Survivor Tale #3

We were 7 people on Purple Team, and 8 on Orange. Remembering all their names wasn't easy, given that everybody had 2: their real name and their survivor name, borrowed from the tv show. So to our mastermind of games and architect in charge we referred to as Jeff Probst. I had picked my game name from a list on wikipedia: Ethan (I like Mission Impossible).

Saturday Morning brought us 3 challenges at the northern beach:

Challenge #4 was about 3 team members digging 3 boxes out of the sand and finding numbers in them. A 4th team member then had to use those numbers to open the lock on a chest, which contained a diagram of symbols, to be memorized by team member 5, who then had to reconstruct the sequence ten feet further down the beach.
We clearly won this one.

Challenge #3 was about 1 team member retrieving little flags that were tied to a buoy in the water. After getting all the flags the whole team had to stand on a 1 square foot platform: An act of balance. I don't know how we did it, but we won.

Challenge #2 took place on the beach as well as on the way there. Both teams had to find hidden packages in the woods, then take them to the beach, open them, and from the wooden letters inside reconstruct a phrase. Personally, I don't think Purple Team was made for finding things in the woods, which might be why we sucked at it. Orange (most likely on some kind of sardine-rush or rice-rage) found their packages faster, they made it to the beach quicker, and they also shouted out the phrase before we did. So Purple Team lost this one, possibly because of all the eggs and bacon and coffee in our well-filled bellies.

So we had to vote one off our team. No big deal though, to make things even (8 against 8 instead of 7 against 8) Jeff had loaned us one of the helpers as a temporary 8th team member just before the challenge. This helper had to go now.

So by noon saturday Orange had voted off 2 and was down to 6 persons, while Purple still had their original 7.

Once I get some pictures of this, I'll post them.