Strategy

How to beat the puzzles that decide Survivor challenges. Each guide teaches one method you can drill, and every story from the show is checked against the episode it aired in.

• 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 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.