It was November 2003 on the island of Contadora.
(It will not surprise any longtime reader to learn mine were wildly inaccurate.)
As the evening progressed (and more beers were downed), talk turned to another exercise.

The Mogo-Mogo tribe on ‘Survivor All-Stars’.Robert Voets/CBS/Getty Images
A much dumber exercise.
They would also serve as a bond and hidden inside joke between the writers covering that season.
So what are the words?

The cast of ‘Survivor’ 43.Robert Voets/CBS
Is there some sort of secret pre-game alliance happening?
Are they in cahoots?
And is “cahoots” the weird word?
(It is not.)
For example, Elie Scott was the only one to selectquixotic.
“I think that’s kind of me,” explains Elie.
“I’ve imagined this moment a million times.
We can’t say weloveSami Layadi’s word of fluctuate, but we do love his reasoning.
I wanna fluctuate.
I wanna fluctuate the word fluctuate into an episode.”