Aside from its basic structure, the Survivor game doesn’t have a ton of stringent rules. Players are allowed to negotiate with host Jeff Probst over supplies, cheat off of each other during puzzle competitions and basically govern themselves at their own camps.

The show’s creators set the parameters, they throw in some advantages and twists, and they let the players run the game from there. The rules can even be bent on occasion if the castaways want to negotiate for resources.

"Disgruntled players looking to settle a score" need not apply.

Players are allowed to negotiate with host Jeff Probst over supplies, cheat off of each other during puzzle competitions and basically govern themselves at their own camps. Probst, 63, doesn't even have a problem with players blatantly lying to him during Tribal Council,

The Survivor auction returned in Episode 8. While it’s been back for a couple of seasons now, the Season 47 auction saw the return of live grubs for the players to chow down. Probst reveals where they source the food (both savory and unsavory) for the auction in the full episode of On Fire. Listen for free below.

That was one of the most surprising and brutal blindsides in the history of Survivor. It reverberated so hard that it nearly knocked me off my seat at Tribal.” The Kellie blindside — which left the player dazed,