as fair as they ever can be, and I think they end in surprises.
Agreed. I guess the moved away from some of the physical challenges due to injuries. I heard on one of Russell Hantz's videos him saying he hurt James knee pretty bad in the "pit basketball" for lack of better words. As well as Stephanie's shoulder getting dislocated in the first HvV challenge. Also Tyson should comes to mind in the sumo challenge. Just a guess though.
Agreed. In the old seasons challenges were so much more memorable and diverse. Now, it is the same challenges in every season. And there are lots of boring endurance challenges.
Production works hard so if they can setup roughly the same challenges every other season it saved them money and time but it lacks in overall entertainment.
@@quantumman1910 I love those challenges that you've mentioned, also the bowling reward challenge in HvV and Slide get a number and shoot a ball was nice.
Some of the Modern Challenges can still be really good, It's just when you think of Modern Pre-Merge Challenges those are usually the repetitive ones, but some are still good
@@jaydenbutcher5433 Well keep in mind he was going home regardless, as he was on the bottom. He made a dumb move out of desperation, and while that doesn't excuse him, it's something that needs to be seen to get the whole story.
Remember when Survivor actually built the challenge sets based on the location/ theme of the season? Since they film all their latest seasons in the same place, we no longer get impressive looking challenges like those before.
Right?! Like Survivor China had some awesome, unique, and great looking challenges that were specific to the China theme. Can't do that with Fiji all the time
@@denniswilliams6519the solution would be to stay out of Cambodia, but 44 has had two medevacs/mediquits and two in 32 weren't related to the Cambodian heat. Besides that's a lousy excuse for the show that has many other temperate exotic climates to visit to stay in the same place for 12 seasons. At the very least they could stand to make challenges around the theme if they weren't so cheap. Saving money is their reason. Don't make excuses
Am I the only one who actually likes Word Scramble? I’d prefer it over the repetitive ones we’ve been getting lately like the final immunity challenge in WAW that’s been reused several times now. My mom is a casual viewer and even she noticed how many times it’s been done before, she even said there needs to be more originality.
@@benjamingamlin188 Well why not go back to previous seasons? They've been reusing the same stuff throughout the 30s, they could, like, take a challenge from Borneo or China.
I thought one of the best challenges ever was the pirate ship challenge in season 5. Unfortunately Sook Jai kept breaking the rules and it cost them the challenge. I wish they would do that one again.
these challenges were absolutely lame, but even some of them like the flag challenge from thailand, i would take over today's endurance or obstacle + puzzle monotony. The SOS challenges used to be my favorite, and its nice for the pace to be varied up every now and again.
@@mavrickkickhaver5244 i was curious, so looked at WaW challenges 1. no puzzle 2. puzzle (lock / numbers) 3. vertical circular puzzle 4. tree puzzle 5. block puzzle 6. color/block puzzle 7. no puzzle (maze) 8. puzzle 9. edge: no puzzle (maze) 10. no puzzle (endurance) 11. puzzle 12. no puzzle (endurance) 13. not really a puzzle, but involves pieces (stacking blocks) 14. no puzzle 15. no puzzle (endurance) 16. puzzle 17. not really a puzzle, but involves pieces (dominos) 18. edge: no puzzle (maze) 19. no puzzle 20. no puzzle That's a ton in the pre-merge. In the post merge not as much, but a lot of the same dexterity / puzzle-like challenges repeated (letters, mazes, etc.) My problem is that while they're not all puzzles, a lot of them follow the same exact pattern of tons of action first (run, swim, etc.), then something that slows the action down for that suspense at the end - puzzle, maze, tossing things, etc. It all just feels the same.
@@theezakuroy exactly. i would love something that took us out of that, don't get me wrong i love it and it's exciting to watch, but they should experiment a little. I think one of the main problems is they used to vary up the challenge based on the location, but now they are always in Figi so its a lot of the same. Please see Africa season 3, some of the most memorable challenges (drinking cow's blood, the goat herding, SOS challenge, rolling the boulder) and an overall underrated season
@@junkerinhistrunker I appreciate the challenges. If u were big fans of the show you would probably really enjoy those type of challenges, I know I do.
The Kite Challenge is so underrated. Flying a kite can be very complicated if you never played one before. It would be a better challenge though if the castaways will be the one to assemble the kites and they make it fly to a certain cord length. The difficulty would be like with the fire making challenge.
I'm so glad you didn't include the Meke in this list. I was worried when it was in the preview portion of the episode. The Meke is still my all-time favourite challenge, its so different, fun and wholesome. Everyone is hilariously brilliant in it and even Jeff seems to have fun in it. I wish they would do challenges like this more often
I suggest you add all of the “stand on top of a perch and balance a ball on a ______” challenges, there all the same and sometimes even occur TWICE in a season
I still want to see a triathlon as a final challenge where there’s 4 competing, and the audience can’t see who’s coming to the finish line first till the very end. I’m aware some of the people in final 4s aren’t always the most physically fit, but I feel like the strength and endurance this takes represents Survivor.
I actually like the pearl islands word scramble challenge. It might be easy for us to say it’s easy, but I guess after spending thirty something days on an island it would be tough to spell words like that at whim. I’d prefer a challenge like that over the same, boring endurance challenges we get now
My pick for that would be the mixer from Amazon/All Stars...the fun banter from the contestants, including lame attempts at flirting, was what made the challenge
@@NYChica23 Yes I agree, and both Rob C and Jenna said the mixer challenge works better when it's all new castaways not returning players- it gives the castaways a chance to interact with each other early in the game.
I enjoy this video a lot. The HHH loved ones challenge is dumb. The Marquesas kite flying seems fun though. I wish they would bring back the DIY bathroom challenge like the one in Palau or the dance challenge in Fiji. The latter, especially, is fun.
I found the 21 Flags challenge pefectly fine.. Only problem is, it is super easy to figure out once you learn the trick, so it could only be played ONCE.
I remember there was a fishing challenge in The Amazon. Whoever had the most weight of fish after an hour wins. That’s it. Maybe it could be an honorable mention
THANK YOU for teaching this 21 poles strategy! Had this challenge in survior ORGs like 4 times, one only 1... googled strategy but all explanations were too hard for my stupid brain :)
It's called recursion. You win if you draw the last flag. If you can draw up to 3 flags: 1 left: Draw 1, you win, opponent loses 2 left: Draw 2, you win, opponent loses 3 left: Draw 3: you win, opponent loses 4 left: Draw 1, 2 or 3: There will be 3, 2, or 1 left. 3, 2, or 1 left for your opponent means THEY win, and you lose. This also means that if your opponent starts with 4, they LOSE. 5 left: Follow the recursion. Draw 1, 4 left; you win 6 left; Draw 2, 4 left, you win 7 left: Draw 3, 4 left, you win 8 left: Same reasoning as 4: There will be 7, 6, or 5 left, which we have established is a loss for you 9 left: Continue the sequence
Do most cutthroat challenges (from Jeff's perspective), such as having family members eat the gross shit in All stars, or the numerous examples of extremely difficult challenges that yield terrible rewards.
As a huge Ben supporter and just a fan of survivor I should be allowed to say that Christy has no soul. Ben was saying how his wife saved his life and she just called her ben’s sweet Kelley. She has no chill. Ben deserved that win that season!
Can we talk about the reward challenge in Philippines that was so poorly thought out the competitors literally decide to trade their rice for the reward instead of finishing out the challenge?
the kite challenge only existed because season 4 was set to film in the middle east, but after 9/11 production decided to move to marquesas. they had barley any time to make challenges, the challenges and tribal council area was thrown together by locals and schoolchildren.
Sorry you had a dad who thought up ways of dumping you. *go fly a kite." I loved the kite challenge. There are many aspects of building a flyable kite, great challenge. The winner built an unusual and awesome kite.Those who lost showed no imagination or skill in flight dynamics. A truly lame challenge is making people eat bugs and gross items such as pig snouts.
I think the reason Jeff didn't show up to the Ebola toss in One World or the Boche Ball challenge in Samoa is because I believe he was in the US attending some award show, so they had to do an easy challenge you could do without a host and we got those.
With the flag challenge me and my family would always play it during road trips or when we were bored. Basically the same thing except you count up in numbers and there can be more than just 2 people. Whoever lands on 21 is out and it does until 1 person is left. I’m a 2 person game the advantage is for the person who goes second from the get go. All you have to do is say a multiple of 4 as your final number on your turn (or say 21-5=16 as your final number. Basically your goal -5). For example, player 1 goes 1st, and takes 2 flags out of 21. Player 2 has won the game. Player 2 can take another 2 flags; 4/21. No matter what number of flags player 1 takes they will never land on a multiple of 4 as long as player 2 keeps their final number as a multiple of 4. The team going second will always have the advantage, as long as you know how to play it. This challenge is very visually uninteresting on survivor, but it could’ve been so much better if it was an individual challenge (for reward because it’s not exciting enough to be for immunity) and had player elimination each round where they each go up and take an amount of flags out of 20 from 1-3 and whoever has no flags to take is out. This could be good because say person A has 2 flags left. Person A could take both flags, effectively eliminating person B (the next player) from the game. However, if person A and B where both friends/allies, person A could take 1 flag, person B could take the final flag, and person C would be eliminated with no flags to take. It would obviously display who is working together and who isn’t (maybe).
Honestly I kinda liked the weirder challenges like these rather than the half-assed attempts at endurance challenges they do nowadays, or the overused puzzles/obstacle courses. There were a few exceptions. Thailand flags and HHH rock draw (seriously no skill in that second one and the first one is a guaranteed win for the first tribe if they aren't stupid.) Oddly enough Chuay Gahn still screwed up and gave Sook Jai the chance to win again after Sook Jai's wrong move, but Sook Jai just blundered it again. The other three on this list I actually kinda liked, they were certainly different and still required a skillset, however unusual, to do well in. Also the Marquesas challenge if I recall correctly was for a scuba diving trip in addition to the snicker's bar. There's been far lamer rewards than that, including one in Borneo that allegedly was so bad the tribe decided it wasn't worth playing for.
6:40 well technically they also had to build the kites.. so it was more than just "fly a kite to 300 feet", they had to build them properly and understand the basic physics that make a kite fly. I mean still pretty boring but it's better than just fly a kite lol
Quick way to make the rock draw challenge better: Don't make it random! Let them look at what rock they're drawing, but don't let them communicate strategies beforehand! It's still terrible, but nowhere near as terrible - it even has some strategy now.
Hahaha I can’t believe survivor, being the coolest, most fun game could think of these! I guess it’s just cuz they are doing so much they stopped thinking for some. 😂Nice vid
I wonder if maybe they did smaller/less elaborate challenges bc something went wrong while building the challenge they were originally planning to do so they have to real quick throw something together lol idk Or like the ones Jeff doesn't show up to.. I wonder if, again, they had another challenge planned but maybe Jeff got sick or for some reason couldn't be there for the challenge so they would obviously have to simplify things so they could easily figure out what exactly needs to happen and what not
Maybe I'm wrong, and I can't remember where I heard it, however, I heard that the reason they did the rock draw in HvHvH is because they heard all the Survivors were planning to throw that challenge so they wouldn't have to pick which players they would bring with them.
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I wish they would do more “body weight” challenges, either by literally just hanging, lifting yourself up, or having the weight being represented in another way. It makes physical challenges as fair as they ever can be, and I think they end in surprises.
I agree!! I like how Survivor Australia does this
Only men would be able to win as they naturally have more muscle than women, they would need to take into account their muscle and fat mass as well
I feel like the most lame challenges are the super bland ones in recent seasons. They're so bland and samey that you can't even remember them.
Agreed. I guess the moved away from some of the physical challenges due to injuries. I heard on one of Russell Hantz's videos him saying he hurt James knee pretty bad in the "pit basketball" for lack of better words. As well as Stephanie's shoulder getting dislocated in the first HvV challenge. Also Tyson should comes to mind in the sumo challenge. Just a guess though.
Agreed. In the old seasons challenges were so much more memorable and diverse. Now, it is the same challenges in every season. And there are lots of boring endurance challenges.
Production works hard so if they can setup roughly the same challenges every other season it saved them money and time but it lacks in overall entertainment.
@@quantumman1910 I love those challenges that you've mentioned, also the bowling reward challenge in HvV and Slide get a number and shoot a ball was nice.
Some of the Modern Challenges can still be really good, It's just when you think of Modern Pre-Merge Challenges those are usually the repetitive ones, but some are still good
Hey Luke, I'd love it if you could do a video on 'times jeff accidentally swayed the vote at tribal council'.
I was gonna say Varner but then I realized you said accidentally so.....💀
And that one time he got Janu to quit
@@brokenpikachu9491 this is the moment I was thinking of!
I think everyone wanted Varner out at that point anyways. What he did was HELLA shitty 😂 but yea Jeff was even like, Dude wtf?!😂
@@jaydenbutcher5433 Well keep in mind he was going home regardless, as he was on the bottom. He made a dumb move out of desperation, and while that doesn't excuse him, it's something that needs to be seen to get the whole story.
During that HHH challenge, I was waiting for the catch the whole time. I couldn't believe it was actually real
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Idoled Out, chill with the constantly good content! You’re gonna miss one of these days.
Thank you!
Remember when Survivor actually built the challenge sets based on the location/ theme of the season? Since they film all their latest seasons in the same place, we no longer get impressive looking challenges like those before.
Right?! Like Survivor China had some awesome, unique, and great looking challenges that were specific to the China theme. Can't do that with Fiji all the time
It’s sucks that they are stuck in Fiji for a long time due to the contract
@@Marvlouso Thought they moved for safety reasons when like multiple people went down with injuries a season prior.
@@denniswilliams6519the solution would be to stay out of Cambodia, but 44 has had two medevacs/mediquits and two in 32 weren't related to the Cambodian heat. Besides that's a lousy excuse for the show that has many other temperate exotic climates to visit to stay in the same place for 12 seasons. At the very least they could stand to make challenges around the theme if they weren't so cheap. Saving money is their reason. Don't make excuses
Am I the only one who actually likes Word Scramble? I’d prefer it over the repetitive ones we’ve been getting lately like the final immunity challenge in WAW that’s been reused several times now. My mom is a casual viewer and even she noticed how many times it’s been done before, she even said there needs to be more originality.
I understand the repetitive challenges cause it is hard to come up with new challenges after 40 seasons .
@@benjamingamlin188 Well why not go back to previous seasons? They've been reusing the same stuff throughout the 30s, they could, like, take a challenge from Borneo or China.
When the dancing competition challenge from Survivor Fiji came up, I was like: "NO, I LOVE THAT ONE, YOU BETTER NOT"
I want more stand on this log for 15 hours challenges
Yes!
Every thing survivor has done with challenges has just been to make it easier on their crew. its not fair to the viewers
theres an easier way to have those challenges without wasting 15 hours. after a certain amount of time, just say "you must now balance on one leg" ;)
@@freddytang2128 not as fun though
I thought one of the best challenges ever was the pirate ship challenge in season 5. Unfortunately Sook Jai kept breaking the rules and it cost them the challenge. I wish they would do that one again.
You mean the attack zone? I made a whole video about that iconic challenge :)
They... uh, they did it again. That's the one where Hatch sexually assaulted Sue.
@@bwburke94 They also did the Battle Bridge in All-Stars. I think that was a much better implementation of it.
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Remember when Survivor Fiji had a challenge that was literally just Battleship?
haha i kinda liked that challenge tho ngl
But it wasn't
Actually for the kite thing, I’ll never forget Shawn’s line of, “Look at my kite… It looks like something little rascals would build!”
these challenges were absolutely lame, but even some of them like the flag challenge from thailand, i would take over today's endurance or obstacle + puzzle monotony. The SOS challenges used to be my favorite, and its nice for the pace to be varied up every now and again.
It would definitely be appreciated if Survivor could mix up the challenges a bit, not everything needs to end in a puzzle, Survivor!
I honestly think you all exaggerating on how many puzzles there are
@@mavrickkickhaver5244 i was curious, so looked at WaW challenges
1. no puzzle
2. puzzle (lock / numbers)
3. vertical circular puzzle
4. tree puzzle
5. block puzzle
6. color/block puzzle
7. no puzzle (maze)
8. puzzle
9. edge: no puzzle (maze)
10. no puzzle (endurance)
11. puzzle
12. no puzzle (endurance)
13. not really a puzzle, but involves pieces (stacking blocks)
14. no puzzle
15. no puzzle (endurance)
16. puzzle
17. not really a puzzle, but involves pieces (dominos)
18. edge: no puzzle (maze)
19. no puzzle
20. no puzzle
That's a ton in the pre-merge. In the post merge not as much, but a lot of the same dexterity / puzzle-like challenges repeated (letters, mazes, etc.) My problem is that while they're not all puzzles, a lot of them follow the same exact pattern of tons of action first (run, swim, etc.), then something that slows the action down for that suspense at the end - puzzle, maze, tossing things, etc. It all just feels the same.
@@theezakuroy exactly. i would love something that took us out of that, don't get me wrong i love it and it's exciting to watch, but they should experiment a little. I think one of the main problems is they used to vary up the challenge based on the location, but now they are always in Figi so its a lot of the same. Please see Africa season 3, some of the most memorable challenges (drinking cow's blood, the goat herding, SOS challenge, rolling the boulder) and an overall underrated season
@@junkerinhistrunker I appreciate the challenges. If u were big fans of the show you would probably really enjoy those type of challenges, I know I do.
I liked the word scramble! It was unique and rewarded a different type of smarts, rather than a normal puzzle
I was impressed Burton even thought of the word "liaison" cuz I certainly wouldn't have lol
Me too!
the world scramble would have been great if it paired with another part of the challenge
not to mention, a fan actually suggested the challenge
I liked it too. I wish they would do it again.
The Kite Challenge is so underrated. Flying a kite can be very complicated if you never played one before. It would be a better challenge though if the castaways will be the one to assemble the kites and they make it fly to a certain cord length. The difficulty would be like with the fire making challenge.
I'm so glad you didn't include the Meke in this list. I was worried when it was in the preview portion of the episode. The Meke is still my all-time favourite challenge, its so different, fun and wholesome. Everyone is hilariously brilliant in it and even Jeff seems to have fun in it. I wish they would do challenges like this more often
I suggest you add all of the “stand on top of a perch and balance a ball on a ______” challenges, there all the same and sometimes even occur TWICE in a season
I still want to see a triathlon as a final challenge where there’s 4 competing, and the audience can’t see who’s coming to the finish line first till the very end. I’m aware some of the people in final 4s aren’t always the most physically fit, but I feel like the strength and endurance this takes represents Survivor.
Maybe replace the bike with a puzzle as the second or first leg
I actually like the pearl islands word scramble challenge. It might be easy for us to say it’s easy, but I guess after spending thirty something days on an island it would be tough to spell words like that at whim. I’d prefer a challenge like that over the same, boring endurance challenges we get now
and i thought that the simple "who can hold their breath longer" challenge was kinda dull. now i'm not seeing it that way.
I didn’t mind the snorkel ones. That was really mind over matter.
I hate that one... I get panicky thinking about it
I love your channel! You should do challenges that you would love to see again.
My pick for that would be the mixer from Amazon/All Stars...the fun banter from the contestants, including lame attempts at flirting, was what made the challenge
@@NYChica23 Yes I agree, and both Rob C and Jenna said the mixer challenge works better when it's all new castaways not returning players- it gives the castaways a chance to interact with each other early in the game.
My favorite TH-cam channel! Please keep these countdown videos coming! They always bring back forgotten Survivor memories!
I enjoy this video a lot. The HHH loved ones challenge is dumb. The Marquesas kite flying seems fun though.
I wish they would bring back the DIY bathroom challenge like the one in Palau or the dance challenge in Fiji. The latter, especially, is fun.
I found the 21 Flags challenge pefectly fine.. Only problem is, it is super easy to figure out once you learn the trick, so it could only be played ONCE.
Idk the kite flying challenge was really refreshing. Brought a smile to my face the whole time
“Don’t get Idoled out”
Gets me every time
"ok so its a math challenge. who on Sook Jai will sit this one out? yep, yep that makes sense"
Thanks for quoting something from the video we all literally just watched.
I knew what number one was going to be and I was right!! That challenge was awful.
yay another upload! thank you, loving the content!
I actually really love the Word Scramble challenge tbh
I never noticed how good your sign off is "don't get idoled out" perfect.
Kathy went on a scuba trip and got Snickers. So it wasn’t just a candy bar.
I remember there was a fishing challenge in The Amazon. Whoever had the most weight of fish after an hour wins. That’s it. Maybe it could be an honorable mention
I forgot that HHH one. God...
1:00: But no one batches a thousand
Chris McLean: *You dare to oppose me mortal*
i remember the really simplistic challenges in the old seasons, like boulder rolling in africa or breath holding in borneo
we really left out “who can hold their breath underwater the longest” from borneo and the tangrams from thailand huh
can you do an espidoe on the history of survivor med evacs?
Does anyone else love yul?!
@Hampton Brooks Yul
Nah if you wanna worship him go to reddit lol
Ozzy should have won that season
@@annesherman7014 fr
Yul got a bullshit overpowered idol which gave him a free pass to the FTC
THANK YOU for teaching this 21 poles strategy! Had this challenge in survior ORGs like 4 times, one only 1... googled strategy but all explanations were too hard for my stupid brain :)
It's called recursion. You win if you draw the last flag. If you can draw up to 3 flags:
1 left: Draw 1, you win, opponent loses
2 left: Draw 2, you win, opponent loses
3 left: Draw 3: you win, opponent loses
4 left: Draw 1, 2 or 3: There will be 3, 2, or 1 left. 3, 2, or 1 left for your opponent means THEY win, and you lose.
This also means that if your opponent starts with 4, they LOSE.
5 left: Follow the recursion. Draw 1, 4 left; you win
6 left; Draw 2, 4 left, you win
7 left: Draw 3, 4 left, you win
8 left: Same reasoning as 4: There will be 7, 6, or 5 left, which we have established is a loss for you
9 left: Continue the sequence
Do most cutthroat challenges (from Jeff's perspective), such as having family members eat the gross shit in All stars, or the numerous examples of extremely difficult challenges that yield terrible rewards.
As a huge Ben supporter and just a fan of survivor I should be allowed to say that Christy has no soul. Ben was saying how his wife saved his life and she just called her ben’s sweet Kelley. She has no chill. Ben deserved that win that season!
Now I just feel bad for Kylie... She tried her best guys
Feel bad for the fan who created the word scramble puzzle. Wasn't her fault that survivor picked it.
When I saw the title to this video, I immediately thought of the "challenge" that ended up #1 on this list.
Does anyone know if Lil is still alive?
Would top 5 blowout challegnes be a good video idea?
Have you already done a video on the episode where jeff made a mistake on the trivia challenge? If not then please do :)
Idoled out, I was wondering what would happen if Varner tried to play an idol after outing zeke
I wasn’t sure what the first four were going to be, but I knew number one right off the top of my head. That was an embarrassing moment for survivor.
I always hated those old challenges where they would have to build something and judges would come to determine a winner.
7:40 also Zoey flipped and got voted out next😂😂
"The Miami Connection of Survivor challenges" I am DEAD. 🤣
Can we talk about the reward challenge in Philippines that was so poorly thought out the competitors literally decide to trade their rice for the reward instead of finishing out the challenge?
When those "DIY" challenges crop up, like the Ebola one, I always assume it's because Jeff is sick. 😂😂
I actually liked the the one on Pearl islands because it's the only challenge I'm good at lmao
the kite challenge only existed because season 4 was set to film in the middle east, but after 9/11 production decided to move to marquesas. they had barley any time to make challenges, the challenges and tribal council area was thrown together by locals and schoolchildren.
I love your video’s, but I think that you should maybe change up the music choice every once and awhile, that same song is kinda a little repetitive.
I appreciate the feedback! I'll look into mixing the music up a bit.
@@IdoledOut Check out the audio library here on TH-cam :)
What about Battleship on Fiji?
Sorry you had a dad who thought up ways of dumping you. *go fly a kite." I loved the kite challenge. There are many aspects of building a flyable kite, great challenge. The winner built an unusual and awesome kite.Those who lost showed no imagination or skill in flight dynamics. A truly lame challenge is making people eat bugs and gross items such as pig snouts.
The Pearl Island challenge was great fun.
I think the reason Jeff didn't show up to the Ebola toss in One World or the Boche Ball challenge in Samoa is because I believe he was in the US attending some award show, so they had to do an easy challenge you could do without a host and we got those.
"half the cast can't spell" MADE ME LAUGH SO MUCHHH
The word scramble one is more fitting for big brother.
Doing a pearl islands watch and literally watched episode 11 and saw this vid 😅 what a coincidence 😂
For me the best challenges is in Survivor: Cagayan
Yes!!! The rock draw is what I immediately thought of.
Also, I've totally forgotten that there's apparently been a little person on Survivor.
Personally, I like the word scramble one. It stands out as its own challenge, not like the others. Mental challenges don't have to be unfun...
I loved the pearl island puzzle challenge! 😪
I enjoyed the kite flying challenge. Possibly because I liked flying kites as a child.
BRING BACK PHYSICAL CHALLENGES
I was hoping number 1 was number 1.... thank you
With the flag challenge me and my family would always play it during road trips or when we were bored. Basically the same thing except you count up in numbers and there can be more than just 2 people. Whoever lands on 21 is out and it does until 1 person is left. I’m a 2 person game the advantage is for the person who goes second from the get go. All you have to do is say a multiple of 4 as your final number on your turn (or say 21-5=16 as your final number. Basically your goal -5).
For example, player 1 goes 1st, and takes 2 flags out of 21. Player 2 has won the game. Player 2 can take another 2 flags; 4/21. No matter what number of flags player 1 takes they will never land on a multiple of 4 as long as player 2 keeps their final number as a multiple of 4. The team going second will always have the advantage, as long as you know how to play it.
This challenge is very visually uninteresting on survivor, but it could’ve been so much better if it was an individual challenge (for reward because it’s not exciting enough to be for immunity) and had player elimination each round where they each go up and take an amount of flags out of 20 from 1-3 and whoever has no flags to take is out. This could be good because say person A has 2 flags left. Person A could take both flags, effectively eliminating person B (the next player) from the game. However, if person A and B where both friends/allies, person A could take 1 flag, person B could take the final flag, and person C would be eliminated with no flags to take. It would obviously display who is working together and who isn’t (maybe).
Honestly I kinda liked the weirder challenges like these rather than the half-assed attempts at endurance challenges they do nowadays, or the overused puzzles/obstacle courses. There were a few exceptions. Thailand flags and HHH rock draw (seriously no skill in that second one and the first one is a guaranteed win for the first tribe if they aren't stupid.) Oddly enough Chuay Gahn still screwed up and gave Sook Jai the chance to win again after Sook Jai's wrong move, but Sook Jai just blundered it again. The other three on this list I actually kinda liked, they were certainly different and still required a skillset, however unusual, to do well in. Also the Marquesas challenge if I recall correctly was for a scuba diving trip in addition to the snicker's bar. There's been far lamer rewards than that, including one in Borneo that allegedly was so bad the tribe decided it wasn't worth playing for.
How does the eating competition in Borneo not make this list?
Now you can talk about the greatest challenges (dont take into account who won it)
When Chrissy said that I wanted to see what happened if I upset her 😂
Bruh where is the challenge in the first season where both teams had to make the coolest sos for the food and Jeff got to choose which one was cooler
bruh i would’ve dominated the word scramble
Yeah, if I had been in that kite challenge I'd have just sat it out.
Idea for an episode. Best reunion episodes
Oh yeah I remember thinking that number 1 family visit reward being so mean to them
Wonder what that word scramble challenge would be like in future seasons with Canadian contestants. "This words wrong, color, not colour"
Dude number 4 is literally ladder golf. I’ve played that in my back yard
How about a video on the weirdest challenges
two honorable mentions from me the meat challenge in SoPa and Fijian dance off
6:40 well technically they also had to build the kites.. so it was more than just "fly a kite to 300 feet", they had to build them properly and understand the basic physics that make a kite fly. I mean still pretty boring but it's better than just fly a kite lol
Quick way to make the rock draw challenge better:
Don't make it random! Let them look at what rock they're drawing, but don't let them communicate strategies beforehand! It's still terrible, but nowhere near as terrible - it even has some strategy now.
I actually love that word challenge. I'd win that one. Lol
Tarzan in the blue banana hammock that definitely definitely had dirt on it and not 💩
If it was me I would put all of them on the list. I get my soda and my hot dogs during the challenges
Hahaha I can’t believe survivor, being the coolest, most fun game could think of these! I guess it’s just cuz they are doing so much they stopped thinking for some. 😂Nice vid
Breath Holding from Season 1 Borneo has got to be the lamest challenge to me.
im in here to see if he put in the challenge where they just pull a rock out of a bag
yup, i've been vindicated
I wonder if maybe they did smaller/less elaborate challenges bc something went wrong while building the challenge they were originally planning to do so they have to real quick throw something together lol idk
Or like the ones Jeff doesn't show up to.. I wonder if, again, they had another challenge planned but maybe Jeff got sick or for some reason couldn't be there for the challenge so they would obviously have to simplify things so they could easily figure out what exactly needs to happen and what not
Maybe I'm wrong, and I can't remember where I heard it, however, I heard that the reason they did the rock draw in HvHvH is because they heard all the Survivors were planning to throw that challenge so they wouldn't have to pick which players they would bring with them.
Kite challenge was also for a scuba dive
The 21 flag game is from Cyber Chase. When the kids had to do the same game with the dragons.
I laughed my ass with this one.