Could you beat the Survivor puzzle table?
Each game is rebuilt from a real challenge and linked to the episodes it aired in. The guides show you how to outwit it.
Today’s Daily: Slide puzzle. Everyone gets the same one.
Today’s Daily: Word puzzle. Everyone gets the same one.
Today’s Daily: Block puzzle. Everyone gets the same one.
Today’s Daily: Memory puzzle. Everyone gets the same one.
Today’s Daily: Table maze. Everyone gets the same one.
Today’s Daily: Jigsaw puzzle. Everyone gets the same one.
Today’s Daily: Simmotion. Everyone gets the same one.
Try one right here. Get every tile home.
Tap a tile or use the arrow keys.
Try one right here. Immunity is on the line, and the frame shows one long word.
Try one right here. Clear the road under the crate, then slide it out. It takes 3 moves.
Try one right here. Watch 6 symbols, then tap them in order.
Try one right here. Roll right to the corner, then up to the cup.
Try one right here. Put in the iron first, then the sea pieces.
Try one right here. Drop the ball in, catch it as it comes out, and drop it back in. Make six catches.
This season on Survivor 51
- Jigsaw puzzle
Episode 3, aired October 7. Play a puzzle like it.
- Jigsaw puzzle
Episode 6, aired October 28. Play a puzzle like it.
Players practice. The show noticed.
In 2023, Jeff Probst told Entertainment Weekly that producers had known for years that players were building copies of challenge puzzles at home. Carson Garrett from Survivor 44 had 3D printed a small version of one, and he solved it fast on the show. For Survivor 45, the show retired some of its classic puzzles and brought in new ones.
Old puzzles still come back, and new ones lean on the same skills. That is what these games train. Source
Challenges
- Block puzzle
Seen in 3 episodes, from All-Stars (season 8) in 2004 to Edge of Extinction (season 38) in 2019.
- Jigsaw puzzle
Seen in 43 episodes, from Thailand (season 5) in 2002 to Survivor 51 in 2026.
- Memory puzzle
Seen in 15 episodes, from Africa (season 3) in 2001 to Worlds Apart (season 30) in 2015.
- Simmotion
Seen in 10 episodes, from Tocantins (season 18) in 2009 to Survivor 50 in 2026.
- Slide puzzle
Seen in 19 episodes, from Thailand (season 5) in 2002 to Survivor 48 in 2025.
- Table maze
Seen in 38 episodes, from Vanuatu (season 9) in 2004 to Survivor 50 in 2026.
- Word puzzle
Seen in 26 episodes, from Thailand (season 5) in 2002 to Survivor 49 in 2025.
Strategy
- How to solve a Survivor jigsaw puzzle
Read the picture before you touch a piece, place the pieces that show the most of it first, and save the plain ones for last. A method for the puzzles that end many Survivor challenges today, with live boards to practice on.
- How to beat a Survivor table maze
Trace the way back from the cup, roll one straight run at a time, and tilt back to stop. A method for Survivor's tilting ball mazes, with live boards to practice on.
- How to solve a Survivor block puzzle
Clear a road for the crate, swap it past the tall blocks, and keep your two empty squares together. A method for the Klotski puzzles that have decided Survivor challenges, with live boards to practice on.
- How to solve a Survivor word puzzle
Read the frame, guess the theme, then build from the rare letters. A method for Survivor's letter-tile puzzles, worked out from the 14 real phrases castaways have had to spell.
- How to solve a Survivor slide puzzle
A step-by-step method that works on any slide puzzle, the two moves that finish every row, and what the castaways who won and lost at the puzzle can teach you.
- How to win a Survivor memory challenge
Say the symbols in groups, watch for the ones that come back, and study a board one row at a time. A method for the memory challenges that have decided Survivor immunity, with live boards to practice on.