As useless as a screen door on a submarine

**As useless as a screen door on a submarine** is the fourth episode of Nipvivor: Kathmandu.

## Challenges

**Reward Challenge:** Semantris
**Reward:** 3 randomized puzzle pieces of the Idol system. An additional hidden reward: anyone that surpassed Catnip's personal best score (9230) would receive an Extra Vote advantage
**Cultural Theme:** *There are 123 languages in Nepal spoken as mother tongue*
 **Winner:** Trishuli (ZZ gets the hidden Extra Vote advantage)

**Immunity Challenge:** Prove the Yeti
**Cultural connection:** *The Yeti - or Abominable Snowman - is an ape-like creature, supposedly residing in the Himalayas*
**Winner:** Trishuli

## Episode Summary

Over on Trishuli, Gavin was frustrated with his tribe's general inactivity, but he still trusts his alliance. Wynter, on the other hand, felt they needed to work with Nemo to escape being on the bottom of the tribe. They did so by sharing their puzzle pieces with Nemo, as well as Okie's, and they exposed Okie protecting TrophyWife on the last vote. Incidentally, Nemo found the Trishuli Idol not long afterwards. TrophyWife does seem to be the next target, although Okie is concerned about Nemo and Gavin being a duo.

After writing the script for the Yeti challenge, TrophyWife became extremely frustrated with her tribe's lack of participation. She was worried that Nemo and Okie wouldn't have their parts completed in time. She also remarked that Wynter and Gavin didn't contribute at all, and she wants either of those two out next, as she's displeased that her tribe hasn't been voting on challenge strength. She has been annoyed with Wynter's in particular lately. While Wynter felt that TrophyWife was just shutting down their ideas. Nemo eventually pulled through with a recording just before deadline, and he subsequently credited himself as the reason why Trishuli won.

Meanwhile on Barun, Toaster feels very close to Akira, while ZZ feels the opposite about her. Colin seems closest to Logan. And ZZ is worried he'll be seen as a challenge threat. ZZ was also frustrated that he had to carry his tribe in the Yeti challenge, feeling like Logan, Colin and Storm weren't that helpful.

After losing the immunity challenge, Storm, Colin and Sam were each on the chopping block. Storm for being inactive, Colin for being a challenge liability, and Sam for being deemed untrustworthy or sketchy according to couple tribemates, mainly Logan and ZZ. It could have started with Sam sharing other players' jigsaw pieces, as we mentioned in episode 2. Toaster said the plan was to vote out Storm, since he doesn't feel connected to him. While ZZ felt he was in the middle, between voting either Sam or Storm. ZZ recognized that he could just stick with the Snoopies alliance, which Sam is a part of, but he felt he needed to cement trust with the Colin/Storm/Logan block, who all seemed to be wanting Sam out. Indeed, Storm previously said she wouldn't back down until Sam was out. Storm then became more active to save himself, which I guess worked since she got 0 votes. Sam, meanwhile, tried to push the vote onto Colin in the Snoopies alliance chat, saying that Colin was targeting ZZ, and later Akira said that Colin wanted Sam out. The Snoopies allianced seemed on board with the idea to vote Colin out, which meant Sam changed his parchment from Storm to Colin. Unfortunately, Colin's sketchyness was not enough to overshine the distrust and potential future threat status that Sam had earned with his allies. Toaster also changed his parchment from Storm to Sam, and Sam was ultimately voted out 6-1.

## Trivia

* This episode title said by **ZZ**, about his fellow tribemates' lack of contribution to the challenge.