Survivor DVD Blast Review

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(More customer reviews)I gave this game three stars. It is a fun game, and asks a good range of questions. There are ten games, or rounds, each of which has a series of mini games in them. Each game takes about fifteen or twenty minutes to play a full game, so it does provide a few hours of gameplay.
Two or more people can play. You are divided into two different tribes; Tagi and Pagong, which were the two original tribes in Survivor - Borneo. (If you don't know that, the game will probably be too hard for you.) In each mini-game you answer questions about people, or watch clips and answer questions about the clips. There are a few word games as well. The questions come from all seasons from Borneo to Guatamala. The final round is a Jeporady-style Tribal Council.
Like the previous poster said, the games don't mix up the questions and are the same every time you play. But, each of the ten games are different, with different mini-games, so if you don't play often, and play a different game each time, you probably won't remember all the answers every time you play. It is really fun the first time you play each game though.
Jeff Probst hosts, which I thought was a nice addition.

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Get ready to relive all the challenges, the adventure and ruthless competition of one of TV¿s most popular reality shows, Survivor DVD Blast! Get your party started with real show clips and trivia from the first 11 seasons of the show; including Borneo, The Australian Outback, All-Stars, Exile Island and more!

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Survivor Game Review

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(More customer reviews)After a failed attempt to order this game on e-bay, I was glad to finally buy it at a local toy store. The game contains a voting box, a pad of paper for voting, several pencils, a paper with the rules on it, a big stack of challenge cards and, of course, a million dollars (kidding). Sorry, there's no immunity idol. The game follows the rules of Survivor: you compete in two challenges (the second of which the winner gets an immunity idol or necklace) and then go to tribal council where you vote one player off the island. I brought it home and gathered my family together to play- that's when the trouble began.
-Rule #1 (the most important one): ONLY play this game with people that have good senses of humor and that will not get mad if they are voted off. My little sister was very upset when she got the boot. You should probably only pull Survivor out of the closet when friends are over.
-Rule #2: Play with a lot of people. This game requires a "host" as well as four or more players, but playing with eight is more fun (I haven't tried it with the max number, 16). Playing with more people allows a lot more challenges and voting. Also, a lot of the challenges are made for two tribes to compete against each other, and are less fun with just a few people.
-Rule #3: Get creative! The challenge cards are extremely diverse, and include challenges such as "make a musical instrument out of things from nature and play a song with it" and "give an ice cube to each tribe, whoever melts it the fastest wins". Don't expect to sit on your butt the entire time you play this game, you are going to have to get up a lot and find materials for the challenges around the house. Because a lot of the challenges have to do with creativity, the judging is very subjective. The host gets to judge the challenges, so make everyone promise before they start to play not to argue with him or her.
-Rule #4: Make up your own rules. If you're a fan of the show, you know that alliances are formed (and broken) while playing the game. Even though it doesn't say it in the rules, I suggest a five minute "common time" after the challenges where people can form alliances. When we were playing, there was only one two person alliance that swayed the vote and ended up in the final two.
This game is very fun if you can meet the requirements of all these rules and really makes you feel like you're on the show. If you don't think you'll be able to get enough people, then you probably shouldn't buy this game (instead check out the computer version, Survivor: The Ultimate Edition). I gave this game 4 stars because of the many requirements for fun, and don't expect any educational value except finding out who's willing to betray the others for a prize. Well, the tribe has spoken!


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Survivor Review

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(More customer reviews)The "Survivor" board game says on its cover that it's a game for adults, and it means it. The rules aren't overly complicated once each type of card has been drawn once (there's variants on Pictionary, riddles, To Tell the Truth and so forth), although few groups will understand how important the team play in the beginning will be later on.
But it's when the game gets to individual play and people start getting voted off that you have to watch it. Like the previous reviewer, we had one person voting for himself every round, and we had the first person voted out leave in a mock-huff, although she got over it in a few minutes. Since one isn't trapped on an island for a month with fellow players, there's no reason to form alliances other than to "get" other players, and since the game is presumably being played with friends, one should make sure that they're friends who won't be upset if voted out. (In most cases, that means having something else to do once the game ends, or a motivation to keep watching until the tribal council vote at the end between the final two players.)
This isn't a game with long-term replay value -- how long can a fad really last? -- but I expect my family will be playing this at family gatherings through the spring at least.
The board is attractive, with a 3-D green plastic island in the middle of a round board, and the cardboard board is naturally divided into two rings, for team and individual play, with team play being played in the waves around the island, and individual play on the shore. Some elements of the game are cheaply constructed -- the "coasters" that tell whether a board symbol means "outplay," "outwit" or "outlast" are already peeling apart, and we barely touched them over Thanksgiving weekend -- and the box itself is none-too-sturdy, as though the manufacturer knew the game wouldn't be played more than a few times by most people.
Still, for (thick-skinned) fans of the show, the "Survivor" board game is a fun way to recreate the show and with its blend of challenges, most everyone will find a minigame that they enjoy.

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Product DescriptionEditorial ReviewYou won't have to eat live insects, sleep among Malaysian field rats, live on an isolated island for 39 days, or even endear yourself to Sue to enjoy the Survivor Board Game from Mattel. Based on the wildly popular first season of the Survivor TV series, this multiplayer (four to eight adults) game adopts the basic premise of the show as players rely on quick wits, as well as pure luck and the collective vote of the Tribal Council, to become the game's sole survivor. With a plastic replica of the island of Pulau Tiga as its centerpiece and cardholder, the game is played on an illustrated game board and comes complete with 168 game cards in three different categories of questions and riddles, as well as some Pictionary-type cards. The game also includes a special die, 10 playing pieces and stands, nine erasable voting cards, an erasable pen, immunity idol, and an instruction sheet. --Chris Burn

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