Is it just me or did it seem like there were more puzzle challenges this season than ever before?
I heard there’s a new rule that every physical aspect of a challenge has to be “balanced” with a puzzle. (insert eyeroll here) Physical challenges are fine for tribe vs. tribe, as each tribe will have strong and weak players, so everything will be fair. As for individual challenges, they could alternate between physical and mental challenges instead of making every challenge a combination obstacle course/puzzle solver. I liked a lot of the purely mental challenges - the human chess in the first season that Rudy won, the Battleship game from Fiji, the tower building from this season, etc. I also like the quiz challenges because we can play along at home and see how many questions we get right. It’s like combining Jeopardy with Survivor.