Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider
Recurring Survivor Challenge
Appearances:	Guatemala Panama China Tocantins

Tomb Raider (also known as In-Cog-Neato, Try-Any-Angle and Search & Decode) is a recurring challenge of Survivor.

Rules

In Survivor: Guatemala, one at a time, three players run to grab giant puzzle pieces. After all the pieces were retrieved, two other players would solve the puzzle.

In Survivor: Panama, three players run along a path through a field (crisscrossing the other tribe's several times) to reach one of four stations, untie a giant hanging skull-shaped puzzle piece, and haul it back. Then, the two others take the pieces and place them into rotating pieces on a solving platform until they all fit.

In Survivor: China, one at a time, the tribes must enter an abandoned village, grab a color-coded plank, and return. Once all eight have been found, they must slide them into a grid to form an eleven-word phrase made famous by Confucius.

In Survivor: Tocantins, one tribe member at a time would race along a winding path to retrieve a puzzle piece. Each puzzle piece is a large wooden triangular prism with letters written on each of the three faces. Once eight puzzle pieces are retrieved, they would need to be placed in their correct spot in a frame. The pieces would then need to be rotated to display a scrambled phrase.

History

In Survivor: Guatemala, the tribes were head-to-head to grab the pieces, but Nakúm solved their puzzle first, winning immunity.

In Survivor: Panama, Casaya, despite falling back early, won a barbecue and a trip to a local village, as well as the right to exile someone from La Mina and immunity.

In Survivor: China, Fei Long won a teahouse visit, baths, showers and kidnapped James.

In Survivor: Tocantins, the puzzle pieces were large wooden triangular prisms with letters written on each of the three faces. Timbira won immunity.

Winners

Episode	Challenge Type	Winner
Guatemala Surprise Enemy Visit	Tribal Immunity	File:S11 cindy t.jpgFile:S11 jamie t.jpgFile:S11 judd t.jpg File:S11 lydia t.jpgFile:S11 stephenie t.jpgFile:S11 rafe t.jpg Nakúm
Panama Salvation and Desertion	Tribal Reward/Immunity	File:S12 aras t.jpgFile:S12 bruce t.jpgCirie Fields File:S12 courtney t.jpgFile:S12 danielle t.jpgFile:S12 shane t.jpg Casaya
China That's Love, Baby! It Makes You Strong!	Tribal Reward	File:S15 amanda t.jpgFile:S15 courtney t.jpgFile:S15 denise t.jpg File:S15 frosti t.jpgFile:S15 jeanrobert t.jpgFile:S15 sherea t.jpgTodd Herzog Fei Long
Tocantins The Strongest Man Alive	Tribal Immunity	File:S18 brendan t.jpgFile:S18 coach t.jpgFile:S18 debbie t.jpg File:S18 erinn t.jpgFile:S18 sierra t.jpgFile:S18 tyson t.jpg Timbira

Gallery

Jamie and Brandon with puzzle pieces in Guatemala.

Gary and Amy solving the puzzle for Yaxhá (Guatemala).

The course in Panama.

Shane bringing a piece in Panama.

Dan competes for the La Mina tribe. (Panama)

Casaya competing (Panama).

J.T. bringing a piece back for Jalapao in Tocantins.

Jalapao trying to solve their puzzle (Tocantins).

Trivia

• Fei Long is the only tribe to win this challenge and not have 6 members at the time.
• All winning tribes would go into the merge with 6 members and the losing tribe would have 4 members.
• Timbira is the only tribe to win that did not have a finalist on that team for that season.
• Survivor: Tocantins is the only season in which this challenge was used outside the final pre-merge episode.