5 Times Survivor Players Hacked Challenges 5.0

[@Peridiam]

[@malikjames9035]

Do you watch The Challenge?

[@forestcityfishing4749]

In the next seasons, they made the players do one domino at a time. They changed the rules so that strategy was no longer possible.

[@CuteMissDK]

Another hack was Stephen in Second Chance. They had to run around, answering questions and then pick up a small package, but Abi-Maria was already at this one post when he got there. He quickly read the question and then grabbed a package from the wrong one - making Abi-Maria take the same one and run away - before Stephen then put his back and took the right one, deliberately tricking her into picking the wrong answer. Not sure if he ended up winning but it's a great hack!

[@andrewplaysyellow]

You really need to do these for Taskmaster UK

[@kaimas1005]

only those team fights was hacks. solo was just tactis or easy puzzle

[@ravikkar]

Imagine Spencer’s heart when he realized it was THAT puzzle

[@GriziDaWiz]

That’s the kind of feeling you get when the stars line up for you to clutch a moment.

[@luisarce6234]

He stayed so cool. Just finished that season. Wow

[@yzaraine]

Stars really did align this time. Spencer is really smart plus this could be the one season where the previous season was aired before their filming and it was literally called second chance where almost all challenges were taken from previous seasons.

[@wstrong1981]

I had a moment when I had to know the ending of a saying which coincidentally was printed on my blanket since I was little 🤣

[@bustakapp4862]

If it was never aired then how did he learn it?

[@SurvivorAdam]

Probably a more accurate way to describe what I did, rather than pushing one side up and one side down, is more of a twisting motion. The bottom two rings pulled, and the top two pushed. Everyone else was either just pulling, or switching between pulling and pushing which allows the bar to fall during transition. Another great vid, as always!

[@Reggie_la]

Thanks for clarification, I didn't get what peridiam said, so I came looking for an explation jaja.

[@noahadams8746]

Hi Adam

[@freddytang2128]

Hi Adam, you’re amazing, I have so much respect for you as a super fan for going for that “idol” in WaW

[@pearljoyoftheorient]

Awesome, Adam’s here!

[@aashnadevaki]

Omg !!!!!!!!!!! Thank you Adam , it’s because of you that I’ve grown to appreciate my family and given everything to show them what they mean to me.

[@chimestonks]

spencer's face when jeff was like "no one's ever done it that fast" LOL

[@alienflowergirl]

He was like well your fault for showing how to do it 😂😂

[@Earlsweatpantch]

But how do we know spencer looked at the footage?

[@cyanroads9985]

@@Earlsweatpantch the footage he watched when worlds apart was on tv

[@briankaste6931]

@@Earlsweatpantch I think Spencer has said that he practiced doing some challenges at home, using what he has already seen on the show as reference, since a decent amount of challenges get reused

[@vaporterra]

@@Earlsweatpantch This is why you watch the video before making a comment

[@user-bd6hn]

2:22 “ no shame it’s a game , not everyone’s good at everything” rob: great at literally everything

[@michaelperez8858]

Not everyone means that there still is someone who is (rob)

[@user-bd6hn]

@@michaelperez8858 it’s called a (joke)

[@pacewhit]

I'm sure I could beat him in a freestyle or written.

[@abbysheyba8421]

In winner's at war someone made a similar comment. It went like: "Is he good at it?" reply: "He's good at everything." Which was true. Rob lost that challenge to Tyson by mere second.

[@user-bd6hn]

@@abbysheyba8421 yeah I remember that , i remember my mom saying the same thing. we were so mad he didn’t win by a literal second smh

[@EpicElf42]

I really do love the idol toss as an offensive maneuver; it takes some cunning to risk it all like that. What I'm surprised by is that it was never used *defensively*. Picture this, you're in the ring, you know you're opponent is willing to charge you at a moments notice. Rather than watching them, you watch their idol. And as *soon* as that thing hits the air, you chuck yours up as well; chuck it hard enough or late enough, and there's no way yours hits the ground before theirs.

[@salinahobbes6464]

GENIUS

[@dAfoodie101]

exactly what i was thinking

[@abbysheyba8421]

Wow 👏

[@ReallyTY4Real]

@Mihail Parshin meh, you don't know the weight of the thing tho, and the handle on the idol's support stand makes it harder to throw.

[@Sktzo]

I just commented about doing that challenge at home and this was one of my strategies. My friend tossed his, I tossed mine higher and dropped my paddle and gave him a cheeky double bird.

[@Phyrre56]

One of the low key reasons why Boston Rob is so good at Survivor is his amazing balance. He's not the biggest or strongest guy on most seasons but he can fly over a balance beam. When they design challenges, the balance parts are meant to favor women; women on average have better balance than men. So Rob being particularly good at the part of the challenge that's meant to give him trouble is a huge advantage. It's the equivalent of a woman having the most upper body strength on a season.

[@CMShuckle]

And him shooting in for a double leg takedown on Ethan and Colby is one of the most impressive things I've seen.

[@rauminen4167]

Hold on, the SAME people are competing in multiple seasons? What?

[@ShardtheWolf]

@@rauminen4167 They did all star seasons, bringing back the show favorites.

[@XeaRae]

I think besides balance he adds fearlessness into the mix that seals the deal.

[@abbysheyba8421]

He's a legend. He introduced strategy to a game that was more or less about survival. If All Stars was judged as seasons are judged today, he'd have won clean. But people kept grudges back then.

[@Trey-dd6md]

Peridiam 5 years later: Five Times Survivor players hacked challenges 45.0

[@abebuenodemesquita8111]

we wish

[@ashykins]

You mean 2 weeks later?

[@Trey-dd6md]

@@ashykins LOL isn’t he only on 5.0? How is he gonna get to 45.0 in 2 weeks?

[@ashykins]

@@Trey-dd6md MMMMAAAAGGGIIICCCCC

[@muyeedhassan5286]

You mean 1 year

[@randalwestgard6116]

Spencer’s puzzle hack reminds me of how on most seasons of The Challenge, they use the same square tanagram puzzle and then I watch as the contestants struggle for five to thirty minutes.

[@JLMac322]

I like the Challenge, but as a die-hard Survivor fan I often find myself shaking my head about some of the things the Challenge contestants do. And this is definitely one of those

[@randalwestgard6116]

@@JLMac322 I have to agree with you on that. Although I still shake my head about people who go on Survivor not knowing how to make fire.

[@ellahappel3128]

@@randalwestgard6116 This is me when someone on Survivor doesn't know how to do a slide puzzle-

[@mrbinkey04]

Right!? That tangram takes like ten seconds.

[@thetaekwondoe3887]

@@ellahappel3128 I couldn't solve one of those slide puzzles to save my life. Word puzzles, put-together puzzles, numerous other things I could do. Every time I see a slide puzzle and see someone struggle I cringe because I know that'd be me lol.

[@feasible]

Awesome to see Ken get some love. I think he's one of the most underrated players in the history of the show, and he was surprisingly good at challenges.

[@feasible]

Third challenge. Peridiam called him Kenny, I usually think of him as Ken (partly because I knew of him before Survivor when he was the best pro Smash Brothers player).

[@alexboiiii]

He's also one of the greatest SSBM players of all time

[@cheezican]

aka the King of Smash

[@daviddotorg]

@@alexboiiii Not of all time, of HIS time.

[@kevinmcdanal2395]

@@daviddotorg one of the best of all time still, definitely top 5.

[@TotalxTroll25k]

That’s some next level stuff to memorize an unused puzzle

[@augustac]

he so deserved the win

[@heatherw.4561]

Abi "accidentally" chucking a coconut at Mike's head. Little did she know.

[@notnatwhothat]

She’s a hero for that

[@tordodinyoghurt6690]

Elaborate?

[@HipertLoL]

@@tordodinyoghurt6690 he enjoyed watching children

[@heatherw.4561]

@@tordodinyoghurt6690 oh, you sweet summer child

[@tordodinyoghurt6690]

@@HipertLoL HAHAHSHAHHSAHH

[@tau_628]

All hail the greatest KZbin series in recent memory

[@ShadowMewto]

Yesssss

[@techngamin]

But this isn't The Geek Critique(jk this is good too)

[@rainybopz]

Yesss

[@KikiCuber]

🙇🏻‍♀️

[@IbokRock811]

Too true!! 😁

[@Jacobmelrose26]

I always thought Spencer was a genius when he did that puzzle super quick but in reality he was just prepared for the possibility. Lol. Pretty genius in its own right.

[@gatfatf]

Imagine for the idol challenge you're matched up with an even more offensive combatant and they wait for you to chuck your idol only to launch theirs after yours, in a scenario where both player's strenghts are equal the 2nd yeeter always wins.

[@nomadhakunamatata5793]

very true.

[@aguyontheinternet8436]

But then after the 2nd yeeter yeets his, the first guy jumps up, grabs the 2nds idol, and slams it down like the football god he is, before his touches the ground

[@tjslam26]

Kenny is so underrated, man. Should've been a returnee by now.

[@Minecraftdemon99]

Ken is big brain. The king of smash

[@Tr4dez]

@@Minecraftdemon99 dog once I saw Ken it made sense. King of smash with them big brain moves

[@fivefoldkiss]

dude i didnt realize it was ken from melee! thats so cool

[@God-gi9iu]

Owowowowo

[@marleylawrence3303]

Over quarantine me and my roommates started watching survivor and on season three when they were introducing everyone Lex came on and I remember saying “god that looks like a guy my dad would have known in the 80’s” and then it said he was from Santa Cruz and I called my dad and asked and sure enough they had been friends for years and I used to play at his house as a child.

[@thepotatobich]

BRO WHAT LMFAO thats honestly a pretty cool coincidence

[@briankaste6931]

If you're looking to make a 6.0 video, something from Guatamala might be considered a hack. In the episode 5 reward challenge, both tribes gather materials so they can pull a cart up a hill, and then race down it. It turns into a blowout because the first station involved using a sharp rock to cut a rope which would release the first set of materials. The winning tribe chopped the rope using the stone as an axe, and the losing tribe tried sawing through the rope using the stone as a saw. Apparently the losing tribe tried copying the winning tribe, but they couldn't figure out how to chop effectively, so they went back to sawing. The hack is that they show the chopping person bringing part of the rope off the cutting surface to help put more tension on it so that chopping can happen the most effectively. The sawing person leaves the rope on the table the entire time, so they might not have known how to get more rope tension to make the chopping method effective. As a result, the winning team ended up winning before the losing team could even finish getting through that first rope.

[@UnderdawgMLB]

I would also consider the hack from the final immunity challenge from guatemala

[@simonlukasbucek6563]

Nobody: Rob in the first challenge: "You gotta move faster than that son, speed is life"

[@westellecoffy]

Hey can you possibly do a video on the occupations of the contestants and how they fair in the game? I was just thinking how interesting it was that Tony, Sarah, Tom, and Jeremy were all first responders and won.

[@AleXanDraPR369]

Bro I did a double take at “...Tom, and Jeremy...” cuz I read that as Tom & Jerry 😅

[@striker3190]

Kenny in this video is actually Ken. A former pro smash bros player. idk what he does now but at the time thats probably what it was

[@walkercorley3133]

I’m consistently astounded at the research you’ve done concerning these challenges. It makes each video so much more exhilarating to watch.

[@ADRdaniel]

If in the idol game some one threw there idol up all you'd have to do to counter them is throw your own idol higher as a reaction.

[@giacomofraccaroli3821]

It’s not as easy as you think it is; it’s practically the other way around.

[@poijnve3912]

@@giacomofraccaroli3821 you only need to throw the idol high enough that the enemy idol start to going down while your is still going up, after physic will make the enemy idol is going to touch the ground before our, even if it just by a few miliseconds

[@reshirman]

@@poijnve3912 yeah but you have like the split of a second to react

[@Zergling.]

@@poijnve3912 That is not realy easy, remember that you will always be last to react, the frist guy will throw always frist and react frist, its alot like in real life situtions about guns, you probably heard saying don't draw on a drawn gun or that the robber will have always the advantage of chossing the time to attack. kinda similar and very hard to react in time, even more in this challenge.

[@giacomofraccaroli3821]

@@poijnve3912 and that is the theory, but you need to add the mind in the mix. See it as a triangle, what should i focus on, my idol, their idol or my opponent; because of the value the idols have your focus is on finding an opening, but when the opponent attack your priority become “defend idol”.

[@corriehadady2691]

These hacks are the epitome of the saying "Work smarter, not harder". I love your videos Peridiam and your content is always amazing. Keep it up!!

[@jennifernicoletti4829]

I cannot stress how much seeing a new vid on my feed made my day

[@MsPandachen]

Abi and the coconut the unsung hero of Survivor 👸🏻

[@reenaplate]

Spencer deserved to win every season he was in

[@frommywindow180]

it's so satisfying to see him go against any puzzle

[@brianrodriguez8643]

I’m still mad he received no votes in Second Chance.

[@peytonleaming6597]

Fr he played a good strategic game the first time and in second chance he had good strategy and managed to have an alliance in a season where they like didn't exist

[@Milomite1]

Too bad he went up against Tony, that's tough competition right there.

[@leocarlton4364]

Not cagayan. Tony is outright the best player. Ever.

[@rsheed123]

at this point, I'm just waiting for you to go over every time a challenge has been hacked in this show.

[@andrewyoon4844]

Peridiam in Survivor Challenges 100.0 be like: Player breathed a bit faster which gave them more of an advantage

[@chriswitt4551]

As crazy as it sounds, David from Aus CvC2 used the Wim Hoff Method (I think I spelled that right) in the hold your breath challenge at the Final 11. The method involved rapid breathing, so yeah that could actually make the list.

[@team-143]

Spencer Is a survivor Super fan it makes sense he remembered stuff from past seasons

[@AnomNOus]

Adam has a few good ones. One I like is throwing a challenge to help Ken win. Another is the final just making sure to be ahead of David.

[@truffles635]

Abby flinging a coconut into scuba face at the end was the funniest part😂

[@Apokalips217]

Always so crazy as a melee fan to see Kenny on survivor. The game is more popular than ever having its largest prize pots this year. Ken is a legend

[@EdselsBakedGoods]

Yeah, I was like... Is that Ken, the King of Smash???

[@garrettobrien7076]

*Hits Mike in the head with a coconut* "I really wish Mike was leaving today. Mike is really annoying." The audacity😂😂

[@thatsnoternie]

Gabon’s dominoes challenge with Kenny’s strategy probably caused production to tell contestants off cameras they must work from front to back in future episodes.

[@BSJDynasty]

i immediately thought about tossing the statue in the air but the glaring weakness is if your enemy is somewhat smart and knows that you are smart then he will just do the same thing only 1 second later and you'll always lose (assuming both toss it the distance)

[@dyeager152]

I don’t know if this is a hack, but the puzzle in number 5 was literally a toy puzzle I had as a kid. I’d suspect it would take me 2 seconds as well, but the extra level that it was from the previous season? That’s dope.

[@RCRitterFPV]

Your content just makes time fly by, I look up and 2 hours have past by and I'm about to start a new Survivor binge

[@HeBreaksLate]

That last one was like the guy who memorized the pattern on Press Your Luck or the guy who got the exact bid on the Showcase Showdown on Price is Right. A bit of preparation goes a long way.

[@tring5241]

In the paddle challenge I would’ve just thrown my paddle in the air once my opponent through theirs first😂

[@tjslam26]

Or just run away. It's an all or nothing play.

[@isleep396]

Lol, Ken is actually one of the best competitive Super Smash Bros Melee players.

[@JAKEBB]

Almost at 100k congratulations, i remember finding your channel, can't remember how uploads they were at the time, 4 maybe 5, you're an absolute legend.

[@MoxieInfernape]

Random little hack I just realized while rewatching MvGX. In the Episode 7 reward challenge, they have to throw balls into a hole that drops into a net, where 2 other tribe members have to advance that ball through the netting. This isn’t too much of a hack, just more so a good strategy executed well. Everyone tries to just brute force the ball through, usually shown with both tribe members basically punching at it. But on the Vanua tribe, Zeke and Michelle have this awesome teamwork where Zeke is consistently pushing the ball a little bit further, while Michele grabs the net and widens it just where Zeke is about to push it to. They keep sliding down at a fast and consistent pace, which allows them to execute this so well. They’re able to pull this off super efficiently, which gives their tribe a huge lead (resulting in them winning). It’s fairly easy to miss if you aren’t paying too much attention, as it’s not shown too much, but if you do, you can see how much harder of a time the other tribes are having. I think towards the end, Will & Hannah try to pull it off, but don’t think execute it quite as well as Zeke & Michelle.

[@weisgirl2004]

I just discovered your KZbin channel yesterday and I really enjoying everything you put out about Survivor.

[@hwasnak]

Abi's win might be my favorite ever

[@Carl-ito]

Omg i remember rooting for Boston Rob, dude’s a killer when it comes to challenges.

[@samweston7813]

You are goated for this series never quit

[@itznotmai2805]

I watched Survivor on Netflix and out of all the seasons and characters on Netflix, Spencer is my favorite.

[@LINKedup101]

Ken, the first GOAT of melee, of course gets the smart hack on the dominoes

[@michaelyoung8600]

I don't even watch this show and this was interesting. Good job man.

[@mojofang]

jeff:"Your hands are shaking... I know it seems like its been a lot longer" Adam:😐

[@Ori_Kohav]

There's one hack I'm surprised you didn't mention. It's from Darrah, Survivor Pearl Islands, final 5. This challenge involved 3 shoots which had to be filled with water to lift out a ball (yes, a ball, again). Darrah, however, didn't need to pour nearly as much water as the others had to. Why? Because she lost so much weight, that she could literally fit her whole arm inside each shoot, and easily reach the ball.

[@caitlinwilliams3707]

ooh this one is really good! Jeff's reaction to her was very sexist/demeaning about her weight being the reason. She was using what she had- I don't find that just to be "dumb girl uses being skinny" like he implies.

[@TaySpuckler]

"Nobody has ever solved it that quick" Spencer: ;)

[@cubegal8538]

Congrats on 100K ayyyye!

[@Peridiam]

🎉

[@reginamachamer821]

I LOVE that you added in Abi hitting Skupin with the coconut lmao absolutely no reason for it to be there but it was somehow the best decision you could have made 😂

[@suchasweety138]

I appreciate you explaining the challenges and then showing the clip.

[@AADJYT]

Happy to finally see Idol Hands was expecting it since 1.0 :-)

[@ashleystewart3290]

I get so excited when you upload!!!

[@xlite4481]

Almost at 100,000!!!! So well deserved

[@peteysurber3760]

The Adam hold reminds me of All Stars (and you should totally use this in a future video) when Shi Ann won the challenge where players had to keep their arm above their head. Their wrist was attached to a bucket of water and if they dropped their arm they would pull the water onto them and eliminate them. She said in the DVD commentary that she won the challenge by extending her arm straight overhead with no bend in her elbow or angle in her shoulder so that the tension was on her bones and not her muscles, allowing her to basically stand there indefinitely. Gravity isn't a force remotely strong enough to break a bone, and she couldn't feel pain there as she would've in her muscles. She said she could've held her hand up for hours and it was funny to her because the other contestants had no clue how she came from nowhere and won that challenge. Rupert was exhausted and admitted, "You are tough! What is going on?" and she confidently responded, "I'm going to win."

[@DavidLDana]

love these so much, thanks for making them

[@VerucaMarie]

My crush on Boston Rob always reminds me that I have daddy issues.

[@seekthe9]

Great video. Within the last 2 years I got into the Smash Bros scene. Ken is one of the greatest of all time, and for a number of years was the best in the world

[@machajohn]

Damn Spencer. Incredible instinct

[@RedpilI]

This is my new favourite youtube channel!

[@noahrichter5994]

Can we get a best bromances in survivor video?

[@RetrospectPuzzle]

Gratulations to 100.000 subscribers

[@juandelacruzii486]

Also the Abi edit was amazing... 😆😆😆

[@E123OmegaShow]

Boston Rob was such a challenge beast in All Stars and Heroes vs Villains. Love him

[@papijr408]

Kenny made the Ken combo in melee and this strategy. What a god gamer.

[@jeffprobstwillcastmesomeda8381]

It's thursday! I swear, after finishing every internations versions of the show, @peridiam fixes my weekly Survivor cravings! Thanks!

[@andreybolanos4169]

Spencebot with the W under 15 seconds 🤖😂

[@cocosolis8240]

And then, Spencer's tactic got used again 10 seasons later in survivor 41 when evvie says she's made the pyramid puzzle and solved it with beads before

[@kylebratzel8193]

Keep in mind, Spencer won individual immunity at 6, which protected him at one of the craziest tribals of all time. Wentworth and Jeremy played idols (before they received ALL the votes), everyone had to revote, it was a tie between Kimmi and Tasha, which led to Keith deciding if he or Kimmi went home in one of the most confusing plot twists in the show’s history.

[@bpham7949]

fun fact kenny is a professional smash player left whene he was at his peak to be in survivor

[@TheLilTomahawk]

The King of Smash with the "Ken Combo."

[@kates7277]

The series that keeps on giving...

[@brettware6804]

Christian writing a slide puzzle algo deserves a shout out.

[@teamsteed1]

Thank you for posting the video.

[@christiankoch8442]

Can you please do a video that talks about the loved ones visit. I always thought that it was a good idea to throw it because you instantly piss off half the tribe and show who you are close to. I would love to see the statistics on how winning /losing the competition affects your end position

[@CallieBigTime]

I think Kenny is one of the most underrated survivor players and would have loved to see him in more than 1 season. But I'm a little biased

[@peach4973]

thank you for keeping this going

[@tomato5100]

GREATEST OF ALL TIMEEEEE LESSS GOO 🙌

[@razzamatazza8628]

But for the first example her ability to think of the strategy “hack” is amazing! That to me is a “game changing” move Edit: SPENCER oh yes! Always my favorite player. I love to see that kid on here.

[@hazmann4598]

"It was less of a game of chicken and more of a game of quick on the draw." Missed the perfect opportunity to say a game of quicken.

[@sarahjordan7406]

Do you think you could do reviews of older seasons of survivor? I’ve always wanted to know your take on them 🙂

[@alexanderelderhorst2107]

I've never watched survivor, but after watching this, my favourite was the domino one. Its so simple yet brilliant! I mean yeah I think memorizing the 5 piece puzzle solution was arguably the most 5 head move in all of survivor (get it 5 pieces 5 head lol) but the domino thing took less of an "I'm calling your plays" shot for free in case they would do that, and more of a strategy that wasn't guarunteed to work, and that's what I like about it.

[@happyskippers1470]

you should definitely watch it! it's a great show and a new season just started!

[@beegmacc]

Loved watching the King of Melee Ken on Survivor for the season he was on!

[@ericshiroishi6218]

5:26 RIP Sunday

[@WypsotorNyloff]

Video idea: top 5 Bob Johnson moments

[@Captain_Subpar]

In retrospect, you should have kept hitting him, Abi.

[@JLMac322]

In retrospect, Abi was the hero all along when we all thought she was the villain 😂

[@eoindaly6627]

You’re almost at 100k OMFG

[@StrawberryEA]

Imagine both competitors did the same thing at 10:20 and they just watched each others idol fall lmao

[@BigMac-et7ym]

if you see your opponent throw his totem into the air, your best option in that moment is to throw yours as fast as you can

[@zman4220]

8:25 king of smash. What a legend!

[@rotsu6599]

the time, in season 10, on the 2nd immunity challenge Ulong had Tom use his legs to pull the rope instead of an arm, almost like a pulley, was brilliant. I think that's a pretty good 'hack' as it goes. Also, how they memorized Morse code in like 6 hours was brilliant. The other tribe never stood a chance.

[@Winstonio]

I'd just like to clarify that Spencer that did not rewatch old challenges on his own accord for that hack... A Survivor fan messaged him on Facebook prior to season 31 filming and said that they realized this puzzle went unused in season 30 and told him to study it because they thought it might be on Second Chance. So shout out to whoever that guy was!! (Can't remember his name)

[@kandeekane1]

Ok. What the video says makes absolutely no sense. He says the puzzle was unused and never made air. Then he says Spencer rewatched the season and froze the frame, outlined the puzzle and memorized how to put it together. If it never made air then what was Spencer watching that he could freeze the frame and memorize the puzzle.

[@Winstonio]

@@kandeekane1 It made air very briefly, but was not used in the challenge. There were 3 routes you could take, one including that puzzle, but no one took it. So someone correctly guessed that production would bring it back

[@Gfp49]

I kept waiting for the jumping off hack! You finally included it

[@Jay-ox3oy]

Evvie did the same thing as Spencer in season 41.

[@olivermensinger]

I came here just to say that. It was with a different puzzle, but the concept is the same.

[@Jay-ox3oy]

@@olivermensinger lol yup! She put those buoys together in no time 😂

[@NimrodClover]

I've never watched the show except for some of these "hack" and recap videos. One thing I noticed is that the producers & host of the show do not like to be outsmarted, upstaged, or made to look stupid. There have been many examples where a team or individual figures out a simple / smart work-around (they really are not hacks) and solve a puzzle, by-pass the effort, or otherwise show that there is a much better way to avoid the very thing that the challenge was intended to do. Often the rules are changed, the challenge reworked, or some minor aspect altered to make the "hack", illegal, impossible, or ineffective in subsequent seasons. On rare occasions the contestants make Jeff look stupid, call him on his stuff, or just get a good quip in and that just makes me smile. Now there is a hack!

[@thereses.9926]

@Peridiam happy 100k!!