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. Probst, 63, doesn’t even have a problem with players blatantly lying to him during Tribal Council, as he revealed on the Wednesday, November 13 episode of his “ On Fire ” podcast.
There’s only one place that players cannot lie — and that rule is absolute. “Here’s how it works: In your private interviews with the producer, you have to answer the questions because that’s how we tell the story, and you have to tell the producer the truth,” Probst explained. “That’s the only person you have to tell the truth.
” Those interviews happen away from camp and out of earshot of other contestants, enabling players to speak their minds to the producer interviewing them. It is also key for viewers at home to know what players are thinking as the game plays out. Probst added that players can answer his questions at Tribal Council however they’d like — as long as they answer them.
“When you’re talking to me at challenges or tribal, you got to answer the questions, but you can lie all you want,” he said. “You can lie directly to me. I might not even know you’re lying.
I don’t even care. I just want any story to track. True or false is your call.
And as long as that’s happening, we’re all goo.
