FYRidicule's Survivor Challenge Refrence: Season Five - Thailand
Challenge	Challenge Type	Prize	Winner	Comments
Episode 1 IC	Division Of Labor Race	Immunity Idol	Sook Jai	As a team, the tribe rows around to different substations, which have to be completed by individuals.
Episode 2 RC	Blindfolded and Directed	Survival Equipment	Sook Jai	An element of Hauling here - the directing person is in a palanquin carried by the blindfolded people.  The Survival Equipment is a lantern, fishing line/hooks, and a net.
Episode 2 IC	Hauling / Make The Picture	Immunity Idol	Sook Jai	Curious hybrid.  The pieces of the puzzle are floating out in the water, so the real effort of the challenge is gathering them up.  (I count this as a Hauling challenge elsewhere.)
Episode 3 RC	Attack Zone Game	Highly-Trained Assistants	Chuay Gahn	Wonderfully entertaining challenge, especially since the young, testosteroney tribe managed to snatch defeat from the jaws fo victory by repeatedly forfeiting points due to foul plays.
Episode 3 IC	Make The Picture	Immunity Idol	Chuay Gahn	This "Tower of Hanoi" game bears only a sorta-kinda resemblence to making a picture, but it falls in the same "visual mental" challenge space, so, hey.
Episode 4 RC	Hauling	Food Supplies, Still-Living Food Source	Sook Jai	The Survivors carry around a 250-pound dummy which they paint and name themselves!  Whee!
Episode 4 IC	Make the Picture	Immunity Idol	Sook Jai	Tangrams.
Episode 5 RC	Optional Tribal Swap	N/A	N/A	At the Food Auction, Jeff offered all castaways the option of voluntarily leaving their tribes to live on the other tribe.  Nobody took him up on this rather unappealing offer.
Episode 5 RC	Food Auction	N/A	N/A
Episode 5 IC	Sorting	Immunity Idol	Chuay Gahn	Slopping a big mishmash of various fish into appropriate, organized piles.  Sort of like the way my site attempts to deal with challenges....
Episode 6 RC	Tiddly-Winks	Big Feast	Sook Jai	Tribal variant of this challenge: one person flips stuff into the air, everybody else runs around trying to catch it in baskets.
Episode 6 IC	21 Sticks	Immunity Idol	Chuay Gahn
Episode 7 RC	Fake Merge	N/A	N/A	The tribes were led by various means to believe they had merged, but were never actually told they had merged, or given new buffs.
Episode 7 IC	Escape the Cage	Immunity Idol	Chuay Gahn
Episode 8 IC	Breath Holding	Immunity Idol	Chuay Gahn	Not so much "breath holding" as "breathing through a leaky snorkel," but a similar kind of test.  Interestingly made into a team game by having the cumulative time spent underwater by the team determine the score.
Episode 9 RC	Paired-Up Obstacle Course	Not Quite A Family Visit	Brian	Alternate version of the Paired-Up Obstacle Course, where the Obstacles aren't all that challenging, and the Pairs break up in the final round to face off one-on-one.
Episode 9 IC	Concentration	Immunity Necklace	Clay	Memorize the Thai numerals 1-10, then demonstrate this memory in various ways.  As far as these kinds of challenges go, one of the better ones.
Episode 10 RC	Paired-Up Obstacle Course	Elaborate Trip	Brian (Shared w/Clay)	Weird challenge.  As in the Episode 9 RC, the leading pair breaks off at the end for a one-on-one battle.  In an additional (and stupid) variation, this challenge is held when there is an odd number of people left, so one person is eliminated at the very beginning!  There's also another elimination halfway through, so at one point again one person has to get screwed to get down to a final 2.  This seemed very poorly planned.
Episode 10 IC	Coconut Chop	Immunity Necklace	Helen	Trivia questions about Thailand itself; answer correctly and snuff out one of someone else's torches.
Episode 11 RC	Your Family Does Something	Family Visit	Helen's Husband	Family members compete in a gross food challenge to spend 24 hours with their loved one.
Episode 11 IC	Make The Picture	Immunity Necklace	Ted	Tied together with the family member from the RC, the Survivors have to complete a cube puzzle.
Episode 12 RC	Word Game	Car, Elaborate Trip	Ted (Shared w/ Helen)	Word game combined with a jungle race to gather the letters.  The Elaborate Trip (the shared part) was a dinner, a shower, and a massage.
Episode 12 IC	Make the Picture	Immunity Necklace	Brian	The picture, once made, equals steps on a staircase towards victory and glory!
Episode 13 IC	Super Challenge	Immunity Necklace	Brian
Episode 13 IC	Balance Endurance	Immunity Necklace	Brian	Squatting in a particular position while holding coins between fingers.
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