Swahili Scramble

Survivor Scramble is a recurring mental challenge in Survivor.

Rules
The castaways had a word scramble with a certain number of words, all with a theme. After they solved the puzzle, the must used the intersecting letters to solve a word. First person to unscramble the word wins.

History
The challenge was first used in Survivor: Africa, under the name Swahili Scramble. The castaways had to find twelve Swahili words, then used the letters to make an nine letter word. Lex van den Berghe had an early lead and kept it. Lex solved the word, "Avalanche" and won an Chevy Avalanche pickup truck. Lex was allowed to used the truck to deliver supplies to a local hospital

A variation was used in Survivor: Pearl Islands, each castaway has a board with three words on it broken up by letters "Survivor Pearl Islands". The castaways must use the letters to form twenty new words. Words must be in English and must be spelled correctly. Plurals, proper names, acronyms are not allowed as well as "Survivor", "Pearl" and "Islands" are not allowed as well. If a castaway broke any of these rules, the castaway would be eliminated from the challenge. First player to form twenty words spelled correctly wins. Christa Hastie, Tijuana Bradley and Johnny Fairplay all thought they had it but each broke a rule, disqualifying them all from the challenge. Burton Roberts originally won immunity, but he lost it when Jeff Probst realized he'd missed a misspelled word (he incorrectly wrote liaison as liason). Because of this, a second round was held between Darrah Johnson, Lillian Morris and Sandra Diaz-Twine. In this round, the three women had to find as many four or more letter words as possible from "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast" in one minute. Darrah found the most words and won immunity.

The challenge was reused in Survivor: All-Stars, as the final five Immunity Challenge. This time, the castaway had to find the names of the seventeen starting tribes. Amber Brkich initially had the lead and the first castaway to start unscrambling the ten letter word. However, Rob Mariano was not far behind. In the end, Boston Rob was the first to figure out the phrase (Chaboga Mogo) and won immunity.

A modified version was used in ''Survivor: Palau. ''Because Ulong was down to its last two members, Koror selected Coby Archa and Gregg Carey. The tribes must race out to a series of floating platforms, swim under them in order to collect puzzle pieces, swim back to shore, and drop off the puzzle pieces on the beach. Once they have collected all the pieces, the tribes must assemble the puzzle and solve a word jumble using the pieces. They must find listed words in the grid, take the letters used in more than one word, and rearrange them to form a mystery three-word phrase ("victory at sea"). Koror won their seventh consecutive immunity challenge.

Trivia

 * Tom Buchanan is the only person to compete in the challenge twice.
 * He lost both times he competed.
 * Darrah is the only woman to win this challenge.
 * She is also the only woman to compete in this challenge and also win, as only male members of Koror competed in Palau.
 * It was revealed at the Pearl Islands reunion show that the person who invented this challenge was a fourteen year old girl.