Playing the Survivor Board Game: Love the Show? You'll Love the Game

Survivor is a popular reality-TV show in which producers strand contestants on an island and force them to fend for themselves... given only rice, forced to sleep in the rain, eat worms, and challenge themselves mentally and physically.

Survivor the board game is exactly the same! Survivor the game strands people in a kitchen and forces them to fend for themselves... given only chips and dip, forced to go without sleep (b/c the games only an hour), eat gummi-worms, and challenge themselves mentally.

You can see why people would rather play the game then go on the TV show! But is the game really worth it? Why don't you read on and find out.

Setup
The setup for this game is relatively easy. There is a roundish board with a big hole in the middle where the "island" goes. Everything's labeled so you can line it up easily.

The game pieces are little individual people pieces for the second round, and boats for the first round. You put the outlast, outwit, and outplay cards in each of their respective spots, and you separate the "survival item" cards into the 4 spots on the board. The immunity idol goes at the end of the course.

Game Play
You must have 4-8 players for this game to work as it is supposed to. Note: You can easily play with more people if you just create your own game pieces or use monopoly pieces. You divide into 2 teams, and each team takes a boat piece. For the first half of the game, your team must stick together and help make it around the board.

When it's your teams turn, you roll the dice and move around the outside of the board. You then pick the card that corresponds to your place on the board and do whatever it says (outwit, outplay, outlast...I'll explain later)

This goes on until your team reaches the Teams Merge space. Once one team reaches this spot, the other team joins them. The survival items are split up among the individuals and the game continues as usual... except this time, you're on your own! Now you will really see who you can trust.