Yesterday had another Survivor episode. Robb the skateboarder was voted off the island. He made the critical mistake of dipping into the food supply. One tribe has several bunches of green bananas that they won in a challenge contest. Robb was seen taking bananas every time he got hungry; up to thirty a day. He would defiantly eat a banana in front of everyone, while basically daring anyone to say something about it. Well, he may have gotten his share of bananas, but he was unanimously voted off by the other tribe members. That is just a basic understanding in nature and society. If you take food away from someone who's starving, they will turn against you every time.
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The other tribe is still looking for it's lost boat. They need one because their fresh water source is three miles away over water. The three men swam five or six miles to try to find the boat on another island. They thought that it might have drifted over. They found nothing and then had to swim back. Why don't they just build a raft? I don't think that it would take the five of them more than a couple hours. They don't sound like they're rocket scientists. They make Gilligan look like the Professor.
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The immunity challenge was called Thailand 21. Twenty-One flags are in a circle. The idea is for each team to remove 1 to 3 flags until none are left. The team to remove the last flag wins. I wish that I could have played. I figured out that if you went first that you could win every time. The key is to have four flags left when it is the other team's turn. If they take 1, 2, or 3 flags, then you always take the remaining flags to win. Starting at 21 you would take 1 flag, leaving 20 for the other team. From then on, your team would always take the other teams pick subtracted from four, eg. if they take 1 flags then you take 4 -1 or 3, if they take 2 then you take 4 -2 or 2, etc. That way their pick would progress from 20 to 16 to 12 to 8 to 4. If the other team goes first, then you have to hope that they make a mistake. Last night the first team took 2 flags to start. The correct response would have been to take 3 flags to put the other team at 16. It would then progress 16 to 12 to 8 to 4. Again, at 4 they could only choose 1, 2, or 3 with you taking the remaining flags to win.