Now this is pretty interesting. As you may recall, before Jeff Probst left Misty to fend for herself in last Thursday's season premiere of Survivor Panama: Exile Island, he informed the cast of a hidden immunity idol on Exile Island. He also told Misty that he had given her the first clue. Well what the heck was it? Probst pointed out some of the amenities the island had to offer including the above pictured barrel of dirty water.
Now thanks to our friend CygnusTM, you can see two letters (a 'Y' and a 'C') clearly outlined in red. The letters seem to be carved into the trunk of the tree. Someone obviously did it, so the question is whether or not they actually contain any significance? Probst made sure he emphasized the question of "Why?" to Misty, as in "Why you?" since she was the first guest of Exile Island. So why the letter Y?
Now if you ask me, it seems odd that they would place the idol so close to where the survivors get dropped off (if it is indeed near the tree carvings). Wouldn't it make more sense to hide it in the deep recesses of the island where it's harder to find? Although I suppose if it's easier to locate, it'll create a lot more drama later on in the season when someone finally does figure out its whereabouts.
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2-06-2006 @ 2:46PM
Peter said...
My first thought when he said, "why are you are" was that she had lost in the game of rock, paper, scissors. Since there obviously aren't any papers or scissors on the island, rock could be a clue as to where the idol is.
The tree carvings are certainly interesting, but they could be as simple as a bored camera man's initials...
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2-06-2006 @ 2:49PM
Jason said...
my 1st thought when Probst was pointing things out then said he'd given her the 1st clue was that the idol is in the barrel of water.
Seems obvious, but if you know you can't drink that water, would you really bother to go into that barrel?
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2-06-2006 @ 3:31PM
John said...
I don't think the RPS game had anything to do with the clue. It was the younger girls team desicion to decide by an RPS game. They could have chosen another way to decide who stayed.
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2-06-2006 @ 3:44PM
Jason said...
oh, and I think that the Y and C look more like dead remnants of a vine that was growing up the tree than carvings. Anyone else?
(and I agree with John- RPS was their choice, and Dalton in EW mentioned that Burnett and Probst were working on the clue until moments before the cast got there for intros, etc. So they couldn't have known they'd play RPS)
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2-06-2006 @ 4:09PM
Craig said...
The water barrel was my first thought as well - sometimes hiding something in plain sight is the best place...
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2-06-2006 @ 5:40PM
Porchland said...
If there's a 'Y'ellow 'C'hicken on the island, I bet it has the idol. ;-)
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2-06-2006 @ 5:51PM
Kel said...
I agree that the Y & C look like parts of a vine, although the "C" looks partially obscured by the barrel.
The show has always liked jumbles, maybe there are other letters on the island, or simply a tree with a cut vine.
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2-06-2006 @ 8:08PM
Virginia said...
The clue leads me to believe it is hidden back in the stack of skulls. Remember she is there because they didnot find the right skull.
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2-06-2006 @ 8:16PM
Mick said...
If the barrell is moved you will see the rest of the letter U as in Y U ;)Time will tell now wont it..lol
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2-06-2006 @ 8:25PM
Jason said...
Kel - good point. The 'c' is obscured. If it's a 'u', the water barrel is looking more and more like the locale.
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2-07-2006 @ 2:09AM
Samantha said...
My daddy and I watch "Survivor" every Thursday night and we both thought it had something to do w/ the water. After reading the comments now it seems really obvious: Why would she go digging around in a barrel of water she couldn't drink? The photo of the tree is very intriguing but Jeff said nothing about that. Gotta be that barrel of water!
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2-07-2006 @ 8:15AM
CygnusTM said...
I took a closer look at this on TiVo, and I didn't see much more than what is in that picture. Hopefully, we'll get a closer look at it on Thursday.
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2-07-2006 @ 11:44AM
Cindy Antonsen said...
Probst pointed out the things that she had. The barrel of water is interesting because it could be in that barrel, why look there when she had no fire to purify the water?
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2-08-2006 @ 2:49PM
Ed said...
I think I have cracked the code. In my humble opinion, everything has hidden meaning on Survivor. I cannot beleive that the intials on the tree are merely coincidental. If you rotate the picture 90 degrees, it looks like the Y represents a divining rod that one would hold to "divine" for water. The C looks like it represents a basin or container. Perhaps the idol is hidden in the barrel or maybe in the water surrounding the island....
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2-10-2006 @ 11:43AM
George said...
Didn’t the second clue from the last show say the idol was “above the tide line” or something like that?
That would mean it is above ‘C’ level.
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2-20-2006 @ 11:21AM
Glenn Hanks said...
Is this the answer to the location of the hidden idol?
Jeff emphasized : "why fate chose you"
= Y fate chose U
Now, solve anagram for "Ye South Face"
(scramble letters) this is pirate lingo for "The South
Face". I think that the idol is hidden on the face of the cliff on the south side of the island.
Also...
There is a map on the wall at tribal council, cleverly
located behind and left of Jeff. It has the four compass points with a straight line across the South
point. I think the line represents the flat cliff face.
What do you think?
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