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Originally Posted by Cheese
Well, they are actually a surprise when Jeff Probst announces them the first time but it doesn't quite go down how we think it does. A member of the production crew does a walk through of the challenges with all the contestants, and makes sure they understand what is going on. The players can ask questions and think of strategies while they do this. There is also a group of people that run through it first as a sort of dress rehearsal while the crew gets all set up.
So, they don't know what the challenge is going to be when it is announced but by the time it happens, they have heaps of time to try and work out how they're going to do it, and numerous people have already gone through and tested it.
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I knew the other two, but this one I kind of just expected. I figured they run the same number of people through in gangs as there are current survivors, and they likely do it dozens of times to make sure that it's not too hard or broken, and so that the camera guys know where to be to get good/dramatic angles.