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Clay Thompson wrote: ThatHuman wrote: Idea 1: Make the flint the hidden immunity idol. Do you give up your easy method of making fire and popularity in the tribe for a few more nights at camp? This idea is brilliant! Maybe there could be a flint given out to one person selected to be sent to camp early by a vote like Worlds Apart/Cagayan etc. and that person could be given the choice of whether to keep the flint for themselves as an idol or share it with the tribe and maybe it loses it's power? Because the only issue with giving it out as the standard flint is that the idols all have to come with the official paper w/ idol rules and it's not like there's enough room to hide that inside a flint. There would have to be special provisions for if someone else uses the "flint"/idol as actual flint, as they can't be told the twist ahead of time and flint isn't a personal possession.

Because firemaking scenes are always filmed, production would know if the flint idol was used by someone other than the person sent to camp. The idol-holder would probably receive a more legitimate-looking idol in that case.