Last year, a friend’s daughter was on the television reality show, Survivor. For those of you who don’t know, Survivor places approximately 20 individuals from different backgrounds in an isolated setting where they must work together to make shelter, gather food, and to win various rewards, all while trying to build alliances so as not to be voted off during the next all-group meeting. At least one person gets voted off the island during each session. The only way to be sure a particular contestant will not be voted off is for that person to possess and then play a rare “immunity idol” that everyone looks for during the down time. Mere possession of an immunity idol is not enough. Since most idols can be played at any point, the person holding it must make a strategic decision to use it immediately or hold it for later use when the contestant might feel more vulnerable to being voted off. An immunity idol can be used only once.
The particular season that I watched was called “Edge of Extinction” because contestants who were voted off the island in Fiji were actually taken to a different island, to wait on an abandoned
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