By Michaela Gordoni
If you’re one of those people who think you could give SURVIVOR a shot, well, now you can — from your living room.
The show’s infamous host, Jeff Probst, helped design a brand-new board game called “Survivor: Let’s Go to Rocks” in honor of the survival show’s 50th season, Parade reported. The game was made in partnership with the Exploding Kittens company.
The game’s announcement reads, “Your next season starts at home. ‘Survivor: Let’s Go to Rocks’ brings new challenges, new tension, and new fan-requested players. Enjoy it solo or combine it with ‘Survivor: The Tribe Has Spoken.'”
The game was inspired by one of the show’s most memorable moments.
Here is a snippet of the instructions: “Each round, flip a Challenge Card to face new physical or mental tests. Lose the challenge, lose a life. When the rocks come out, fate decides who stays in the game and who’s out.”
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The game includes “All the Island Essentials…10 Grey Rocks, 3 Purple Rocks, 1 Cloth Bag, 15 Challenge Cards, 12 Character Cards, and 1 Immunity Necklace for a true island feel.”
The game is currently available on Amazon and other retailers.
For those who are unfamiliar with “Going to Rocks,” it’s an event in the show that happens when a tribal council vote results in a tie.
“First, everyone except the tied contestants revotes in the hopes that a majority decision is reached. If it’s not, then the vote is considered a deadlock,” Distractify’s Jennifer Farrington explained. “The non-tied contestants must then come to a unanimous decision about which of the tied contestants to send home.”
“If a unanimous decision can’t be made, the tied contestants are then granted immunity, and all remaining non-tied contestants must draw rocks from a bag. The person who draws the odd-colored rock is the one sent home.”
“Going to Rocks” has only happened a couple of times in the show, and it shocked viewers when they first saw the twist in 2016.
There’s also another existing game for fans, “Survivor: The Tribe Has Spoken.”
Season 50 will feature 24 past contestants on the show, narrowed down from a number of 200.
“We did it one player at a time,” Probst said this week. “I was just looking through my season 50 notebook at the first stack of players, and it’s crazy how many people we started with — and we had a case for all of them.”
“And you just start putting people in the other pile going, ‘Oh my g**, this is heartbreaking,” Probst added. “Because I care.”
Season 50 comes out on Feb. 25 on CBS.
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