Rustle Feathers

Rustle Feathers is the twelfth episode of.

Duel
Challenge: House of Cards

Each competitor has 150 to 200 wooden tiles. They must use the tiles to build a house of cards up to certain height within a specified time period. The first person to reach the target height wins. However, if the clock runs out, the contestant with the tallest house of cards wins the challenge.

Winners (in order of finish): Laura Morett and Tina Wesson

Reward/Immunity
Challenge: Ram-Ball On

Castaways must race to balance a ball on the top of a pole while maneuvering through a series of obstacles. Along the way, they would add another section of the pole, making it harder to balance the ball as they make their way through the course. After they got past the balance beam, they would have to untie knots to get to a table, where they would place the ball on it to retrieve a key, then using the key to unlock a chest of sandbags and shoot the sandbags at a series of bamboo targets. First castaway to finish wins.

Reward: Ice-cream stand to be brought to camp for the afternoon.

Winner: Gervase Peterson (reward shared with Monica Culpepper and Tyson Apostol)

Trivia

 * This was the second time the rock-drawing tiebreaker was used. The first was in The Sole Survivor during.
 * This is the first time the tied castaways did not draw rocks, as the first time it was used, only one castaway would have drawn rocks otherwise.
 * The episode title was first said by Katie Collins during the heated debate at Tribal Council, and was repeated by Hayden Moss and Tyson Apostol who argued about the terminology ("ruffle feathers" or "rustle feathers" or "Russell feathers").
 * This episode marks Gervase Peterson's second individual immunity win in his Survivor career.
 * Everyone heard Gervase's voting confessional.