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Originally Posted by JD
I don't know. It seems like the last 10 seasons or so every challenge is supplemented with a puzzle portion so that the less physically-inclined have a chance.
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But here's how I see it... the puzzles, while requiring some brainpower, are not the Riemann hypothesis or P versus NP. By which I mean Survivor puzzles don't have the complexity to require one to be exceptionally smart to solve them. There is a point of diminishing returns on intelligence in puzzles that doesn't hold true on the physical side of things.
Survivor challanges have trended towards the puzzle piece retrievers and then the puzzle piece solvers and when it comes to solving puzzles the tribe is as good as it's best puzzle solver but can be destroyed by a terrible puzzle retriever.
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Originally Posted by JD
If anything, the beauty tribe would seem to be at a disadvantage as they likely have little to offer when surrounded by other beautiful people.
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But by western standards an athletic body is generally considered a aspect of beauty so I would expect them to have a physical advantage over the brains, I'll grant that Beauty is the least valuable of the traits in the long run... after a few weeks of no shampoo, no soap, no make-up, no razer, no toilet paper, and no sleep? no one qualifies as beautiful.
I realize that the Brains aren't likely to be Cochrane X 6 in terms of physicality but if they're going to be seperated by attributes I would not expect that the difference in physicality to be only slight. Plus I would also suspect that all the brains are all going to walk in and try to be schemers, a tribe full of schemers is going to shoot itself in the foot.