treemail/challenges

[kathy]

treemail #1

Your first challenge?
It will be
As simple as
A, B, C

Work together
And brains are key
Or else you lose
Immunity

Next Challenge: Mar. 25th, 8 AM. Will be 48 hours long. Speed is not key.

[kathy]

it's now 8:59 am eastern time zone

Was posted at 9 am eastern. Was my host late or time coversion error?

[kathy]

Challenge #1 - The ABC's of Survivor Results:

Waldheim - 35 points
Thant - 30 points
Annan - 22 points
Ki-Moon - 21 points

If we had chosen Danni or Guatemala - we would have had one more, and Annan and Ki-Moon would have tied. Do have to wonder if the yellow and purple tribes tried to throw that challenge.

no agreement/matches on letters: d, g, n, p, x, y between tribes

[kathy]

Challenge #2 - helpers and Hurters.

TO: Thant Tribe, Waldheim Tribe, Annan Tribe, Ki-Moon Tribe
FROM: Jeff Probst
SUBJECT: A Diplomatic Immunity

As you are in
The UN
I'm sure you know
What goes on within
Deals are made
Sometimes broken
For this next challenge
You must be outspoken
To ensure your tribe
Is picked with the three
That will win this very
Diplomatic immunity


Next challenge Apr. 1, 8 AM EST.

Once all tie-breakers are taken into effect...

ANNAN IS FIRST PLACE (0 POINTS, equal H&Hs, faster submission time)!!!

THANT IS SECOND PLACE (0 POINTS, equal H&Hs, slower submission time)!!!

Waldheim and Ki-Moon both have -1... but who will be sent to Security Council?

Since Ki-Moon had the Waldheim tribe voted to help them...

Ironically...

Waldheim's vote to help Ki-Moon ended up saving them from Security Council.

KI-MOON is third. (-1 POINT, 1 Helper)

WALDHEIM is last! (-1 POINT, 0 Helpers)and will be meeting me at Security Council.

The rest of you, head on back to camp.

[kathy]

treemail #3:

To: Thant Tribe, Waldheim Tribe, Annan Tribe, Ki-Moon Tribe
From: Jeff Probst
Subject: Some food for thought.

Immunity
It is not Free
You'll have to pay the pRice

Your next challenge will be Apr. 8, 8 AM. Note that it will be a 24 hour challenge.

IC/RC#3 Save Whales FreeRice

Now, on to the challenge. I thought since you were in the UN, you'd do some humanitarian things. So here's a challenge that should do just that. You are going to play www.freerice.com where every correct answer results in rice which is donated to starving people around the world. Here are the rules.

For this challenge, each person must donate as much rice as possible in one sitting. To make sure this is fair, you must reset your current total if you happen to have played this game before. You can do this by changing the options. Make sure you start at ZERO. Then, play until you want to stop. At this point, take a screenshot and submit it to me by PM. That will be the amount of points you contribute to your tribes total. To ensure no one cheats, one rule is no two people on the same tribe can submit the same score. If two people do, neither will count, so be careful. The tribe with the least rice donated goes to SC, and as always time will break ties.

Now....

THERE IS A TWIST IN THIS CHALLENGE.

*uncovers blanket revealing an IMMUNITY IDOL!*

[kathy]

[kathy]

IC/RC 3 results:

WALDHEIM!
Alicia - 60000
Bobby Jon - 20140
Kathy - 30820
Sundra - 4280
Total- 115240

In second place...

ANNAN!
Jon - 0
Rudy - 30200
Stacy - 30300
Tom - 30420
Total - 90920

In third place...

KI-MOON!
Aras -10360
Jaime -1280
Silas -6680
Steph -8080
Total - 26400

THANT, unfortunately, you are in last place.

James -10360
John K -0
Michelle -2320
Ozzy -7120
Total - 19800

[kathy]

To: Thant Tribe, Waldheim Tribe, Annan Tribe, Ki-Moon Tribe
From: Jeff Probst
Subject: A Rapid Fire Challenge

You won't want to be last
In this blast from the past,
So you'll have to go fast
And torch your rivals in their path
It's the first from the first
So some have already rehearsed,
And the tribe which is worst
Will have a new flame submersed

The next challenge will be on Apr. 15, Tuesday, 8 AM. Speed is key. 24 hours. (From now on, I will tell in advance whether a challenge is 24 or 48 hours, so you can plan accordingly.)

Also, Annan must sit-out one person and it can not be Tina.

[kathy]

I bet it's this!: from first challenge of first season!

IC #1 - Lighting of the Torch

This is a very simple challenge but your winning or losing depends almost solely on the other members of your tribe. You must find and send me a picture of a torch. This torch must be LIT and WOODEN. The first tribe to all their members complete this task or the tribe with the most members to finish after two days wins.

my image link at the time:

www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor10/sv10_photo_gal.php?id=77&ep=06

now that I can use paint and tinypic! lol

[kathy]

IC #4 Results: (again, my host seems angry/annoyed with us)

Well, everyone submitted.

But this has been a really hard challenge for me to do. Why? Because the rules state, quite clearly, that the torch had to be LIT and it had to be WOODEN. Now here's the problem.

Some of your torches are wooden.
Some of your torches are definitely not wooden.
And some of your torches could be wooden depending on the way you look at them.

But time is up on the challenge, so now I have to make my decision. It never occurred to me that I would have to go through every torch and subjectively decide whether or not the torch is actually wooden. And what if only part is wooden? How much wood must the torch have to be considered wooden? I can't really say 100% for sure either way, because I don't actually know what the torch is made of. So here's what I decided to do. I am not doing first, second, or third. Instead, you are either safe or going to Security Council, so that takes off the pressure of having to rank who sent in the wooden-est torches.

THANT tribe, you are safe and you are the only tribe who sent in four obviously wooden torches.

The other three tribes had at least one picture that was debatable. Now, this is where I could get all flustered, staring forever at each of your pictures. For example, Jaime's torch is mostly this darkened flaming thing and I can't really make out what it is AT ALL aside from the fact that it is definitely some kind of torch-like object. And Stacy's torch is a Survivor torch, which makes me think it's wooden, but it actually looks really metallic. And if I did the 'metallic thing' with Stacy, I would have to apply that to Bobby Jon's torch, which in my opinion is definitely not wooden anyway. But again, I can't say for sure.

So here I am, having to make the decision of which of you three tribes I'm going to send to Security Council.

ANNAN

...you are safe.

KI-MOON

...you are going to Security Council for the second time.

As conflicted as I was about how to score the challenge, I finally made a decision. First off, Ki-Moon was last to finish anyway. Secondly, even if I went through and picked out all the pictures I thought were debatable, Ki-Moon would've had two debatable torches and Annan and Waldheim had only one debatable torch each. So either way, I've decided that Ki-Moon loses this challenge.

So Ki-Moon, I'll be seeing you at Security Council. The rest of you, head on back to camp.

[kathy]

treemail #5:

To: Thant Tribe, Waldheim Tribe, Annan Tribe, Ki-Moon Tribe
From: Jeff Probst
Subject: An Insane Challenge?

Don't go crazy
Or lose your mind
But that two more will go
Is what you'll find

The tribes that are slowest
(or maybe least clever?)
Will find themselves down
Yet another member

Next challenge Apr. 22, 8 AM, 24 hour challenge.

[kathy]

Challenge 5 - The Asylum

Welcome tribes. As you can see, Jaime was voted out the other day. Now it's time for your next challenge.

It's common for UN workers to reach out to help the poor and abused people of the world. You are going to be doing the same - but for cuddly toys. You'll get it when the challenge starts.

You'll be playing this game:

www.parapluesch.de/whiskystore/test.htm
(Click the British flag for the English version.)

Here's how I want this to go. You will have three people playing. (Therefore, Thant, Waldheim, and Annan must sit out 1 or 2 people and Annan can not sit out Jon.)

The first person to submit must take a screenshot of the waiting room after they have cured one of the toys.
The second person to submit must take a screenshot of the waiting room after they have cured a different toy, but still just one.
The last person must submit a screenshot after they cured the two toys the previous members did not cure.

For example...
Jenny has a screenshot of A, B, C, E. (Cured D)
Brad has a screenshot of A, C, D, E. (Cured B)
Cristina sends in the last shot of B, D, E. (Cured A, C)
E is not cured and left in every screenshot.

If it's still confusing, you'll get it once you mess around with the game a bit.

You have 24 hours and the two tribes that complete the most of this challenge in the fastest times will win. That's right - two tribes are going to TC this week, so work hard! Ties are broken by amount completed, then it goes to time of submission.

Good luck and help those poor little toys!

.......................................

Well we did it, but by a few minutes alicia and I sent out of order due to a delay we think, because while she posted her screen shot first I messaged her to wait for me to send mine and then I would tell her and she said ok.

So, host did not say we could not resend, Alicia did send again after me and we hope that is ok - cuz now in right order.

[kathy]

IC#6 - Searching For Immunity

Welcome Thant and Waldheim. I hope you're getting along with each other, because you're going to have to work together if you're going to win this next challenge.

I have created a word search for you and split it up into 7 pieces. I will post one piece in each of your confessionals. Your job is to put the pieces together and then make one image file of all the pieces. After that's done, you must search for and mark the twenty words I've hidden inside. Now, here's the catch... I'm not giving you a word list. But I will give you two hints as to what the 20 words are.

1) They all come from the same category of words.
2) Re-read the treeMail for this challenge for another hint.

The tribe that makes the most progress or completes the challenge first within the 48 hour time period will win the challenge. Note: It's better to send in something half-completed than to not send in anything at all.

Good luck with the challenge, guys!


Here's the treemail, guys!

"THE NEXT CHALLENGE
WILL CAUSE CONFUSION
YOU'LL SEARCH EVERYWHERE
FOR THE SOLUTION
BUT IF YOU WORK TOGETHER
AND LOOK CAREFULLY
YOU WILL FIND IT WILL BE YOU
THAT WINS THIS NEXT IC"


Results:

Well, that was fast. Now it's time for the results, but before I do, I would like to recognize that this is the second challenge from a previous season; it's from Egypt. Of course, this one was much more evil. But in spite of that, this was a very close race. Both tribes found all 20 words, but one tribe finished a mere eight minutes ahead of the other tribe! The winning tribe is...

WALDHEIM

Unfortunately for you Thant, you will be meeting at Security Council where one of you will be voted out of the game. I'll see you there.

[kathy]

TO: Thant Tribe, Waldheim Tribe
FROM: Jeff Probst
Subject: ?

How can my tribe win immunity?
Is a question often asked
The solution is actually quite easy
Answer the quiz to win the task
Your job is not quite over
There's a little more to do
But if you scramble to finish
The next eliminated will not be you

Next challenge May 5, Monday, 8 AM EST (Tomorrow.) 24 hour challenge.

[kathy]

Welcome Thant and Waldheim to your next challenge. For this challenge, you are going to be answering a list of sixteen random questions. Below each question, I've given the number of the words (if it is more than one word long) and letters in the answer. I've done this because there is only one possible word that will make this challenge work. Next to that, there is a number. What you are to do with that is take the answer to the question and find that number of letter.

For example, if the answer is flat and the number is 2, you will take the letter L because L is the 2nd letter in flat.

Once you have collected all 16 letters, you will unscramble them to form a four word phrase related to the game.

For your submission, one person must send me a list of all the answers to each of the 16 questions and the correctly unscrambled phrase. The tribe that completes this task first or, if no tribe finishes, the tribe that has the most answers correct will win immunity. You have 24 hours to complete this challenge (and sorry for the late posting). Good luck.

(And Waldheim needs to sit one person out, which means that one person will not be allowed to help you find answers for this challenge.)


1. On a tenor trombone, in what position do you play B-flat? (Write as a word.)
Five letters, 2 (Rudy)

first letter - I

2. In Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, who is the only human female left alive after the destruction of Earth?
Eight letters, 1 (Ozzy)

Trillian letter - T

3. What is the French word for brown?
Six letters, 5 (kathy)

marron letter - O

4. What is the common English name for the people group that inhabits the disputed Western Sahara territory?
Seven letters, 6 (Kathy)

Sahrawi letter - W

5. In a famous Gavin DeGraw song, what object is going to give him strength? (Ozzy)

Seven letters, 1
chariot letter - C


6. What is actor Zach Braff’s middle name?
Six letters, 5 (kathy)

Israel letter - E

7. What is the name for the statistical study of all populations?
Ten letters, 3 (Alicia)

demography letter - M

8. ‘Ordem e Progresso’ is the motto on Brazil’s national flag, but what French thinker is the inspiration behind that phrase?
Two words, twelve letters, 9 (Ozzy)

Auguste Comte letter - O

9. In Greek mythology, Daedalus built what elaborate structure to hold the Minotaur? (Ozzy)
Nine letters, 3

Labyrinth letter - B

10. Jack says, “Mrs. Lewis said that her son doesn’t take drugs. But Mrs. Lewis is a politician; we all know she’ll say anything if her reputation is on the line.” What logical fallacy has Jack committed?
Two words, nine letters, 7 (Ozzy)

ad Hominem - letter - N

11. In the X-Men movie trilogy, what superheroine has the power to walk through walls?
Nine letters, 5 (Rudy)

shadowcat letter - O

12. In Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, what is the name of the company that can erase memories?
Two words, nine letters, 1 (Ozzy)

Lacuna Inc letter - L

13. What was the name of the policy introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev that was designed to promote to transparency and freedom of information?
Eight letters, 2 (Ozzy)

glasnost letter - L

14. What large vein brings blood from the lower half of the body back to the heart?
Three words, sixteen letters, 10 (Ozzy)

inferior vena cava letter - E

15. What is the last name of the author of the Mary Poppins series of books?
Seven letters, 5 (Ozzy)

Travers letter - E

16. What Canadian province’s name comes from a Cree phrase meaning ‘swift flowing river’?
Twelve letters, 10 - (Ozzy)

Saskatchewan letter - W

in order by number:

ITOWCEMOBNOLLEEW

And the phrase is... Two will become one.